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Control problems not admitting the dynamic programming principle are known as time-inconsistent. The game-theoretic approach is to interpret such problems as intrapersonal dynamic games and look for subgame perfect Nash equilibria. A…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2020-05-04 Kristoffer Lindensjö

Game-theoretic techniques and equilibria analysis facilitate the design and verification of competitive systems. While algorithmic complexity of equilibria computation has been extensively studied, practical implementation and application…

Computer Science and Game Theory · Computer Science 2022-02-02 Marta Kwiatkowska , Gethin Norman , David Parker , Gabriel Santos

This paper presents a novel data-driven approach for approximating the $\varepsilon$-Nash equilibrium in continuous-time linear quadratic Gaussian (LQG) games, where multiple agents interact with each other through their dynamics and…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-07-22 Zhenhui Xu , Jiayu Chen , Bing-Chang Wang , Tielong Shen

This article is related to risk-sensitive nonzero-sum stochastic differential games in the Markovian framework. This game takes into account the attitudes of the players toward risk and the utility is of exponential form. We show the…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2014-12-04 Said Hamadène , Rui Mu

This paper is devoted to a high-dimensional mixed leadership stochastic differential game on a finite horizon in feedback information mode, where the control variables enter into the diffusion term of state equation. A verification theorem…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2022-11-28 Qi Huang , Jingtao Shi

We investigate the linear quadratic stochastic optimal control problems in infinite dimension without Markovian restriction for coefficients. The necessary and sufficient conditions for open-loop optimal controls are presented. We prove the…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2024-03-26 Guangdong Jing

This paper is concerned with a non-zero sum differential game problem of an anticipated forward-backward stochastic differential delayed equation under partial information. We establish a necessary maximum principle and sufficient…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2017-02-17 Yi Zhuang

In this paper we establish a new connection between a class of 2-player nonzero-sum games of optimal stopping and certain $2$-player nonzero-sum games of singular control. We show that whenever a Nash equilibrium in the game of stopping is…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2017-12-29 Tiziano De Angelis , Giorgio Ferrari

This paper investigates an inhomogeneous non-zero-sum linear-quadratic (LQ, for short) differential game problem whose state process and cost functional are regulated by a Markov chain. Under the $L^2$ stabilizability framework, we first…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2024-05-17 Fan Wu , Xun Li , Xin Zhang

In this paper we introduce a new kind of Backward Stochastic Differential Equations, called ergodic BSDEs, which arise naturally in the study of optimal ergodic control. We study the existence, uniqueness and regularity of solution to…

Probability · Mathematics 2007-07-31 Marco Fuhrman , Ying Hu , Gianmario Tessitore

We study Markov perfect equilibria in continuous-time dynamic games with finitely many symmetric players. The corresponding Nash system reduces to the Nash-Lasry-Lions equation for the common value function, also known as the master…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2025-07-29 Felix Höfer , Mathieu Laurière , H. Mete Soner , Qinxin Yan

Game theory is playing more and more important roles in understanding complex systems and in investigating intelligent machines with various uncertainties. As a starting point, we consider the classical two-player zero-sum linear-quadratic…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2022-04-20 Nian Liu , Lei Guo

We address the problem of existence and (non-)uniqueness of solutions $\big(c,u(\cdot),\mu\big)$ to ergodic mean-field games in the whole space $\mathbb{R}^{m}$ with unbounded and merely measurable data, and for non-separable Hamiltonian.…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2023-11-09 Hicham Kouhkouh

This paper is concerned with non-zero sum differential games of mean-field stochastic differential equations with partial information and convex control domain. First, applying the classical convex variations, we obtain stochastic maximum…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2016-01-11 Hua Xiao , Shuaiqi Zhang

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

We study zero-sum stochastic differential games where the state dynamics of the two players is governed by a generalized McKean-Vlasov (or mean-field) stochastic differential equation in which the distribution of both state and controls of…

Probability · Mathematics 2018-03-21 Huyen Pham , Andrea Cosso

In this paper, we prove the existence of classical solutions for second order stationary mean-field game systems. These arise in ergodic (mean-field) optimal control, convex degenerate problems in calculus of variations, and in the study of…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2015-03-24 Edgard A. Pimentel , Vardan Voskanyan

We develop provably efficient reinforcement learning algorithms for two-player zero-sum finite-horizon Markov games with simultaneous moves. To incorporate function approximation, we consider a family of Markov games where the reward…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-06-25 Qiaomin Xie , Yudong Chen , Zhaoran Wang , Zhuoran Yang

We study discrete-time mean-field Markov games with infinite numbers of agents where each agent aims to minimize its ergodic cost. We consider the setting where the agents have identical linear state transitions and quadratic cost…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2019-10-17 Zuyue Fu , Zhuoran Yang , Yongxin Chen , Zhaoran Wang

It is well known that the (unique) value of a stochastic control problem or a two person zero sum game under Isaacs condition can be characterized through a PDE driven by the Hamiltonian. Our goal of this paper is to extend this classical…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2024-08-20 Bixing Qiao , Jianfeng Zhang