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We consider a kind of stochastic exit time optimal control problems, in which the cost function is defined through a nonlinear backward stochastic differential equation. We study the regularity of the value function for such a control…

Probability · Mathematics 2016-03-15 Rainer Buckdahn , Tianyang Nie

This paper considers an optimal control problem for a linear mean-field stochastic differential equation having regime switching with quadratic functional in the large time horizons. Our main contribution lies in establishing the strong…

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We propose two numerical methods for the optimal control of McKean-Vlasov dynamics in finite time horizon. Both methods are based on the introduction of a suitable loss function defined over the parameters of a neural network. This allows…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2021-03-31 René Carmona , Mathieu Laurière

We study a general linear quadratic mean field type control problem and connect it to mean field games of a similar type. The solution is given both in terms of a forward/backward system of stochastic differential equations and by a pair of…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2016-07-08 P. Jameson Graber

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

This paper concerns a Mean Field Game (MFG) system related to a Nash type equilibrium for dynamical games associated to large populations. One shows that the MFG system may be viewed as the Euler-Lagrange system for an optimal control…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2025-03-21 Stefana-Lucia Anita

In this paper we study Mean Field Game systems under density constraints as optimality conditions of two optimization problems in duality. A weak solution of the system contains an extra term, an additional price imposed on the saturated…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2016-12-09 Pierre Cardaliaguet , Alpár Richárd Mészáros , Filippo Santambrogio

In stochastic dynamic games, when the number of players is sufficiently large and the interactions between agents depend on empirical state distribution, one way to approximate the original game is to introduce infinite-population limit of…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2019-08-26 Naci Saldi

A Deterministic affine quadratic optimal control problem is considered. Due to the nature of the problem, optimal controls exist under some very mild conditions. Further, it is shown that under some assumptions, the value function is…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2019-02-20 Yuanchang Wang , Jiongmin Yong

Considering uncertainties and disturbances is an important, yet challenging, step in successful decision making. The problem becomes more challenging in safety-constrained environments. In this paper, we propose a robust and safe trajectory…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-03-29 Hassan Almubarak , Evangelos A. Theodorou , Nader Sadegh

This paper develops an algorithm for upper- and lower-bounding the value function for a class of linear time-varying games subject to convex control sets. In particular, a two-player zero-sum differential game is considered where the…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2025-03-12 Vincent Liu , Chris Manzie , Peter M. Dower

In the paper, we use the equivalent formulation of a finite state mean field game as a control problem with mixed constraints to study the dependence of solutions to finite state mean field game on an initial distribution of players. We…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2021-09-16 Yurii Averboukh

This article aims at quantifying the long time behavior of solutions of mean field PDE systems arising in the theory of Mean Field Games and McKean-Vlasov control. Our main contribution is to show well-posedness of the ergodic problem and…

Probability · Mathematics 2024-09-17 Alekos Cecchin , Giovanni Conforti , Alain Durmus , Katharina Eichinger

We introduce the concept of {\it mean-field optimal control} which is the rigorous limit process connecting finite dimensional optimal control problems with ODE constraints modeling multi-agent interactions to an infinite dimensional…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2019-02-20 Massimo Fornasier , Francesco Solombrino

Coordinating communication and control is a key component in the stability and performance of networked multi-agent systems. While single user networked control systems have gained a lot of attention within this domain, in this work, we…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2025-06-25 Shubham Aggarwal , Muhammad Aneeq uz Zaman , Melih Bastopcu , Tamer Başar

We explore a mechanism of decision-making in Mean Field Games with myopic players. At each instant, agents set a strategy which optimizes their expected future cost by assuming their environment as immutable. As the system evolves, the…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2018-02-05 Charafeddine Mouzouni

This paper considers a formulation of a differential game with constrained dynamics, where one player selects the dynamics and the other selects the applicable cost. When the game is considered on a finite time horizon, its value satisfies…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2009-09-25 Rami Atar , Paul Dupuis

In this paper, we study deterministic mean field games for agents who operate in a bounded domain. In this case, the existence and uniqueness of Nash equilibria cannot be deduced as for unrestricted state space because, for a large set of…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2017-11-07 Piermarco Cannarsa , Rossana Capuani

This paper investigates the well-posedness of a type of state constraint ergodic Mean Field Game system in a bounded domain in which the Hamilton-Jacobi-Bellman equation is paired with an infinite Dirichlet boundary condition. In this…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2021-07-27 Mariya Sardarli

We introduce a new numerical method to approximate the solution of a finite horizon deterministic optimal control problem. We exploit two Hamilton-Jacobi-Bellman PDE, arising by considering the dynamics in forward and backward time. This…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2023-04-21 Marianne Akian , Stéphane Gaubert , Shanqing Liu