[PDF][PDF] Learning mean field games: A survey

M Laurière, S Perrin, M Geist… - arXiv preprint arXiv …, 2022 - researchgate.net
Non-cooperative and cooperative games with a very large number of players have many
applications but remain generally intractable when the number of players increases …

A novel framework for policy mirror descent with general parameterization and linear convergence

C Alfano, R Yuan, P Rebeschini - Advances in Neural …, 2023 - proceedings.neurips.cc
Modern policy optimization methods in reinforcement learning, such as TRPO and PPO, owe
their success to the use of parameterized policies. However, while theoretical guarantees …

Oracle-free reinforcement learning in mean-field games along a single sample path

MAU Zaman, A Koppel, S Bhatt… - … Conference on Artificial …, 2023 - proceedings.mlr.press
We consider online reinforcement learning in Mean-Field Games (MFGs). Unlike traditional
approaches, we alleviate the need for a mean-field oracle by developing an algorithm that …

Learning regularized monotone graphon mean-field games

F Zhang, V Tan, Z Wang… - Advances in Neural …, 2023 - proceedings.neurips.cc
This paper studies two fundamental problems in regularized Graphon Mean-Field Games
(GMFGs). First, we establish the existence of a Nash Equilibrium (NE) of any $\lambda …

On imitation in mean-field games

G Ramponi, P Kolev, O Pietquin, N He… - Advances in …, 2024 - proceedings.neurips.cc
We explore the problem of imitation learning (IL) in the context of mean-field games (MFGs),
where the goal is to imitate the behavior of a population of agents following a Nash …

When is Mean-Field Reinforcement Learning Tractable and Relevant?

B Yardim, A Goldman, N He - arXiv preprint arXiv:2402.05757, 2024 - arxiv.org
Mean-field reinforcement learning has become a popular theoretical framework for efficiently
approximating large-scale multi-agent reinforcement learning (MARL) problems exhibiting …

On the statistical efficiency of mean-field reinforcement learning with general function approximation

J Huang, B Yardim, N He - International Conference on …, 2024 - proceedings.mlr.press
In this paper, we study the fundamental statistical efficiency of Reinforcement Learning in
Mean-Field Control (MFC) and Mean-Field Game (MFG) with general model-based function …

[PDF][PDF] Major-Minor Mean Field Multi-Agent Reinforcement Learning

K Cui, C Fabian, A Tahir, H Koeppl - arXiv preprint arXiv …, 2023 - researchgate.net
Recently, mean field control (MFC) has provided a tractable and theoretically founded
approach to otherwise difficult cooperative multi-agent control. However, the strict …

Learning Discrete-Time Major-Minor Mean Field Games

K Cui, G Dayanıklı, M Laurière, M Geist… - Proceedings of the …, 2024 - ojs.aaai.org
Recent techniques based on Mean Field Games (MFGs) allow the scalable analysis of multi-
player games with many similar, rational agents. However, standard MFGs remain limited to …

Robust cooperative multi-agent reinforcement learning: A mean-field type game perspective

MAU Zaman, M Lauriere, A Koppel… - 6th Annual Learning …, 2024 - proceedings.mlr.press
In this paper, we study the problem of robust cooperative multi-agent reinforcement learning
(RL) where a large number of cooperative agents with distributed information aim to learn …