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We study first order evolutive Mean Field Games where the Hamiltonian is non-coercive. This situation occurs, for instance, when some directions are "forbidden" to the generic player at some points. We establish the existence of a weak…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2018-12-03 Paola Mannucci , Claudio Marchi , Carlo Mariconda , Nicoletta Tchou

This paper studies the mixed zero-sum stochastic differential game problem. We allow the functionals and dynamics to be of polynomial growth. The problem is formulated as an extended doubly reflected BSDEs with a specific generator. We show…

Probability · Mathematics 2021-03-05 Brahim El Asri , Nacer Ourkiya

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

We investigate time dependent, first order Mean Field Games on the torus comparing, in a broad and general framework, the classical differential formulation , given by a Hamilton Jacobi equation coupled with a continuity equation, with a…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2025-12-02 Antonio Siconolfi

Mean field games models describing the limit of a large class of stochastic differential games, as the number of players goes to $+\infty$, have been introduced by J.-M. Lasry and P.-L. Lions. We use a change of variables to transform the…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2011-06-17 Olivier Guéant

In this paper, we introduce Hamilton-Jacobi-Bellman (HJB) equations for Q-functions in continuous time optimal control problems with Lipschitz continuous controls. The standard Q-function used in reinforcement learning is shown to be the…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2020-05-05 Jeongho Kim , Insoon Yang

In this paper we study evolutive first order Mean Field Games in the Heisenberg group; each agent can move in the whole space but it has to follow "horizontal" trajectories which are given in terms of the vector fields generating the group…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2022-01-03 Paola Mannucci , Claudio Marchi , Nicoletta Tchou

We study a toy model of linear-quadratic mean field game with delay. We "lift" the delayed dynamic into an infinite dimensional space, and recast the mean field game system which is made of a forward Kolmogorov equation and a backward…

Probability · Mathematics 2018-08-21 Jean-Pierre Fouque , Zhaoyu Zhang

It is well-known that solutions to the basic problem in the calculus of variations may fail to be Lipschitz continuous when the Lagrangian depends on t. Similarly, for viscosity solutions to time-dependent Hamilton-Jacobi equations one…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2011-02-16 Piermarco Cannarsa , Pierre Cardaliaguet

In this paper we investigate a path dependent optimal control problem on the process space with both drift and volatility controls, with possibly degenerate volatility. The dynamic value function is characterized by a fully nonlinear second…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2025-07-23 Jianjun Zhou , Nizar Touzi , Jianfeng Zhang

Motivated by the recent interests in asymmetric mean field games, this paper provides a general framework of Heterogeneous Mean Field Game (HMFG) that subsumes different formulations of graphon mean field games. The key feature of the HMFG…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2025-11-26 Bixing Qiao

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

We study the singular perturbation problem for mean field game systems with control of acceleration. For such a problem we analyze the behavior of solutions as the acceleration costs vanishes. In this setting the Hamiltonian fails to be…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2023-04-04 Cristian Mendico

We develop a mean-field approach for multicomponent stochastic spatially extended systems and use it to obtain a multivariate nonlinear self-consistent Fokker-Planck equation defining the probability density of the state of the system,…

Pattern Formation and Solitons · Physics 2017-03-16 Svetlana E. Kurushina , Valerii V. Maximov , Yurii M. Romanovskii

This paper studies multidimensional mean field games with common noise and the related system of McKean-Vlasov forward-backward stochastic differential equations deriving from the stochastic maximum principle. We first propose some…

Probability · Mathematics 2022-12-26 Jodi Dianetti

In this paper we propose a high-order numerical scheme for time-dependent mean field games systems. The scheme, which is built by combining Lagrange-Galerkin and semi-Lagrangian techniques, is consistent and stable for large time steps…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2023-10-31 Elisa Calzola , Elisabetta Carlini , Francisco J. Silva

We demonstrate the versatility of mean-field games (MFGs) as a mathematical framework for explaining, enhancing, and designing generative models. In generative flows, a Lagrangian formulation is used where each particle (generated sample)…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2023-10-25 Benjamin J. Zhang , Markos A. Katsoulakis

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

In this paper we provide the existence of classical solutions to stationary mean field game systems in the whole space $\mathbb{R}^N$, with coercive potential, aggregating local coupling, and under general conditions on the Hamiltonian,…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2018-03-14 Annalisa Cesaroni , Marco Cirant

This article addresses the local boundedness and H\"older continuity of weak solutions to kinetic Fokker-Planck equations with general transport operators and rough coefficients. These results are due to the mixing effect of diffusion and…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2024-10-14 Yuzhe Zhu