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This paper deals with partially-observed optimal control problems for the state governed by stochastic differential equation with delay. We develop a stochastic maximum principle for this kind of optimal control problems using a variational…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2020-10-15 Shuaiqi Zhang , Xun Li , Jie Xiong

In this paper, we study the optimal control of a discrete-time stochastic differential equation (SDE) of mean-field type, where the coefficients can depend on both a function of the law and the state of the process. We establish a new…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2022-10-05 Arzu Ahmadova , Nazim I. Mahmudov

Time change is a powerful technique for generating noises and providing flexible models. In the framework of time changed Brownian and Poisson random measures we study the existence and uniqueness of a solution to a general mean-field…

Probability · Mathematics 2016-08-23 Giulia Di Nunno , Hannes Haferkorn

We investigate the convergence of symmetric stochastic differential games with interactions via control, where the volatility terms of both idiosyncratic and common noises are controlled. We apply the stochastic maximum principle, following…

Probability · Mathematics 2026-02-19 Erhan Bayraktar , Hiroaki Horikawa

In this paper, we establish a general stochastic maximum principle for optimal control for systems described by a continuous-time Markov regime-switching stochastic recursive utilities model. The control domain is postulated not to be…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2019-05-02 Liangquan Zhang , Xun Li

We consider a stochastic control problem, where the control domain is convex and the system is governed by a nonlinear backward stochastic differential equation. With a L1 terminal data, we derive necessary optimality conditions in the form…

Probability · Mathematics 2008-07-23 Seid Bahlali

In this paper, we study the optimal control system driven by stochastic differential equations (SDEs) of mean-field type, in which the control variable has two components, the first being absolutely continuous and the second singular. On…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2012-11-02 Liangquan Zhang

We propose a PDE-based accelerated gradient algorithm for optimal feedback controls of McKean-Vlasov dynamics that involve mean-field interactions both in the state and action. The method exploits a forward-backward splitting approach and…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2024-05-03 Christoph Reisinger , Wolfgang Stockinger , Yufei Zhang

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 problem for a class of stochastic Cauchy evolution problem with non standard boundary dynamic and control. The model is composed by an infinite dimensional dynamical system coupled with a…

Probability · Mathematics 2015-05-13 S. Bonaccorsi , F. Confortola , E. Mastrogiacomo

We study zero-sum stochastic differential games where the state dynamics of the two players is governed by a generalized McKean-Vlasov (or mean-field) stochastic differential equation in which the distribution of both state and controls of…

Probability · Mathematics 2018-03-21 Huyen Pham , Andrea Cosso

In this paper, we analyze mean-field game modulated by finite states markov chains. We first develop a sufficient stochastic maximum principle for the optimal control of a Markov-modulated stochastic differential equation (SDE) of…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2014-05-22 Yongming Tai

We consider a control problem constrained by the unsteady stochastic Stokes equations with nonhomogeneous boundary conditions in connected and bounded domains. In this paper, controls are defined inside the domain as well as on the…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2018-09-05 Peter Benner , Christoph Trautwein

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

In this paper, we investigate a mean-field singular stochastic optimal control problem for systems governed by mean-field regime-switching singular stochastic differential equations. The state process is assumed to depend on both a regular…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2025-12-01 Maalvladédon Ganet Somé , Edward Korveh

We establish existence of Markov chains of mean-field type with unbounded jump intensities by means of a fixed point argument using the Total Variation distance. We further show existence of nearly-optimal controls and, using a Markov chain…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2017-08-29 Salah Eddine Choutri , Boualem Djehiche , Hamidou Tembine

In this paper, we consider optimal control of stochastic differential equations subject to an expected path constraint. The stochastic maximum principle is given for a general optimal stochastic control in terms of constrained FBSDEs. In…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2022-08-16 Ying Hu , Shanjian Tang , Zuo Quan Xu

We investigate the complexities of the McKean-Vlasov optimal control problem, exploring its various formulations such as the strong and weak formulations, as well as both Markovian and non-Markovian setups within financial markets.…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2024-04-29 Timothy Bennett

The aim of this notes is to give a concise introduction to control theory for systems governed by stochastic partial differential equations. We shall mainly focus on controllability and optimal control problems for these systems. For the…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2021-01-27 Qi Lü , Xu Zhang

This paper is concerned with the maximum principle of stochastic optimal control problems, where the coefficients of the state equation and the cost functional are uncertain, and the system is generally under Markovian regime switching.…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2025-04-15 Tao Hao , Jiaqiang Wen , Jie Xiong