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Many techniques originally developed in the context of deterministic control theory have been recently applied to the quest for optimal protocols in stochastic processes. Given a system subject to environmental fluctuations, one may ask…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2025-01-15 Dario Lucente , Alessandro Manacorda , Andrea Plati , Alessandro Sarracino , Marco Baldovin

In this paper, we aim to solve the high dimensional stochastic optimal control problem from the view of the stochastic maximum principle via deep learning. By introducing the extended Hamiltonian system which is essentially an FBSDE with a…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2021-06-23 Shaolin Ji , Shige Peng , Ying Peng , Xichuan Zhang

A geometric method is described to characterize the different kinds of extremals in optimal control theory. This comes from the use of a presymplectic constraint algorithm starting from the necessary conditions given by Pontryagin's Maximum…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2008-02-06 Maria Barbero-Liñan , Miguel C. Muñoz-Lecanda

This paper deals with a nonsmooth version of the connection between the maximum principle and dynamic programming principle, for the stochastic recursive control problem when the control domain is convex. By employing the notions of sub-…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2016-03-09 Tianyang Nie , Jingtao Shi , Zhen Wu

This paper is concerned with necessary and sufficient conditions for near-optimal singular stochastic controls for systems driven by a nonlinear stochastic differential equations (SDEs in short). The proof of our result is based on…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2012-05-04 Mokhtar Hafayed , Syed Abbas , Petr Veverka

In this paper we focus on a general type of mean-field stochastic control problem with partial observation, in which the coefficients depend in a non-linear way not only on the state process $X_t$ and its control $u_t$ but also on the…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2021-11-23 Juan Li , Hao Liang , Chao Mi

In this work, we propose and study a new approach to formulate the optimal control problem of second-order differential equations, with a particular interest in those derived from force-controlled Lagrangian systems. The formulation results…

Problem of time-optimal control of linear systems with fractional dynamics is treated in the paper from the convex-analytic standpoint. A linear system of fractional differential equations involving Riemann--Liouville derivatives is…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2020-07-02 Ivan Matychyn

In this paper, we solve an open problem and obtain a general maximum principle for a stochastic optimal control problem where the control domain is an arbitrary non-empty set and all the coefficients (especially the diffusion term and the…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2023-02-08 Weijun Meng , Jingtao Shi , Tianxiao Wang , Ji-Feng Zhang

In this paper, we consider a partial observed two-person zero-sum stochastic differential game problem where the system is governed by a stochastic differential equation of mean-field type. Under standard assumptions on the coefficients,…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2016-11-15 Maoning Tang , Qingxin Meng

As a class of L\'evy type Markov generators, nonlocal Waldenfels operators appear naturally in the context of investigating stochastic dynamics under L\'evy fluctuations and constructing Markov processes with boundary conditions (in…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2019-10-22 Qiao Huang , Jinqiao Duan , Jiang-Lun Wu

We present for the first time a supermartingale certificate for $\omega$-regular specifications. We leverage the Robbins & Siegmund convergence theorem to characterize supermartingale certificates for the almost-sure acceptance of Streett…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2024-05-28 Alessandro Abate , Mirco Giacobbe , Diptarko Roy

The paper concerns the study of the Pontryagin Maximum Principle for an infinite dimensional and infinite horizon boundary control problem for linear partial differential equations. The optimal control model has already been studied both in…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2007-11-26 Silvia Faggian

In optimal control problems, there exist different kinds of extremals, that is, curves candidates to be solution: abnormal, normal and strictly abnormal. The key point for this classification is how those extremals depend on the cost…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2008-06-18 M. Barbero Linan , M. C. Munoz-Lecanda

We consider a class of stochastic control problems where the state process is a probability measure-valued process satisfying an additional martingale condition on its dynamics, called measure-valued martingales (MVMs). We establish the…

Probability · Mathematics 2023-08-29 Alexander M. G. Cox , Sigrid Källblad , Martin Larsson , Sara Svaluto-Ferro

We study a control problem where the state equation is a nonlinear partial differential equation of the calculus of variation in a bounded domain, perturbed by noise. We allow the control to act on the boundary and set stochastic boundary…

Probability · Mathematics 2025-11-26 Stefano Bonaccorsi , Adrian Zalinescu

Stochastic optimal control problems have a long tradition in applied probability, with the questions addressed being of high relevance in a multitude of fields. Even though theoretical solutions are well understood in many scenarios, their…

Statistics Theory · Mathematics 2024-05-28 Sören Christensen , Claudia Strauch , Lukas Trottner

This note outlines a mean-field approach to dynamic optimal transport problems based on the recently proposed McKean-Pontryagin maximum principle. Key aspects of the proposed methodology include i) avoidance of sampling over stochastic…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2026-04-01 Sebastian Reich

Our paper is devoted to the study of Peng's stochastic maximum principle (SMP) for a stochastic control problem composed of a controlled forward stochastic differential equation (SDE) as dynamics and a controlled backward SDE which defines…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2024-04-11 Rainer Buckdahn , Juan Li , Yanwei Li , Yi Wang

We consider a stochastic control problem where the set of strict (classical) controls is not necessarily convex, and the system is governed by a nonlinear backward stochastic differential equation. By introducing a new approach, we…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2008-12-20 Seid Bahlali