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We construct Nash-equilibria in mean-field portfolio games of optimal investment and hedging under relative performance concerns with exponential (CARA) utility preferences. Common noise dynamics are modeled by integer-valued random…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2026-01-08 Dirk Becherer , Stefanie Hesse

In this paper, we study a class of linear-quadratic (LQ) mean field games of controls with common noises and their corresponding $N$-player games. The theory of mean field game of controls considers a class of mean field games where the…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2022-06-13 Min Li , Chenchen Mou , Zhen Wu , Chao Zhou

A detailed study of the mean-field solution of Langevin equations with multiplicative noise is presented. Three different regimes depending on noise-intensity (weak, intermediate, and strong-noise) are identified by performing a…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2009-11-11 Miguel A. Munoz , Francesca Colaiori , Claudio castellano

This paper focuses on exploring the convergence properties of a generic player's trajectory and empirical measures in an N-player Linear-Quadratic-Gaussian Nash game, where Brownian motion serves as the common noise. The study establishes…

Probability · Mathematics 2023-07-04 Jiamin Jian , Qingshuo Song , Jiaxuan Ye

We investigate mean field game systems under invariance conditions for the state space, otherwise called {\it viability conditions} for the controlled dynamics. First we analyze separately the Hamilton-Jacobi and the Fokker-Planck…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2019-03-18 Alessio Porretta , Michele Ricciardi

In this article, we introduce a new class of entropy-penalized robust mean field game problems in which the representative agent is opposed to Nature. The agent's objective is formulated as a min-max stochastic control problem, in which…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2026-03-27 François Delarue , Pierre Lavigne

To handle the sparsity of the extrinsic rewards in reinforcement learning, researchers have proposed intrinsic reward which enables the agent to learn the skills that might come in handy for pursuing the rewards in the future, such as…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-05-31 Chao Chen , Zijian Gao , Kele Xu , Sen Yang , Yiying Li , Bo Ding , Dawei Feng , Huaimin Wang

A retrospective analysis process for the mean field games system (MFGS) is considered. For the first time, Carleman estimates are applied to the analysis of the MFGS. Two new Carleman estimates are derived. They allow to obtain the…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2023-11-13 Michael V. Klibanov , Yurii Averboukh

We formulate a stochastic game of mean field type where the agents solve optimal stopping problems and interact through the proportion of players that have already stopped. Working with a continuum of agents, typical equilibria become…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2017-12-01 Marcel Nutz

The usual interpretation of noise is represented by a sum of many independent two-level elementary random signals with a distribution of relaxation times. In this paper it is demonstrated that also the superposition of many similar…

Data Analysis, Statistics and Probability · Physics 2007-08-24 Giovanni Zanella

In this work we aim to analyze the role of noise in the spatial Public Goods Game, one of the most famous games in Evolutionary Game Theory. The dynamics of this game is affected by a number of parameters and processes, namely the topology…

Physics and Society · Physics 2017-04-18 Marco Alberto Javarone , Federico Battiston

The Ornstein-Uhlenbeck process may be used to generate a noise signal with a finite correlation time. If a one-dimensional stochastic process is driven by such a noise source, it may be analysed by solving a Fokker-Planck equation in two…

Data Analysis, Statistics and Probability · Physics 2015-05-14 Michael Wilkinson

We investigate the problem of designing optimal classifiers in the strategic classification setting, where the classification is part of a game in which players can modify their features to attain a favorable classification outcome (while…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-05-19 Mark Braverman , Sumegha Garg

Overfitting is one of the most critical challenges in deep neural networks, and there are various types of regularization methods to improve generalization performance. Injecting noises to hidden units during training, e.g., dropout, is…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2017-11-10 Hyeonwoo Noh , Tackgeun You , Jonghwan Mun , Bohyung Han

Mean field Game (MFG) Partial Differential Inclusions (PDI) are generalizations of the system of Partial Differential Equations (PDE) of Lasry and Lions to situations where players in the game may have possibly nonunique optimal controls,…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2025-09-15 Yohance A. P. Osborne , Iain Smears

We introduce a zero-sum game problem of mean-field type as an extension of the classical zero-sum Dynkin game problem to the case where the payoff processes might depend on the value of the game and its probability law. We establish…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2022-05-06 Boualem Djehiche , Roxana Dumitrescu

To learn and reason in the presence of uncertainty, the brain must be capable of imposing some form of regularization. Here we suggest, through theoretical and computational arguments, that the combination of noise with synchronization…

Neurons and Cognition · Quantitative Biology 2013-12-06 Jake Bouvrie , Jean-Jacques Slotine

We formulate the MFG limit for $N$ interacting agents with a common noise as a single quasi-linear deterministic infinite-dimensional partial differential second order backward equation. We prove that any its (regular enough) solution…

Probability · Mathematics 2022-04-21 Vassili Kolokoltsov , Marianna Troeva

The deterministic inviscid primitive equations (also called the hydrostatic Euler equations) are known to be ill-posed in Sobolev spaces and in Gevrey classes of order strictly greater than 1, and some of their analytic solutions exist only…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2024-08-01 Ruimeng Hu , Quyuan Lin , Rongchang Liu

We establish finite-time last-iterate guarantees for vanilla stochastic gradient descent in co-coercive games under noisy feedback. This is a broad class of games that is more general than strongly monotone games, allows for multiple Nash…

Computer Science and Game Theory · Computer Science 2026-04-22 Siddharth Chandak , Ramanan Tamizholi , Nicholas Bambos