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We study a constrained optimal control problem with possibly degenerate coefficients arising in models of optimal portfolio liquidation under market impact. The coefficients can be random in which case the value function is described by a…

Mathematical Finance · Quantitative Finance 2015-07-22 Ulrich Horst , Jinniao Qiu , Qi Zhang

Stochastic optimal principle leads to the resolution of a partial differential equation (PDE), namely the Hamilton-Jacobi-Bellman (HJB) equation. In general, this equation cannot be solved analytically, thus numerical algorithms are the…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2021-09-14 Christelle Dleuna Nyoumbi , Antoine Tambue

In this paper, we study a stochastic recursive optimal control problem in which the objective functional is described by the solution of a backward stochastic differential equation driven by G-Brownian motion. Under standard assumptions, we…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2013-06-07 Mingshang Hu , Shaolin Ji , Shuzhen Yang

Two novel numerical estimators are proposed for solving forward-backward stochastic differential equations (FBSDEs) appearing in the Feynman-Kac representation of the value function in stochastic optimal control problems. In contrast to the…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2021-10-01 Kelsey P. Hawkins , Ali Pakniyat , Panagiotis Tsiotras

We consider a class of closed loop stochastic optimal control problems in finite time horizon, in which the cost is an expectation conditional on the event that the process has not exited a given bounded domain. An important difficulty is…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2019-12-19 Yves Achdou , Mathieu Laurière , Pierre-Louis Lions

This paper presents an inverse optimality method to solve the Hamilton-Jacobi-Bellman equation for a class of nonlinear problems for which the cost is quadratic and the dynamics are affine in the input. The method is inverse optimal because…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2011-10-11 Luis Rodrigues , Didier Henrion , Mehdi Abedinpour Fallah

In this paper, we study the linear-quadratic control problem for mean-field backward stochastic differential equations (MF-BSDE) with random coefficients. We first derive a preliminary stochastic maximum principle to analyze the unique…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2025-03-04 Jie Xiong , Wen Xu , Ying Yang

This paper aims to explore the relationship between maximum principle and dynamic programming principle for stochastic recursive control problem with random coefficients. Under certain regular conditions for the coefficients, the…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2020-12-10 Yuchao Dong , Qingxin Meng , Qi Zhang

We study methods for solving stochastic control problems of systems of forward-backward mean-field equations with delay, in finite or infinite horizon. Necessary and sufficient maximum principles under partial information are given. The…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2016-10-31 Nacira Agram , Elin Engen Rose

In a Markovian framework, we consider the problem of finding the minimal initial value of a controlled process allowing to reach a stochastic target with a given level of expected loss. This question arises typically in approximate hedging…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2017-04-06 Géraldine Bouveret , Jean-François Chassagneux

We exploit the separation of the filtering and control aspects of quantum feedback control to consider the optimal control as a classical stochastic problem on the space of quantum states. We derive the corresponding Hamilton-Jacobi-Bellman…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 J. Gough , V. P. Belavkin , O. G. Smolyanov

In this paper, we focus on a class of time-inconsistent stochastic control problems, where the objective function includes the mean and several higher-order central moments of the terminal value of state. To tackle the time-inconsistency,…

Mathematical Finance · Quantitative Finance 2025-05-08 Yike Wang , Jingzhen Liu , Alain Bensoussan , Ka-Fai Cedric Yiu , Jiaqin Wei

The goal of this thesis is to provide efficient and provably convergent numerical methods for solving partial differential equations (PDEs) coming from impulse control problems motivated by finance. Impulses, which are controlled jumps in a…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2018-02-05 Parsiad Azimzadeh

In this paper we study a class of stochastic control problems in which the control of the jump size is essential. Such a model is a generalized version for various applied problems ranging from optimal reinsurance selections for general…

Probability · Mathematics 2008-04-04 Rainer Buckdahn , Jin Ma , Catherine Rainer

We propose a new method for the numerical solution of the forward-backward stochastic differential equations (FBSDE) appearing in the Feynman-Kac representation of the value function in stochastic optimal control problems. Using Girsanov's…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2022-10-20 Kelsey P. Hawkins , Ali Pakniyat , Evangelos Theodorou , Panagiotis Tsiotras

A general backward stochastic linear-quadratic optimal control problem is studied, in which both the state equation and the cost functional contain the nonhomogeneous terms. The main feature of the problem is that the weighting matrices in…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2022-03-01 Jingrui Sun , Jiaqiang Wen , Jie Xiong

We consider a stochastic control problem which is composed of a controlled stochastic differential equation, and whose associated cost functional is defined through a controlled backward stochastic differential equation. Under appropriate…

Probability · Mathematics 2009-02-17 Rainer Buckdahn , Boubakeur Labed , Catherine Rainer , Lazhar Tamer

In this paper, we study non-homogeneous stochastic linear-quadratic (LQ) optimal control problems with multi-dimensional state and regime switching. We focus on the corresponding stochastic Riccati equation, which is the same as that one in…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2024-04-02 Yuyang Chen , Peng Luo

In this paper we study, by probabilistic techniques, the convergence of the value function for a two-scale, infinite-dimensional, stochastic controlled system as the ratio between the two evolution speeds diverges. The value function is…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2018-09-12 Giuseppina Guatteri , Gianmario Tessitore

We investigate a singular-optimal stopping stochastic control problem driven by self-exciting dynamics governed by a Hawkes process. In the continuous-time setting, we show that the optimization problem reduces to solving a variational…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2026-02-06 Isabel Agostino , Thibaut Mastrolia