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Mean-field games (MFGs) are models of large populations of rational agents who seek to optimize an objective function that takes into account their location and the distribution of the remaining agents. Here, we consider stationary MFGs…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2016-11-28 David Evangelista , Diogo A. Gomes

The formulation of Mean Field Games (MFG) typically requires continuous differentiability of the Hamiltonian in order to determine the advective term in the Kolmogorov--Fokker--Planck equation for the density of players. However, in many…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2024-04-03 Yohance A. P. Osborne , Iain Smears

In this paper, we guarantee the existence and uniqueness (in the almost everywhere sense) of the solution to a Hamilton-Jacobi-Bellman (HJB) equation with gradient constraint and a partial integro-differential operator whose L\'evy measure…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2019-03-26 Mark Kelbert , Harold A. Moreno-Franco

Stochastic optimal control problems for Hamiltonian dynamics on graphs have wide-ranging applications in mechanics and quantum field theory, particularly in systems with graph-based structures. In this paper, we establish the existence and…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2025-10-01 Jianbo Cui , Tonghe Dang

The ergodic control problem for a non-degenerate controlled diffusion controlled through its drift is considered under a uniform stability condition that ensures the well-posedness of the associated Hamilton-Jacobi-Bellman (HJB) equation. A…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2019-03-20 Ari Arapostathis , Vivek S. Borkar

This work tackles the problem of energy-efficient distributed power control in wireless networks with a large number of transmitters. The problem is modeled by a dynamic game. Each transmitter-receiver communication is characterized by a…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2013-01-30 François Mériaux , Vineeth Varma , Samson Lasaulce

We propose a new mean-field game model with two states to study synchronization phenomena, and we provide a comprehensive characterization of stationary and dynamic equilibria along with their stability properties. The game undergoes a…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2024-08-21 Felix Höfer , H. Mete Soner

We analyze the behavior of a large number of strategic drivers traveling over an urban traffic network using the mean-field game framework. We assume an incentive mechanism for congestion mitigation under which each driver selecting a…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2018-08-17 Takashi Tanaka , Ehsan Nekouei , Karl Henrik Johansson

As an example of the nonlinear Fokker-Planck equation, the mean field Langevin dynamics recently attracts attention due to its connection to (noisy) gradient descent on infinitely wide neural networks in the mean field regime, and hence the…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2022-02-28 Atsushi Nitanda , Denny Wu , Taiji Suzuki

Gradient flows play a substantial role in addressing many machine learning problems. We examine the convergence in continuous-time of a \textit{Fisher-Rao} (Mean-Field Birth-Death) gradient flow in the context of solving convex-concave…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2024-09-19 Razvan-Andrei Lascu , Mateusz B. Majka , Łukasz Szpruch

Mean field games (MFGs) model the limit of large populations of strategically interacting agents, yet both forward and inverse problems remain challenging. For the forward problem, a difficulty is to design numerical methods with global…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2026-03-12 Hanwei Yan , Xianjin Yang , Jingguo Zhang

We study the dynamics of an interacting Bose-Hubbard chain coupled to a non-Markovian environment. Our basic tool is the reduced generating functional expressed as a path integral over spin-coherent states. We calculate the leading…

Quantum Gases · Physics 2018-08-06 G. Kordas , G. E. Pavlou , A. I. Karanikas

We present an exactly-solvable risk-minimizing stochastic differential game for flood management in rivers. The streamflow dynamics follow stochastic differential equations driven by a Levy process. An entropic dynamic risk measure is…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2020-10-30 Hidekazu Yoshioka , Yumi Yoshioka

This paper develops a mean field game framework for dynamic two-sided matching markets, extending existing matching theory by integrating micro-macro dynamics in two-sided environments. Unlike traditional matching models focusing on static…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2026-05-26 Erhan Bayraktar , Dantong Chu , Bohan Li , Ho Man Tai

This article approaches deterministic filtering via an application of the min-plus linearity of the corresponding dynamic programming operator. This filter design method yields a set-valued state estimator for discrete-time nonlinear…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2012-03-14 Abhijit G. Kallapur , Srinivas Sridharan , William M. McEneaney , Ian R. Petersen

The theory of first-order mean field type differential games examines the systems of infinitely many identical agents interacting via some external media under assumption that each agent is controlled by two players. We study the…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2020-11-24 Yurii Averboukh

Generalized logit dynamic defines a time-dependent integro-differential equation with which a Nash equilibrium of an iterative game in a bounded and continuous action space is expected to be approximated. We show that the use of the…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2023-07-06 Hidekazu Yoshioka

We consider discrete-time stationary mean field games (MFG) with unknown dynamics and design algorithms for finding the equilibrium with finite-time complexity guarantees. Prior solutions to the problem assume either the contraction of a…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2025-02-13 Sihan Zeng , Sujay Bhatt , Alec Koppel , Sumitra Ganesh

In this paper, we address the problem of modeling the traffic flow of a heritage city whose streets are represented by a network. We consider a mean field approach where the standard forward backward system of equations is also intertwined…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2019-09-09 Fabio Bagagiolo , Rosario Maggistro , Raffaele Pesenti

Establishing the existence of Nash equilibria for partially observed stochastic dynamic games is known to be quite challenging, with the difficulties stemming from the noisy nature of the measurements available to individual players…

Systems and Control · Computer Science 2018-06-06 Naci Saldi , Tamer Basar , Maxim Raginsky