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This paper introduces and analyzes a new class of mean-field control (\textsc{MFC}) problems in which agents interact through a \emph{fixed but controllable} network structure. In contrast with the classical \textsc{MFC} framework -- where…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2025-11-07 Mao Fabrice Djete

Many applications involving multi-agent systems require fulfilling safety constraints. Control barrier functions offer a systematic framework to enforce forward invariance of safety sets. Recent work extended this paradigm to mean-field…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2026-03-20 Cinzia Tomaselli , Gian Carlo Maffettone , Samy Wu Fung , Levon Nurbekyan , Mario di Bernardo

Epilepsy is a neurological disease characterized by recurrent and spontaneous seizures. It affects approximately 50 million people worldwide. In majority of the cases accurate diagnosis of the disease can be made without using any…

Quantitative Methods · Quantitative Biology 2013-04-05 Roxana A. Stephanescu , R. G. Shivakeshavan , Sachin S. Talathi

The recent mean field game (MFG) formalism facilitates otherwise intractable computation of approximate Nash equilibria in many-agent settings. In this paper, we consider discrete-time finite MFGs subject to finite-horizon objectives. We…

Multiagent Systems · Computer Science 2022-07-11 Kai Cui , Heinz Koeppl

Epilepsy is one of the most common neurological disorders, affecting about 1% of the population at all ages. Detecting the development of epilepsy, i.e., epileptogenesis (EPG), before any seizures occur could allow for early interventions…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-06-18 Diyuan Lu , Sebastian Bauer , Valentin Neubert , Lara Sophie Costard , Felix Rosenow , Jochen Triesch

We study infinite horizon discounted Mean Field Control (MFC) problems with common noise through the lens of Mean Field Markov Decision Processes (MFMDP). We allow the agents to use actions that are randomized not only at the individual…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2021-10-14 René Carmona , Mathieu Laurière , Zongjun Tan

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

This paper investigates mean field games and control on sparse networks. In the case of large expander graphs, the limit topologies are analyzed using the graphexon framework, which characterizes both dense network limits and sparse…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2026-04-16 Tao Zhang , Peter E. Caines

Mean field games (MFGs) model interactions in large-population multi-agent systems through population distributions. Traditional learning methods for MFGs are based on fixed-point iteration (FPI), where policy updates and induced population…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-02-17 Chenyu Zhang , Xu Chen , Xuan Di

This paper studies mean field game (MFG) of controls by featuring the joint distribution of the state and the control with the reflected state process along an exogenous stochastic reflection boundary. We contribute to the literature with a…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2025-11-10 Lijun Bo , Jingfei Wang , Xiang Yu

We consider a class of mean field games in which the agents interact through both their states and controls, and we focus on situations in which a generic agent tries to adjust her speed (control) to an average speed (the average is made in…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2020-03-10 Y Achdou , Z Kobeissi

While the topic of mean-field games (MFGs) has a relatively long history, heretofore there has been limited work concerning algorithms for the computation of equilibrium control policies. In this paper, we develop a computable policy…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-04-07 Muhammad Aneeq uz Zaman , Kaiqing Zhang , Erik Miehling , Tamer Başar

Mean field games (MFGs) model the limit of large populations of strategically interacting agents, yet both forward and inverse problems remain challenging. For the forward problem, a difficulty is to design numerical methods with global…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2026-03-12 Hanwei Yan , Xianjin Yang , Jingguo Zhang

This paper studies linear quadratic graphon mean field games (LQ-GMFGs) with common noise, in which a large number of agents are coupled via a weighted undirected graph. One special feature, compared with the well-studied graphon mean field…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2025-07-03 De-xuan Xu , Zhun Gou , Nan-jing Huang , Shuang Gao

Coordinating large populations of interacting agents is a central challenge in multi-agent reinforcement learning (MARL), where the size of the joint state-action space scales exponentially with the number of agents. Mean-field methods…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-02-19 Emile Anand , Richard Hoffmann , Sarah Liaw , Adam Wierman

Traditional mean-field game (MFG) solvers operate on an instance-by-instance basis, which becomes infeasible when many related problems must be solved (e.g., for seeking a robust description of the solution under perturbations of the…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2025-10-24 Dena Firoozi , Anastasis Kratsios , Xuwei Yang

Dynamic GNNs, which integrate temporal and spatial features in Electroencephalography (EEG) data, have shown great potential in automating seizure detection. However, fully capturing the underlying dynamics necessary to represent brain…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-10-28 Rikuto Kotoge , Zheng Chen , Tasuku Kimura , Yasuko Matsubara , Takufumi Yanagisawa , Haruhiko Kishima , Yasushi Sakurai

This article studies the dynamics of the mean-field approximation of continuous random networks. These networks are stochastic integrodifferential equations driven by Gaussian noise. The kernels in the integral operators are realizations of…

Disordered Systems and Neural Networks · Physics 2025-02-04 W. A. Zúñiga-Galindo

This paper studies Mean Field Games (MFGs) in which agent dynamics are given by jump processes of controlled intensity, with mean-field interaction via the controls and affecting the jump intensities. We establish the existence of MFG…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2025-04-23 Nicolas Garcia , Ronnie Sircar , H. Mete Soner

We present an interacting branching model of neural network dynamics, incorporating key biological features such as inhibition with several types of inhibitory interactions. We establish a hierarchy of analytical mean-field approximations…

Disordered Systems and Neural Networks · Physics 2025-12-29 Jeremy B. Goetz , Naruepon Weerawongphrom , Rashid V. Williams-García , John M. Beggs , Gerardo Ortiz