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For algorithms based on interacting particle systems that admit a mean-field description, convergence analysis is often more accessible at the mean-field level. In order to transfer convergence results obtained at the mean-field level to…

Probability · Mathematics 2025-11-03 Nicolai Jurek Gerber , Franca Hoffmann , Urbain Vaes

We introduce a modified Consensus-Based Optimization model that admits a fully unified and rigorous analysis of its finite-particle dynamics, the associated McKean--Vlasov equation, and their optimization behavior under a single set of…

Probability · Mathematics 2025-11-25 Young-Pil Choi , Seungchan Lee , Sihyun Song

Stochastic evolution equations with compensated Poisson noise are considered in the variational approach with monotone and coercive coefficients. Here the Poisson noise is assumed to be time-homogeneous with $\sigma$-finite intensity…

Probability · Mathematics 2022-04-20 Sima Mehri , Erfan Salavati , Bijan Z. Zangeneh

We introduce the rigorous limit process connecting finite dimensional sparse optimal control problems with ODE constraints, modeling parsimonious interventions on the dynamics of a moving population divided into leaders and followers, to an…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2015-06-18 Massimo Fornasier , Benedetto Piccoli , Francesco Rossi

We consider Mean Field Games without idiosyncratic but with Brownian type common noise. We introduce a notion of solutions of the associated backward-forward system of stochastic partial differential equations. We show that the solution…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2020-09-28 Pierre Cardaliaguet , Panagiotis Souganidis

This paper studies optimal control and stabilization problems for continuous-time mean-field systems with input delay, which are the fundamental development of control and stabilization problems for mean-field systems. There are two main…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2020-10-19 Xiao Ma , Qingyuan Qi , Xun Li , Huanshui Zhang

Despite recent advances, developing general-purpose universal denoising and artifact-removal networks remains largely an open problem: Given fixed network weights, one inherently trades-off specialization at one task (e.g.,~removing Poisson…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-11-19 Kevin Zhang , Sakshum Kulshrestha , Christopher Metzler

We extend a model of positive feedback and contagion in large mean-field systems, by introducing a common source of noise driven by Brownian motion. Although the driving dynamics are continuous, the positive feedback effect can lead to…

Probability · Mathematics 2024-03-29 Sean Ledger , Andreas Sojmark

This work deals with a numerical method for solving a mean-field type control problem with congestion. It is the continuation of an article by the same authors, in which suitably defined weak solutions of the system of partial differential…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2016-11-08 Yves Achdou , Mathieu Lauriere

The goal of this paper is to provide a selection principle for potential mean field games on a finite state space and, in this respect, to show that equilibria that do not minimize the corresponding mean field control problem should be…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2020-05-26 Alekos Cecchin , François Delarue

We introduce a new mean-field ODE and corresponding interacting particle systems (IPS) for sampling from an unnormalized target density. The IPS are gradient-free, available in closed form, and only require the ability to sample from a…

Computation · Statistics 2024-06-06 Aimee Maurais , Youssef Marzouk

A detailed study of the mean-field solution of Langevin equations with multiplicative noise is presented. Three different regimes depending on noise-intensity (weak, intermediate, and strong-noise) are identified by performing a…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2009-11-11 Miguel A. Munoz , Francesca Colaiori , Claudio castellano

This article proposes an improved trajectory optimization approach for stochastic optimal control of dynamical systems affected by measurement noise by combining optimal control with maximum likelihood techniques to improve the reduction of…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-12-25 Prakash Mallick , Zhiyong Chen

In this paper, we propose an approach to address the problems with ambiguity in tuning the process and observation noises for a discrete-time linear Kalman filter. Conventional approaches to tuning (e.g. using normalized estimation error…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-08-25 Zhaozhong Chen , Christoffer Heckman , Simon Julier , Nisar Ahmed

We develop the linear programming approach to mean-field games in a general setting. This relaxed control approach allows to prove existence results under weak assumptions, and lends itself well to numerical implementation. We consider…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2020-11-24 Roxana Dumitrescu , Marcos Leutscher , Peter Tankov

In many applications such as medical imaging, the measurement data represent counts of photons hitting a detector. Such counts in low-photon settings are often modeled using a Poisson distribution. However, this model assumes that the mean…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-08-30 Yu Lu , Kevin Bui , Roummel F. Marcia

In this paper, we establish the well-posedness and optimal trajectory regularity for the solution of stochastic evolution equations with generalized Lipschitz-type coefficients driven by general multiplicative noises. To ensure the…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2019-02-25 Jialin Hong , Zhihui Liu

This paper studies a class of mean-field control (MFC) problems with singular controls under general dynamic state-control-law constraints. We first propose a customized relaxed control formulation to cope with the dynamic mixed constraints…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2026-04-28 Lijun Bo , Jingfei Wang , Xiang Yu

The paper considers a stabilizing stochastic control which can be applied to a variety of unstable and even chaotic maps. Compared to previous methods introducing control by noise, we relax assumptions on the class of maps, as well as…

Dynamical Systems · Mathematics 2019-02-25 Elena Braverman , Alexandra Rodkina

In this work, we investigate a stochastic control framework for global optimization over both Euclidean spaces and the Wasserstein space of probability measures, where the objective function may be non-convex and/or non-differentiable. In…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2026-04-21 Jinniao Qiu