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In this article, we provide sufficient conditions under which the controlled vector fields solution of optimal control problems formulated on continuity equations are Lipschitz regular in space. Our approach involves a novel combination of…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2021-02-09 Benoît Bonnet , Francesco Rossi

We study the convergence problem for mean field control, also known as optimal control of McKean-Vlasov dynamics. We assume that the data is smooth but not convex, and thus the limiting value function $\mathcal{U} :[0,T] \times…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2023-12-19 Pierre Cardaliaguet , Joe Jackson , Nikiforos Mimikos-Stamatopoulos , Panagiotis E. Souganidis

We establish an algebraic rate of convergence in the large number of players limit of the value functions of N-particle stochastic control problems towards the value function of the corresponding McKean-Vlasov problem also known as mean…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2023-01-09 Pierre Cardaliaguet , Samuel Daudin , Joe Jackson , Panagiotis Souganidis

Controlling large particle systems in collective dynamics by a few agents is a subject of high practical importance, e.g., in evacuation dynamics. In this paper we study an instantaneous control approach to steer an interacting particle…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2020-01-29 Martin Burger , Rene Pinnau , Claudia Totzeck , Oliver Tse , Andreas Roth

We investigate the global numerical approximation of a class of extended mean field control problems (MFC), where the dynamics and costs depend on the joint distribution of the state and the control. We propose a framework to approximate…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2026-03-23 Athena Picarelli , Marco Scaratti , Jonathan Tam

Reliable tracking of moving boundaries is important for the simulation of compressible fluid flows and there are a lot of contributions in literature. We recognize from the classical piston problem, a typical moving boundary problem in gas…

Computational Physics · Physics 2019-06-12 Zhifang Du , Jiequan Li

We study the problem of mean-field control when the state dynamics are given by general systems of forward-backward stochastic differential equations (FBSDEs) with heterogeneous mean-field interactions. Firstly, we introduce a novel…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2026-02-23 Andreas Sojmark , Zeng Zhang

We develop a class of barycenter problems based on mean field control problems in three dimensions with associated reactive-diffusion systems of unnormalized multi-species densities. This problem is the generalization of the Wasserstein…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2024-04-03 Arjun Vijaywargiya , Guosheng Fu , Stanley Osher , Wuchen Li

A pathwise large deviation principle in the Wasserstein topology and a pathwise central limit theorem are proved for the empirical measure of a mean-field system of interacting diffusions. The coefficients are path-dependent. The framework…

Probability · Mathematics 2024-10-10 Louis-Pierre Chaintron

Schr\"{o}dinger bridge can be viewed as a continuous-time stochastic control problem where the goal is to find an optimally controlled diffusion process whose terminal distribution coincides with a pre-specified target distribution. We…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2024-04-23 Jhanvi Garg , Xianyang Zhang , Quan Zhou

We consider a class of extended mean field games with common noises, where there exists a strictly terminal constraint. We solve the problem by reducing it to an unconstrained control problem by adding a penalized term in the cost…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2025-06-10 Tianjiao Hua , Peng Luo

We introduce a new and efficient numerical method for multicriterion optimal control and single criterion optimal control under integral constraints. The approach is based on extending the state space to include information on a "budget"…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2016-01-06 Ajeet Kumar , Alexander Vladimirsky

The purpose of this work is to provide a finite dimensional approximation of the solution to a mean field optimal control problem set on the $d$-dimensional torus. The approximation is obtained by means of a Fourier-Galerkin method, the…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2024-12-06 François Delarue , Mattia Martini

In this paper, we newly formulate and solve the optimal density control problem with Gromov-Wasserstein (GW) terminal cost in discrete-time linear Gaussian systems. Differently from the Wasserstein or Kullback-Leibler distances employed in…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2024-05-06 Kohei Morimoto , Kenji Kashima

We propose a new approach to studying classical solutions of the Bellman equation and Master equation for mean field type control problems, using a novel form of the "lifting" idea introduced by P.-L. Lions. Rather than studying the usual…

Probability · Mathematics 2023-05-10 Alain Bensoussan , P. Jameson Graber , Sheung Chi Phillip Yam

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

We study Mean Field stochastic control problems where the cost function and the state dynamics depend upon the joint distribution of the controlled state and the control process. We prove suitable versions of the Pontryagin stochastic…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2018-06-26 Beatrice Acciaio , Julio Backhoff-Veraguas , Rene Carmona

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

This paper introduces an auto-stabilized weak Galerkin (WG) finite element method for elasticity interface problems on general polygonal and polyhedral meshes, without requiring convexity constraints. The method utilizes bubble functions as…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2025-01-24 Chunmei Wang , Shangyou Zhang

Liquid droplet dynamics are widely used in biological and engineering applications, which contain complex interfacial instabilities and pattern formation such as droplet merging, splitting, and transport. This paper studies a class of mean…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2024-10-10 Guosheng Fu , Hangjie Ji , Will Pazner , Wuchen Li