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This paper studies the continuous-time q-learning in mean-field jump-diffusion models when the population distribution is not directly observable. We propose the integrated q-function in decoupled form (decoupled Iq-function) from the…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2025-03-24 Xiaoli Wei , Xiang Yu , Fengyi Yuan

We study infinite horizon discounted Mean Field Control (MFC) problems with common noise through the lens of Mean Field Markov Decision Processes (MFMDP). We allow the agents to use actions that are randomized not only at the individual…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2021-10-14 René Carmona , Mathieu Laurière , Zongjun Tan

The goal of this paper is to study a Mean Field Game (MFG) system stemming from the harvesting of resources. Modelling the latter through a reaction-diffusion equation and the harvesters as competing rational agents, we are led to a…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2024-06-11 Ziad Kobeissi , Idriss Mazari-Fouquer , Domènec Ruiz-Balet

In this paper, we consider a large class of constrained non-cooperative stochastic Markov games with countable state spaces and discounted cost criteria. In one-player case, i.e., constrained discounted Markov decision models, it is…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2021-12-16 Anna Jaśkiewicz , Andrzej S. Nowak

We introduce a mean field model for optimal holding of a representative agent of her peers as a natural expected scaling limit from the corresponding $N-$agent model. The induced mean field dynamics appear naturally in a form which is not…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2022-04-05 Mao Fabrice Djete , Nizar Touzi

Subject to reasonable conditions, in large population stochastic dynamics games, where the agents are coupled by the system's mean field (i.e. the state distribution of the generic agent) through their nonlinear dynamics and their nonlinear…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2019-05-28 Nevroz Sen , Peter E. Caines

Mean-field games (MFG) were introduced to efficiently analyze approximate Nash equilibria in large population settings. In this work, we consider entropy-regularized mean-field games with a finite state-action space in a discrete time…

Computer Science and Game Theory · Computer Science 2022-07-26 Yue Guan , Mi Zhou , Ali Pakniyat , Panagiotis Tsiotras

Quantum games represent the really 21st century branch of game theory, tightly linked to the modern development of quantum computing and quantum technologies. The main accent in these developments so far was made on stationary or repeated…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2020-05-06 Vassili N. Kolokoltsov

We study convergence rates of the generalized conditional gradient (GCG) method applied to fully discretized Mean Field Games (MFG) systems. While explicit convergence rates of the GCG method have been established at the continuous PDE…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2026-02-13 Haruka Nakamura , Norikazu Saito

First order kinetic mean field games formally describe the Nash equilibria of deterministic differential games where agents control their acceleration, asymptotically in the limit as the number of agents tends to infinity. The known results…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2022-07-12 Megan Griffin-Pickering , Alpár R. Mészáros

We consider stochastic differential games with $N$ nearly identical players, linear-Gaussian dynamics, and infinite horizon discounted quadratic cost. Admissible controls are feedbacks for which the system is ergodic. We first study the…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2014-03-18 Fabio S. Priuli

We study mean-field game (MFG) problems with rough common noise, in which the representative state dynamics are governed by a controlled rough stochastic differential equation driven by an idiosyncratic Brownian motion and a deterministic…

Probability · Mathematics 2026-05-19 Erhan Bayraktar , Xihao He , Xiang Yu , Fengyi Yuan

This paper presents recent results from Mean Field Game theory underlying the introduction of common noise that imposes to incorporate the distribution of the agents as a state variable. Starting from the usual mean field games equations…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2011-10-19 Olivier Guéant

We consider the problem of representing collective behavior of large populations and predicting the evolution of a population distribution over a discrete state space. A discrete time mean field game (MFG) is motivated as an interpretable…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2018-04-24 Jiachen Yang , Xiaojing Ye , Rakshit Trivedi , Huan Xu , Hongyuan Zha

The formulation of Mean Field Games (MFG) typically requires continuous differentiability of the Hamiltonian in order to determine the advective term in the Kolmogorov--Fokker--Planck equation for the density of players. However, in many…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2024-04-03 Yohance A. P. Osborne , Iain Smears

This paper studies an inverse problem for a multipopulation mean field game (MFG) system where the objective is to reconstruct the running and terminal cost functions of the system that couples the dynamics of different populations. We…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2025-02-17 Kui Ren , Nathan Soedjak , Kewei Wang

This paper addresses the decentralized coordinated charging problem for a large population of battery storage agents (e.g. residential batteries, electrical vehicles, charging station batteries) using Mean Field Game (MFG). Agents are…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2026-04-08 Nour Al Dandachly , Shuang Gao , Roland Malhamé

This paper investigates the simultaneous reconstruction of the running cost function and the internal topological structure within the mean-field games (MFG) system utilizing partial boundary data. The inverse problem is notably challenging…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2024-08-20 Ming-Hui Ding , Hongyu Liu , Guang-Hui Zheng

We consider a class of optimal control problems that arise in connection with optimal advertising under uncertainty. Two main features appear in the model: a delay in the control variable driving the state dynamics; a mean-field term both…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2024-03-04 Michele Ricciardi , Mauro Rosestolato

In this paper, we consider mean-field games where the interaction of each player with the mean-field takes into account not only the states of the players but also their collective behavior, To do so, we develop a random variable framework…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2015-06-23 Diogo A. Gomes , Vardan K. Voskanyan