Recent developments in machine learning methods for stochastic control and games

R Hu, M Lauriere - arXiv preprint arXiv:2303.10257, 2023 - arxiv.org
Stochastic optimal control and games have a wide range of applications, from finance and
economics to social sciences, robotics, and energy management. Many real-world …

Numerical methods for mean field games and mean field type control

M Lauriere - Mean field games, 2021 - books.google.com
Mean Field Games (MFG) have been introduced to tackle games with a large number of
competing players. Considering the limit when the number of players is infinite, Nash …

Optimal incentives to mitigate epidemics: a Stackelberg mean field game approach

A Aurell, R Carmona, G Dayanikli, M Lauriere - SIAM Journal on Control and …, 2022 - SIAM
Motivated by the models of epidemic control in large populations, we consider a Stackelberg
mean field game model between a principal and a mean field of agents whose states evolve …

Analysis of a finite state many player game using its master equation

E Bayraktar, A Cohen - SIAM Journal on Control and Optimization, 2018 - SIAM
We consider an n-player symmetric stochastic game with weak interactions between the
players. Time is continuous, and the horizon and the number of states are finite. We show …

A unifying framework for submodular mean field games

J Dianetti, G Ferrari, M Fischer… - … of Operations Research, 2023 - pubsonline.informs.org
We provide an abstract framework for submodular mean field games and identify verifiable
sufficient conditions that allow us to prove the existence and approximation of strong mean …

Convergence of deep fictitious play for stochastic differential games

J Han, R Hu, J Long - arXiv preprint arXiv:2008.05519, 2020 - arxiv.org
Stochastic differential games have been used extensively to model agents' competitions in
Finance, for instance, in P2P lending platforms from the Fintech industry, the banking system …

Linear convergence of a policy gradient method for some finite horizon continuous time control problems

C Reisinger, W Stockinger, Y Zhang - SIAM Journal on Control and …, 2023 - SIAM
Despite its popularity in the reinforcement learning community, a provably convergent policy
gradient method for continuous space-time control problems with nonlinear state dynamics …

Deep backward and galerkin methods for the finite state master equation

A Cohen, M Laurière, E Zell - arXiv preprint arXiv:2403.04975, 2024 - arxiv.org
This paper proposes and analyzes two neural network methods to solve the master equation
for finite-state mean field games (MFGs). Solving MFGs provides approximate Nash …

[PDF][PDF] Deep learning solutions to master equations for continuous time heterogeneous agent macroeconomic models

Z Gu, M Lauriere, S Merkel, J Payne - 2023 - jepayne.github.io
We propose and compare new global solution algorithms for continuous time
heterogeneous agent economies with aggregate shocks. First, we approximate the state …

Approximation of N-player stochastic games with singular controls by mean field games

H Cao, X Guo, JS Lee - arXiv preprint arXiv:2202.06835, 2022 - arxiv.org
This paper establishes that a class of $ N $-player stochastic games with singular controls,
either of bounded velocity or of finite variation, can both be approximated by mean field …