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We consider finite horizon stochastic mean field games in which the state space is a network. They are described by a system coupling a backward in time Hamilton-Jacobi-Bellman equation and a forward in time Fokker-Planck equation. The…

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This paper is devoted to a class of finite horizon deterministic mean field games with Grushin type dynamics, state constraints and nonlocal coupling. First, we consider the optimal control problem that each agent aims to solve when the…

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Entry-exit dynamics are crucial in modeling crowd movement. Here, we present a novel first-order, stationary mean-field game model on a bounded domain that accurately captures these dynamics. The interior dynamics of the system are governed…

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The framework of Mean-field Games (MFGs) is used for modelling the collective dynamics of large populations of non-cooperative decision-making agents. We formulate and analyze a kinetic MFG model for an interacting system of non-cooperative…

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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 investigates a class of linear-quadratic-Gaussian risk-sensitive graphon mean-field games, involving an asymptotically infinite population of heterogeneous agents distributed across an asymptotically infinite network, where each…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2026-04-28 Tian Chen , Minyi Huang

We consider a class of mean field games in which the agents interact through both their states and controls, and we focus on situations in which a generic agent tries to adjust her speed (control) to an average speed (the average is made in…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2020-03-10 Y Achdou , Z Kobeissi

We study equilibrium feedback strategies for a family of dynamic mean-variance problems with competition among a large group of agents. We assume that the time horizon is random and each agent's risk aversion depends dynamically on the…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2026-05-05 Xiaoqing Liang , Jie Xiong , Ying Yang

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

The goal of this work is to identify steady-state solutions to dynamical systems defined on large, random families of networks. We do so by passing to a continuum limit where the adjacency matrix is replaced by a non-local operator with…

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This paper considers mean field games in a multi-agent Markov decision process (MDP) framework. Each player has a continuum state and binary action, and benefits from the improvement of the condition of the overall population. Based on an…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2021-01-05 Minyi Huang , Yan Ma

Liquid droplet dynamics are widely used in biological and engineering applications, which contain complex interfacial instabilities and pattern formation such as droplet merging, splitting, and transport. This paper studies a class of mean…

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We study a degenerate second order mean field game (MFG) system in a Hilbert space $H$ which couples a Fokker--Planck equation describing the evolution of probability measures on $H$ with a Hamilton--Jacobi--Bellman (HJB) equation for the…

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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…

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Mean field game facilitates analyzing multi-armed bandit (MAB) for a large number of agents by approximating their interactions with an average effect. Existing mean field models for multi-agent MAB mostly assume a binary reward function,…

Multiagent Systems · Computer Science 2021-05-11 Xiong Wang , Riheng Jia

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…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2025-04-30 René Carmona , Mathieu Laurière , Zongjun Tan

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

This paper studies the mean-field Markov decision process (MDP) with the centralized stopping under the non-exponential discount. The problem differs fundamentally from most existing studies on mean-field optimal control/stopping due to its…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2025-01-22 Xiang Yu , Fengyi Yuan

This paper develops a linear programming approach for mean field games with reflected jump-diffusion dynamics. We first prove the equivalence between the mean field equilibria in the linear programming formulation and those in the weak…

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