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In this paper we solve the inverse problem for the cubic mean-field Ising model. Starting from configuration data generated according to the distribution of the model we reconstruct the free parameters of the system. We test the robustness…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2023-05-31 Pierluigi Contucci , Godwin Osabutey , Cecilia Vernia

In this paper, we study fully coupled nonlocal second order quasilinear forward-backward partial differential equations (FBPDEs), which arise from solution of the mean field game (MFG) suggested by Lasry and Lions [Japan. J. Math. 2 (2007),…

Probability · Mathematics 2022-12-13 Ziyu Huang , Shanjian Tang

In this article we study the convergence of the Nash Equilibria in a N-player differential game towards the optimal strategies in the Mean Field Games, when the dynamic of the generic player includes a reflection process which guarantees…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2022-03-16 Michele Ricciardi

This thesis is going to give a gentle introduction to Mean Field Games. It aims to produce a coherent text beginning for simple notions of deterministic control theory progressively to current Mean Field Games theory. The framework…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2019-07-03 Athanasios Vasiliadis

The paper studies some inverse boundary value problem for simplest parabolic equations such that the homogenuous Cauchy condition is ill posed at initial time. Some regularity of the solution is established for a wide class of boundary…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2015-05-13 Nikolai Dokuchaev

While the usual goal in Monte Carlo (MC) simulations of Ising models is the efficient generation of spin configurations with Boltzmann probabilities, the inverse problem is to determine the coupling constants from a given set of spin…

Disordered Systems and Neural Networks · Physics 2017-05-24 Joseph Albert , Robert H. Swendsen

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 consider discrete-time stationary mean field games (MFG) with unknown dynamics and design algorithms for finding the equilibrium with finite-time complexity guarantees. Prior solutions to the problem assume either the contraction of a…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2025-02-13 Sihan Zeng , Sujay Bhatt , Alec Koppel , Sumitra Ganesh

In this paper we establish quantitative convergence results for both open and closed-loop Nash equilibria of N-player stochastic differential games in the setting of Mean Field Games of Controls (MFGC), a class of models where interactions…

Probability · Mathematics 2025-07-24 Joe Jackson , Alpár R. Mészáros

We propose the Mean-Field Actor-Critic (MFAC) flow, a continuous-time learning dynamics for solving mean-field games (MFGs), combining techniques from reinforcement learning and optimal transport. The MFAC framework jointly evolves the…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2025-10-27 Mo Zhou , Haosheng Zhou , Ruimeng Hu

We force uniqueness in finite state mean field games by adding a Wright-Fisher common noise. We achieve this by analyzing the master equation of this game, which is a degenerate parabolic second-order partial differential equation set on…

Probability · Mathematics 2021-01-12 Erhan Bayraktar , Alekos Cecchin , Asaf Cohen , Francois Delarue

Mean field games is a recent area of study introduced by Lions and Lasry in a series of seminal papers in 2006. Mean field games model situations of competition between large number of rational agents that play non-cooperative dynamic games…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2011-03-18 Diogo A. Gomes , Joana Mohr , Rafael R. Souza

This article studies an inverse problem for a transmission wave equation, a system where the main coefficient has a variable jump across an internal interface given by the boundary between two subdomains. The main result obtains Lipschitz…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2024-09-11 L Baudouin , A Imba , A Mercado , A Osses

This work addresses an inverse problem for a semi-discrete parabolic equation, consisting of identifying the right-hand side of the equation from solution measurements at an intermediate time and within a spatial subdomain. We apply this…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2025-10-10 Rodrigo Lecaros , Juan López-Ríos , Ariel A. Pérez

Here, we prove the existence of solutions to first-order mean-field games (MFGs) arising in optimal switching. First, we use the penalization method to construct approximate solutions. Then, we prove uniform estimates for the penalized…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2016-10-04 Diogo A. Gomes , Stefania Patrizi

For a mean field game system, we prove the unique continuation which asserts that if Cauchy data are zero on arbitrarily chosen lateral subboundary, then the solution identically vanishes.

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2023-05-02 Oleg Imanuvilov , Hongyu Liu , Masahiro Yamamoto

A new mathematical model governing the development of a corrupted hierarchy is derived. This model is based on the Mean Field Games theory. A retrospective problem for that model is considered. From the applied standpoint, this problem…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2025-04-10 Michael V. Klibanov , Mikhail Yu. Kokurin , Kirill V. Golubnichiy

Mean Field Games (MFG) theory describes strategic interactions in differential games with a large number of small and indistinguishable players. Traditionally, the players' control impacts only the drift term in the system's dynamics,…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2024-07-31 Vincenzo Ignazio , Michele Ricciardi

We introduce two algorithms based on a policy iteration method to numerically solve time-dependent Mean Field Game systems of partial differential equations with non-separable Hamiltonians. We prove the convergence of such algorithms in…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2022-10-03 Mathieu Laurière , Jiahao Song , Qing Tang

This paper continues the study of the mean field game (MFG) convergence problem: In what sense do the Nash equilibria of $n$-player stochastic differential games converge to the mean field game as $n\rightarrow\infty$? Previous work on this…

Probability · Mathematics 2018-08-09 Daniel Lacker