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This paper considers the efficient minimization of the infinite time average of a stationary ergodic process in the space of a handful of design parameters which affect it. Problems of this class, derived from physical or numerical…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2019-10-29 Pooriya Beyhaghi , Ryan Alimo , Thomas Bewley

We present a new primal-dual algorithm for computing the value of the Lagrangian dual of a stochastic mixed-integer program (SMIP) formed by relaxing its nonanticipativity constraints. This dual is widely used in decomposition methods for…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2017-02-06 Natashia Boland , Jeffrey Christiansen , Brian Dandurand , Andrew Eberhard , Jeff Linderoth , James Luedtke

We investigate a first-order mean field planning problem of the form \begin{equation} \left\lbrace\begin{aligned} -\partial_t u + H(x,Du) &= f(x,m) &&\text{in } (0,T)\times \mathbb{R}^d, \\ \partial_t m - \nabla\cdot (m\,H_p(x,Du)) &= 0…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2019-08-05 Carlo Orrieri , Alessio Porretta , Giuseppe Savaré

We look at the long time behavior of potential Mean Field Games (briefly MFG) using some standard tools from weak KAM theory. We first show that the time-dependent minimization problem converges to an ergodic constant $-\lambda$, then we…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2018-07-30 Marco Masoero

In this article, we study a simplified version of a density-dependent first-order mean field game, in which the players face a penalization equal to the population density at their final position. We consider the problem of finding an…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2026-02-04 P. Jameson Graber , Brady Zimmerman

We consider a class of mean field games in which the agents interact through both their states and controls, and we focus on situations in which a generic agent tries to adjust her speed (control) to an average speed (the average is made in…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2020-03-10 Y Achdou , Z Kobeissi

We study mean-field control (MFC) problems with common noise using the control randomisation framework, where we substitute the control process with an independent Poisson point process, controlling its intensity instead. To address the…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2024-12-31 Robert Denkert , Idris Kharroubi , Huyên Pham

This paper is concerned with the large particle limit for the consensus-based optimization (CBO), which was postulated in the pioneering works [6,28]. In order to solve this open problem, we adapt a compactness argument by first proving the…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2022-07-20 Hui Huang , Jinniao Qiu

In the context of mean field games, with possible control of the diffusion coefficient, we consider a path-dependent version of the planning problem introduced by P.L. Lions: given a pair of marginal distributions $(\mu_0, \mu_1)$, find a…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2023-05-19 Zhenjie Ren , Xiaolu Tan , Nizar Touzi , Junjian Yang

In this paper, we study a class of degenerate mean field games (MFGs) with state-distribution dependent and unbounded functional diffusion coefficients. With a probabilistic method, we study the well-posedness of the forward-backward…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2026-01-08 Alain Bensoussan , Ziyu Huang , Shanjian Tang , Sheung Chi Phillip Yam

In this paper, we introduce and study a first-order mean-field game obstacle problem. We examine the case of local dependence on the measure under assumptions that include both the logarithmic case and power-like nonlinearities. Since the…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2014-10-28 Diogo Gomes , Stefania Patrizi

Here, we consider a regularized mean-field game model that features a low-order regularization. We prove the existence of solutions with positive density. To do so, we combine a priori estimates with the continuation method. In contrast…

This paper concerns the simultaneous effect of homogenization and of the small noise limit for a $2^{\textrm {nd}}$ order mean field games (MFG) system with local coupling and quadratic Hamiltonian. We show under some additional assumptions…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2024-03-12 Annalisa Cesaroni , Nicolas Dirr , Claudio Marchi

The assignment of personnel to teams is a fundamental and ubiquitous managerial function, typically involving several objectives and a variety of idiosyncratic practical constraints. Despite the prevalence of this task in practice, the…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2018-04-03 Hoda Atef Yekta , David Bergman , Robert Day

We propose a novel mean field games (MFGs) based GAN(generative adversarial network) framework. To be specific, we utilize the Hopf formula in density space to rewrite MFGs as a primal-dual problem so that we are able to train the model via…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-03-16 Shaojun Ma , Haomin Zhou , Hongyuan Zha

We address an optimization problem where the cost function is the expectation of a random mapping. To tackle the problem two approaches based on the approximation of the objective function by consensus-based particle optimization methods on…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2025-11-24 Sabrina Bonandin , Michael Herty

This paper studies the n-player game and the mean field game under the CRRA relative performance on terminal wealth, in which the interaction occurs by peer competition. In the model with n agents, the price dynamics of underlying risky…

Mathematical Finance · Quantitative Finance 2023-02-10 Lijun Bo , Shihua Wang , Xiang Yu

This paper considers mean field games with optimal stopping time (OSMFGs) where agents make optimal exit decisions, the coupled obstacle and Fokker-Planck equations in such models pose challenges versus classic MFGs. This paper proposes a…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2023-10-10 Chengfeng Shen , Yifan Luo , Zhennan Zhou

Mean field games (MFG) are dynamic games with infinitely many infinitesimal agents. In this context, we study the efficiency of Nash MFG equilibria: Namely, we compare the social cost of a MFG equilibrium with the minimal cost a global…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2018-02-20 Pierre Cardaliaguet , Catherine Rainer

Motivated by continuous-time optimal inventory management, we study a class of stationary mean-field control problems with singular controls. The dynamics are modeled by a mean-reverting Ornstein-Uhlenbeck process, and the performance…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2026-02-02 Federico Cannerozzi