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This paper investigates a novel class of mean field games involving a major agent and numerous minor agents, where the agents' functionals are recursive with nonlinear backward stochastic differential equation (BSDE) representations. We…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2024-12-17 Jianhui Huang , Wenqiang Li , Harry Zheng

Empirically derived continuum models of collective behavior among large populations of dynamic agents are a subject of intense study in several fields, including biology, engineering and finance. We formulate and study a mean-field game…

Adaptation and Self-Organizing Systems · Physics 2018-06-22 Piyush Grover , Kaivalya Bakshi , Evangelos A. Theodorou

We study an ergodic mean field game problem with state constraints. In our model the agents are affected by idiosyncratic noise and use a (singular) feedback control to prevent the Brownian motion from exiting the domain. We characterize…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2023-10-05 Alessio Porretta , Michele Ricciardi

We consider the problem of learning by demonstration from agents acting in unknown stochastic Markov environments or games. Our aim is to estimate agent preferences in order to construct improved policies for the same task that the agents…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2014-08-12 Aristide Tossou , Christos Dimitrakakis

We consider the problem of learning by demonstration from agents acting in unknown stochastic Markov environments or games. Our aim is to estimate agent preferences in order to construct improved policies for the same task that the agents…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2013-07-16 Aristide C. Y. Tossou , Christos Dimitrakakis

In this paper, we explore Bertrand and Cournot Mean Field Games models for market competition with reflection boundary conditions. We prove existence, uniqueness and regularity of solutions to the system of equations, and show that this…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2017-09-13 P. Jameson Graber , Charafeddine Mouzouni

In this article we study the convergence of the Nash Equilibria in a N-player differential game towards the optimal strategies in the Mean Field Games, when the dynamic of the generic player includes a reflection process which guarantees…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2022-03-16 Michele Ricciardi

In the paper, we use the equivalent formulation of a finite state mean field game as a control problem with mixed constraints to study the dependence of solutions to finite state mean field game on an initial distribution of players. We…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2021-09-16 Yurii Averboukh

Modeling the purposeful behavior of imperfect agents from a small number of observations is a challenging task. When restricted to the single-agent decision-theoretic setting, inverse optimal control techniques assume that observed behavior…

Computer Science and Game Theory · Computer Science 2013-08-19 Kevin Waugh , Brian D. Ziebart , J. Andrew Bagnell

In this paper, we study two kinds of inverse problems for Mean Field Games (MFGs) with common noise. Our focus is on MFGs described by a coupled system of stochastic Hamilton-Jacobi-Bellman and Fokker-Planck equations. Firstly, we establish…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2024-12-12 Qi Lü , Zhonghua Liao

Mean field type models describing the limiting behavior, as the number of players tends to $+\infty$, of stochastic differential game problems, have been recently introduced by J-M. Lasry and P-L. Lions. Numerical methods for the…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2012-07-13 Yves Achdou , Fabio Camilli , Italo Capuzzo Dolcetta

In this paper, we develop a Mean Field Games approach to Cluster Analysis. We consider a finite mixture model, given by a convex combination of probability density functions, to describe the given data set. We interpret a data point as an…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2019-12-24 Laura Aquilanti , Simone Cacace , Fabio Camilli , Raul De Maio

We study first order evolutive Mean Field Games whose operators are non-coercive. This situation occurs, for instance, when some directions are `forbidden' to the generic player at some points. Under some regularity assumptions, we…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2019-03-14 Paola Mannucci , Claudio Marchi , Carlo Mariconda , Nicoletta Tchou

We investigate inverse backward-in-time problems for a class of second-order degenerate Mean-Field Game (MFG) systems. More precisely, given the final datum $(u(\cdot, T),m(\cdot, T))$ of a solution to the one-dimensional mean-field game…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2025-05-21 S. E. Chorfi , A. Habbal , M. Jahid , L. Maniar , A. Ratnani

In the present work, we study deterministic mean field games (MFGs) with finite time horizon in which the dynamics of a generic agent is controlled by the acceleration. They are described by a system of PDEs coupling a continuity equation…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2020-07-29 Yves Achdou , Paola Mannucci , Claudio Marchi , Nicoletta Tchou

In this paper we study a mean-field games system with Dirichlet boundary conditions in a closed domain and in a mean-field of control setting, that is in which the dynamics of each agent is affected not only by the average position of the…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2023-06-21 Mattia Bongini , Francesco Salvarani

The theory of mean field games aims at studying deterministic or stochastic differential games (Nash equilibria) as the number of agents tends to infinity. Since very few mean field games have explicit or semi-explicit solutions, numerical…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2020-03-11 Yves Achdou , Mathieu Laurière

In this paper, we consider the direct and inverse problems of the description of lattice positive random fields by various systems of finite-dimensional (as well as one-point) probability distributions parameterized by boundary conditions.…

Probability · Mathematics 2022-06-06 L. A. Khachatryan

Travel-time tomography seeks to recover a hidden environment from external measurements generated by propagation through an anomalous region. Standard formulations treat propagation as passive, so the environment influences observations…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2026-05-26 Longqiang Xu , Weishi Yin , Hongyu Liu

We consider a class of linear-quadratic-Gaussian mean-field games with a major agent and considerable heterogeneous minor agents in the presence of mean-field interactions. The individual admissible controls are constrained in closed convex…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2017-10-10 Ying Hu , Jianhui Huang , Tianyang Nie