math.OCJun 18, 2026

Robust QQ-learning for mean-field control under Wasserstein uncertainty in common noise

Authors: Mathieu LaurièreAriel NeufeldKyunghyun Park

Organizations: NYU Shanghai HPC · MOE AcRF Tier 1 Grant RG109/25 · National Research Foundation of Korea

Abstract

In this article, we present a robust QQ-learning algorithm for discrete-time mean-field control problems under Wasserstein uncertainty in the common noise law. The algorithm combines a quantization-and-projection scheme with a Wasserstein dual reformulation on the common-noise space. We establish its convergence together with finite-time iteration bounds for both synchronous and asynchronous learning schemes. Numerical experiments on systemic risk and epidemic models compare the asynchronous implementation with an idealized Bellman iteration, illustrate the robustness-performance tradeoff under common-noise misspecification, and report the observed convergence behavior of the asynchronous QQ-learning algorithm.

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