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Here, we examine the Wardrop equilibrium model on networks with flow-dependent costs and its connection with stationary mean-field games (MFG). In the first part of this paper, we present the Wardrop and the first-order MFG models on…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2022-07-05 Fatimah Al Saleh , Tigran Bakaryan , Diogo A. Gomes , Ricardo Ribeiro

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

Quasi-stationary Mean Field Games models consider agents who base their strategies on current information without forecasting future states. In this paper we address the first-order quasi-stationary Mean Field Games system, which involves…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2024-09-30 Fabio Camilli , Claudio Marchi , Cristian Mendico

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

This paper studies the convergence of mean field games with finite state space to mean field games with a continuous state space. We examine a space discretization of a diffusive dynamics, which is reminiscent of the Markov chain…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2024-01-18 Charles Bertucci , Alekos Cecchin

The influence of a fixed number of agents with the same fixed behavior on the dynamics of the minority game is studied. Alternatively, the system studied can be considered the minority game with a change in the comfort threshold away from…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2009-11-10 M. A. R. de Cara , F. Guinea

We consider a class of optimal control problems that arise in connection with optimal advertising under uncertainty. Two main features appear in the model: a delay in the control variable driving the state dynamics; a mean-field term both…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2024-03-04 Michele Ricciardi , Mauro Rosestolato

In this paper, we investigate a class of Mean Field Games (MFGs) in which the state dynamics are governed by multidimensional reflected stochastic differential equations (SDEs). We establish the existence of an equilibrium and show that it…

Probability · Mathematics 2026-03-17 Ayoub Laayoun , Badr Missaoui

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

We study a class of deterministic mean field games and related optimal control problems, with a finite time horizon and in which the state space is a network. An agent controls her velocity, and, when she occupies a vertex, she can either…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2025-11-25 Yves Achdou , Claudio Marchi , Nicoletta Tchou

We consider stochastic differential games with a large number of players, with the aim of quantifying the gap between closed-loop, open-loop and distributed equilibria. We show that, under two different semi-monotonicity conditions, the…

Probability · Mathematics 2025-05-06 Marco Cirant , Joe Jackson , Davide Francesco Redaelli

This paper is devoted to the study of the long time behavior of Nash equilibria in Mean Field Games within the framework of displacement monotonicity. We first show that any two equilibria defined on the time horizon $[0,T]$ must be close…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2025-11-07 Marco Cirant , Alpár R. Mészáros

In this paper, we examine the stationary relaxed singular control problem within a multi-dimensional framework for a single agent, as well as its mean field game equivalent. We demonstrate that optimal relaxed controls exist for two problem…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2025-06-04 Asaf Cohen , Chuhao Sun

We study a class of deterministic mean field games on finite and infinite time horizons arising in models of optimal exploitation of exhaustible resources. The main characteristic of our game is an absorption constraint on the players'…

General Economics · Economics 2021-04-14 Paulwin Graewe , Ulrich Horst , Ronnie Sircar

We develop the linear programming approach to mean-field games in a general setting. This relaxed control approach allows to prove existence results under weak assumptions, and lends itself well to numerical implementation. We consider…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2020-11-24 Roxana Dumitrescu , Marcos Leutscher , Peter Tankov

Multi-agent reinforcement learning methods have shown remarkable potential in solving complex multi-agent problems but mostly lack theoretical guarantees. Recently, mean field control and mean field games have been established as a…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-12-20 Kai Cui , Anam Tahir , Mark Sinzger , Heinz Koeppl

We study the mean field game problem for a nervous system consisting of a large number of neurons with mean-field interaction. In this system, each neuron can modulate its spiking activity by controlling its membrane potential to…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2024-12-18 Lijun Bo , Dongfang Yang , Shihua Wang

Mean field games are limit models for symmetric $N$-player games with interaction of mean field type as $N\to\infty$. The limit relation is often understood in the sense that a solution of a mean field game allows to construct approximate…

Probability · Mathematics 2017-05-29 Markus Fischer

In the presence of a common noise, we study the convergence problems in mean field game (MFG) and mean field control (MFC) problem where the cost function and the state dynamics depend upon the joint conditional distribution of the…

Probability · Mathematics 2023-08-29 Mao Fabrice Djete

Mean field games are studied by means of the weak formulation of stochastic optimal control. This approach allows the mean field interactions to enter through both state and control processes and take a form which is general enough to…

Probability · Mathematics 2015-04-09 Rene Carmona , Daniel Lacker