In this paper, we extend the theory of deterministic mean-field/aggregative games to multi-population games. We consider a set of populations, each managed by a population coordinator (PC), of selfish agents playing a global non-cooperative game, whose cost functions are affected by an aggregate term across all agents from all populations. In particular, we impose that the agents cannot exchange information between themselves directly; instead, only a PC can gather information on its own population and exchange local aggregate information with the neighboring PCs. To seek an equilibrium of the resulting (partialinformation) game, we propose an iterative algorithm where each PC broadcasts a mean-field signal, namely, an estimate of the overall aggregative term, to its own population only. In turn, we let the local agents react with a best response and the PCs cooperate for estimating the aggregative term. Our main technical contributions are to cast the proposed scheme as a fixed-point iteration with errors, namely, the interconnection of a Krasnoselskij-Mann iteration and a linear consensus protocol, and, under a non-expansiveness condition, to show convergence towards an ε-Nash equilibrium, where ε is inversely proportional to the population size.
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