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One of the core problems in mean-field control and mean-field games is to solve the corresponding McKean-Vlasov forward-backward stochastic differential equations (MV-FBSDEs). Most existing methods are tailored to special cases in which the…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2023-09-20 Jiequn Han , Ruimeng Hu , Jihao Long

This paper is devoted to an optimal control problem of fully coupled forward-backward stochastic differential equations driven by sub-diffusion, whose solutions are not Markov processes. The stochastic maximum principle is obtained, where…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2025-03-11 Chenhui Hao , Jingtao Shi , Shuaiqi Zhang

This paper investigates the stabilization and control problems for linear continuous-time mean-field systems (MFS). Under standard assumptions, necessary and sufficient conditions to stabilize the mean-field systems in the mean square sense…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2017-05-26 Qingyuan Qi , Huanshui Zhang

Motivated by recent interest in graphon mean field games and their applications, this paper provides a comprehensive probabilistic analysis of graphon mean field control (GMFC) problems, where the controlled dynamics are governed by a…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2025-12-19 Zhongyuan Cao , Mathieu Laurière

This paper is concerned with a Stackelberg stochastic differential game, where the systems are driven by stochastic differential equation (SDE for short), in which the control enters the randomly disturbed coefficients (drift and…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2021-08-12 Liangquan Zhang , Wei Zhang

We establish existence of nearly-optimal controls, conditions for existence of an optimal control and a saddle-point for respectively a control problem and zero-sum differential game associated with payoff functionals of mean-field type,…

Probability · Mathematics 2017-07-25 Boualem Djehiche , Said Hamadène

We study the Pontryagin maximum principle by deriving necessary and sufficient conditions for a class of optimal control problems arising in non exchangeable mean field systems, where agents interact through heterogeneous and asymmetric…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2025-06-09 Idris Kharroubi , Samy Mekkaoui , Huyên Pham

Stochastic maximum principle (SMP) specifies a necessary condition for the solution of a stochastic optimal control problem. The condition involves a coupled system of forward and backward stochastic differential equations (FBSDE) for the…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-03-05 Amirhossein Taghvaei

Mean-field backward doubly stochastic differential equations (MF-BDSDEs, for short) are introduced and studied. The existence and uniqueness of solutions for MF-BDSDEs is established. One probabilistic interpretation for the solutions to a…

Probability · Mathematics 2011-08-30 Tianxiao Wang , Qingfeng Zhu , Yufeng Shi

The purpose of this paper is to explore the necessary conditions for optimality of mean-field forward-backward delay control systems. A new estimate is proved, which is a powerfultool to deal with the optimal control problems of mean-field…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2018-11-06 Tao Hao , Qingxin Meng

We study a general class of fully coupled backward-forward stochastic differential equations of mean-field type (MF-BFSDE). We derive existence and uniqueness results for such a system under weak monotonicity assumptions and without the…

Probability · Mathematics 2020-03-03 Yinggu Chen , Boualem Djehiche , Said Hamadene

We propose two numerical methods for the optimal control of McKean-Vlasov dynamics in finite time horizon. Both methods are based on the introduction of a suitable loss function defined over the parameters of a neural network. This allows…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2021-03-31 René Carmona , Mathieu Laurière

This paper studies mean-field control with joint law dependence under dynamic expectation constraints and/or dynamic state-control-law constraints. We pioneer the establishment of the stochastic maximum principle (SMP) and the derivation of…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2026-04-24 Lijun Bo , Jingfei Wang , Xiang Yu

In this paper, we solve an optimal control problem governed by a system of mean-field stochastic differential equations with multiple defaults (MMFSDEs). We transform the global optimal control problem into several optimal control…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2024-04-09 Zhun Gou , Nan-jing Huang , Ming-hui Wang , Jian-hao Kang

In this paper we present a novel sampling-based numerical scheme designed to solve a certain class of stochastic optimal control problems, utilizing forward and backward stochastic differential equations (FBSDEs). By means of a nonlinear…

Systems and Control · Computer Science 2020-06-18 Ioannis Exarchos , Evangelos A. Theodorou

In this paper, we investigate the optimal control problems for stochastic differential equations (SDEs in short) of mean-field type with jump processes. The control variable is allowed to enter into both diffusion and jump terms. This…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2013-02-27 Mokhtar Hafayed , Syed Abbas

Stochastic maximum principle of nonlinear controlled forward-backward systems, where the set of strict (classical) controls need not be convex and the diffusion coefficient depends explicitly on the variable control, is an open problem…

Probability · Mathematics 2008-12-20 Seid Bahlali

In this paper, we consider a class of stochastic control problems for stochastic differential equations with random coefficients. The control domain need not to be convex but the control process is not allowed to enter in diffusion term.…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2020-08-06 Ishak Alia , Mohamed Sofiane Alia

This paper is concerned with a general maximum principle for the fully coupled forward-backward stochastic optimal control problem with jumps, where the control domain is not necessarily convex, within the progressively measurable…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2025-03-27 Bin Wang , Yu Si , Jingtao Shi

In this paper, we study an optimal control problem of a mean-field forward-backward stochastic system with random jumps in progressive structure, where both regular and singular controls are considered in our formula. In virtue of the…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2023-05-30 Tian Chen , Kai Du , Zongyuan Huang , Zhen Wu