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We consider a general class of mean field control problems described by stochastic delayed differential equations of McKean-Vlasov type. Two numerical algorithms are provided based on deep learning techniques, one is to directly…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2019-10-10 Jean-Pierre Fouque , Zhaoyu Zhang

We consider optimal control problems for systems governed by mean-field stochastic differential equations, where the control enters both the drift and the diffusion coefficient. We study the relaxed model, in which admissible controls are…

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

A general class of mean field games are considered where the governing dynamics are controlled diffusions in $\mathbb{R}^d$. The optimization criterion is the long time average of a running cost function. Under various sets of hypotheses,…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2019-08-21 Ari Arapostathis , Anup Biswas , Johnson Carroll

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 study a coupled system of controlled stochastic differential equations (SDEs) driven by a Brownian motion and a compensated Poisson random measure, consisting of a forward SDE in the unknown process $X(t)$ and a \emph{predictive…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2015-05-20 Bernt Øksendal , Agnès Sulem

The goal of this paper is to show existence of short-time classical solutions to the so called Master Equation of \emph{first order} Mean Field Games, which can be thought of as the limit of the corresponding master equation of a stochastic…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2019-08-20 Sergio Mayorga

In this paper, we study a class of degenerate mean field games (MFGs) with state-distribution dependent and unbounded functional diffusion coefficients. With a probabilistic method, we study the well-posedness of the forward-backward…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2026-01-08 Alain Bensoussan , Ziyu Huang , Shanjian Tang , Sheung Chi Phillip Yam

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

Mean-field backward doubly stochastic differential equations (MF-BDSDEs, for short) are introduced and studied. The existence and uniqueness of solutions for MF-BDSDEs is established. One probabilistic interpretation for the solutions to a…

Probability · Mathematics 2011-08-30 Tianxiao Wang , Qingfeng Zhu , Yufeng Shi

This paper studies uniform stabilization and social optimality for linear quadratic (LQ) mean field control problems with multiplicative noise, where agents are coupled via dynamics and individual costs. The state and control weights in…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2022-03-31 Bingchang Wang , Huanshui Zhang

In the present work, we develop a novel particle method for a general class of mean field control problems, with source and terminal constraints. Specific examples of the problems we consider include the dynamic formulation of the…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2025-08-27 Katy Craig , Karthik Elamvazhuthi , Harlin Lee

This paper is devoted to an optimal control problem of fully coupled forward-backward stochastic differential equations driven by sub-diffusion, whose solutions are not Markov processes. The stochastic maximum principle is obtained, where…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2025-03-11 Chenhui Hao , Jingtao Shi , Shuaiqi Zhang

In this paper, we propose a new methodology for state constrained stochastic optimal control (SOC) problems. The solution is based on past work in solving SOC problems using forward-backward stochastic differential equations (FBSDE). Our…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-04-07 Bolun Dai , Prashanth Krishnamurthy , Andrew Papanicolaou , Farshad Khorrami

This work is mainly concerned with the so-called limit theory for mean-field games. Adopting the weak formulation paradigm put forward by Carmona and Lacker, we consider a fully non-Markovian setting allowing for drift control and…

Probability · Mathematics 2023-12-25 Dylan Possamaï , Ludovic Tangpi

We provide a probabilistic solution of a not necessarily Markovian control problem with a state constraint by means of a Backward Stochastic Differential Equation (BSDE). The novelty of our solution approach is that the BSDE possesses a…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2013-06-04 Stefan Ankirchner , Monique Jeanblanc , Thomas Kruse

Mean-field games arise in various fields including economics, engineering, and machine learning. They study strategic decision making in large populations where the individuals interact via certain mean-field quantities. The ground metrics…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2020-07-23 Lisang Ding , Wuchen Li , Stanley Osher , Wotao Yin

In this paper, we investigate the optimal control problems for stochastic differential equations (SDEs in short) of mean-field type with jump processes. The control variable is allowed to enter into both diffusion and jump terms. This…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2013-02-27 Mokhtar Hafayed , Syed Abbas

In this paper,we mainly focus on the numerical solution of high-dimensional stochastic optimal control problem driven by fully-coupled forward-backward stochastic differential equations (FBSDEs in short) through deep learning. We first…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2024-08-21 Shaolin Ji , Shige Peng , Ying Peng , Xichuan Zhang

We formulate a mean field game where each player stops a privately observed Brownian motion with absorption. Players are ranked according to their level of stopping and rewarded as a function of their relative rank. There is a unique mean…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2021-03-09 Marcel Nutz , Yuchong Zhang

We consider a deterministic mean field games problem in which a typical agent solves an optimal control problem where the dynamics is affine with respect to the control and the cost functional has a growth which is polynomial with respect…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2023-05-03 Justina Gianatti , Francisco J. Silva , Ahmad Zorkot