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Mean field games formalize dynamic games with a continuum of players and explicit interaction where the players can have heterogeneous states. As they additionally yield approximate equilibria of corresponding $N$-player games, they are of…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2020-01-09 Berenice Anne Neumann

We study the sample complexity of reinforcement learning (RL) in Mean-Field Games (MFGs) with model-based function approximation that requires strategic exploration to find a Nash Equilibrium policy. We introduce the Partial Model-Based…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-06-04 Jiawei Huang , Niao He , Andreas Krause

This paper is concerned with a backward-forward stochastic differential equation (BFSDE) system, in which a large number of negligible agents are coupled in their dynamics via state average. Here some BSDE is introduced as the dynamics of…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2014-03-18 Jianhui Huang , Shujun Wang , Zhen Wu

We consider a general-sum N-player linear-quadratic game with stochastic dynamics over a finite horizon and prove the global convergence of the natural policy gradient method to the Nash equilibrium. In order to prove the convergence of the…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2022-08-16 Ben Hambly , Renyuan Xu , Huining Yang

Mean field games (MFGs) offer a versatile framework for modeling large-scale interactive systems across multiple domains. This paper builds upon a previous work, by developing a state-of-the-art unified approach to decode or design the…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2025-01-22 Hongyu Liu , Catharine W. K. Lo

A fundamental problem in noncooperative dynamic game theory is the computation of Nash equilibria under different information structures, which specify the information available to each agent during decision-making. Prior work has…

Computer Science and Game Theory · Computer Science 2026-03-20 Janani S K , Kushagra Gupta , Ufuk Topcu , David Fridovich-Keil

Mean field game theory studies the behavior of a large number of interacting individuals in a game theoretic setting and has received a lot of attention in the past decade (Lasry and Lions, Japanese journal of mathematics, 2007). In this…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2019-10-31 Martin Frank , Michael Herty , Torsten Trimborn

We study infinite-horizon Markov Decision Processes (MDPs) with a continuum of heterogeneous agents interacting through a common noise, without assuming exchangeability. We introduce the framework of Conditional Non-Exchangeable Mean Field…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2026-03-03 Samy Mekkaoui , Huyên Pham

We consider a general class of nonzero-sum $N$-player stochastic games with impulse controls, where players control the underlying dynamics with discrete interventions. We adopt a verification approach and provide sufficient conditions for…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2020-10-06 Matteo Basei , Haoyang Cao , Xin Guo

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

Motivated by mean-field games (MFG) with common noise on the one hand and pathwise stochastic control theory on the other, we formulate here a linear-quadratic (LQ) MFG with rough common noise, along with a satisfactory well-posedness…

Probability · Mathematics 2026-04-14 Peter K. Friz , Ioannis Gasteratos , Ulrich Horst , Stefanos Theodorakopoulos

Game-theoretic approaches and Nash equilibrium have been widely applied across various engineering domains. However, practical challenges such as disturbances, delays, and actuator limitations can hinder the precise execution of Nash…

Computer Science and Game Theory · Computer Science 2026-03-17 Mahdis Rabbani , Navid Mojahed , Shima Nazari

We consider deterministic mean field games where the dynamics of a typical agent is non-linear with respect to the state variable and affine with respect to the control variable. Particular instances of the problem considered here are mean…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2022-12-21 Justina Gianatti , Francisco J. Silva

Mean Field Games (MFGs) provide a powerful framework for modeling the collective behavior of large populations of interacting agents. In this paper, we address the problem of Imitation Learning (IL) in MFGs subject to common noise, where…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-05-06 Grégoire Lambrecht , Mathieu Laurière

In this work, we study the convergence rate of the $N$-player LQG game with a Markov chain common noise towards its asymptotic Mean Field Game. By postulating a Markovian structure via two auxiliary processes for the first and second…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2023-08-30 Jiamin Jian , Peiyao Lai , Qingshuo Song , Jiaxuan Ye

We study the global convergence of policy optimization for finding the Nash equilibria (NE) in zero-sum linear quadratic (LQ) games. To this end, we first investigate the landscape of LQ games, viewing it as a nonconvex-nonconcave…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-02-12 Kaiqing Zhang , Zhuoran Yang , Tamer Başar

This paper investigates a linear-quadratic mean field games problem with common noise, where the drift term and diffusion term of individual state equations are coupled with both the state, control, and mean field terms of the state, and we…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2025-08-12 Wenyu Cong , Jingtao Shi , Bingchang Wang

We establish the convergence of the deep actor-critic reinforcement learning algorithm presented in [Angiuli et al., 2023a] in the setting of continuous state and action spaces with an infinite discrete-time horizon. This algorithm provides…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2025-11-11 Jean-Pierre Fouque , Mathieu Laurière , Mengrui Zhang

In this paper, we consider a finite horizon, non-stationary, mean field games (MFG) with a large population of homogeneous players, sequentially making strategic decisions, where each player is affected by other players through an aggregate…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-04-07 Rajesh K Mishra , Deepanshu Vasal , Sriram Vishwanath

Conventional Mean-field games/control study the behavior of a large number of rational agents moving in the Euclidean spaces. In this work, we explore the mean-field games on Riemannian manifolds. We formulate the mean-field game Nash…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2023-04-26 Jiajia Yu , Rongjie Lai , Wuchen Li , Stanley Osher
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