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Mean field games models describing the limit of a large class of stochastic differential games, as the number of players goes to $+\infty$, have been introduced by J.-M. Lasry and P.-L. Lions. We use a change of variables to transform the…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2011-06-17 Olivier Guéant

We study a general class of fully coupled backward-forward stochastic differential equations of mean-field type (MF-BFSDE). We derive existence and uniqueness results for such a system under weak monotonicity assumptions and without the…

Probability · Mathematics 2020-03-03 Yinggu Chen , Boualem Djehiche , Said Hamadene

We consider an inverse problem of determining a coefficient $p(x)$ of an evolution equation $\sigma\ppp_tu = a(x)\ppp_x^2u - p(x)u$ for $0<x<\ell$ and $0<t<T$, where $\sigma \in \C \setminus \{0\}$, $\ell>0$ and $T>0$ are arbitrarily given.…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2024-10-01 Oleg Y , Imanuvilov , Masahiro Yamamoto

The recent mean field game (MFG) formalism facilitates otherwise intractable computation of approximate Nash equilibria in many-agent settings. In this paper, we consider discrete-time finite MFGs subject to finite-horizon objectives. We…

Multiagent Systems · Computer Science 2022-07-11 Kai Cui , Heinz Koeppl

Weighted voting games are a family of cooperative games, typically used to model voting situations where a number of agents (players) vote against or for a proposal. In such games, a proposal is accepted if an appropriately weighted sum of…

Computer Science and Game Theory · Computer Science 2019-01-01 Ilias Diakonikolas , Chrystalla Pavlou

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

The framework of Mean-field Games (MFGs) is used for modelling the collective dynamics of large populations of non-cooperative decision-making agents. We formulate and analyze a kinetic MFG model for an interacting system of non-cooperative…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2024-07-29 Piyush Grover , Mandy Huo

In this paper, we study two types of inverse problems for space semi-discrete stochastic parabolic equations in arbitrary dimensions. The first problem concerns a semi-discrete inverse source problem, which involves determining the random…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2026-03-06 Rodrigo Lecaros , Ariel A. Pérez , Manuel F. Prado

We study the intermediate asymptotic behavior of solutions to the first-order mean field games system with a local coupling, when the initial density is a compactly supported function on the real line, and the coupling is of power type.…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2024-04-04 Sebastian Munoz

In this paper, we study first-order stationary monotone mean-field games (MFGs) with Dirichlet boundary conditions. While for Hamilton--Jacobi equations Dirichlet conditions may not be satisfied, here, we establish the existence of…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2018-04-20 Rita Ferreira , Diogo Gomes , Teruo Tada

The pairwise comparison dynamic is a forward ordinary differential equation in a Banach space whose solution is a time-dependent probability measure to maximize utility based on a nonlinear and nonlocal protocol. It contains a wide class of…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2025-04-21 Hidekazu Yoshioka

We introduce two Smoothed Policy Iteration algorithms (\textbf{SPI}s) as rules for learning policies and methods for computing Nash equilibria in second order potential Mean Field Games (MFGs). Global convergence is proved if the coupling…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2023-04-18 Qing Tang , Jiahao Song

Mean-field Games systems (MFGs) serve as paradigms to describe the games among a huge number of players. In this paper, we consider the ergodic Mean-field Games systems in the bounded domain with Neumann boundary conditions and the…

Functional Analysis · Mathematics 2025-01-28 Fanze Kong , Yonghui Tong , Xiaoyu Zeng

We introduce a nonconvex Mean Field Games system by studying a model with a large number of identical pairs of players who are all rational, and each pair plays an identical zero-sum differential game. We study existence and uniqueness of…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2016-12-15 Hung Vinh Tran

For two classes of Mean Field Game systems we study the convergence of solutions as the interest rate in the cost functional becomes very large, modeling agents caring only about a very short time-horizon, and the cost of the control…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2020-04-10 Martino Bardi , Pierre Cardaliaguet

Recent techniques based on Mean Field Games (MFGs) allow the scalable analysis of multi-player games with many similar, rational agents. However, standard MFGs remain limited to homogeneous players that weakly influence each other, and…

Computer Science and Game Theory · Computer Science 2023-12-19 Kai Cui , Gökçe Dayanıklı , Mathieu Laurière , Matthieu Geist , Olivier Pietquin , Heinz Koeppl

This paper investigates an inverse source problem for general semilinear stochastic hyperbolic equations. Motivated by the challenges arising from both randomness and nonlinearity, we develop a globally convergent iterative regularization…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2025-04-25 Qi Lü , Yu Wang

The use of Cauchy Markov random field priors in statistical inverse problems can potentially lead to posterior distributions which are non-Gaussian, high-dimensional, multimodal and heavy-tailed. In order to use such priors successfully,…

Computation · Statistics 2022-02-15 Neil K. Chada , Lassi Roininen , Jarkko Suuronen

In this paper we study the inverse conductivity problem with partial data in dimension $n\geq 3$. We derive stability estimates for this inverse problem if the conductivity has $C^{1,\sigma}(\bar\Omega)\cap H^{3/2+\sigma}(\Omega)$…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2013-08-08 Ru-Yu Lai

We study stochastic Mean Field Games on networks with sticky transition conditions. In this setting, the diffusion process governing the agent's dynamics can spend finite time both in the interior of the edges and at the vertices. The…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2025-01-17 Jules Berry , Fabio Camilli