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In recent years, mean field games (MFGs) have garnered considerable attention and emerged as a dynamic and actively researched field across various domains, including economics, social sciences, finance, and transportation. The inverse…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2024-10-02 Hongyu Liu , Catharine W. K. Lo , Shen Zhang

In this paper, we introduce a bilevel optimization framework for addressing inverse mean-field games, alongside an exploration of numerical methods tailored for this bilevel problem. The primary benefit of our bilevel formulation lies in…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2024-11-13 Jiajia Yu , Quan Xiao , Tianyi Chen , Rongjie Lai

This paper studies the connection between a class of mean-field games and a social welfare optimization problem. We consider a mean-field game in function spaces with a large population of agents, and each agent seeks to minimize an…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2018-02-15 Sen Li , Wei Zhang , Lin Zhao

The pairwise comparison dynamic is a forward ordinary differential equation in a Banach space whose solution is a time-dependent probability measure to maximize utility based on a nonlinear and nonlocal protocol. It contains a wide class of…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2025-04-21 Hidekazu Yoshioka

In this paper we solve the inverse problem for the cubic mean-field Ising model. Starting from configuration data generated according to the distribution of the model we reconstruct the free parameters of the system. We test the robustness…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2023-05-31 Pierluigi Contucci , Godwin Osabutey , Cecilia Vernia

In this paper, we propose and study the utilization of the Dirichlet-to-Neumann (DN) map to uniquely identify the discount functions $r, k$ and cost function $F$ in a stationary mean field game (MFG) system. This study features several…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2023-08-15 Ming-Hui Ding , Hongyu Liu , Guang-Hui Zheng

This paper studies a class of linear quadratic mean field games where the coefficients of quadratic cost functions depend on both the mean and the variance of the population's state distribution through its quantile function. Such a…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2024-11-05 Shuang Gao , Roland P. Malhamé

In this paper, we study inverse game theory (resp. inverse multiagent learning) in which the goal is to find parameters of a game's payoff functions for which the expected (resp. sampled) behavior is an equilibrium. We formulate these…

Computer Science and Game Theory · Computer Science 2025-02-21 Denizalp Goktas , Amy Greenwald , Sadie Zhao , Alec Koppel , Sumitra Ganesh

In an inverse game problem, one needs to infer the cost function of the players in a game such that a desired joint strategy is a Nash equilibrium. We study the inverse game problem for a class of multiplayer matrix games, where the cost…

Computer Science and Game Theory · Computer Science 2022-10-17 Yue Yu , Jonathan Salfity , David Fridovich-Keil , Ufuk Topcu

Estimating the unknown reward functions driving agents' behaviors is of central interest in inverse reinforcement learning and game theory. To tackle this problem, we develop a unified framework for reward function recovery in two-player…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-05-20 Junyi Liao , Zihan Zhu , Ethan Fang , Zhuoran Yang , Vahid Tarokh

We consider the inverse problem of dynamic games, where cost function parameters are sought which explain observed behavior of interacting players. Maximum entropy inverse reinforcement learning is extended to the N-player case in order to…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-07-27 Jairo Inga , Esther Bischoff , Florian Köpf , Sören Hohmann

The convexification numerical method with the rigorously established global convergence property is constructed for a problem for the Mean Field Games System of the second order. This is the problem of the retrospective analysis of a game…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2023-06-30 Michael V. Klibanov , Jingzhi Li , Zhipeng Yang

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

This paper considers the inverse problem of recovering state-dependent source terms in a reaction-diffusion system from overposed data consisting of the values of the state variables either at a fixed finite time (census-type data) or a…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2020-08-26 Barbara Kaltenbacher , William Rundell

In the literature, existence of mean-field equilibria has been established for discrete-time mean field games under both the discounted cost and the average cost optimality criteria. In this paper, we provide a value iteration algorithm to…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-04-02 Berkay Anahtarci , Can Deha Kariksiz , Naci Saldi

Designing suitable reward functions for numerous interacting intelligent agents is challenging in real-world applications. Inverse reinforcement learning (IRL) in mean field games (MFGs) offers a practical framework to infer reward…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-09-05 Yang Chen , Xiao Lin , Bo Yan , Libo Zhang , Jiamou Liu , Neset Özkan Tan , Michael Witbrock

In this paper we introduce the functional framework and the necessary conditions for the well-posedness of an inverse problem arising in the mathematical modeling of disease transmission. The direct problem is given by an initial boundary…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2018-11-08 Aníbal Coronel , Luis Friz , Ian Hess , María Zegarra

We address the inverse problem of reconstructing both the structure and dynamics of a network from mean-field measurements, which are linear combinations of node states. This setting arises in applications where only a few aggregated…

Dynamical Systems · Mathematics 2025-11-04 Narcicegi Kiran , Tiago Pereira

In this paper, we introduce a regularized mean-field game and study learning of this game under an infinite-horizon discounted reward function. Regularization is introduced by adding a strongly concave regularization function to the…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2022-11-11 Berkay Anahtarci , Can Deha Kariksiz , Naci Saldi

In this paper, we consider a class of mean field games in which the optimal strategy of a representative agent depends on the statistical distribution of the states and controls. We prove some existence results for the forward-backward…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2020-07-13 Z Kobeissi