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In this paper we study the classical solution to the master equation arising from mean-field games (MFGs) driven by jump-diffusion processes. The master equation, a nonlinear partial differential equation on Wasserstein space, characterizes…

Probability · Mathematics 2026-01-28 Jiusheng Liu , Jing Zhang

We formulate a class of mean field games on a finite state space with variational principles resembling those in continuous-state mean field games. We construct a controlled continuity equation featuring a nonlinear activation function on…

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Mean-field games (MFGs) are a modeling framework for systems with a large number of interacting agents. They have applications in economics, finance, and game theory. Normalizing flows (NFs) are a family of deep generative models that…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2023-05-24 Han Huang , Jiajia Yu , Jie Chen , Rongjie Lai

Mean field type games (MFTGs) describe Nash equilibria between large coalitions: each coalition consists of a continuum of cooperative agents who maximize the average reward of their coalition while interacting non-cooperatively with a…

Computer Science and Game Theory · Computer Science 2025-07-29 Kai Shao , Jiacheng Shen , Mathieu Laurière

Evolutionary game theory is a common framework to study the evolution of cooperation, where it is usually assumed that the same game is played in all interactions. Here, we investigate a model where the game that is played by two…

Physics and Society · Physics 2015-10-21 Marco A. Amaral , Jafferson K. L. da Silva , Lucas Wardil

This paper investigates posterior sampling algorithms for competitive reinforcement learning (RL) in the context of general function approximations. Focusing on zero-sum Markov games (MGs) under two critical settings, namely self-play and…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-11-01 Shuang Qiu , Ziyu Dai , Han Zhong , Zhaoran Wang , Zhuoran Yang , Tong Zhang

We consider the problem of controlling a Markov decision process (MDP) with a large state space, so as to minimize average cost. Since it is intractable to compete with the optimal policy for large scale problems, we pursue the more modest…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2014-02-28 Yasin Abbasi-Yadkori , Peter L. Bartlett , Alan Malek

We consider large-dimensional dynamical systems involving a linear force and a random force comprising both potential and non-conservative contributions. Such systems are known to exhibit a topological trivialization phase transition as the…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2023-01-31 Thibaut Arnoulx de Pirey , Frédéric van Wijland

Finite element simulations are run by package design engineers to model design structures. The process is irreversible meaning every minute structural adjustment requires a fresh input parameter run. In this paper, the problem of modeling…

Computational Engineering, Finance, and Science · Computer Science 2026-02-26 Kart-Leong Lim , Rahul Dutta , Mihai Rotaru

This paper studies generalized inverse reinforcement learning (GIRL) in Markov decision processes (MDPs), that is, the problem of learning the basic components of an MDP given observed behavior (policy) that might not be optimal. These…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-02-13 Chaosheng Dong , Yijia Wang

We consider payoff-based learning of a generalized Nash equilibrium (GNE) in multi-agent systems. Our focus is on games with jointly convex constraints of a linear structure and strongly monotone pseudo-gradients. We present a convergent…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2025-07-18 Tatiana Tatarenko , Maryam Kamgarpour

We introduce two algorithms based on a policy iteration method to numerically solve time-dependent Mean Field Game systems of partial differential equations with non-separable Hamiltonians. We prove the convergence of such algorithms in…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2022-10-03 Mathieu Laurière , Jiahao Song , Qing Tang

Feedback control synthesis for large-scale particle systems is reviewed in the framework of model predictive control (MPC). The high-dimensional character of collective dynamics hampers the performance of traditional MPC algorithms based on…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2024-02-27 Giacomo Albi , Sara Bicego , Michael Herty , Yuyang Huang , Dante Kalise , Chiara Segala

The theory of mean field games studies the limiting behaviors of large systems where the agents interact with each other in a certain symmetric way. The running and terminal costs are critical for the agents to decide the strategies.…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2023-07-05 Hongyu Liu , Chenchen Mou , Shen Zhang

In this paper, we show that different types of evolutionary game dynamics are, in principle, special cases of a dynamical system model based on our previously reported framework of generalized growth transforms. The framework shows that…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2018-11-07 Oindrila Chatterjee , Shantanu Chakrabartty

For two classes of Mean Field Game systems we study the convergence of solutions as the interest rate in the cost functional becomes very large, modeling agents caring only about a very short time-horizon, and the cost of the control…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2020-04-10 Martino Bardi , Pierre Cardaliaguet

We study mean-field control (MFC) problems with common noise using the control randomisation framework, where we substitute the control process with an independent Poisson point process, controlling its intensity instead. To address the…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2024-12-31 Robert Denkert , Idris Kharroubi , Huyên Pham

Control of non-episodic, finite-horizon dynamical systems with uncertain dynamics poses a tough and elementary case of the exploration-exploitation trade-off. Bayesian reinforcement learning, reasoning about the effect of actions and future…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2016-08-12 Edgar D. Klenske , Philipp Hennig

We study the numerical approximation of a time-dependent variational mean field game system with local couplings and either periodic or Neumann boundary conditions. Following a variational approach, we employ a finite difference…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2026-01-06 Heidi Wolles Ljósheim , Dante Kalise , John W. Pearson , Francisco J. Silva

We investigate the long-run behavior of a stochastic replicator process, which describes game dynamics for a symmetric two-player game under aggregate shocks. We establish an averaging principle that relates time averages of the process and…

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