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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

Methods from convex optimization are widely used as building blocks for deep learning algorithms. However, the reasons for their empirical success are unclear, since modern convolutional networks (convnets), incorporating rectifier units…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2016-04-08 David Balduzzi

A general class of mean field games are considered where the governing dynamics are controlled diffusions in $\mathbb{R}^d$. The optimization criterion is the long time average of a running cost function. Under various sets of hypotheses,…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2019-08-21 Ari Arapostathis , Anup Biswas , Johnson Carroll

Discontinuous Galerkin (DG) methods for the numerical solution of partial differential equations have enjoyed considerable success because they are both flexible and robust: They allow arbitrary unstructured geometries and easy control of…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2009-11-18 Andreas Klöckner , Tim Warburton , Jeffrey Bridge , Jan S. Hesthaven

We introduce an efficient numerical scheme for continuous time Dynkin games under model uncertainty. We use the Skorokhod embedding in order to construct recombining tree approximations. This technique allows us to determine convergence…

Probability · Mathematics 2018-02-20 Benjamin Gottesman , Yan Dolinsky

We propose a policy iteration method to solve an inverse problem for a mean-field game (MFG) model, specifically to reconstruct the obstacle function in the game from the partial observation data of value functions, which represent the…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2026-02-12 Kui Ren , Nathan Soedjak , Shanyin Tong

Mean Field Control Games (MFCGs) provide a powerful theoretical framework for analyzing systems of infinitely many interacting agents, blending elements from Mean Field Games (MFGs) and Mean Field Control (MFC). However, solving the coupled…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-01-03 Nianli Peng , Yilin Wang

In recent years, deep learning methods, exemplified by Physics-Informed Neural Networks (PINNs), have been widely applied to the numerical solution of differential equations. However, these methods may suffer from limited accuracy, high…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2026-03-17 Tao Tang , Jiang Yang , Yuxiang Zhao , Quanhui Zhu

Deep neural networks are powerful tools for approximating functions, and they are applied to successfully solve various problems in many fields. In this paper, we propose a neural network-based numerical method to solve partial differential…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2022-02-01 Yong Shang , Fei Wang , Jingbo Sun

Mean Field Games (MFG) are the class of games with a very large number of agents and the standard equilibrium concept is a Mean Field Equilibrium (MFE). Algorithms for learning MFE in dynamic MFGs are unknown in general. Our focus is on an…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2021-02-02 Kiyeob Lee , Desik Rengarajan , Dileep Kalathil , Srinivas Shakkottai

An efficient $hp$-multigrid scheme is presented for local discontinuous Galerkin (LDG) discretizations of elliptic problems, formulated around the idea of separately coarsening the underlying discrete gradient and divergence operators. We…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2019-03-14 Daniel Fortunato , Chris H. Rycroft , Robert Saye

The discontinuous Galerkin (DG) algorithm is a representative high order method in Computational Fluid Dynamics (CFD) area which possesses considerable mathematical advantages such as high resolution, low dissipation, and dispersion.…

Mathematical Software · Computer Science 2022-09-07 Zhe Dai , Liang D , Yueqin Wang , Fang Wang , Li Ming , Jian Zhang

Machine learning methods have been lately used to solve partial differential equations (PDEs) and dynamical systems. These approaches have been developed into a novel research field known as scientific machine learning in which techniques…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-12-12 Junho Choi , Namjung Kim , Youngjoon Hong

Multi-agent reinforcement learning, despite its popularity and empirical success, faces significant scalability challenges in large-population dynamic games. Graphon mean field games (GMFGs) offer a principled framework for approximating…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2025-06-09 Philipp Plank , Yufei Zhang

In this work, we study $\gamma$-discounted infinite-horizon tabular Markov decision processes (MDPs) and introduce a framework called dynamic policy gradient (DynPG). The framework directly integrates dynamic programming with (any) policy…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-11-08 Sara Klein , Xiangyuan Zhang , Tamer Başar , Simon Weissmann , Leif Döring

In this work we discuss an Mean Field Games approach to traffic management on multi-lane roads. Such approach is particularly indicated to model self driven vehicles with perfect information of the domain. The mathematical interest of the…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2018-05-14 Adriano Festa , Simone Göttlich

In this paper, we focus on stationary (ergodic) mean-field games (MFGs). These games arise in the study of the long-time behavior of finite-horizon MFGs. Motivated by a prior scheme for Hamilton-Jacobi equations introduced in Aubry-Mather's…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2021-09-28 Tigran Bakaryan , Diogo Gomes , Héctor Sánchez Morgado

Finite-state mean-field games (MFGs) arise as limits of large interacting particle systems and are governed by an MFG system, a coupled forward-backward differential equation consisting of a forward Kolmogorov-Fokker-Planck (KFP) equation…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2026-02-16 William Hofgard , Asaf Cohen , Mathieu Laurière

Discontinuous Galerkin (DG) discretizations with exact representation of the geometry and local polynomial degree adaptivity are revisited. Hybridization techniques are employed to reduce the computational cost of DG approximations and…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2019-08-20 Matteo Giacomini , Ruben Sevilla

The success of adversarial formulations in machine learning has brought renewed motivation for smooth games. In this work, we focus on the class of stochastic Hamiltonian methods and provide the first convergence guarantees for certain…

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