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This paper studies two fundamental problems in regularized Graphon Mean-Field Games (GMFGs). First, we establish the existence of a Nash Equilibrium (NE) of any $\lambda$-regularized GMFG (for $\lambda\geq 0$). This result relies on weaker…

Computer Science and Game Theory · Computer Science 2023-10-13 Fengzhuo Zhang , Vincent Y. F. Tan , Zhaoran Wang , Zhuoran Yang

This paper studies the connections between mean-field games and the social welfare optimization problems. We consider a mean field game in functional spaces with a large population of agents, each of which seeks to minimize an individual…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2016-09-27 Sen Li , Wei Zhang , Lin Zhao

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 this paper we formulate and analyze an $N$-player stochastic game of the classical fuel follower problem and its Mean Field Game (MFG) counterpart. For the $N$-player game, we obtain the Nash Equilibrium (NE) explicitly by deriving and…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2019-04-30 Xin Guo , Renyuan Xu

This paper presents a comprehensive study of linear-quadratic (LQ) mean field games (MFGs) in Hilbert spaces, generalizing the classic LQ MFG theory to scenarios involving $N$ agents with dynamics governed by infinite-dimensional stochastic…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2025-08-12 Hanchao Liu , Dena Firoozi

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…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2023-10-10 Yuan Gao , Wuchen Li , Jian-Guo Liu

Here, we observe that mean-field game (MFG) systems admit a two-player infinite-dimensional general-sum differential game formulation. We show that particular regimes of this game reduce to previously known variational principles.…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2018-04-25 Marco Cirant , Levon Nurbekyan

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

First order kinetic mean field games formally describe the Nash equilibria of deterministic differential games where agents control their acceleration, asymptotically in the limit as the number of agents tends to infinity. The known results…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2022-07-12 Megan Griffin-Pickering , Alpár R. Mészáros

In this paper, we study a class of linear-quadratic (LQ) mean field games of controls with common noises and their corresponding $N$-player games. The theory of mean field game of controls considers a class of mean field games where the…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2022-06-13 Min Li , Chenchen Mou , Zhen Wu , Chao Zhou

We develop the theory of linear-quadratic (LQ) mean field games (MFGs) in Hilbert spaces with common noise modeled by an infinite-dimensional Wiener process that affects the dynamics of all agents. In the presence of common noise, the…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2026-05-28 Hanchao Liu , Dena Firoozi

The paper is devoted to the first-order mean field game system in the case when the distribution of players can contain atoms. The proposed definition of a generalized solution is based on the minimax approach to the Hamilton-Jacobi…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2014-04-21 Yurii Averboukh

This paper studies a large population dynamic game involving nonlinear stochastic dynamical systems with agents of the following mixed types: (i) a major agent, and (ii) a population of $N$ minor agents where $N$ is very large. The major…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2013-06-07 Mojtaba Nourian , Peter E. Caines

This paper studies approximate solutions to large-scale linear quadratic stochastic games with homogeneous nodal dynamics parameters and heterogeneous network couplings within the graphon mean field game framework in [2]-[4]. A graphon…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-10-22 Shuang Gao , Peter E. Caines , Minyi Huang

Mean field Game (MFG) Partial Differential Inclusions (PDI) are generalizations of the system of Partial Differential Equations (PDE) of Lasry and Lions to situations where players in the game may have possibly nonunique optimal controls,…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2025-09-15 Yohance A. P. Osborne , Iain Smears

An universal primal-dual approach of description equilibriums in large class of hierarchical congestion population games is proposed. At the very core of the approach is hierarchy of enclosed to each other transport networks. In different…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2016-03-09 Alexander Gasnikov , Evgenia Gasnikova , Sergey Matsievsky , Inna Usik

We consider stochastic differential games with $N$ players, linear-Gaussian dynamics in arbitrary state-space dimension, and long-time-average cost with quadratic running cost. Admissible controls are feedbacks for which the system is…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2014-07-10 Martino Bardi , Fabio S. Priuli

We introduce a mean field model for optimal holding of a representative agent of her peers as a natural expected scaling limit from the corresponding $N-$agent model. The induced mean field dynamics appear naturally in a form which is not…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2022-04-05 Mao Fabrice Djete , Nizar Touzi

This paper studies an optimal investment-consumption problem for competitive agents with exponential or power utilities and a common finite time horizon. Each agent regards the average of habit formation and wealth from all peers as…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2024-05-06 Zongxia Liang , Keyu Zhang

We study mean field games and corresponding $N$-player games in continuous time over a finite time horizon where the position of each agent belongs to a finite state space. As opposed to previous works on finite state mean field games, we…

Probability · Mathematics 2018-02-01 Alekos Cecchin , Markus Fischer