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We analyze a fractional mean field game of controls system, showing existence of solutions when the order of the fractional Laplacian is $s\in(\frac{1}{2},1)$. Here the running cost depends on the distribution $\mu$ of not only the states…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2025-09-08 P. Jameson Graber , Elizabeth Matter , Jesus Ruiz Bolanos

This article focuses two issues related to the first-order discounted mean field games system. The first is the time discretization problem. The time discretization approach enables us to prove the existence of solutions (u,m) of the…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2025-09-19 Renato Iturriaga , Cristian Mendico , Kaizhi Wang , Yuchen Xu

The formulation of Mean Field Games (MFG) typically requires continuous differentiability of the Hamiltonian in order to determine the advective term in the Kolmogorov--Fokker--Planck equation for the density of players. However, in many…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2024-04-03 Yohance A. P. Osborne , Iain Smears

In this work we propose a fully-discrete Semi-Lagrangian scheme for a {\it first order mean field game system}. We prove that the resulting discretization admits at least one solution and, in the scalar case, we prove a convergence result…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2013-07-11 E. Carlini , F. J. Silva

We investigate the global numerical approximation of a class of extended mean field control problems (MFC), where the dynamics and costs depend on the joint distribution of the state and the control. We propose a framework to approximate…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2026-03-23 Athena Picarelli , Marco Scaratti , Jonathan Tam

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

In this note, we develop Fourier approximation methods for the solutions of first-order nonlocal mean-field games (MFG) systems. Using Fourier expansion techniques, we approximate a given MFG system by a simpler one that is equivalent to a…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2019-01-21 Levon Nurbekyan , Joao Saude

We propose a policy iteration method to solve an inverse problem for a mean-field game (MFG) model, specifically to reconstruct the obstacle function in the game from the partial observation data of value functions, which represent the…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2026-02-12 Kui Ren , Nathan Soedjak , Shanyin Tong

We consider mean-field control problems in discrete time with discounted reward, infinite time horizon and compact state and action space. The existence of optimal policies is shown and the limiting mean-field problem is derived when the…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2025-10-16 Nicole Bäuerle

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

Finite-state mean-field games (MFGs) arise as limits of large interacting particle systems and are governed by an MFG system, a coupled forward-backward differential equation consisting of a forward Kolmogorov-Fokker-Planck (KFP) equation…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2026-02-16 William Hofgard , Asaf Cohen , Mathieu Laurière

We introduce Mean-Field Trust Region Policy Optimization (MF-TRPO), a novel algorithm designed to compute approximate Nash equilibria for ergodic Mean-Field Games (MFG) in finite state-action spaces. Building on the well-established…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2025-05-30 Antonio Ocello , Daniil Tiapkin , Lorenzo Mancini , Mathieu Laurière , Eric Moulines

The standard formulation of the PDE system of Mean Field Games (MFG) requires the differentiability of the Hamiltonian. However in many cases, the structure of the underlying optimal problem leads to a convex but nondifferentiable…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2025-02-17 Yohance A. P. Osborne , Iain Smears

We study a mean-field version of Bank-El Karoui's representation theorem of stochastic processes. Under different technical conditions, we establish some existence and uniqueness results. As motivation and first applications, our mean-field…

Probability · Mathematics 2025-07-16 Xihao He , Xiaolu Tan , Jun Zou

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

This paper investigates a multidimensional non-homogeneous stochastic linear-quadratic optimal control problem featuring random coefficients and a terminal mean-field term in the cost functional, enabling its direct application to…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2026-05-27 Guojiang Shao , Zuo Quan Xu , Qi Zhang

This paper develops a unified framework for proving the existence of solutions to stationary first-order mean-field games (MFGs) based on the theory of monotone operators in Banach spaces. We cast the coupled MFG system as a variational…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2026-03-17 Rita Ferreira , Diogo Gomes , Melih Ucer

A principled method to obtain approximate solutions of general constrained integer optimization problems is introduced. The approach is based on the calculation of a mean field probability distribution for the decision variables which is…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2013-05-08 Arturo Berrones , Jonás Velasco , Juan Banda

This paper studies mean-field control with joint law dependence under dynamic expectation constraints and/or dynamic state-control-law constraints. We pioneer the establishment of the stochastic maximum principle (SMP) and the derivation of…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2026-04-24 Lijun Bo , Jingfei Wang , Xiang Yu

This article investigates the convergence of the Generalized Frank-Wolfe (GFW) algorithm for the resolution of potential and convex second-order mean field games. More specifically, the impact of the discretization of the mean-field-game…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2023-11-01 Kang Liu , Laurent Pfeiffer