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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 (MFG) have been introduced to tackle games with a large number of competing players. Considering the limit when the number of players is infinite, Nash equilibria are studied by considering the interaction of a typical…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2021-06-14 Mathieu Lauriere

In a probabilistic mean-field game driven by a linear diffusion an individual player aims to minimize an ergodic long-run cost by controlling the diffusion through a pair of -- increasing and decreasing -- c\`adl\`ag processes, while he is…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2024-06-13 Sören Christensen , Ernesto Mordecki , Facundo Oliú Eguren

We analyse fully nonlinear second-order mean field games (MFG) with nondifferentiable Hamiltonians, which take the form of a coupled system of a fully nonlinear Hamilton-Jacobi-Bellman equation and a Kolmogorov-Fokker-Planck partial…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2025-11-18 Thomas Sales , Iain Smears

Subject to reasonable conditions, in large population stochastic dynamics games, where the agents are coupled by the system's mean field (i.e. the state distribution of the generic agent) through their nonlinear dynamics and their nonlinear…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2019-05-28 Nevroz Sen , Peter E. Caines

This paper studies the existence and approximation of equilibria for general time-inconsistent mean field game (MFG) problems in continuous time. To handle the intricate nonlocal equilibrium Hamilton-Jacobi-Bellman (EHJB) system arising…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2026-05-29 Erhan Bayraktar , Zhenhua Wang , Xiang Yu , Keyu Zhang

Mean field games (MFG) and mean field control (MFC) are critical classes of multi-agent models for efficient analysis of massive populations of interacting agents. Their areas of application span topics in economics, finance, game theory,…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-06-08 Lars Ruthotto , Stanley Osher , Wuchen Li , Levon Nurbekyan , Samy Wu Fung

Mean field games are studied in the framework of controlled martingale problems, and general existence theorems are proven in which the equilibrium control is Markovian. The framework is flexible enough to include degenerate volatility,…

Probability · Mathematics 2015-04-09 Daniel Lacker

An iterative finite difference scheme for mean field games (MFGs) is proposed. The target MFGs are derived from control problems for multidimensional systems with advection terms. For such MFGs, linearization using the Cole-Hopf…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2023-04-26 Daisuke Inoue , Yuji Ito , Takahito Kashiwabara , Norikazu Saito , Hiroaki Yoshida

Mean-field games (MFGs) are models of large populations of rational agents who seek to optimize an objective function that takes into account their location and the distribution of the remaining agents. Here, we consider stationary MFGs…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2016-11-28 David Evangelista , Diogo A. Gomes

Mean Field Game (MFG) models implicitly assume "rational expectations", meaning that the heterogeneous agents being modeled correctly know all relevant transition probabilities for the complex system they inhabit. When there is common…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2026-02-26 Benjamin Moll , Lenya Ryzhik

Mean-field games (MFGs) study the Nash equilibrium of systems with a continuum of interacting agents, which can be formulated as the fixed-point of optimal control problems. They provide a unified framework for a variety of applications,…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2025-12-02 Jiajia Yu , Junghwan Lee , Yao Xie , Xiuyuan Cheng

This paper concerns a Mean Field Game (MFG) system related to a Nash type equilibrium for dynamical games associated to large populations. One shows that the MFG system may be viewed as the Euler-Lagrange system for an optimal control…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2025-03-21 Stefana-Lucia Anita

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

We consider stationary viscous Mean-Field Games systems in the case of local, decreasing and unbounded coupling. These systems arise in ergodic mean-field game theory, and describe Nash equilibria of games with a large number of agents…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2016-02-16 Marco Cirant

In this paper, we study a large population game with heterogeneous dynamics and cost functions solving a consensus problem. Moreover, the agents have communication constraints which appear as: (1) an Additive-White Gaussian Noise (AWGN)…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-08-26 Shubham Aggarwal , Muhammad Aneeq uz Zaman , Tamer Başar

This paper establishes a primal-dual formulation for continuous-time mean field games (MFGs) and provides a complete analytical characterization of the set of all Nash equilibria (NEs). We first show that for any given mean field flow, the…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2025-05-01 Xin Guo , Anran Hu , Jiacheng Zhang , Yufei Zhang

We consider a couple of integrodifferential PDEs arising from a stochastic Markovian control problem subjected to initial-terminal conditions. These equations correspond to the MFG system for a controlled jump-diffusion process. We prove…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2022-10-12 Olga Rozanova , Ilnar Manapov

This thesis is going to give a gentle introduction to Mean Field Games. It aims to produce a coherent text beginning for simple notions of deterministic control theory progressively to current Mean Field Games theory. The framework…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2019-07-03 Athanasios Vasiliadis

Mean-field games (MFG) provide a statistical physics inspired modeling framework for decision making in large-populations of strategic, non-cooperative agents. Mathematically, these systems consist of a forward-backward in time system of…

Dynamical Systems · Mathematics 2024-05-10 Ali Akbar Rezaei Lori , Piyush Grover