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We consider the problem of inferring the interaction kernel of stochastic interacting particle systems from observations of a single particle. We adopt a semi-parametric approach and represent the interaction kernel in terms of a…

Statistics Theory · Mathematics 2025-10-31 Grigorios A. Pavliotis , Andrea Zanoni

We present a strictly monotone, provably convergent two-dimensional (2D) integration method for multi-period mean-conditional value-at-risk (mean-CVaR) reward-risk stochastic control in models whose one-step increment law is specified via a…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2026-03-30 Duy-Minh Dang , Hao Zhou

We consider online learning for minimizing regret in unknown, episodic Markov decision processes (MDPs) with continuous states and actions. We develop variants of the UCRL and posterior sampling algorithms that employ nonparametric Gaussian…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2019-01-04 Sayak Ray Chowdhury , Aditya Gopalan

In this paper, we use mean field games (MFGs) to investigate approximations of $N$-player games with uniformly symmetrically continuous heterogeneous closed-loop actions. To incorporate agents' risk aversion (beyond the classical expected…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2024-09-26 Ziteng Cheng , Sebastian Jaimungal

We consider a mean-field control problem in which admissible controls are required to be adapted to the common noise filtration. The main objective is to show how the mean-field control problem can be approximates by time consistent…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2025-09-19 Bruno Bouchard , Xiaolu Tan

Modern methods of generative modelling and unpaired data translation based on Schr\"odinger bridges and stochastic optimal control theory aim to transform an initial density to a target one in an optimal way. In the present paper, we assume…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-03-24 Nikita Puchkin , Denis Suchkov , Alexey Naumov , Denis Belomestny

We propose an efficient solution approach for high-dimensional nonlocal mean-field game (MFG) systems based on the Monte Carlo approximation of interaction kernels via random features. We avoid costly space-discretizations of interaction…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2022-07-26 Sudhanshu Agrawal , Wonjun Lee , Samy Wu Fung , Levon Nurbekyan

Recent advances in mean-field game literature enable the reduction of large-scale multi-agent problems to tractable interactions between a representative agent and a population distribution. However, existing approaches typically assume a…

Multiagent Systems · Computer Science 2026-02-17 Bhavini Jeloka , Yue Guan , Panagiotis Tsiotras

In this paper, we study a class of discrete-time mean-field games under the infinite-horizon risk-sensitive discounted-cost optimality criterion. Risk-sensitivity is introduced for each agent (player) via an exponential utility function. In…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2018-10-08 Naci Saldi , Tamer Basar , Maxim Raginsky

We consider an energy system with $n$ consumers who are linked by a Demand Side Management (DSM) contract, i.e. they agreed to diminish, at random times, their aggregated power consumption by a predefined volume during a predefined…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2021-01-18 Clémence Alasseur , Luciano Campi , Roxana Dumitrescu , Jia Zeng

We propose a diffusion approximation method to the continuous-state Markov Decision Processes (MDPs) that can be utilized to address autonomous navigation and control in unstructured off-road environments. In contrast to most…

Robotics · Computer Science 2024-02-08 Junhong Xu , Kai Yin , Zheng Chen , Jason M. Gregory , Ethan A. Stump , Lantao Liu

In this paper, we propose and study the utilization of the Dirichlet-to-Neumann (DN) map to uniquely identify the discount functions $r, k$ and cost function $F$ in a stationary mean field game (MFG) system. This study features several…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2023-08-15 Ming-Hui Ding , Hongyu Liu , Guang-Hui Zheng

We recently introduced a scale of kernel-based greedy schemes for approximating the solutions of elliptic boundary value problems. The procedure is based on a generalized interpolation framework in reproducing kernel Hilbert spaces and was…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2025-07-10 Bernard Haasdonk , Gabriele Santin , Tizian Wenzel

We propose a policy iteration method to solve an inverse problem for a mean-field game (MFG) model, specifically to reconstruct the obstacle function in the game from the partial observation data of value functions, which represent the…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2026-02-12 Kui Ren , Nathan Soedjak , Shanyin Tong

The celebrated Krusel-Smith growth model is an important example of a Mean Field Game with a common noise. The Mean Field Game is encoded in the master equation, a partial differential equation satisfied by the value of the game which…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2022-11-16 Yves Achdou , Jean-Michel Lasry , Pierre Louis Lions

We establish existence of controlled Markov chain of mean-field type with unbounded jump intensities by means of a fixed point argument using the Wasserstein distance. Using a Markov chain entropic backward SDE approach, we further suggest…

Probability · Mathematics 2018-01-26 Salah Eddine Choutri , Boualem Djehiche

In a probabilistic mean field game driven by a L\'evy process an individual player aims to minimize a long run discounted/ergodic cost by controlling the process through a pair of increasing and decreasing c\`adl\`ag processes, while he is…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2025-05-30 Facundo Oliú

In this work, we consider a novel inverse problem in mean-field games (MFG). We aim to recover the MFG model parameters that govern the underlying interactions among the population based on a limited set of noisy partial observations of the…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2022-04-12 Yat Tin Chow , Samy Wu Fung , Siting Liu , Levon Nurbekyan , Stanley Osher

Mean Field Games provide a powerful framework to analyze the dynamics of a large number of controlled agents in interaction. Here we consider such systems when the interactions between agents result in a negative coordination and analyze…

Physics and Society · Physics 2020-10-28 Thibault Bonnemain , Thierry Gobron , Denis Ullmo

We consider the problem of simultaneously learning to linearly combine a very large number of kernels and learn a good predictor based on the learnt kernel. When the number of kernels $d$ to be combined is very large, multiple kernel…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2015-03-20 Arash Afkanpour , András György , Csaba Szepesvári , Michael Bowling
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