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We consider a Mean Field Games model where the dynamics of the agents is given by a controlled Langevin equation and the cost is quadratic. A change of variables, introduced in [9], transforms the Mean Field Games system into a system of…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2021-01-12 Fabio Camilli

In this paper, we consider discrete-time partially observed mean-field games with the risk-sensitive optimality criterion. We introduce risk-sensitivity behaviour for each agent via an exponential utility function. In the game model, each…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-11-11 Naci Saldi , Tamer Basar , Maxim Raginsky

We study incentive design when multiple principals simultaneously design mechanisms for their respective teams in environments with strategic spillovers. In this environment, each principal's set of incentive-compatible mechanisms--those…

Theoretical Economics · Economics 2026-05-11 Brian Roberson

In this paper we consider a mean field approach to modeling the agents flow over a transportation network. In particular, beside a standard framework of mean field games, with controlled dynamics by the agents and costs mass-distribution…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2020-06-18 Fabio Bagagiolo , Rosario Maggistro , Raffaele Pesenti

In this work, we consider the problem of autonomous racing with multiple agents where agents must interact closely and influence each other to compete. We model interactions among agents through a game-theoretical framework and propose an…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-05-02 Yixuan Jia , Maulik Bhatt , Negar Mehr

When controlling multi-agent systems, the trade-off between performance and scalability is a major challenge. Here, we address this difficulty by using mean field games (MFGs), which is a framework that deduces the macroscopic dynamics…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2021-08-06 Daisuke Inoue , Yuji Ito , Takahito Kashiwabara , Norikazu Saito , Hiroaki Yoshida

Mean field games are concerned with the limit of large-population stochastic differential games where the agents interact through their empirical distribution. In the classical setting, the number of players is large but fixed throughout…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2019-12-30 Julien Claisse , Zhenjie Ren , Xiaolu Tan

We use the recently developed probabilistic analysis of mean field games with finitely many states in the weak formulation, to set-up a principal / agent contract theory model where the principal faces a large population of agents…

Probability · Mathematics 2018-08-27 Rene Carmona , Peiqi Wang

We study mean field games with scalar It{\^o}-type dynamics and costs that are submodular with respect to a suitable order relation on the state and measure space. The submodularity assumption has a number of interesting consequences.…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2019-07-26 Jodi Dianetti , Giorgio Ferrari , Markus Fischer , Max Nendel

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

Mean Field Games (MFG) theory describes strategic interactions in differential games with a large number of small and indistinguishable players. Traditionally, the players' control impacts only the drift term in the system's dynamics,…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2024-07-31 Vincenzo Ignazio , Michele Ricciardi

A simple model of corruption that takes into account the effect of the interaction of a large number of agents by both rational decision making and myopic behavior is developed. Its stationary version turns out to be a rare example of an…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2022-05-03 Vassili N. Kolokoltsov , Oleg A. Malafeyev

This paper studies the mean field game (MFG) problem arising from a large population competition in fund management, featuring a new type of relative performance via the benchmark tracking. In the $n$-player model, each agent aims to…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2026-04-16 Lijun Bo , Yijie Huang , Xiang Yu

Motivated by the applications, a class of optimal control problems is investigated, where the goal is to influence the behavior of a given population through another controlled one interacting with the first. Diffusive terms accounting for…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2023-03-10 Stefano Almi , Marco Morandotti , Francesco Solombrino

We study a specific class of finite-horizon mean field optimal stopping problems by means of the dynamic programming approach. In particular, we consider problems where the state process is not affected by the stopping time. Such problems…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2025-03-07 Andrea Cosso , Laura Perelli

Game dynamics, which describe how agents' strategies evolve over time based on past interactions, can exhibit a variety of undesirable behaviours including convergence to suboptimal equilibria, cycling, and chaos. While central planners can…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-11-25 Ilayda Canyakmaz , Iosif Sakos , Wayne Lin , Antonios Varvitsiotis , Georgios Piliouras

Mean field theory provides an effective way of scaling multiagent reinforcement learning algorithms to environments with many agents that can be abstracted by a virtual mean agent. In this paper, we extend mean field multiagent algorithms…

Multiagent Systems · Computer Science 2022-06-22 Sriram Ganapathi Subramanian , Pascal Poupart , Matthew E. Taylor , Nidhi Hegde

We study the turnpike phenomenon for optimal control problems with mean field dynamics that are obtained as the limit $N\rightarrow \infty$ of systems governed by a large number $N$ of ordinary differential equations. We show that the…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2024-11-20 Martin Gugat , Michael Herty , Chiara Segala

An existence result for a class of mean field games of controls is provided. In the considered model, the cost functional to be minimized by each agent involves a price depending at a given time on the controls of all agents and a…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2019-06-24 J. Frédéric Bonnans , Saeed Hadikhanloo , Laurent Pfeiffer

In this paper, we study a model for opinion dynamics where the influence weights of agents evolve in time via an equation which is coupled with the opinions' evolution. We explore the natural question of the large population limit with two…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2020-12-17 Nathalie Ayi , Nastassia Pouradier Duteil