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We propose and investigate a general class of discrete time and finite state space mean field game (MFG) problems with potential structure. Our model incorporates interactions through a congestion term and a price variable. It also allows…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2023-03-07 J. Frédéric Bonnans , Pierre Lavigne , Laurent Pfeiffer

By a memory mean-field process we mean the solution $X(\cdot)$ of a stochastic mean-field equation involving not just the current state $X(t)$ and its law $\mathcal{L}(X(t))$ at time $t$, but also the state values $X(s)$ and its law…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2017-11-03 Nacira Agram , Bernt Øksendal

In this paper we model the role of a government of a large population as a mean field optimal control problem. Such control problems are constrainted by a PDE of continuity-type, governing the dynamics of the probability distribution of the…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2016-08-08 Giacomo Albi , Young-Pil Choi , Massimo Fornasier , Dante Kalise

We prove the global-in-time well-posedness for a broad class of mean field game problems, which is beyond the special linear-quadratic setting, as long as the mean field sensitivity is not too large. Through the stochastic maximum…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2025-01-23 Alain Bensoussan , Ho Man Tai , Tak Kwong Wong , Sheung Chi Phillip Yam

In this paper, we introduce a model-based deep-learning approach to solve finite-horizon continuous-time stochastic control problems with jumps. We iteratively train two neural networks: one to represent the optimal policy and the other to…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-01-16 Patrick Cheridito , Jean-Loup Dupret , Donatien Hainaut

Optimal control of heterogeneous mean-field stochastic differential equations with common noise has not been addressed in the literature. In this work, we initiate the study of such models. We formulate the problem within a linear-quadratic…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2025-11-25 Filippo de Feo , Samy Mekkaoui

In this paper, we first prove that the mean-field stochastic linear quadratic (MFSLQ for short) control problem with random coefficients has a unique optimal control and derive a preliminary stochastic maximum principle to characterize this…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2025-05-28 Jie Xiong , Wen Xu

Decentralized stochastic control (DSC) considers the optimal control problem of a multi-agent system. However, DSC cannot be solved except in the special cases because the estimation among the agents is generally intractable. In this work,…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2023-05-16 Takehiro Tottori , Tetsuya J. Kobayashi

We propose a Model Predictive Control (MPC) with a single-step prediction horizon to approximate the solution of infinite horizon optimal control problems with the expected sum of convex stage costs for constrained linear uncertain systems.…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2025-04-24 Eunhyek Joa , Francesco Borrelli

In many problems in optimal control, one seeks to minimise an objective function subject to constraints on the velocity of the system. Imposing these constraints directly -- the ``hard-constrained'' approach -- is often analytically and…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2026-04-27 Rufus Lawrence , Aleš Wodecki , Johannes Aspman , Jakub Mareček

We consider nonlinear transport equations with non-local velocity, describing the time-evolution of a measure, which in practice may represent the density of a crowd. Such equations often appear by taking the mean-field limit of…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2017-01-06 Marco Caponigro , Benedetto Piccoli , Francesco Rossi , Emmanuel Trélat

We introduce a class of robust control problems formulated in min-max form, in which the principal agent is viewed as a central planner facing Nature. The agent's cost is a nonlinear function of all its possible realizations, encompassing…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2026-04-24 François Delarue , Pierre Lavigne

The mathematical modeling of numerous real-world applications results in hierarchical optimization problems with two decision makers where at least one of them has to solve an optimal control problem of ordinary or partial differential…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2019-06-20 Patrick Mehlitz , Gerd Wachsmuth

Although the mean-variance control was initially formulated for financial portfolio management problems in which one wants to maximize expected return and control the risk, our motivations also stem from highway vehicle platoon controls…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2014-01-21 Zhixin Yang , G. Yin , Le Yi Wang , Hongwei Zhang

We propose a simple and original approach for solving linear-quadratic mean-field stochastic control problems. We study both finite-horizon and infinite-horizon problems, and allow notably some coefficients to be stochastic. Our method is…

Probability · Mathematics 2017-11-28 Matteo Basei , Huyên Pham

A dual control problem is presented for the optimal stochastic control of a system governed by partial differential equations. Relationships between the optimal values of the original and the dual problems are investigated and two duality…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2017-05-03 Shinji Tanimoto

In an earlier paper (https://doi.org/10.1137/21M1393315), the Switch Point Algorithm was developed for solving optimal control problems whose solutions are either singular or bang-bang or both singular and bang-bang, and which possess a…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2025-02-11 William W. Hager

In this paper we discuss the controllability of two-point boundary value problem (TBVP) for one-dimensional wave equation. Some new concepts are introduced: TBVP input control problem, minimum-input solution (MS) and pre-minimum-input…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2020-10-06 Yuyou Gan , Sisi Huang , Dexing Kong

In this article, we provide an original systematic global-in-time analysis of mean field type control problems on $\mathbb{R}^n$ with generic cost functionals by the modified approach but not the same, firstly proposed in [7], as the…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2023-05-09 Alain Bensoussan , Ho Man Tai , Sheung Chi Phillip Yam

We study a family of mean field games with a state variable evolving as a multivariate jump diffusion process. The jump component is driven by a Poisson process with a time-dependent intensity function. All coefficients, i.e. drift,…

Probability · Mathematics 2020-07-14 Chiara Benazzoli , Luciano Campi , Luca Di Persio