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48 results for mean-field competition

Model analyzes competitive pricing strategies in large markets of perishable products.

problem Maximizing profits in a competitive market of perishable products.
method Mean-field competition model, Hamilton-Jacobi-Bellman equation, iterative numerical algorithm.
result Properties of equilibrium pricing strategies and market dynamics.

Study optimal investment and consumption strategies for competitive agents with habit formation.

problem Optimal investment and consumption strategies for competitive agents with habit formation.
method Formulated n-agent game problems and mean field game problems, derived mean field equilibrium, constructed approximate Nash equilibrium.
result Explicit convergence order of approximate Nash equilibrium can be obtained.

Study NN-player and mean-field games in Itô-diffusion markets with competitive or homophilous interactions.

problem Optimal portfolio choice in a common market with NN interacting players.
method Analyzes NN-player and mean-field games in incomplete and complete markets with CARA utilities and random risk tolerances.
result Derives explicit or closed-form solutions for equilibrium processes and game values.

The paper analyzes competition among fund managers using excess logarithmic returns and constructs games to find optimal allocations.

problem Optimal allocation strategies among fund managers considering excess logarithmic returns.
method Constructs both nn-player and mean field games to address the competition problem.
result The MFE of the MFG represents the limit of nn-player game's equilibrium as nn approaches infinity.

Study explores optimal strategies in games with multiple players and mean-field interactions.

problem Optimal strategies in games with multiple players and mean-field interactions.
method Exploration of three different notions of optimality, including mean-field control solution, mean-field coarse correlated equilibria, and mean-field Nash equilibria.
result Approximation of cooperative and competitive equilibria in large NN-player games by mean-field control and mean-field equilibria.

The paper analyzes optimal investment strategies in a game with jump risk, deriving mean field equilibria.

problem Optimal investment strategies in a game with jump risk and peer competition.
method Formulated mean field game and n-player game models, characterized equilibrium states, and derived approximation errors.
result Explicit mean field equilibrium and approximate Nash equilibrium for large n-player games.

Study time-inconsistent portfolio optimization for competitive agents with relative performance criteria.

problem Time-inconsistent mean field and n-agent games under relative performance criteria.
method Construct open-loop equilibrium strategies for n-agent games and mean field games.
result Explicit solutions for n-agent games and mean field games, unique in a special class of equilibria.

We discuss a natural game of competition and solve the corresponding mean field game with \emph{common noise} when agents' rewards are \emph{rank dependent}. We use this solution to provide an approximate Nash equilibrium for the finite player game and obtain the rate of convergence.

2016-03-21abs ↗pdf ↗

Study Nash equilibrium in mean field portfolio games with random market parameters.

problem Modeling wealth and relative performance in competitive financial markets.
method Martingale optimality principle approach to characterize Nash equilibrium in mean field FBSDE.
result Unique Nash equilibrium found under weak interaction assumption and market parameters independence.

Paper studies optimal tracking portfolio in mean field game of large fund competition.

problem Optimal tracking portfolio in large fund competition with relative performance benchmark.
method Formulated mean field game problem, established existence of mean field equilibrium using PDE approach, constructed approximate Nash equilibrium.
result Existence of mean field equilibrium and consistency condition verified.

Study many-player investment-consumption games with power FPPs, finding market-risk preference affects consumption.

problem Investment and consumption optimization in a mean field competition setting.
method Solve many-player and mean field games using power FPPs, providing closed-form solutions.
result Market-risk relative consumption preference affects agent's consumption decisions.

Study of insurer games with model uncertainty in reinsurance and investment strategies.

problem Model uncertainty and competitive insurers' performance under worst-case scenarios.
method Formulated robust mean-field game for non-linear system, derived closed-form solutions.
result Relative concerns lead to new hedging terms in investment and reinsurance strategies.

We study ranking quantilized mean-field games to select top-performing agents.

problem Selecting top-performing agents in competitive scenarios.
method Developed two formulations: target-based and threshold-based, and provided analytic and semi-explicit solutions.
result Analytic and semi-explicit solutions for quantilized mean-field consistency conditions.

The paper analyzes arbitrage opportunities in a large investor market with common stock noises.

problem Identifying arbitrage opportunities in a market with many competitive investors.
method Stochastic differential games and mean-field systems to study market dynamics and optimal arbitrage.
result Optimal arbitrage is characterized by a solution to a Cauchy PDE involving volatility terms.

This paper studies how relative performance concerns affect stock prices in a tree-like market model.

problem The impact of relative performance concerns on stock prices in a tree-like market model.
method Mean-field equilibrium analysis in a binomial tree framework with exponential utility.
result Existence and uniqueness of market-clearing mean-field equilibrium in both single- and multi-population settings.

Efficiently reduces rank of non-negative matrices with quadratic time complexity.

problem Efficiently reducing the rank of non-negative matrices.
method Formulated rank reduction as a mean-field approximation using a log-linear model.
result Optimal solution for minimizing KL divergence can be computed in closed form.

