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The theory of Mean-Field Games is interested in the behaviour of interacting particle systems in which the individual interaction between particles (players) decreases as the size of the population increases. In recent years, it was…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2024-01-23 Daniel Hernández-Hernández , Joshué Helí Ricalde-Guerrero

This paper studies stochastic games on large graphs and their graphon limits. We propose a new formulation of graphon games based on a single typical player's label-state distribution. In contrast, other recently proposed models of graphon…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2022-04-21 Daniel Lacker , Agathe Soret

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 paper, we investigate an optimal control problem for McKean-Vlasov stochastic partial differential equations, in which the coefficients depend on the law of the state process. For systems with nonconvex control sets, we establish a…

Probability · Mathematics 2026-03-09 Liangying Chen , Wilhelm Stannat

We consider a class of linear-quadratic-Gaussian mean-field games with a major agent and considerable heterogeneous minor agents in the presence of mean-field interactions. The individual admissible controls are constrained in closed convex…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2017-10-10 Ying Hu , Jianhui Huang , Tianyang Nie

In this article, we propose two numerical methods, the Gaussian Process (GP) method and the Fourier Features (FF) algorithm, to solve mean field games (MFGs). The GP algorithm approximates the solution of a MFG with maximum a posteriori…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2022-05-10 Chenchen Mou , Xianjin Yang , Chao Zhou

We propose a deep learning approach to compute mean field control problems with individual noises. The problem consists of the Fokker-Planck (FP) equation and the Hamilton-Jacobi-Bellman (HJB) equation. Using the differential of the…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2025-05-20 Mo Zhou , Stanley Osher , Wuchen Li

This paper studies linear quadratic graphon mean field games (LQ-GMFGs) with common noise, in which a large number of agents are coupled via a weighted undirected graph. One special feature, compared with the well-studied graphon mean field…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2025-07-03 De-xuan Xu , Zhun Gou , Nan-jing Huang , Shuang Gao

This paper is concerned with linear quadratic optimal control problems for mean-field backward stochastic differential equations (MF-BSDEs, for short) with deterministic coefficients. The optimality system, which is a linear mean-field…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2016-10-11 Xun Li , Jingrui Sun , Jie Xiong

This paper, the second of a two-part series, presents a method for mean-field feedback stabilization of a swarm of agents on a finite state space whose time evolution is modeled as a continuous time Markov chain (CTMC). The resulting…

Systems and Control · Computer Science 2017-03-29 Shiba Biswal , Karthik Elamvazhuthi , Spring Berman

We introduce the concept of {\it mean-field optimal control} which is the rigorous limit process connecting finite dimensional optimal control problems with ODE constraints modeling multi-agent interactions to an infinite dimensional…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2019-02-20 Massimo Fornasier , Francesco Solombrino

An optimal control problem is studied for a linear mean-field stochastic differential equation with a quadratic cost functional. The coefficients and the weighting matrices in the cost functional are all assumed to be deterministic.…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2016-02-26 Xun Li , Jingrui Sun , Jiongmin Yong

We study the singular perturbation problem for mean field game systems with control of acceleration. For such a problem we analyze the behavior of solutions as the acceleration costs vanishes. In this setting the Hamiltonian fails to be…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2023-04-04 Cristian Mendico

Motivated by continuous-time optimal inventory management, we study a class of stationary mean-field control problems with singular controls. The dynamics are modeled by a mean-reverting Ornstein-Uhlenbeck process, and the performance…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2026-02-02 Federico Cannerozzi

We study the optimal control problem for a weighted mean-field system. A new feature of the control problem is that the coefficients depend on the state process as well as its weighted measure and the control variable. By applying…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2022-08-25 Yanyan Tang , Jie Xiong

Model Predictive Control is an extremely effective control method for systems with input and state constraints. Model Predictive Control performance heavily depends on the accuracy of the open-loop prediction. For systems with uncertainty…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2022-07-27 Francesco Micheli , John Lygeros

In a mean field game of controls, a large population of identical players seek to minimize a cost that depends on the joint distribution of the states of the players and their controls. We first consider the classes of mean field games of…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2025-12-05 P. Jameson Graber , Kyle Rosengartner

This paper establishes unique solvability of a class of Graphon Mean Field Game equations. The special case of a constant graphon yields the result for the Mean Field Game equations.

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2022-03-14 Peter E. Caines , Daniel W. C. HO , Minyi Huang , Jiamin Jian , Qingshuo Song

This paper studies the mean field game (MFG) problem arising from a large population competition in fund management, featuring a new type of relative performance via the benchmark tracking. In the $n$-player model, each agent aims to…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2026-04-16 Lijun Bo , Yijie Huang , Xiang Yu

In this paper we study the stochastic control problem of partially observed (multi-dimensional) stochastic system driven by both Brownian motions and fractional Brownian motions. In the absence of the powerful tool of Girsanov…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2023-08-22 Yueyang Zheng , Yaozhong Hu