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Multi-agent reinforcement learning, despite its popularity and empirical success, faces significant scalability challenges in large-population dynamic games. Graphon mean field games (GMFGs) offer a principled framework for approximating…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2025-06-09 Philipp Plank , Yufei Zhang

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

Ever since the concepts of dynamic programming were introduced, one of the most difficult challenges has been to adequately address high-dimensional control problems. With growing dimensionality, the utilisation of Deep Neural Networks…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-06-14 Frederik Kelbel

In this book, we present a curated collection of existing results on inverse problems for Mean Field Games (MFGs), a cutting-edge and rapidly evolving field of research. Our aim is to provide fresh insights, novel perspectives, and a…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2025-03-20 Hongyu Liu , Catharine W. K. Lo , Shen Zhang

This paper studies the discrete-time linear-quadratic-Gaussian mean field (MF) social control problem in an infinite horizon, where the dynamics of all agents are unknown. The objective is to design a reinforcement learning (RL) algorithm…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2025-12-05 Hanfang Zhang , Bing-Chang Wang , Shuo Chen

We propose a model for time series taking values on a Riemannian manifold and fit it to time series of covariance matrices derived from EEG data for patients suffering from epilepsy. The aim of the study is two-fold: to develop a model with…

Methodology · Statistics 2024-02-13 Tao Ding , Tom M. W. Nye , Yujiang Wang

Electroencephalogram (EEG) is a common tool used to understand brain activities. The data are typically obtained by placing electrodes at the surface of the scalp and recording the oscillations of currents passing through the electrodes.…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-02-19 Eddy Kwessi , Lloyd Edwards

We propose two algorithms for the solution of the optimal control of ergodic McKean-Vlasov dynamics. Both algorithms are based on approximations of the theoretical solutions by neural networks, the latter being characterized by their…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2021-03-30 René Carmona , Mathieu Laurière

This paper develops a linear programming approach for mean field games with reflected jump-diffusion dynamics. We first prove the equivalence between the mean field equilibria in the linear programming formulation and those in the weak…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2025-11-14 Zongxia Liang , Xiang Yu , Keyu Zhang

Motion systems are often subject to disturbances such as cogging, commutation errors, and imbalances, that vary with velocity and appear periodic in time for constant operating velocities. The aim of this paper is to develop a repetitive…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-07-01 Noud Mooren , Gert Witvoet , Tom Oomen

We investigate the mean-field dynamics of stochastic McKean differential equations with heterogeneous particle interactions described by large network structures. To express a wide range of graphs, from dense to sparse structures, we…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2024-09-18 Christian Kuehn , Tobias Wöhrer

In this paper, we propose an initial value fomulation of the discrete mean field games on finite graphs (Graph MFG), and design a neural network based approach to solve it. Graph MFG describes infinite, non-cooperative and interactive…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2026-04-08 Yaxin Feng , Yang Xiang , Haomin Zhou

Depression is a major cause of global mental illness and significantly influences suicide rates. Timely and accurate diagnosis is essential for effective intervention. Electroencephalography (EEG) provides a non-invasive and accessible…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-11-11 Soujanya Hazra , Sanjay Ghosh

We propose a control-theoretic framework for evolutionary clustering based on Mean Field Games (MFG). Moving beyond static or heuristic approaches, we formulate the problem as a population dynamics game governed by a coupled…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2026-03-31 Alessio Basti , Fabio Camilli , Adriano Festa

Entropy regularization has been extensively adopted to improve the efficiency, the stability, and the convergence of algorithms in reinforcement learning. This paper analyzes both quantitatively and qualitatively the impact of entropy…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2021-12-10 Xin Guo , Renyuan Xu , Thaleia Zariphopoulou

We study a class of linear-quadratic stochastic differential games in which each player interacts directly only with its nearest neighbors in a given graph. We find a semi-explicit Markovian equilibrium for any transitive graph, in terms of…

Probability · Mathematics 2021-09-27 Daniel Lacker , Agathe Soret

We begin by demonstrating that the neuronal state equation from Dynamic Causal Modelling takes on the form of the discretized Fokker-Planck equation upon the inclusion of local activity gradients within a network. Using the Jacobian of this…

Quantitative Methods · Quantitative Biology 2019-11-27 Erik D. Fagerholm , Rosalyn J. Moran , Robert Leech

Coordinating large populations of autonomous agents, such as UAV swarms or satellite constellations, poses significant computational challenges for traditional multi-agent control methods. This paper introduces a new optimization framework…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2026-03-18 Di Yu , Sixiong You , Chaoying Pei

Characterizing the subtle changes of functional brain networks associated with the pathological cascade of Alzheimer's disease (AD) is important for early diagnosis and prediction of disease progression prior to clinical symptoms. We…

Neurons and Cognition · Quantitative Biology 2020-11-12 Mengjia Xu , David Lopez Sanz , Pilar Garces , Fernando Maestu , Quanzheng Li , Dimitrios Pantazis

Understanding how gene regulatory networks (GRNs) give rise to stable and dynamic cellular states remains a central challenge in theoretical biology, particularly when slow epigenetic feedback reshapes the underlying regulatory landscape.…

Molecular Networks · Quantitative Biology 2026-04-15 Sascha H. Hauck , Sandip Saha , Narsis A. Kiani , Jesper N. Tegner