We study the optimal control of mean-field systems with heterogeneous and asymmetric interactions. This leads to considering a family of controlled Brownian diffusion processes with dynamics depending on the whole collection of marginal probability laws. We prove the well-posedness of such systems and define the control problem together with its related value function. We next prove a law invariance property for the value function which allows us to work on the set of collections of probability laws. We show that the value function satisfies a dynamic programming principle (DPP) on the flow of collections of probability measures. We also derive a chain rule for a class of regular functions along the flows of collections of marginal laws of diffusion processes. Combining the DPP and the chain rule, we prove that the value function is a viscosity solution of a Bellman dynamic programming equation in a L2-set of Wasserstein space-valued functions.

Mean-field control of non exchangeable systems / A. De Crescenzo, M. Fuhrman, I. Kharroubi, H. Pham. - In: ESAIM. COCV. - ISSN 1292-8119. - (2025), pp. 1-42. [Epub ahead of print] [10.1051/cocv/2025090]

Mean-field control of non exchangeable systems

M. Fuhrman
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2025

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We study the optimal control of mean-field systems with heterogeneous and asymmetric interactions. This leads to considering a family of controlled Brownian diffusion processes with dynamics depending on the whole collection of marginal probability laws. We prove the well-posedness of such systems and define the control problem together with its related value function. We next prove a law invariance property for the value function which allows us to work on the set of collections of probability laws. We show that the value function satisfies a dynamic programming principle (DPP) on the flow of collections of probability measures. We also derive a chain rule for a class of regular functions along the flows of collections of marginal laws of diffusion processes. Combining the DPP and the chain rule, we prove that the value function is a viscosity solution of a Bellman dynamic programming equation in a L2-set of Wasserstein space-valued functions.
heterogeneous interaction; graphons; continuum of players; mean-field control; Wasserstein space; Bellman equation; viscosity solutions;
Settore MATH-03/B - Probabilità e statistica matematica
2025
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