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The long-standing Gaussian product inequality (GPI) conjecture states that $E [\prod_{j=1}^{n}|X_j|^{\alpha_j}]\geq\prod_{j=1}^{n}E[|X_j|^{\alpha_j}]$ for any centered Gaussian random vector $(X_1,\dots,X_n)$ and any non-negative real…

Probability · Mathematics 2022-05-23 Oliver Russell , Wei Sun

The theory of backward SDEs extends the predictable representation property of Brownian motion to the nonlinear framework, thus providing a path-dependent analog of fully nonlinear parabolic PDEs. In this paper, we consider backward SDEs,…

Probability · Mathematics 2022-02-14 Zhenjie Ren , Nizar Touzi , Junjian Yang

With the terminal value $|\xi|$ admitting some given exponential moment, we put forward and prove several existence and uniqueness results for the unbounded solutions of quadratic backward stochastic differential equations whose generators…

Probability · Mathematics 2024-09-23 Yan Wang , Yaqi Zhang , Shengjun Fan

In this paper, we study a type of reflected BSDE with a constraint and introduce a new kind of nonlinear expectation via BSDE with a constraint and prove the Doob-Meyer decomposition with respect to the super(sub)martingale introduced by…

Probability · Mathematics 2008-12-10 Shige Peng , Mingyu Xu

The sub-linear expectation or called G-expectation is a nonlinear expectation having advantage of modeling non-additive probability problems and the volatility uncertainty in finance. Let $\{X_n;n\ge 1\}$ be a sequence of independent random…

Probability · Mathematics 2016-08-03 Li-Xin Zhang

In this work, we investigate the question of how knowledge about expectations $\mathbb{E}(f_i(X))$ of a random vector $X$ translate into inequalities for $\mathbb{E}(g(X))$ for given functions $f_i$, $g$ and a random vector $X$ whose…

Probability · Mathematics 2021-04-27 André M. Timpanaro

In this paper, we prove that a kind of second order stochastic differential operator can be represented by the limit of solutions of BSDEs with uniformly continuous coefficients. This result is a generalization of the representation for the…

Probability · Mathematics 2012-06-04 Na Zhang , Guangyan Jia

For a set of binary response variables, conditional mean models characterize the expected value of a response variable given the others and are popularly applied in longitudinal and network data analyses. The quadratic exponential binary…

Methodology · Statistics 2025-10-02 Ong Wei Yong , Lee Shao-Man , Hsueh Chia-Ming , Chang Sheng-Mao

A sequential quadratic optimization algorithm for minimizing an objective function defined by an expectation subject to nonlinear inequality and equality constraints is proposed, analyzed, and tested. The context of interest is when it is…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2023-03-01 Frank E. Curtis , Daniel P. Robinson , Baoyu Zhou

Generative models, such as large language models and text-to-image diffusion models, produce relevant information when presented a query. Different models may produce different information when presented the same query. As the landscape of…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-01-20 Aranyak Acharyya , Michael W. Trosset , Carey E. Priebe , Hayden S. Helm

We consider multidimensional quadratic BSDEs with bounded and unbounded terminal conditions. We provide sufficient conditions which guarantee existence and uniqueness of solutions. In particular, these conditions are satisfied if the…

Probability · Mathematics 2017-10-24 Asgar Jamneshan , Michael Kupper , Peng Luo

We consider the estimation of treatment effects in settings when multiple treatments are assigned over time and treatments can have a causal effect on future outcomes or the state of the treated unit. We propose an extension of the…

Econometrics · Economics 2021-06-18 Greg Lewis , Vasilis Syrgkanis

This study proposes a BSDE approach to the long-term decomposition of pricing kernels under the G-expectation framework. We establish the existence, uniqueness, and regularity of solutions to three types of quadratic G-BSDEs: finite-horizon…

Mathematical Finance · Quantitative Finance 2025-08-19 Jaehyun Kim , Hyungbin Park

In this paper we first prove a general representation theorem for generators of backward stochastic differential equations (BSDEs for short) by utilizing a localization method involved with stopping time tools and approximation techniques,…

Probability · Mathematics 2017-01-17 Lishun Xiao , Shengjun Fan

We describe a new framework of a sublinear expectation space and the related notions and results of distributions, independence. A new notion of G-distributions is introduced which generalizes our G-normal-distribution in the sense that…

Probability · Mathematics 2008-03-19 Shige Peng

To explore the limits of a stochastic gradient method, it may be useful to consider an example consisting of an infinite number of quadratic functions. In this context, it is appropriate to determine the expected value and the covariance…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2022-12-14 Melinda Hagedorn

We prove conditional asymptotic normality of a class of quadratic U-statistics that are dominated by their degenerate second order part and have kernels that change with the number of observations. These statistics arise in the construction…

Methodology · Statistics 2015-12-09 James Robins , Lingling Li , Eric Tchetgen Tchetgen , Aad van der Vaart

In this paper, generalizing the definition of G-convex functions defined by Peng [9] during the construction of G-expectations and related properties, we define a group of G-convex functions based on the Backward Stochastic Differential…

Probability · Mathematics 2015-11-26 Kun He

The aim is to prove the well-posedness of infinite horizon backward stochastic differential equations driven by $G$-Brownian motion ($G$-BSDEs) with quadratic generators. To this end, we provide a full construction of explicit solutions to…

Probability · Mathematics 2025-09-09 Yiqing Lin , Yifan Sun , Falei Wang

We first establish the existence of an unbounded solution to a backward stochastic differential equation (BSDE) with generator $g$ allowing a general growth in the state variable $y$ and a sub-quadratic growth in the state variable $z$,…

Probability · Mathematics 2019-10-21 Shengjun Fan , Ying Hu