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In this work, we study the contraction conditions of iterative algorithms for stationary and finite-horizon discrete-time regularized mean-field games (MFGs) with multiple populations, where each population only interacts with the state…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2026-05-26 Uğur Aydın , Tamer Başar

Recent techniques based on Mean Field Games (MFGs) allow the scalable analysis of multi-player games with many similar, rational agents. However, standard MFGs remain limited to homogeneous players that weakly influence each other, and…

Computer Science and Game Theory · Computer Science 2023-12-19 Kai Cui , Gökçe Dayanıklı , Mathieu Laurière , Matthieu Geist , Olivier Pietquin , Heinz Koeppl

We investigate time-dependent mean-field games with superquadratic Hamiltonians and a power dependence on the measure. Such problems pose substantial mathematical challenges as the key techniques used in the subquadratic case do not extend…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2014-08-29 Diogo A. Gomes , Edgard Pimentel , Héctor Sánchez-Morgado

Finite-state mean-field games (MFGs) arise as limits of large interacting particle systems and are governed by an MFG system, a coupled forward-backward differential equation consisting of a forward Kolmogorov-Fokker-Planck (KFP) equation…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2026-02-16 William Hofgard , Asaf Cohen , Mathieu Laurière

We study stochastic Mean Field Games on networks with sticky transition conditions. In this setting, the diffusion process governing the agent's dynamics can spend finite time both in the interior of the edges and at the vertices. The…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2025-01-17 Jules Berry , Fabio Camilli

We study a numerical approximation of a time-dependent Mean Field Game (MFG) system with local couplings. The discretization we consider stems from a variational approach described in [Briceno-Arias, Kalise, and Silva, SIAM J. Control…

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…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2019-03-08 Yves Achdou , Manh-Khang Dao , Olivier Ley , Nicoletta Tchou

In this paper, we study the existence of solutions in non-monotone variational inequalities (VIs) through the normal mapping properties. In particular, we show that when the normal mapping $F_K^{\rm nor}(\cdot)$ is norm coercive over a set…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2025-12-19 Sina Arefizadeh , Angelia Nedić

It is well known that the monotonicity condition, either in Lasry-Lions sense or in displacement sense, is crucial for the global well-posedness of mean field game master equations, as well as for the uniqueness of mean field equilibria and…

Probability · Mathematics 2022-11-24 Chenchen Mou , Jianfeng Zhang

We introduce and analyze a new finite-difference scheme, relying on the theta-method, for solving monotone second-order mean field games. These games consist of a coupled system of the Fokker-Planck and the Hamilton-Jacobi-Bellman equation.…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2023-05-23 J. Frédéric Bonnans , Kang Liu , Laurent Pfeiffer

Here, we study the existence and the convergence of solutions for the vanishing discount MFG problem with a quadratic Hamiltonian. We give conditions under which the discounted problem has a unique classical solution and prove convergence…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2019-08-20 Diogo A. Gomes , Hiroyoshi Mitake , Kengo Terai

We consider time-dependent mean-field games with congestion that are given by a system of a Hamilton-Jacobi equation coupled with a Fokker-Planck equation. The congestion effects make the Hamilton-Jacobi equation singular. These models are…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2015-03-24 Diogo Gomes , Vardan Voskanyan

We investigate the existence and stability of small perturbations of constant states of the generalized Hughes model for pedestrian flow in an infinitely large corridor. We show that constant flows are stable under a condition on the…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2023-10-24 Mohamed Ghattassi , Nader Masmoudi , Eliot Pacherie

This paper introduces a new method based on Deep Galerkin Methods (DGMs) for solving high-dimensional stochastic Mean Field Games (MFGs). We achieve this by using two neural networks to approximate the unknown solutions of the MFG system…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-08-09 Mouhcine Assouli , Badr Missaoui

In this paper, using variational approaches, we investigate the first order planning problem arising in the theory of mean field games. We show the existence and uniqueness of weak solutions of the problem in the case of a large class of…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2019-05-21 P. Jameson Graber , Alpár R. Mészáros , Francisco J. Silva , Daniela Tonon

Mean-field games with absorption is a class of games, that have been introduced in Campi and Fischer (2018) and that can be viewed as natural limits of symmetric stochastic differential games with a large number of players who, interacting…

Probability · Mathematics 2021-11-05 Luciano Campi , Maddalena Ghio , Giulia Livieri

Here, we consider numerical methods for stationary mean-field games (MFG) and investigate two classes of algorithms. The first one is a gradient-flow method based on the variational characterization of certain MFG. The second one uses…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2015-11-23 Noha Almulla , Rita Ferreira , Diogo Gomes

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 article, from the viewpoint of control theory, we discuss the relationships among the commonly used monotonicity conditions that ensure the well-posedness of the solutions arising from problems of mean field games (MFGs) and mean…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2024-12-09 Alain Bensoussan , Ziyu Huang , Shanjian Tang , Sheung Chi Phillip Yam

The second order Mean Field Games system (MFGS) in a bounded domain with the lateral Cauchy data is considered. This means that both Dirichlet and Neumann boundary data for the solution the MFGS are given. Two H\"older stability estimates…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2023-11-27 Michael V. Klibanov , Jingzhi Li , Hongyu Liu