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We present a deep recurrent neural network architecture to solve a class of stochastic optimal control problems described by fully nonlinear Hamilton Jacobi Bellmanpartial differential equations. Such PDEs arise when one considers…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2019-12-24 Marcus A Pereira , Ziyi Wang , Tianrong Chen , Emily Reed , Evangelos A Theodorou

This work addresses stochastic optimal control problems where the unknown state evolves in continuous time while partial, noisy, and possibly controllable measurements are only available in discrete time. We develop a framework for…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2025-08-19 Christian Bayer , Boualem Djehiche , Eliza Rezvanova , Raul Fidel Tempone

We consider a class of stochastic impulse control problems of general stochastic processes i.e. not necessarily Markovian. Under fairly general conditions we establish existence of an optimal impulse control. We also prove existence of…

Probability · Mathematics 2008-06-18 Boualem Djehiche , Said Hamadene , Ibtissam Hdhiri

In this paper, we mainly focus on solving high-dimensional stochastic Hamiltonian systems with boundary condition, which is essentially a Forward Backward Stochastic Differential Equation (FBSDE in short), and propose a novel method from…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2021-12-13 Shaolin Ji , Shige Peng , Ying Peng , Xichuan Zhang

We consider a class of backward stochastic differential equations (BSDEs) driven by Brownian motion and Poisson random measure, and subject to constraints on the jump component. We prove the existence and uniqueness of the minimal solution…

Probability · Mathematics 2016-08-14 Idris Kharroubi , Jin Ma , Huyên Pham , Jianfeng Zhang

This paper studies a robust stochastic control problem with a monotone mean-variance cost functional and random coefficients. The main technique is to find the saddle point through two backward stochastic differential equations (BSDEs) with…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2024-08-19 Yuyang Chen , Tianjiao Hua , Peng Luo

A Deterministic affine quadratic optimal control problem is considered. Due to the nature of the problem, optimal controls exist under some very mild conditions. Further, it is shown that under some assumptions, the value function is…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2019-02-20 Yuanchang Wang , Jiongmin Yong

The paper is devoted to a stochastic optimal control problem for a two scale, infinite dimensional, stochastic system. The state of the system consists of slow and fast component and its evolution is driven by both continuous Wiener noises…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2024-01-17 Elena Bandini , Giuseppina Guatteri , Gianmario Tessitore

In this paper, we propose a deep forward-backward stochastic differential equation (FBSDE) based control algorithm for locomotion tasks. We also include state constraints in the FBSDE formulation to impose stable walking solutions or other…

Robotics · Computer Science 2021-07-19 Bolun Dai , Virinchi Roy Surabhi , Prashanth Krishnamurthy , Farshad Khorrami

We consider a finite-time stochastic drift control problem with the assumption that the control is bounded and the system is controlled until the state process leaves the half-line. Assuming general conditions, it is proved that the…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2025-12-10 Dariusz Zawisza

We study a class of optimal control problems with state constraints where the state equation is a differential equation with delays. This class includes some problems arising in economics, in particular the so-called models with time to…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2009-07-09 Salvatore Federico , Ben Goldys , Fausto Gozzi

We introduce a stochastic version of the optimal transport problem. We provide an analysis by means of the study of the associated Hamilton-Jacobi-Bellman equation, which is set on the set of probability measures. We introduce a new…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2024-05-22 Charles Bertucci

The control of relaxation-type systems of ordinary differential equations is investigated using the Hamilton-Jacobi-Bellman equation. First, we recast the model as a singularly perturbed dynamics which we embed in a family of controlled…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2024-04-23 Michael Herty , Hicham Kouhkouh

We consider a control problem where the system is driven by a decoupled as well as a coupled forward-backward stochastic differential equation. We prove the existence of an optimal control in the class of relaxed controls, which are…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2017-01-31 Fouzia Baghery , Nabil Khelfallah , Brahim Mezerdi , Isabelle Turpin

We study a stochastic optimal control problem with the state constrained to a smooth, compact domain. The control influences both the drift and a possibly degenerate, control-dependent dispersion matrix, leading to a fully nonlinear,…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2025-08-08 Anderson O. Calixto , Bernardo Freitas Paulo da Costa , Glauco Valle

We consider a unifying framework for stochastic control problem including the following features: partial observation, path-dependence (both with respect to the state and the control), and without any non-degeneracy condition on the…

Probability · Mathematics 2016-09-14 Elena Bandini , Andrea Cosso , Marco Fuhrman , Huyên Pham

We study a stochastic optimal control problem for forward-backward control systems with quadratic generators. In order to establish the first and second-order variational and adjoint equations, we obtain a new estimate for one-dimensional…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2021-07-06 Mingshang Hu , Shaolin Ji , Rundong Xu

The optimal control of problems that are constrained by partial differential equations with uncertainties and with uncertain controls is addressed. The Lagrangian that defines the problem is postulated in terms of stochastic functions, with…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2012-11-19 Eveline Rosseel , Garth N. Wells

We formulate an optimal switching problem when the underlying filtration is generated by a marked point process and a Brownian motion. Each mode is characterized by a different compensator for the point process, and thus by a different…

Probability · Mathematics 2017-11-01 Nahuel Foresta

We establish existence and uniqueness of minimax solutions for a fairly general class of path-dependent Hamilton-Jacobi equations. In particular, the relevant Hamiltonians can contain the solution and they only need to be measurable with…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2025-01-28 Elena Bandini , Christian Keller