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Mean-Field Control (MFC) is a powerful tool to solve Multi-Agent Reinforcement Learning (MARL) problems. Recent studies have shown that MFC can well-approximate MARL when the population size is large and the agents are exchangeable.…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-06-02 Washim Uddin Mondal , Vaneet Aggarwal , Satish V. Ukkusuri

Mean-field control (MFC) problems aim to find the optimal policy to control massive populations of interacting agents. These problems are crucial in areas such as economics, physics, and biology. We consider the non-local setting, where the…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2024-05-20 Alexander Vidal , Samy Wu Fung , Stanley Osher , Luis Tenorio , Levon Nurbekyan

Mean-field control (MFC) offers a scalable solution to the curse of dimensionality in multi-agent systems but traditionally hinges on the restrictive assumption of exchangeability via dense, all-to-all interactions. In this work, we bridge…

Multiagent Systems · Computer Science 2026-01-30 Tobias Schmidt , Kai Cui

The mean-field framework has been used to find approximate solutions to problems involving very large populations of symmetric, anonymous agents, which may be intractable by other methods. The cooperative mean-field control (MFC) problem…

Multiagent Systems · Computer Science 2025-12-23 Patrick Benjamin , Alessandro Abate

In this paper, we investigate the interaction of two populations with a large number of indistinguishable agents. The problem consists in two levels: the interaction between agents of a same population, and the interaction between the two…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2018-10-30 Alain Bensoussan , Tao Huang , Mathieu Laurière

Interacting particle systems are known for their ability to generate large-scale self-organized structures from simple local interaction rules between each agent and its neighbors. In addition to studying their emergent behavior, a main…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2024-10-21 Nathalie Ayi , Nastassia Pouradier Duteil , David Poyato

Mean Field Control (MFC) is a powerful approximation tool to solve large-scale Multi-Agent Reinforcement Learning (MARL) problems. However, the success of MFC relies on the presumption that given the local states and actions of all the…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-05-30 Washim Uddin Mondal , Vaneet Aggarwal , Satish V. Ukkusuri

The marriage between mean-field theory and reinforcement learning has shown a great capacity to solve large-scale control problems with homogeneous agents. To break the homogeneity restriction of mean-field theory, a recent interest is to…

Multiagent Systems · Computer Science 2026-03-03 Yuanquan Hu , Xiaoli Wei , Junji Yan , Hengxi Zhang

We study a decentralized version of Moving Agents in Formation (MAiF), a variant of Multi-Agent Path Finding aiming to plan collision-free paths for multiple agents with the dual objectives of reaching their goals quickly while maintaining…

Robotics · Computer Science 2024-10-17 Qiushi Lin , Hang Ma

Empirically derived continuum models of collective behavior among large populations of dynamic agents are a subject of intense study in several fields, including biology, engineering and finance. We formulate and study a mean-field game…

Adaptation and Self-Organizing Systems · Physics 2018-06-22 Piyush Grover , Kaivalya Bakshi , Evangelos A. Theodorou

A mean-field selective optimal control problem of multipopulation dynamics via transient leadership is considered. The agents in the system are described by their spatial position and their probability of belonging to a certain population.…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2021-06-15 Giacomo Albi , Stefano Almi , Marco Morandotti , Francesco Solombrino

In this paper, we propose several approaches to learn the optimal population-dependent controls in order to solve mean field control problems (MFC). Such policies enable us to solve MFC problems with forms of common noises at a level of…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2023-11-21 Gokce Dayanikli , Mathieu Lauriere , Jiacheng Zhang

Multi-agent reinforcement learning (MARL) remains difficult to scale to many agents. Recent MARL using Mean Field Control (MFC) provides a tractable and rigorous approach to otherwise difficult cooperative MARL. However, the strict MFC…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-05-09 Kai Cui , Christian Fabian , Anam Tahir , Heinz Koeppl

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

In this article, we employ an input-output approach to expand the study of cooperative multi-agent control and optimization problems characterized by mean-field interactions that admit decentralized and selfish solutions. The setting…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2025-10-02 Vivek Khatana , Duo Wang , Petros Voulgaris , Nicola Elia , Naira Hovakimyan

Motivated by recent interest in graphon mean field games and their applications, this paper provides a comprehensive probabilistic analysis of graphon mean field control (GMFC) problems, where the controlled dynamics are governed by a…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2025-12-19 Zhongyuan Cao , Mathieu Laurière

Mean field control (MFC) problems have been introduced to study social optima in very large populations of strategic agents. The main idea is to consider an infinite population and to simplify the analysis by using a mean field…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2023-03-01 Sebastian Baudelet , Brieuc Frénais , Mathieu Laurière , Amal Machtalay , Yuchen Zhu

This paper investigates the social optimality of linear quadratic mean field control systems with unmodeled dynamics. The objective of agents is to optimize the social cost, which is the sum of costs of all agents. By variational analysis…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2020-11-30 Bing-Chang Wang , Yong Liang

This paper focuses on the role of a government of a large population of interacting agents as a mean field optimal control problem derived from deterministic finite agent dynamics. The control problems are constrained by a PDE of…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2020-11-17 Massimo Fornasier , Stefano Lisini , Carlo Orrieri , Giuseppe Savaré

We study infinite horizon discounted Mean Field Control (MFC) problems with common noise through the lens of Mean Field Markov Decision Processes (MFMDP). We allow the agents to use actions that are randomized not only at the individual…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2021-10-14 René Carmona , Mathieu Laurière , Zongjun Tan
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