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Recent reinforcement learning (RL) methods have achieved success in various domains. However, multi-agent RL (MARL) remains a challenge in terms of decentralization, partial observability and scalability to many agents. Meanwhile,…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-02-26 Kai Cui , Sascha Hauck , Christian Fabian , Heinz Koeppl

Reinforcement learning is a powerful tool to learn the optimal policy of possibly multiple agents by interacting with the environment. As the number of agents grow to be very large, the system can be approximated by a mean-field problem.…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2020-08-18 Weichen Wang , Jiequn Han , Zhuoran Yang , Zhaoran Wang

This paper investigates the social optimality of linear quadratic mean field control systems with unmodeled dynamics. The objective of agents is to optimize the social cost, which is the sum of costs of all agents. By variational analysis…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2020-11-30 Bing-Chang Wang , Yong Liang

We study infinite horizon discounted Mean Field Control (MFC) problems with common noise through the lens of Mean Field Markov Decision Processes (MFMDP). We allow the agents to use actions that are randomized not only at the individual…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2021-10-14 René Carmona , Mathieu Laurière , Zongjun Tan

Scalability remains a challenge in multi-agent reinforcement learning and is currently under active research. A framework named mean-field reinforcement learning (MFRL) could alleviate the scalability problem by employing the Mean Field…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2025-02-21 Hao Ma , Zhiqiang Pu , Yi Pan , Boyin Liu , Junlong Gao , Zhenyu Guo

Mean-field control problems have received continuous interest over the last decade. Despite being more intricate than in classical optimal control, the linear-quadratic setting can still be tackled through Riccati equations. Remarkably, we…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2023-08-23 Pierre-Cyril Aubin-Frankowski , Alain Bensoussan

We propose an efficient solution approach for high-dimensional nonlocal mean-field game (MFG) systems based on the Monte Carlo approximation of interaction kernels via random features. We avoid costly space-discretizations of interaction…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2022-07-26 Sudhanshu Agrawal , Wonjun Lee , Samy Wu Fung , Levon Nurbekyan

The marriage between mean-field theory and reinforcement learning has shown a great capacity to solve large-scale control problems with homogeneous agents. To break the homogeneity restriction of mean-field theory, a recent interest is to…

Multiagent Systems · Computer Science 2026-03-03 Yuanquan Hu , Xiaoli Wei , Junji Yan , Hengxi Zhang

In this paper, we tackle a critical issue in nonparametric inference for systems of interacting particles on Riemannian manifolds: the identifiability of the interaction functions. Specifically, we define the function spaces on which the…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2024-09-11 Sui Tang , Malik Tuerkoen , Hanming Zhou

We provide a methodology for learning sparse statistical models that use as features all possible multiplicative interactions among an underlying atomic set of features. While the resulting optimization problems are exponentially sized, our…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-02-11 Hristo Paskov , Alex Paskov , Robert West

Methods like multi-agent reinforcement learning struggle to scale with growing population size. Mean-field games (MFGs) are a game-theoretic approach that can circumvent this by finding a solution for an abstract infinite population, which…

Multiagent Systems · Computer Science 2025-12-23 Patrick Benjamin , Alessandro Abate

Conventional affine formation control (AFC) empowers a network of agents with flexible but collective motions - a potential which has not yet been exploited for large-scale swarms. One of the key bottlenecks lies in the design of an…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2026-03-31 Zhonggang Li , Geert Leus , Raj Thilak Rajan

Interacting particle systems are known for their ability to generate large-scale self-organized structures from simple local interaction rules between each agent and its neighbors. In addition to studying their emergent behavior, a main…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2024-10-21 Nathalie Ayi , Nastassia Pouradier Duteil , David Poyato

We study a decentralized version of Moving Agents in Formation (MAiF), a variant of Multi-Agent Path Finding aiming to plan collision-free paths for multiple agents with the dual objectives of reaching their goals quickly while maintaining…

Robotics · Computer Science 2024-10-17 Qiushi Lin , Hang Ma

Control Barrier Functions (CBFs) are an effective methodology to ensure safety and performative efficacy in real-time control applications such as power systems, resource allocation, autonomous vehicles, robotics, etc. This approach ensures…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2024-09-30 Samy Wu Fung , Levon Nurbekyan

Mean field limits are an important tool in the context of large-scale dynamical systems, in particular, when studying multiagent and interacting particle systems. While the continuous-time theory is well-developed, few works have considered…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-12-12 Christian Fiedler , Michael Herty , Sebastian Trimpe

We present a framework combining hierarchical and multi-agent deep reinforcement learning approaches to solve coordination problems among a multitude of agents using a semi-decentralized model. The framework extends the multi-agent learning…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2017-12-25 Saurabh Kumar , Pararth Shah , Dilek Hakkani-Tur , Larry Heck

Interacting agent and particle systems are extensively used to model complex phenomena in science and engineering. We consider the problem of learning interaction kernels in these dynamical systems constrained to evolve on Riemannian…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-03-08 Mauro Maggioni , Jason Miller , Hongda Qiu , Ming Zhong

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

Multi-agent reinforcement learning methods have shown remarkable potential in solving complex multi-agent problems but mostly lack theoretical guarantees. Recently, mean field control and mean field games have been established as a…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-12-20 Kai Cui , Anam Tahir , Mark Sinzger , Heinz Koeppl