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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

We present APAC-Net, an alternating population and agent control neural network for solving stochastic mean field games (MFGs). Our algorithm is geared toward high-dimensional instances of MFGs that are beyond reach with existing solution…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-07-17 Alex Tong Lin , Samy Wu Fung , Wuchen Li , Levon Nurbekyan , Stanley J. Osher

Electrical neuromodulation as a palliative treatment has been increasingly used in the control of epilepsy. However, current neuromodulations commonly implement predetermined actuation strategies and lack the capability of self-adaptively…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-08-23 Zhichao Liang , Zixiang Luo , Keyin Liu , Jingwei Qiu , Quanying Liu

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

Mean field control provides a robust framework for coordinating large-scale populations with complex interactions and has wide applications across diverse fields. However, the inherent nonlinearity and the presence of unknown system…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2024-11-12 Yuhan Zhao , Juntao Chen , Yingdong Lu , Quanyan Zhu

Neural network-based methods have demonstrated effectiveness in solving high-dimensional Mean-Field Games (MFG) equilibria, yet ensuring mathematically consistent density-coupled evolution remains a major challenge. This paper proposes the…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-03-11 Jinwei Liu , Lu Ren , Wang Yao , Xiao Zhang

Many coordination phenomena in Nature are grounded on a synchronisation regime. In the case of brain dynamics, such self-organised process allows the neurons of particular brain regions to behave as a whole and thus directly controlling the…

Adaptation and Self-Organizing Systems · Physics 2018-10-02 Malbor Asllani , Timoteo Carletti

Epilepsy is a clinical neurological disorder characterized by recurrent and spontaneous seizures consisting of abnormal high-frequency electrical activity in the brain. In this condition, the transmembrane potential dynamics are…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2024-01-26 Caterina Beatrice Leimer Saglio , Stefano Pagani , Mattia Corti , Paola F. Antonietti

Diagnosing epilepsy requires accurate seizure detection and classification, but traditional manual EEG signal analysis is resource-intensive. Meanwhile, automated algorithms often overlook EEG's geometric and semantic properties critical…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-05-17 Arash Hajisafi , Haowen Lin , Yao-Yi Chiang , Cyrus Shahabi

Medically uncontrolled epileptic seizures affect nearly 15 million people worldwide, resulting in enormous economic and psychological burdens. Treatment of medically refractory epilepsy is essential for patients to achieve remission,…

Quantitative Methods · Quantitative Biology 2025-12-25 Yaoyue Wang , Arian Ashourvan , Guilherme Ramos , Paul Bogdan , Emily Pereira

This paper studies approximate solutions to large-scale linear quadratic stochastic games with homogeneous nodal dynamics parameters and heterogeneous network couplings within the graphon mean field game framework in [2]-[4]. A graphon…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-10-22 Shuang Gao , Peter E. Caines , Minyi Huang

We consider the problem of function approximation by two-layer neural nets with random weights that are "nearly Gaussian" in the sense of Kullback-Leibler divergence. Our setting is the mean-field limit, where the finite population of…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-06-25 Belinda Tzen , Maxim Raginsky

Mean field games (MFG) and mean field control (MFC) are critical classes of multi-agent models for efficient analysis of massive populations of interacting agents. Their areas of application span topics in economics, finance, game theory,…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-06-08 Lars Ruthotto , Stanley Osher , Wuchen Li , Levon Nurbekyan , Samy Wu Fung

The Mean-Field approximation is a tractable approach for studying large population dynamics. However, its assumption on homogeneity and universal connections among all agents limits its applicability in many real-world scenarios.…

Computer Science and Game Theory · Computer Science 2023-10-26 Peihan Huo , Oscar Peralta , Junyu Guo , Qiaomin Xie , Andreea Minca

Magnetoencephalography (MEG) recordings of patients with epilepsy exhibit spikes, a typical biomarker of the pathology. Detecting those spikes allows accurate localization of brain regions triggering seizures. Spike detection is often…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-10-16 Pauline Mouches , Thibaut Dejean , Julien Jung , Romain Bouet , Carole Lartizien , Romain Quentin

Information transmission in the human brain is a fundamentally dynamic network process. In partial epilepsy, this process is perturbed and highly synchronous seizures originate in a local network, the so-called epileptogenic zone (EZ),…

Neurons and Cognition · Quantitative Biology 2019-06-19 Simona Olmi , Spase Petkoski , Maxime Guye , Fabrice Bartolomei , Viktor Jirsa

In this paper, we investigate a class of Mean Field Games (MFGs) in which the state dynamics are governed by multidimensional reflected stochastic differential equations (SDEs). We establish the existence of an equilibrium and show that it…

Probability · Mathematics 2026-03-17 Ayoub Laayoun , Badr Missaoui

Epilepsy, affecting approximately 50 million people globally, is characterized by abnormal brain activity and remains challenging to treat. The diagnosis of epilepsy relies heavily on electroencephalogram (EEG) data, where specialists…

We study mean-field games of optimal stopping (OS-MFGs) and introduce an entropy-regularized framework to enable learning-based solution methods. By utilizing randomized stopping times, we reformulate the OS-MFG as a mean-field game of…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2025-09-24 Jodi Dianetti , Roxana Dumitrescu , Giorgio Ferrari , Renyuan Xu

The framework of Mean-field Games (MFGs) is used for modelling the collective dynamics of large populations of non-cooperative decision-making agents. We formulate and analyze a kinetic MFG model for an interacting system of non-cooperative…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2024-07-29 Piyush Grover , Mandy Huo
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