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We investigate reinforcement learning in the setting of Markov decision processes for a large number of exchangeable agents interacting in a mean field manner. Applications include, for example, the control of a large number of robots…

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Agents attempt to maximize expected profits earned by selling multiple units of a perishable product where their revenue streams are affected by the prices they quote as well as the distribution of other prices quoted in the market by other…

Trading and Market Microstructure · Quantitative Finance 2025-04-16 Ryan Donnelly , Zi Li

We introduce a class of robust control problems formulated in min-max form, in which the principal agent is viewed as a central planner facing Nature. The agent's cost is a nonlinear function of all its possible realizations, encompassing…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2026-04-24 François Delarue , Pierre Lavigne

Long-range human movement generation remains a central challenge in computer vision and graphics. Generating coherent transitions across semantically distinct motion domains remains largely unexplored. This capability is particularly…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-04-07 Haichao Wang , Alexander Okupnik , Yuxing Han , Gene Wen , Johannes Schneider , Kyriakos Flouris

We study high-dimensional stochastic optimal control problems in which many agents cooperate to minimize a convex cost functional. We consider both the full-information problem, in which each agent observes the states of all other agents,…

Probability · Mathematics 2023-01-10 Joe Jackson , Daniel Lacker

Many applications involving multi-agent systems require fulfilling safety constraints. Control barrier functions offer a systematic framework to enforce forward invariance of safety sets. Recent work extended this paradigm to mean-field…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2026-03-20 Cinzia Tomaselli , Gian Carlo Maffettone , Samy Wu Fung , Levon Nurbekyan , Mario di Bernardo

The main challenge of multiagent reinforcement learning is the difficulty of learning useful policies in the presence of other simultaneously learning agents whose changing behaviors jointly affect the environment's transition and reward…

This paper presents an application of mean field control to dynamic production optimization. Both noncooperative and cooperative solutions are considered. We first introduce a market of a large number of agents (firms) with sticky prices…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2018-10-02 Bingchang Wang , Minyi Huang

The synthesis of control laws for interacting agent-based dynamics and their mean-field limit is studied. A linearization-based approach is used for the computation of sub-optimal feedback laws obtained from the solution of differential…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2021-01-13 G. Albi , M. Herty , D. Kalise , C. Segala

We address the problem to control a population of noncooperative heterogeneous agents, each with convex cost function depending on the average population state, and all sharing a convex constraint, towards an aggregative equilibrium. We…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2017-03-14 Sergio Grammatico

This article reviews a few basic features of systems of one-dimensional diffusions with rank-based characteristics. Such systems arise in particular in the modelling of financial markets , where they go by the name of Atlas models. We…

Probability · Mathematics 2017-05-24 Julien Reygner

This article is concerned with stochastic control problems for backward doubly stochastic differential equations of mean-field type, where the coefficient functions depend on the joint distribution of the state process and the control…

Probability · Mathematics 2022-05-26 Jian Song , Meng Wang

This paper is concerned with optimal control problems for systems governed by mean-field stochastic differential equation, in which the control enters both the drift and the diffusion coefficient. We prove that the relaxed state process,…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2017-02-03 Khaled Bahlali , Meriem Mezerdi , Brahim Mezerdi

In this work, we study a class of stationary mean-field games of singular stochastic control under model uncertainty. The representative agent adjusts the dynamics of an It\^o diffusion via one-sided singular stochastic control, aiming to…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2025-05-14 Giorgio Ferrari , Ioannis Tzouanas

This paper studies a mean field game inspired by crowd motion in which agents evolve in a compact domain and want to reach its boundary minimizing the sum of their travel time and a given boundary cost. Interactions between agents occur…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2020-01-31 Samer Dweik , Guilherme Mazanti

We provide a thorough study of a general class of linear-quadratic extended mean field games and control problems in any dimensions where the mean field terms are allowed to be unbounded and there are also presence of cross terms in the…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2023-11-10 Alain Bensoussan , Bohan Li , Sheung Chi Phillip Yam

This paper examines mean field linear-quadratic-Gaussian (LQG) social optimum control with volatility-uncertain common noise. The diffusion terms in the dynamics of agents contain an unknown volatility process driven by a common noise. We…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2019-12-16 Jianhui Huang , Bing-Chang Wang , Jiongmin Yong

In this paper we prove a necessary condition of the optimal control problem for a class of general mean-field forward-backward stochastic systems with jumps in the case where the diffusion coefficients depend on control, the control set…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2019-02-20 Tao Hao , Qingxin Meng

In this paper, we consider a first-order deterministic mean field game model inspired by crowd motion in which agents moving in a given domain aim to reach a given target set in minimal time. To model interaction between agents, we assume…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2022-02-21 Saeed Sadeghi Arjmand , Guilherme Mazanti

We analyze the dynamics of multi-agent collective behavior models and their control theoretical properties. We first derive a large population limit to parabolic diffusive equations. We also show that the non-local transport equations…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2019-02-12 Umberto Biccari , Dongnam Ko , Enrique Zuazua