Reconstructing a state-independent cost function in a mean-field game model

Abstract

In this short note, we consider an inverse problem to a mean-field games (MFGs) system where we are interested in reconstructing the state-independent running cost function from observed value-function data. We provide an elementary proof of a uniqueness result for the inverse problem using the standard multilinearization technique. One of the main features of our work is that we insist that the population distribution be a probability measure, a requirement that is not enforced in some of the existing literature on theoretical inverse MFGs.