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This paper is concerned with uniform stabilization and social optimality for general mean field linear quadratic control systems, where subsystems are coupled via individual dynamics and costs, and the state weight is not assumed with the…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2020-03-02 Bing-Chang Wang , Huanshui Zhang , Ji-Feng Zhang

Mean-field game theory relies on approximating games that are intractable to model due to a very large to infinite population of players. While these kinds of games can be solved analytically via the associated system of partial…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-04-16 Anna C. M. Thöni , Yoram Bachrach , Tal Kachman

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

Motivated by continuous-time optimal inventory management, we study a class of stationary mean-field control problems with singular controls. The dynamics are modeled by a mean-reverting Ornstein-Uhlenbeck process, and the performance…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2026-02-02 Federico Cannerozzi

We investigate the global numerical approximation of a class of extended mean field control problems (MFC), where the dynamics and costs depend on the joint distribution of the state and the control. We propose a framework to approximate…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2026-03-23 Athena Picarelli , Marco Scaratti , Jonathan Tam

In this paper, we introduce discrete-time linear mean-field games subject to an infinite-horizon discounted-cost optimality criterion. The state space of a generic agent is a compact Borel space. At every time, each agent is randomly…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-01-18 Naci Saldi

We establish existence and uniqueness for a wide class of Markovian systems of backward stochastic differential equations (BSDE) with quadratic nonlinearities. This class is characterized by an abstract structural assumption on the…

Probability · Mathematics 2017-03-10 Hao Xing , Gordan Žitković

Mean-field games arise in various fields including economics, engineering, and machine learning. They study strategic decision making in large populations where the individuals interact via certain mean-field quantities. The ground metrics…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2020-07-23 Lisang Ding , Wuchen Li , Stanley Osher , Wotao Yin

We analyze a system of partial differential equations that model a potential mean field game of controls, briefly MFGC. Such a game describes the interaction of infinitely many negligible players competing to optimize a personal value…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2020-10-27 Jameson Graber , Alan Mullenix , Laurent Pfeiffer

This paper studies a class of mean-field control (MFC) problems with singular controls under general dynamic state-control-law constraints. We first propose a customized relaxed control formulation to cope with the dynamic mixed constraints…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2026-04-28 Lijun Bo , Jingfei Wang , Xiang Yu

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

This paper investigates a class of generalized mean-reflected McKean-Vlasov type backward stochastic differential equations (BSDEs). Our new framework combines a mean reflection constraint on the solution's expectation with a generalized…

Probability · Mathematics 2026-05-12 Ruisen Qian

Conventional Mean-field games/control study the behavior of a large number of rational agents moving in the Euclidean spaces. In this work, we explore the mean-field games on Riemannian manifolds. We formulate the mean-field game Nash…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2023-04-26 Jiajia Yu , Rongjie Lai , Wuchen Li , Stanley Osher

Mean Field Games (MFG) theory describes strategic interactions in differential games with a large number of small and indistinguishable players. Traditionally, the players' control impacts only the drift term in the system's dynamics,…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2024-07-31 Vincenzo Ignazio , Michele Ricciardi

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

We propose a new approach to proving the uniqueness of solutions to a certain class of mean field games of controls. In this class, the equilibrium is determined by an aggregate quantity $Q(t)$, e.g. the market price or production, which…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2024-10-21 Jameson Graber , Elizabeth Matter

We consider Mean Field Games without idiosyncratic but with Brownian type common noise. We introduce a notion of solutions of the associated backward-forward system of stochastic partial differential equations. We show that the solution…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2020-09-28 Pierre Cardaliaguet , Panagiotis Souganidis

This paper studies dynamic mean-variance (MV) asset allocation problems in general incomplete markets. Besides of the conventional MV objective on portfolio's terminal wealth, our framework can accommodate running MV objectives with general…

Mathematical Finance · Quantitative Finance 2024-12-25 Qian Lei , Chi Seng Pun , Jingxiang Tang

This paper studies singular mean field control problems and singular mean field stochastic differential games. Both sufficient and necessary conditions for the optimal controls and for the Nash equilibrium are obtained. Under some…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2014-06-10 Yaozhong Hu , Bernt Øksendal , Agnès Sulem

Mean Field Game is a rather new field initially developed in applied mathematics and engineering in order to deal with the dynamics of a large number of controlled agents or objects in interaction. For a large class of these models, there…

Physics and Society · Physics 2021-08-25 Thibault Bonnemain , Thierry Gobron , Denis Ullmo