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We consider a mean field game with common noise in which the diffusion coefficients may be controlled. We prove existence of a weak relaxed solution under some continuity conditions on the coefficients. We then show that, when there is no…

Probability · Mathematics 2020-05-18 Adrien Barrasso , Nizar Touzi

We introduce the concept of {\it mean-field optimal control} which is the rigorous limit process connecting finite dimensional optimal control problems with ODE constraints modeling multi-agent interactions to an infinite dimensional…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2019-02-20 Massimo Fornasier , Francesco Solombrino

In this paper, we study the $extended$ mean field control problem, which is a class of McKean-Vlasov stochastic control problem where the state dynamics and the reward functions depend upon the joint (conditional) distribution of the…

Probability · Mathematics 2022-04-06 Mao Fabrice Djete

This work studies how to estimate the mean-field density of large-scale systems in a distributed manner. Such problems are motivated by the recent swarm control technique that uses mean-field approximations to represent the collective…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-12-21 Tongjia Zheng , Qing Han , Hai Lin

In the present work, we develop a novel particle method for a general class of mean field control problems, with source and terminal constraints. Specific examples of the problems we consider include the dynamic formulation of the…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2025-08-27 Katy Craig , Karthik Elamvazhuthi , Harlin Lee

Controlling systems of ordinary differential equations (ODEs) is ubiquitous in science and engineering. For finding an optimal feedback controller, the value function and associated fundamental equations such as the Bellman equation and the…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2021-04-14 Mathias Oster , Leon Sallandt , Reinhold Schneider

In this paper, we study general mean-field backward stochastic differential equations (BSDEs, for short) with quadratic growth. First, the existence and uniqueness of local and global solutions are proved with some new ideas for a…

Probability · Mathematics 2024-02-02 Tao Hao , Ying Hu , Shanjian Tang , Jiaqiang Wen

We study the Bellman equation in the Wasserstein space arising in the study of mean field control problems, namely stochastic optimal control problems for McKean-Vlasov diffusion processes.Using the standard notion of viscosity solution \`a…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2022-02-10 Andrea Cosso , Fausto Gozzi , Idris Kharroubi , Huyên Pham , Mauro Rosestolato

Mean-field games with common noise provide a powerful framework for modeling the collective behavior of large populations subject to shared randomness, such as systemic risk in finance or environmental shocks in economics. These problems…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2025-11-13 Ruimeng Hu , Botao Jin , Mathieu Laurière , Jiacheng Zhang

We study a specific class of finite-horizon mean field optimal stopping problems by means of the dynamic programming approach. In particular, we consider problems where the state process is not affected by the stopping time. Such problems…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2025-03-07 Andrea Cosso , Laura Perelli

This article is concerned with an optimal control problem derived by mean-field forward-backward stochastic differential equation with noisy observation, where the drift coefficients of the state equation and the observation equation are…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2017-01-09 Guangchen Wang , Hua Xiao , Guojing Xing

We consider controlled stochastic differential equations (SDEs) with measurable coefficients, a uniformly elliptic diffusion coefficient and an $L_d$-drift. No space-regularity will be assumed for the coefficients. In this framework we…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2025-09-19 David Criens

We study model-free policy learning for discrete-time mean-field control (MFC) problems with finite state space and compact action space. In contrast to the extensive literature on value-based methods for MFC, policy-based approaches remain…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2026-01-28 Matthieu Meunier , Huyên Pham , Christoph Reisinger

We consider a jump-diffusion mean field control problem with regime switching in the state dynamics. The corresponding value function is characterized as the unique viscosity solution of a HJB master equation on the space of probability…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2022-09-20 Erhan Bayraktar , Alekos Cecchin , Prakash Chakraborty

This work studies the problem of controlling the mean-field density of large-scale stochastic systems, which has applications in various fields such as swarm robotics. Recently, there is a growing amount of literature that employs…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-03-28 Tongjia Zheng , Qing Han , Hai Lin

We study a high-dimensional stochastic optimization problem which features both control and stopping. In particular, a central planner steers a large population of particles, and can also remove particles at any time by paying a penalty. In…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2026-03-24 Pierre Cardaliaguet , Joe Jackson , Panagiotis E. Souganidis

This paper extends the domination-monotonicity conditions, which guarantee the well-posedness of extended mean-filed forward-backward stochastic differential equations (extended MF-FBSDEs), from the previously studied linear framework to a…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2026-05-12 Hao Wu

The goal of this work is to obtain optimal rates for the convergence problem in mean field control. Our analysis covers cases where the solutions to the limiting problem may not be unique nor stable. Equivalently the value function of the…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2023-05-16 Samuel Daudin , François Delarue , Joe Jackson

We consider the stochastic optimal control problem of nonlinear mean-field systems in discrete time. We reformulate the problem into a deterministic control problem with marginal distribution as controlled state variable, and prove that…

Probability · Mathematics 2015-12-01 Huyên Pham , Xiaoli Wei

In this paper we study a Markovian two-dimensional bounded-variation stochastic control problem whose state process consists of a diffusive mean-reverting component and of a purely controlled one. The main problem's characteristic lies in…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2020-04-21 Salvatore Federico , Giorgio Ferrari , Patrick Schuhmann