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The paper is concerned with the deterministic limit of mean field games with the nonlocal coupling. It is assumed that the dynamics of mean field games are given by nonlinear Markov processes. This type of games includes stochastic mean…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2018-01-08 Yurii Averboukh

We analyze a fractional mean field game of controls system, showing existence of solutions when the order of the fractional Laplacian is $s\in(\frac{1}{2},1)$. Here the running cost depends on the distribution $\mu$ of not only the states…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2025-09-08 P. Jameson Graber , Elizabeth Matter , Jesus Ruiz Bolanos

Mean field games formalize dynamic games with a continuum of players and explicit interaction where the players can have heterogeneous states. As they additionally yield approximate equilibria of corresponding $N$-player games, they are of…

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

Torque-driven microscale swimming robots, or microrotors, hold significant potential in biomedical applications such as targeted drug delivery, minimally invasive surgery, and micromanipulation. This paper addresses the challenge of…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2024-09-10 Jake Buzhardt , Phanindra Tallapragada

We propose a general model-free strategy for feedback control design of turbulent flows. This strategy called 'machine learning control' (MLC) is capable of exploiting nonlinear mechanisms in a systematic unsupervised manner. It relies on…

This article is concerned with stochastic control problems for backward doubly stochastic differential equations of mean-field type, where the coefficient functions depend on the joint distribution of the state process and the control…

Probability · Mathematics 2022-05-26 Jian Song , Meng Wang

This paper proposes an efficient computational framework for longitudinal velocity control of a large number of autonomous vehicles (AVs) and develops a traffic flow theory for AVs. Instead of hypothesizing explicitly how AVs drive, our…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2020-12-14 Kuang Huang , Xuan Di , Qiang Du , Xi Chen

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…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2025-05-12 Felix Höfer , H. Mete Soner

In this paper, we investigate the interaction of two populations with a large number of indistinguishable agents. The problem consists in two levels: the interaction between agents of a same population, and the interaction between the two…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2018-10-30 Alain Bensoussan , Tao Huang , Mathieu Laurière

This note proposes a general control approach, called vector-field guided constraint-following control, to solve the dynamics control problem of geometric path-following for a class of uncertain mechanical systems. More specifically, it…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2026-03-17 Hui Yin , Xiang Li , Yifan Liu , Weijia Yao

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

Control of nonlinear uncertain systems is a common challenge in the robotics field. Nonlinear latent force models, which incorporate latent uncertainty characterized as Gaussian processes, carry the promise of representing such systems…

Robotics · Computer Science 2022-07-29 Thomas Woodruff , Iman Askari , Guanghui Wang , Huazhen Fang

H\"older stability estimate and uniqueness are proven for a retrospective problem of Mean Field Games with a non-quadratic Hamiltonian. The previous result was only for the quadratic Hamiltonian. The main tool is the apparatus of Carleman…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2023-11-02 Michael V. Klibanov , Mikhail Y. Kokurin , Jingzhi Li

We propose two numerical methods for the optimal control of McKean-Vlasov dynamics in finite time horizon. Both methods are based on the introduction of a suitable loss function defined over the parameters of a neural network. This allows…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2021-03-31 René Carmona , Mathieu Laurière

We study methods for solving stochastic control problems of systems of forward-backward mean-field equations with delay, in finite or infinite horizon. Necessary and sufficient maximum principles under partial information are given. The…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2016-10-31 Nacira Agram , Elin Engen Rose

In this work we develop a numerical method for solving a type of convex graph-structured tensor optimization problems. This type of problems, which can be seen as a generalization of multi-marginal optimal transport problems with…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2024-03-25 Axel Ringh , Isabel Haasler , Yongxin Chen , Johan Karlsson

This paper establishes the existence of equilibria result of a class of mean field games with singular controls. The interaction takes place through both states and controls. A relaxed solution approach is used. To circumvent the tightness…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2022-05-10 Guanxing Fu

Sampling synthetic turbulent fields as a computationally tractable surrogate for direct numerical simulations (DNS) is an important practical problem in various applications, and allows to test our physical understanding of the main…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2025-11-19 Timo Schorlepp , Katharina Kormann , Jeremiah Lübke , Tobias Schäfer , Rainer Grauer

In a probabilistic mean field game driven by a L\'evy process an individual player aims to minimize a long run discounted/ergodic cost by controlling the process through a pair of increasing and decreasing c\`adl\`ag processes, while he is…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2025-05-30 Facundo Oliú

This paper studies optimal control and stabilization problems for continuous-time mean-field systems with input delay, which are the fundamental development of control and stabilization problems for mean-field systems. There are two main…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2020-10-19 Xiao Ma , Qingyuan Qi , Xun Li , Huanshui Zhang