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This paper introduces a framework of Constrained Mean-Field Games (CMFGs), where each agent solves a constrained Markov decision process (CMDP). This formulation captures scenarios in which agents' strategies are subject to feasibility,…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2025-10-15 Anran Hu , Zijiu Lyu

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

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2017-04-14 Marco Cirant , Daniela Tonon

This paper is devoted to the study of Mean-field Games (MFG) systems in the mass critical exponent case. We firstly establish the optimal Gagliardo-Nirenberg type inequality associated with the potential-free MFG system. Then, under some…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2024-08-05 Marco Cirant , Fanze Kong , Juncheng Wei , Xiaoyu Zeng

In this paper, we consider Mean Field Games in the presence of common noise relaxing the usual independence assumption of individual random noise. We assume a simple linear model with terminal cost satisfying a convexity and a weak…

Probability · Mathematics 2016-07-05 Saran Ahuja

We establish existence and uniqueness of solutions to evolutive fractional Mean Field Game systems with regularizing coupling, for any order of the fractional Laplacian $s\in(0,1)$. The existence is addressed via the vanishing viscosity…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2019-01-09 Marco Cirant , Alessandro Goffi

We study the regularity and long time behavior of the one-dimensional, local, first-order mean field games system and the planning problem, assuming a Hamiltonian of superlinear growth, with a non-separated, strictly monotone dependence on…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2023-01-18 Nikiforos Mimikos-Stamatopoulos , Sebastian Munoz

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

Mean-field Games systems (MFGs) serve as paradigms to describe the games among a huge number of players. In this paper, we consider the ergodic Mean-field Games systems in the bounded domain with Neumann boundary conditions and the…

Functional Analysis · Mathematics 2025-01-28 Fanze Kong , Yonghui Tong , Xiaoyu Zeng

In this work, we study the contraction conditions of iterative algorithms for stationary and finite-horizon discrete-time regularized mean-field games (MFGs) with multiple populations, where each population only interacts with the state…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2026-05-26 Uğur Aydın , Tamer Başar

We propose and study several inverse problems for the mean field games (MFG) system in a bounded domain. Our focus is on simultaneously recovering the running cost and the Hamiltonian within the MFG system by the associated boundary…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2024-03-05 Hongyu Liu , Shen Zhang

We propose and investigate a general class of discrete time and finite state space mean field game (MFG) problems with potential structure. Our model incorporates interactions through a congestion term and a price variable. It also allows…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2023-03-07 J. Frédéric Bonnans , Pierre Lavigne , Laurent Pfeiffer

For two classes of Mean Field Game systems we study the convergence of solutions as the interest rate in the cost functional becomes very large, modeling agents caring only about a very short time-horizon, and the cost of the control…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2020-04-10 Martino Bardi , Pierre Cardaliaguet

The purpose of this work is to introduce a notion of weak solution to the master equation of a potential mean field game and to prove that existence and uniqueness hold under quite general assumptions. Remarkably, this is achieved without…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2022-06-30 Alekos Cecchin , François Delarue

This paper studies the convergence of mean field games with finite state space to mean field games with a continuous state space. We examine a space discretization of a diffusive dynamics, which is reminiscent of the Markov chain…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2024-01-18 Charles Bertucci , Alekos Cecchin

This paper concerns the simultaneous effect of homogenization and of the small noise limit for a $2^{\textrm {nd}}$ order mean field games (MFG) system with local coupling and quadratic Hamiltonian. We show under some additional assumptions…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2024-03-12 Annalisa Cesaroni , Nicolas Dirr , Claudio Marchi

We study the short-time existence and uniqueness of solutions to a coupled system of partial differential equations arising in mean field game theory. It has the generic form $$ \left\{ \begin{array}{c} -\partial_t u - \Delta u +…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2015-03-27 Philip Jameson Graber

We are concerned with the mathematical study of the Mean Field Games system (MFGS). In the conventional setup, the MFGS is a system of two coupled nonlinear parabolic PDEs of the second order in a backward-forward manner, namely one…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2023-04-04 Michael V. Klibanov , Jingzhi Li , Hongyu Liu

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

The intersection of Mean Field Games (MFGs) and Reinforcement Learning (RL) has fostered a growing family of algorithms designed to solve large-scale multi-agent systems. However, the field currently lacks a standardized evaluation…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-02-16 Lorenzo Magnino , Jiacheng Shen , Matthieu Geist , Olivier Pietquin , Mathieu Laurière

The paper considers a forward-backward system of parabolic PDEs arising in a Mean Field Game (MFG) model where every agent controls the drift of a trajectory subject to Brownian diffusion, trying to escape a given bounded domain $\Omega$ in…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2022-12-23 Romain Ducasse , Guilherme Mazanti , Filippo Santambrogio