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The goal of this paper is to demonstrate that common noise may serve as an exploration noise for learning the solution of a mean field game. This concept is here exemplified through a toy linear-quadratic model, for which a suitable form of…
The paper establishes the exponential turnpike property for a class of mean-field stochastic linear-quadratic (LQ) optimal control problems with periodic coefficients. It first introduces the concepts of stability, stabilizability, and…
In this paper, a class of time inconsistent linear quadratic optimal control problems of mean-field stochastic differential equations (SDEs) is considered under Markovian framework. Open-loop equilibrium controls and their particular…
We consider a class of $\ell_0$-regularized linear-quadratic (LQ) optimal control problems. This class of problems is obtained by augmenting a penalizing sparsity measure to the cost objective of the standard linear-quadratic regulator…
The paper studies the convergence, as $N$ tends to infinity, of a system of $N$ coupled Hamilton-Jacobi equations, the Nash system. This system arises in differential game theory. We describe the limit problem in terms of the so-called…
We study the time-inconsistent linear quadratic optimal control problem for forward-backward stochastic differential equations with potentially indefinite cost weighting matrices for both the state and the control variables. Our research…
We study the problem of mean-field control when the state dynamics are given by general systems of forward-backward stochastic differential equations (FBSDEs) with heterogeneous mean-field interactions. Firstly, we introduce a novel…
We study a mean field optimal control problem with general non-Markovian dynamics, including both common noise and jumps. We show that its minimizers are Nash equilibria of an associated mean field game of controls. These types of games are…
Based on a recently developed notion of physical realizability for quantum linear stochastic systems, we formulate a quantum LQG optimal control problem for quantum linear stochastic systems where the controller itself may also be a quantum…
This paper delves into studying the differences and connections between open-loop and closed-loop strategies for the linear quadratic (LQ) mean field games (MFGs) by the direct approach. The investigation begins with the finite-population…
We consider the problem of computing optimal linear control policies for linear systems in finite-horizon. The states and the inputs are required to remain inside pre-specified safety sets at all times despite unknown disturbances. In this…
We discuss a non-equilibrium dynamical mean-field framework for simulating inhomogeneous Hubbard models with local disorders. Our approach treats electron interactions and disorders on equal footing, by considering only local dynamical…
This paper presents a novel model-free method to solve linear quadratic Gaussian mean field social control problems in the presence of multiplicative noise. The objective is to achieve a social optimum by solving two algebraic Riccati…
In this article, we apply a probabilistic approach to study general mean field type control (MFTC) problems with jump-diffusions, and give the first global-in-time solution. We allow the drift coefficient $b$ and the diffusion coefficient…
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,…
Following Kolokoltsov's work [1], we present an extension of mean-field control theory in quantum framework. In particular such an extension is done naturally by considering the Belavkin quantum filtering and control theory in a mean-field…
A discrete-time stochastic LQ problem with multiplicative noises and state transmission delay is studied in this paper, which does not require any definiteness constraint on the cost weighting matrices. From some abstract representations of…
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…
The theory of Mean Field Game of Controls considers a class of mean field games where the interaction is through the joint distribution of the state and control. It is well known that, for standard mean field games, certain monotonicity…
We consider an optimal control problem where the average welfare of weakly interacting agents is of interest. We examine the mean-field control problem as the fluid approximation of the N-agent control problem with the setup of finite-state…