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Mean Field Games provide a powerful framework to analyze the dynamics of a large number of controlled agents in interaction. Here we consider such systems when the interactions between agents result in a negative coordination and analyze…

Physics and Society · Physics 2020-10-28 Thibault Bonnemain , Thierry Gobron , Denis Ullmo

The broad goal of the research surveyed in this article is to develop methods for understanding the aggregate behavior of interconnected dynamical systems, as found in mathematical physics, neuroscience, economics, power systems and neural…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2025-02-04 Prashant Mehta , Sean Meyn

Mean-field game theory relies on approximating games that are intractable to model due to a very large to infinite population of players. While these kinds of games can be solved analytically via the associated system of partial…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-04-16 Anna C. M. Thöni , Yoram Bachrach , Tal Kachman

In this paper, we introduce a natural learning rule for mean field games with finite state and action space, the so-called myopic adjustment process. The main motivation for these considerations are the complex computations necessary to…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2020-09-01 Berenice Anne Neumann

Mean-field control (MFC) problems aim to find the optimal policy to control massive populations of interacting agents. These problems are crucial in areas such as economics, physics, and biology. We consider the non-local setting, where the…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2024-05-20 Alexander Vidal , Samy Wu Fung , Stanley Osher , Luis Tenorio , Levon Nurbekyan

We study the turnpike phenomenon for optimal control problems with mean field dynamics that are obtained as the limit $N\rightarrow \infty$ of systems governed by a large number $N$ of ordinary differential equations. We show that the…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2024-11-20 Martin Gugat , Michael Herty , Chiara Segala

We study the mean-field limit for a class of agent-based models describing flocking with nonlinear velocity alignment. Each agent interacts through a communication protocol $\phi$ and a non-linear coupling of velocities given by the power…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2026-01-01 Vinh Nguyen , Roman Shvydkoy , Changhui Tan

Dynamical mean field theory (DMFT) is a tool that allows to analyze the stochastic dynamics of $N$ interacting degrees of freedom in terms of a self-consistent $1$-body problem. In this work, focusing on models of ecosystems, we present the…

Disordered Systems and Neural Networks · Physics 2020-01-08 Felix Roy , Giulio Biroli , Guy Bunin , Chiara Cammarota

In this paper, we investigate team optimal control of coupled major-minor subsystems with mean-field sharing. In such a model, there is one major subsystem that directly influences the dynamics of $n$ homogeneous minor subsystems; however,…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2020-12-07 Jalal Arabneydi , Aditya Mahajan

The main difficulty that arises in the analysis of most machine learning algorithms is to handle, analytically and numerically, a large number of interacting random variables. In this Ph.D manuscript, we revisit an approach based on the…

Disordered Systems and Neural Networks · Physics 2021-03-11 Benjamin Aubin

A multi-scale meshfree particle method for macroscopic mean field approximations of generalized interacting particle models is developed and investigated. The method is working in a uniform way for large and small interaction radii. The…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2017-05-10 Axel Klar , Sudarshan Tiwari

Machine learning methods for solving the equations of dynamical mean-field theory are developed. The method is demonstrated on the three dimensional Hubbard model. The key technical issues are defining a mapping of an input function to an…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2015-07-01 Louis-François Arsenault , O. Anatole von Lilienfeld , Andrew J. Millis

We consider the dynamics of an arbitrary quantum system coupled to a large arbitrary and fully quantum mechanical environment through a random interaction. We establish analytically and check numerically the typicality of this dynamics, in…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2017-07-26 Grégoire Ithier , Florent Benaych-Georges

The mean-field control problem for a multi-dimensional diffusion-aggregation system with Coulomb interaction (the so called parabolic elliptic Keller-Segel system) is considered. The existence of optimal control is proved through the…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2024-10-21 Li Chen , Yucheng Wang , Zhao Wang

In this tutorial, we provide an introduction to machine learning methods for finding Nash equilibria in games with large number of agents. These types of problems are important for the operations research community because of their…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2024-06-18 Gokce Dayanikli , Mathieu Lauriere

This paper proposes a computationally efficient framework, based on interval analysis, for rigorous verification of nonlinear continuous-time dynamical systems with neural network controllers. Given a neural network, we use an existing…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-08-08 Saber Jafarpour , Akash Harapanahalli , Samuel Coogan

The mean-field limit of interacting diffusions without exchangeability, caused by weighted interactions and non-i.i.d. initial values, are investigated. The weights could be signed and unbounded. The result applies to a large class of…

Probability · Mathematics 2026-01-19 Zhenfu Wang , Xianliang Zhao , Rongchan Zhu

This article aims to study coupled mean-field equation and ODEs with discrete events motivated by vehicular traffic flow. Precisely, multi-lane traffic flow in presence of human-driven and autonomous vehicles is considered, with the…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2021-10-22 Xiaoqian Gong , Benedetto Piccoli , Giuseppe Visconti

We propose an approach to modelling large-scale multi-agent dynamical systems allowing interactions among more than just pairs of agents using the theory of mean field games and the notion of hypergraphons, which are obtained as limits of…

Computer Science and Game Theory · Computer Science 2022-11-23 Kai Cui , Wasiur R. KhudaBukhsh , Heinz Koeppl

Mean-field theory is a powerful tool for studying large neural networks. However, when the system is composed of a few neurons, macroscopic differences between the mean-field approximation and the real behavior of the network can arise.…

Neurons and Cognition · Quantitative Biology 2016-09-28 Diego Fasoli , Anna Cattani , Stefano Panzeri