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Here, we develop numerical methods for finite-state mean-field games (MFGs) that satisfy a monotonicity condition. MFGs are determined by a system of differential equations with initial and terminal boundary conditions. These non-standard…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2017-05-02 Diogo Gomes , Joao Saude

In this note we prove the uniqueness of solutions to a class of Mean Field Games systems subject to possibly degenerate individual noise. Our results hold true for arbitrary long time horizons and for general non-separable Hamiltonians that…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2023-08-23 Alpár R. Mészáros , Chenchen Mou

This paper introduces a notion of weak solution for the coupled system of master equations in mean field games with a major player. It extends the previously introduced notion of Lipschitz solutions in mean field games. By relying on a…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2026-03-17 Charles Meynard

In the unidimensional unfolding model, given m objects in general position there arise 1+m(m-1)/2 rankings. The set of rankings is called the ranking pattern of the m given objects. By changing these m objects, we can generate various…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2007-07-11 H. Kamiya , P. Orlik , A. Takemura , H. Terao

Quantilized mean-field game models involve quantiles of the population's distribution. We study a class of such games with a capacity for ranking games, where the performance of each agent is evaluated based on its terminal state relative…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2025-07-02 Rinel Foguen Tchuendom , Dena Firoozi , Michèle Breton

This paper investigates a novel class of mean field games involving a major agent and numerous minor agents, where the agents' functionals are recursive with nonlinear backward stochastic differential equation (BSDE) representations. We…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2024-12-17 Jianhui Huang , Wenqiang Li , Harry Zheng

Non-cooperative and cooperative games with a very large number of players have many applications but remain generally intractable when the number of players increases. Introduced by Lasry and Lions, and Huang, Caines and Malham\'e, Mean…

Mean field games (MFG) and mean field control problems (MFC) are frameworks to study Nash equilibria or social optima in games with a continuum of agents. These problems can be used to approximate competitive or cooperative games with a…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2021-06-28 Andrea Angiuli , Jean-Pierre Fouque , Mathieu Lauriere

We propose a novel mean field games (MFGs) based GAN(generative adversarial network) framework. To be specific, we utilize the Hopf formula in density space to rewrite MFGs as a primal-dual problem so that we are able to train the model via…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-03-16 Shaojun Ma , Haomin Zhou , Hongyuan Zha

Here, we observe that mean-field game (MFG) systems admit a two-player infinite-dimensional general-sum differential game formulation. We show that particular regimes of this game reduce to previously known variational principles.…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2018-04-25 Marco Cirant , Levon Nurbekyan

We introduce the problem of ranking with slot constraints, which can be used to model a wide range of application problems -- from college admission with limited slots for different majors, to composing a stratified cohort of eligible…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2023-10-30 Wentao Guo , Andrew Wang , Bradon Thymes , Thorsten Joachims

We consider stationary viscous Mean-Field Games systems in the case of local, decreasing and unbounded coupling. These systems arise in ergodic mean-field game theory, and describe Nash equilibria of games with a large number of agents…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2016-02-16 Marco Cirant

We consider the problem of maximizing an unknown function over a compact and convex set using as few observations as possible. We observe that the optimization of the function essentially relies on learning the induced bipartite ranking…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2017-03-08 Cédric Malherbe , Nicolas Vayatis

We investigate a first-order mean field planning problem of the form \begin{equation} \left\lbrace\begin{aligned} -\partial_t u + H(x,Du) &= f(x,m) &&\text{in } (0,T)\times \mathbb{R}^d, \\ \partial_t m - \nabla\cdot (m\,H_p(x,Du)) &= 0…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2019-08-05 Carlo Orrieri , Alessio Porretta , Giuseppe Savaré

Traditional solvable game theory and mean-field-type game theory (risk-aware games) predominantly focus on quadratic costs due to their analytical tractability. Nevertheless, they often fail to capture critical non-linearities inherent in…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2025-05-09 Julian Barreiro-Gomez , Tyrone E. Duncan , Bozenna Pasik-Duncan , Hamidou Tembine

The scope of this work is the constraint-based synthesis of termination arguments for the restricted class of programs called linear lasso programs. A termination argument consists of a ranking function as well as a set of supporting…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2014-01-22 Jan Leike

We present a new perspective on graph-based methods for collaborative ranking for recommender systems. Unlike user-based or item-based methods that compute a weighted average of ratings given by the nearest neighbors, or low-rank…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2016-02-17 Da Kuang , Zuoqiang Shi , Stanley Osher , Andrea Bertozzi

This paper addresses the crucial question of solution uniqueness in stationary first-order Mean-Field Games (MFGs). Despite well-established existence results, establishing uniqueness, particularly for weaker solutions in the sense of…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2025-02-28 Rita Ferreira , Diogo Gomes , Vardan Voskanyan

We study a class of stochastic dynamic games that exhibit strategic complementarities between players; formally, in the games we consider, the payoff of a player has increasing differences between her own state and the empirical…

Computer Science and Game Theory · Computer Science 2010-12-13 Sachin Adlakha , Ramesh Johari

This paper studies a discrete-time major-minor mean field game of stopping where the major player can choose either an optimal control or stopping time. We look for the relaxed equilibrium as a randomized stopping policy, which is…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2025-10-13 Xiang Yu , Jiacheng Zhang , Keyu Zhang , Zhou Zhou