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We aim to analyze the behaviour of a finite-time stochastic system, whose model is not available, in the context of more rare and harmful outcomes. Standard estimators are not effective in making predictions about such outcomes due to their…

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The goal of this work is to develop deep learning numerical methods for solving option XVA pricing problems given by non-linear PDE models. A novel strategy for the treatment of the boundary conditions is proposed, which allows to get rid…

Computational Finance · Quantitative Finance 2022-10-06 Joel P. Villarino , Álvaro Leitao , José A. García-Rodríguez

The study of optimal control problems under uncertainty plays an important role in scientific numerical simulations. This class of optimization problems is strongly utilized in engineering, biology and finance. In this paper, a stochastic…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2023-04-06 Caroline Geiersbach , Teresa Scarinci

This work investigates a class of moving boundary problems related to a nonlinear evolution equation featuring an exponential source term. We establish a connection to Stefan-type problems, for different boundary conditions at the fixed…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2025-01-16 Julieta Bollati , Ernesto A. Borrego Rodriguez , Adriana C. Briozzo , Colin Rogers

Non-locality is being intensively studied in various PDE-contexts and in variational problems. The numerical approximation also looks challenging, as well as the application of these models to Continuum Mechanics and Image Analysis, among…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2021-06-07 Pablo Pedregal

This paper considers parameter estimation for nonlinear state-space models, which is an important but challenging problem. We address this challenge by employing a variational inference (VI) approach, which is a principled method that has…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2022-09-15 Jarrad Courts , Adrian Wills , Thomas Schön , Brett Ninness

In book II of Newton's "Principia Mathematica" of 1687 several applicative problems are introduced and solved. There, we can find the formulation of the first calculus of variations problem that leads to the first free boundary problem of…

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This paper presents new results allowing an unknown non-Gaussian positive matrix-valued random field to be identified through a stochastic elliptic boundary value problem, solving a statistical inverse problem. A new general class of…

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In this paper, the problem of state estimation, in the context of both filtering and smoothing, for nonlinear state-space models is considered. Due to the nonlinear nature of the models, the state estimation problem is generally intractable…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2021-11-24 Jarrad Courts , Adrian Wills , Thomas B. Schön

In this article we study a class of generalised linear systems of difference equations with given boundary conditions and assume that the boundary value problem is non-consistent, i.e. it has infinite many or no solutions. We take into…

Dynamical Systems · Mathematics 2016-10-27 Nicholas Apostolopoulos , Fernando Ortega , Grigoris Kalogeropoulos

An algorithm for constructing a control function that transfers a wide class of stationary nonlinear systems of ordinary differential equations from an initial state to a final state under certain control restrictions is proposed. The…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2017-03-01 Alexander N. Kvitko , Oksana S. Firyulina , Alexey S. Eremin

The compact Variation Evolving Method (VEM) that originates from the continuous-time dynamics stability theory seeks the optimal solutions with variation evolution principle. It is further developed to be more flexible in solving the…

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In this article we prove new results regarding the existence and the uniqueness of global variational solutions to Neumann initial-boundary value problems for a class of non-autonomous stochastic parabolic partial differential equations.…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2018-06-29 Marco Dozzi , Rim Touibi , Pierre-A Vuillermot

We consider a nonlinear boundary value problem driven by a nonhomogeneous differential operator. The problem exhibits competing nonlinearities with a superlinear (convex) contribution coming from the reaction term and a sublinear (concave)…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2019-07-12 Nikolaos S. Papageorgiou , Vicenţiu D. Rădulescu , Dušan D. Repovš

The fractional calculus of variations and fractional optimal control are generalizations of the corresponding classical theories, that allow problem modeling and formulations with arbitrary order derivatives and integrals. Because of the…

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Studies regarding the computation of Optimal Control Problems (OCPs) with terminal inequality constraint, under the frame of the Variation Evolving Method (VEM), are carried out. The attributes of equality constraints and inequality…

Systems and Control · Computer Science 2018-01-24 Sheng Zhang , Yan-Qing Chenq , Wei-Qi Qian

A new method for the optimal solutions is proposed. Originating from the continuous-time dynamics stability theory in the control field, the optimal solution is anticipated to be obtained in an asymptotically evolving way. By introducing a…

Systems and Control · Computer Science 2017-04-11 Sheng Zhang , En-Mi Yong , Wei-Qi Qian , Kai-Feng He

Moving boundary problems allow to model systems with phase transition at an inner boundary. Driven by problems in economics and finance, in particular modeling of limit order books, we consider a stochastic and non-linear extension of the…

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This paper establishes a stochastic maximum principle for optimal control problems governed by time-changed forward-backward stochastic differential equations with L\'evy noise. The system incorporates a random, non-decreasing operational…

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