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This paper addresses a linear-quadratic Stackelberg mean field (MF) games and teams problem with arbitrary population sizes, where the game among the followers is further categorized into two types: non-cooperative and cooperative, and the…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2024-12-24 Wenyu Cong , Jingtao Shi , Bingchang Wang

In this paper we consider extended stationary mean field games, that is mean-field games which depend on the velocity field of the players. We prove various a-priori estimates which generalize the results for quasi-variational mean field…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2013-05-14 Diogo A. Gomes , Stefania Patrizi , Vardan Voskanyan

In this paper, we develop a Mean Field Games approach to Cluster Analysis. We consider a finite mixture model, given by a convex combination of probability density functions, to describe the given data set. We interpret a data point as an…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2019-12-24 Laura Aquilanti , Simone Cacace , Fabio Camilli , Raul De Maio

This paper studies open-loop and feedback solutions to leader-follower mean field linear-quadratic-Gaussian games with multiplicative noise by the direct approach. The leader-follower game involves a leader and many followers, where the…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2025-12-04 Bing-Chang Wang , Huanshui Zhang , Ji-Feng Zhang

This paper studies the optimal investment behavior of renewable electricity producers in a competitive market, where both prices and installation costs are influenced by aggregate industry activity. We model the resulting crowding effects…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2025-07-16 Emma Hubert , Dimitrios Lolas , Ronnie Sircar

In this paper, we study a large population game with heterogeneous dynamics and cost functions solving a consensus problem. Moreover, the agents have communication constraints which appear as: (1) an Additive-White Gaussian Noise (AWGN)…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-08-26 Shubham Aggarwal , Muhammad Aneeq uz Zaman , Tamer Başar

This work tackles the problem of energy-efficient distributed power control in wireless networks with a large number of transmitters. The problem is modeled by a dynamic game. Each transmitter-receiver communication is characterized by a…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2013-01-30 François Mériaux , Vineeth Varma , Samson Lasaulce

This paper studies a new class of dynamic optimization problems of large-population (LP) system which consists of a large number of negligible and coupled agents. The most significant feature in our setup is the dynamics of individual…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2014-03-18 Jianhui Huang , Shujun Wang , Hua Xiao

We introduce a new path-by-path approach to mean field games with common noise that recovers duality at the pathwise level. We verify this perspective by explicitly solving some difficult examples with linear-quadratic data, including…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2023-10-23 Mark Cerenzia , Aaron Zeff Palmer

This paper investigates a class of linear-quadratic-Gaussian risk-sensitive graphon mean-field games, involving an asymptotically infinite population of heterogeneous agents distributed across an asymptotically infinite network, where each…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2026-04-28 Tian Chen , Minyi Huang

We establish the convergence of the deep actor-critic reinforcement learning algorithm presented in [Angiuli et al., 2023a] in the setting of continuous state and action spaces with an infinite discrete-time horizon. This algorithm provides…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2025-11-11 Jean-Pierre Fouque , Mathieu Laurière , Mengrui Zhang

In this paper we examine fully nonlinear mean-field games associated with a minimization problem. The variational setting is driven by a functional depending on its argument through its Hessian matrix. We work under fairly natural…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2020-10-30 Pêdra D. S. Andrade , Edgard A. Pimentel

This paper studies an asymptotic solvability problem for linear quadratic (LQ) mean field games with controlled diffusions and indefinite weights for the state and control in the costs. We employ a rescaling approach to derive a low…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2021-09-20 Minyi Huang , Xuwei Yang

In this paper we unveil novel monotonicity conditions applicable for Mean Field Games through the exploration of finite dimensional $canonical\ transformations$. Our findings contribute to establishing new global well-posedness results for…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2026-01-14 Mohit Bansil , Alpár R. Mészáros

We propose a new viewpoint on variational mean-field games with diffusion and quadratic Hamiltonian. We show the equivalence of such mean-field games with a relative entropy minimization at the level of probabilities on curves. We also…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2019-04-01 Jean-David Benamou , Guillaume Carlier , Simone Di Marino , Luca Nenna

This article introduces a novel mean-field game model for multi-sector economic growth in which a dynamically evolving externality, influenced by the collective actions of agents, plays a central role. Building on classical growth theories…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2026-05-05 Pierre Lavigne , Quentin Petit , Xavier Warin

We consider forward-forward Mean Field Game (MFG) models that arise in numerical approximations of stationary MFGs. First, we establish a link between these models and a class of hyperbolic conservation laws as well as certain nonlinear…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2017-04-25 Diogo Gomes , Levon Nurbekyan , Marc Sedjro

In this work, we study a class of mean-field linear quadratic Gaussian (LQG) problems. Under suitable conditions, explicit solutions of the distribution-dependent optimal control problems are obtained. Riccati systems are derived by…

Probability · Mathematics 2020-08-28 Yun Li , Qingshuo Song , Fuke Wu , George Yin

Mean-field game theory relies on approximating games that are intractable to model due to a very large to infinite population of players. While these kinds of games can be solved analytically via the associated system of partial…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-04-16 Anna C. M. Thöni , Yoram Bachrach , Tal Kachman

We investigate mean field game systems under invariance conditions for the state space, otherwise called {\it viability conditions} for the controlled dynamics. First we analyze separately the Hamilton-Jacobi and the Fokker-Planck…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2019-03-18 Alessio Porretta , Michele Ricciardi