New framework for portfolio management using binomial markets and game theory.

problem Investment behavior in competitive and incomplete markets.
method Introduces PRFPP framework, constructs and analyzes for both finite and mean field games.
result Relative performance concerns do not always lead to more risky asset investment.

A scalable method for accurate inference of low-dimensional parameters in high-dimensional linear regression.

problem Statistical inference for low-dimensional parameters in high-dimensional linear regression models.
method Mean-field variational Bayes approach, focusing on nuisance parameters and conditional distributions.
result Competitive numerical performance and theoretical guarantees for estimation and uncertainty quantification.

Bayesian neural networks can be simplified by parameterizing weights as rank-rr matrices, reducing parameter count and improving performance.

problem High parameter count in standard Bayesian neural networks.
method Parameterize weights as W=ABopW = AB^{ op} with ARmimesrA \in \mathbb{R}^{m imes r}, BRnimesrB \in \mathbb{R}^{n imes r}, inducing a singular posterior.
result PAC-Bayes generalization bounds and loss bounds show improved performance with fewer parameters.

Study optimal treatment assignment policies under strategic agent responses.

problem Learning optimal treatment policies with strategic agents complicates estimation.
method Dynamic model with threshold convergence to mean-field equilibrium, consistent estimator for policy gradient.
result Threshold for treatment assignment converges to mean-field equilibrium threshold under large but finite number of agents.

A new method for uncertainty estimation in neural networks using Gaussian-softmax integration.

problem Quantifying uncertainty in neural network predictions.
method Proposes a single-model approach integrating Gaussian distribution with softmax outputs, using mean-field approximation.
result Competitive performance on uncertainty estimation tasks and outperforms many methods on out-of-distribution detection.

We analyze a conservative market model for the competition among economic agents in a close society. A minimum dynamics ensures that the poorest agent has a chance to improve its economic welfare. After a transient, the system self-organizes into a critical state where the wealth distribution have a minimum threshold, …

2003-11-05abs ↗pdf ↗

This paper studies insurers' robust strategies in a stochastic game with model uncertainty and volatility risk.

problem Model uncertainty and volatility risk in insurers' surplus processes.
method Formulates robust mean-field games with insurers competing based on mean-variance criterion under worst-case scenario.
result Derives semi-closed forms of equilibrium strategies for insurers and mean-field equilibrium, ensuring existence and uniqueness.

Unified q-learning for mean-field jump-diffusion models with unobservable population distribution.

problem Continuous-time q-learning in mean-field jump-diffusion models with unobservable population distribution.
method Proposed decoupled Iq-function for unified policy evaluation in MFG and MFC problems; unified q-learning algorithm based on test policies and averaged martingale orthogonality condition.
result Unified policy evaluation rule for MFG and MFC problems based on decoupled Iq-function.

Existence of strong randomized equilibria in mean-field games with common noise.

problem Existence of strong solutions in mean-field games of optimal stopping.
method Connection with Bank-El Karoui's representation problem and continuity assumptions.
result Existence of strong randomized mean-field equilibrium under certain conditions.

New RL algorithms achieve optimal policies with polynomial sample complexity for mean-field problems.

problem Statistical efficiency of Mean-Field Reinforcement Learning with general function approximation.
method Introduce MF-MBED to characterize problem complexity, propose algorithms based on maximal likelihood estimation.
result Rich mean-field RL problems have low MF-MBED, leading to polynomial sample complexity.

Study on mean field games with singular controls and their applications.

problem Optimal productivity expansion in dynamic oligopolies.
method Existence and uniqueness of mean field equilibria through nonlinear equations, Abelian limit for discounted and ergodic games.
result Valid connection between discounted and ergodic games, approximation of Nash equilibria.

Study shows uniform-time chaos propagation in mean field Langevin dynamics.

problem Understanding the convergence of marginal distributions in mean field dynamics.
method Assumed functional convexity of energy, used LpL^p-convergence and Wasserstein metrics.
result Uniform-in-time propagation of chaos proved in both L2L^2-Wasserstein and relative entropy.

The mean field algorithm is a widely used approximate inference algorithm for graphical models whose exact inference is intractable. In each iteration of mean field, the approximate marginals for each variable are updated by getting information from the neighbors. This process can be equivalently converted into a feedf…

2014-10-21abs ↗pdf ↗

New neural networks learn mappings between probability measures and functions.

problem Learning mappings between Wasserstein space of probability measures and function spaces.
method Two types of neural networks: bin density and cylindrical approximation, are proposed and supported by universal approximation theorems.
result Accuracy and efficiency of mean-field neural networks in generalization error with various test distributions.

Study equilibrium consumption habits in a large population using mean field games.

problem Equilibrium consumption under external habit formation in a large population.
method Formulated and solved mean field games for linear and multiplicative habit formation preferences, constructed approximate Nash equilibria for large n-player games.
result Characterized mean field equilibrium strategies and derived financial implications.