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This paper studies a large population dynamic game involving nonlinear stochastic dynamical systems with agents of the following mixed types: (i) a major agent, and (ii) a population of $N$ minor agents where $N$ is very large. The major…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2013-06-07 Mojtaba Nourian , Peter E. Caines

In a probabilistic mean field game driven by a L\'evy process an individual player aims to minimize a long run discounted/ergodic cost by controlling the process through a pair of increasing and decreasing c\`adl\`ag processes, while he is…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2025-05-30 Facundo Oliú

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

While the topic of mean-field games (MFGs) has a relatively long history, heretofore there has been limited work concerning algorithms for the computation of equilibrium control policies. In this paper, we develop a computable policy…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-04-07 Muhammad Aneeq uz Zaman , Kaiqing Zhang , Erik Miehling , Tamer Başar

Entry-exit dynamics are crucial in modeling crowd movement. Here, we present a novel first-order, stationary mean-field game model on a bounded domain that accurately captures these dynamics. The interior dynamics of the system are governed…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2026-03-03 AbdulRahman M. Alharbi , Yuri Ashrafyan , Diogo Gomes

Traditional mean-field game (MFG) solvers operate on an instance-by-instance basis, which becomes infeasible when many related problems must be solved (e.g., for seeking a robust description of the solution under perturbations of the…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2025-10-24 Dena Firoozi , Anastasis Kratsios , Xuwei Yang

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

Mean field games (MFGs) have been introduced to study Nash equilibria in very large population of self-interested agents. However, when applied to common pool resource (CPR) games, MFG equilibria lead to the so-called tragedy of the commons…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2025-04-15 Gokce Dayanikli , Mathieu Lauriere

Non-cooperative and cooperative games with a very large number of players have many applications but remain generally intractable when the number of players increases. Introduced by Lasry and Lions, and Huang, Caines and Malham\'e, Mean…

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

Mean field games formalize dynamic games with a continuum of players and explicit interaction where the players can have heterogeneous states. As they additionally yield approximate equilibria of corresponding $N$-player games, they are of…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2020-01-09 Berenice Anne Neumann

Mean-field games (MFGs) are models of large populations of rational agents who seek to optimize an objective function that takes into account their location and the distribution of the remaining agents. Here, we consider stationary MFGs…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2016-11-28 David Evangelista , Diogo A. Gomes

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 paper, we consider a mean field game (MFG) with a major and $N$ minor agents. We first consider the limiting problem and allow the coefficients to vary with the conditional distribution in a nonlinear way. We use the stochastic…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2024-11-05 Ziyu Huang , Shanjian Tang

This project investigates numerical methods for solving fully coupled forward-backward stochastic differential equations (FBSDEs) of McKean-Vlasov type. Having numerical solvers for such mean field FBSDEs is of interest because of the…

The globally convergent convexification numerical method is constructed for a Coefficient Inverse Problem for the Mean Field Games System. A coefficient characterizing the global interaction term is recovered from the single measurement…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2023-10-16 Michael V. Klibanov , Jingzhi Li , Zhipeng Yang

This paper presents a general mean-field game (GMFG) framework for simultaneous learning and decision-making in stochastic games with a large population. It first establishes the existence of a unique Nash Equilibrium to this GMFG, and…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-01-05 Xin Guo , Anran Hu , Renyuan Xu , Junzi Zhang

We demonstrate the versatility of mean-field games (MFGs) as a mathematical framework for explaining, enhancing, and designing generative models. In generative flows, a Lagrangian formulation is used where each particle (generated sample)…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2023-10-25 Benjamin J. Zhang , Markos A. Katsoulakis

This paper investigates a mean-field game (MFG) problem for mean-variance (MV) portfolio management, highlighting a new type of relative performance encoded by the peer-based risk aversion. Specifically, the risk aversion is formulated as a…

Mathematical Finance · Quantitative Finance 2026-05-26 Weilun Cheng , Zongxia Liang , Sheng Wang , Xiang Yu

We formulate a class of mean field games on a finite state space with variational principles resembling those in continuous-state mean field games. We construct a controlled continuity equation featuring a nonlinear activation function on…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2023-10-10 Yuan Gao , Wuchen Li , Jian-Guo Liu