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This paper represents the first attempt to develop a theory for linear-quadratic mean field games in possibly infinite dimensional Hilbert spaces. As a starting point, we study the case, considered in most finite dimensional contributions…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2025-02-04 Salvatore Federico , Fausto Gozzi , Daria Ghilli

In this paper, we consider the mean field game with a common noise and allow the state coefficients to vary with the conditional distribution in a nonlinear way. We assume that the cost function satisfies a convexity and a weak monotonicity…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2021-05-26 Ziyu Huang , Shanjian Tang

In this paper, we prove the existence of classical solutions for second order stationary mean-field game systems. These arise in ergodic (mean-field) optimal control, convex degenerate problems in calculus of variations, and in the study of…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2015-03-24 Edgard A. Pimentel , Vardan Voskanyan

We study the convergence problem for mean field games with common noise and controlled volatility. We adopt the strategy recently put forth by Lauri\`ere and the second author, using the maximum principle to recast the convergence problem…

Probability · Mathematics 2023-10-20 Joe Jackson , Ludovic Tangpi

This paper considers the Linear Quadratic Regulator problem for linear systems with unknown dynamics, a central problem in data-driven control and reinforcement learning. We propose a method that uses data to directly return a controller…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-05-05 Claudio De Persis , Pietro Tesi

Mean field control provides a robust framework for coordinating large-scale populations with complex interactions and has wide applications across diverse fields. However, the inherent nonlinearity and the presence of unknown system…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2024-11-12 Yuhan Zhao , Juntao Chen , Yingdong Lu , Quanyan Zhu

Variational methods have been used to study stochastic control for long, see Bensoussan (1982) and Bensoussan-Lions (1978) for the early works. More precisely, variational approaches apply to the study of Bellman equation as a parabolic…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2025-12-01 Alain Bensoussan , Ziyu Huang , Sheung Chi Phillip Yam

In this paper, we concern with the ergodic linear-quadratic closed-loop optimal control problems, in which the state equation is the mean-field stochastic differential equation with periodic coefficients. We first study the asymptotic…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2025-05-09 Jiacheng Wu , Qi Zhang

This paper investigates a Hamilton-Jacobi (HJ) analysis to solve finite-horizon optimal control problems for high-dimensional systems. Although grid-based methods, such as the level-set method [1], numerically solve a general class of HJ…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-06-28 Donggun Lee , Claire J. Tomlin

In many stochastic games stemming from financial models, the environment evolves with latent factors and there may be common noise across agents' states. Two classic examples are: (i) multi-agent trading on electronic exchanges, and (ii)…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2019-07-24 Dena Firoozi , Peter E. Caines , Sebastian Jaimungal

In this paper, we study two kinds of inverse problems for Mean Field Games (MFGs) with common noise. Our focus is on MFGs described by a coupled system of stochastic Hamilton-Jacobi-Bellman and Fokker-Planck equations. Firstly, we establish…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2024-12-12 Qi Lü , Zhonghua Liao

We consider the convergence problem in the setting of mean field control with common noise and degenerate idiosyncratic noise. Our main results establish a rate of convergence of the finite-dimensional value functions $V^N$ towards the mean…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2025-01-22 Alekos Cecchin , Samuel Daudin , Joe Jackson , Mattia Martini

As it is popular known, Riccati equation is the key basic tool for optimal control in the modern control theory. The solvability conditions of optimal control, stabilization conditions and controller design are all based on the Riccati…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2017-12-27 Huanshui Zhang , Juanjuan Xu

A fundamental theory of deterministic linear-quadratic (LQ) control is the equivalent relationship between control problems, two-point boundary value problems and Riccati equations. In this paper, we extend the equivalence to a general…

Mathematical Finance · Quantitative Finance 2021-10-13 Hongyan Cai , Danhong Chen , Yunfei Peng , Wei Wei

This paper is concerned with linear quadratic optimal control problems for mean-field backward stochastic differential equations (MF-BSDEs, for short) with deterministic coefficients. The optimality system, which is a linear mean-field…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2016-10-11 Xun Li , Jingrui Sun , Jie Xiong

This paper investigates the stochastic linear-quadratic (LQ, for short) optimal control problems with non-Markovian regime switching in a finite time horizon where the state equation is multi-dimensional. Similar to the classical stochastic…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2023-07-18 Yuyang Chen , Peng Luo

This paper is a continuation work of Ren et al. (2026) aiming to further devise q-learning algorithms for mean-field control (MFC) with controlled common noise. Based on the relaxed control formulation, we first establish the martingale…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2026-05-01 Zhenjie Ren , Xiaoli Wei , Xiang Yu , Xun Yu Zhou

This paper is concerned with a linear-quadratic (LQ) Stackelberg mean field games of backward-forward stochastic systems, involving a backward leader and a substantial number of forward followers. The leader initiates by providing its…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2024-06-28 Wenyu Cong , Jingtao Shi

This paper is concerned with stochastic linear quadratic (LQ, for short) optimal control problems in an infinite horizon with conditional mean-field term in a switching regime environment. The orthogonal decomposition introduced in [21] has…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2025-01-03 Hongwei Mei , Qingmeng Wei , Jiongmin Yong

We develop a robust linear-quadratic mean-field control framework for systemic risk under model uncertainty, in which a central bank jointly optimizes interest rate policy and supervisory monitoring intensity against adversarial…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2025-12-05 Toshiaki Yamanaka