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In this paper, we derive first-order Pontryagin optimality conditions for risk-averse stochastic optimal control problems subject to final time inequality constraints, and whose costs are general, possibly non-smooth finite coherent risk…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2023-05-30 Riccardo Bonalli , Benoît Bonnet

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

This paper investigates an optimal control problem where the system is described by a stochastic differential equation with extended mixed delays that contain point delay, extended distributed delay, and extended noisy memory. The model is…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2026-01-19 Xinpo Li , Jingtao Shi

This paper investigates optimal control problems for delayed systems governed by Infinitely Anticipated Backward Stochastic Differential Equations (IABSDEs). Unlike existing frameworks limited to bounded delays, we introduce a generalized…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2025-12-22 Guanwei Cheng

An innovative extension of Geometric Brownian Motion model is developed by incorporating a weighting factor and a stochastic function modelled as a mixture of power and trigonometric functions. Simulations based on this Modified Brownian…

Pricing of Securities · Quantitative Finance 2015-07-09 Gurjeet Dhesi , Muhammad Bilal Shakeel , Ling Xiao

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

In this paper, a stochastic control problem under model uncertainty with general penalty term is studied. Two types of penalties are considered. The first one is of type f-divergence penalty treated in the general framework of a continuous…

Probability · Mathematics 2016-10-11 Wahid Faidi , Anis Matoussi , Mohamed Mnif

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 present a novel stochastic approach to binary optimization for optimal experimental design (OED) for Bayesian inverse problems governed by mathematical models such as partial differential equations. The OED utility function, namely, the…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2022-06-28 Ahmed Attia , Sven Leyffer , Todd Munson

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, an open problem is solved, for the stochastic optimal control problem with delay where the control domain is nonconvex and the diffusion term contains both control and its delayed term. Inspired by previous results by \O…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2020-07-14 Weijun Meng , Jingtao Shi

In this paper, we address the stochastic representation problem in discrete time under (non-linear) g-expectation. We establish existence and uniqueness of the solution, as well as a characterization of the solution. As an application, we…

Probability · Mathematics 2022-01-21 Miryana Grigorova , Hanwu Li

A new method for stochastic control based on neural networks and using randomisation of discrete random variables is proposed and applied to optimal stopping time problems. The method models directly the policy and does not need the…

Computational Finance · Quantitative Finance 2021-01-11 Thomas Deschatre , Joseph Mikael

We study the existence of a unique solution to semilinear fractional backward doubly stochastic differential equation driven by a Brownian motion and a fractional Brownian motion with Hurst parameter less than 1/2. Here the stochastic…

Probability · Mathematics 2010-05-13 Shuai Jing , Jorge León

In this paper, we consider backward stochastic differential equations driven by $G$-Brownian motion (GBSDEs) under quadratic assumptions on coefficients. We prove the existence and uniqueness of solution for such equations. On the one hand,…

Probability · Mathematics 2016-03-18 Ying Hu , Yiqing Lin , Abdoulaye Soumana Hima

Most existing neural network-based approaches for solving stochastic optimal control problems using the associated backward dynamic programming principle rely on the ability to simulate the underlying state variables. However, in some…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2024-01-30 Christian Yeo

We consider a continuous time stochastic optimal control problem under both equality and inequality constraints on the expectation of some functionals of the controlled process. Under a qualification condition, we show that the problem is…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2021-07-09 Laurent Pfeiffer , Xiaolu Tan , Yulong Zhou

We study a stochastic optimal control problem for fully coupled forward-backward stochastic control systems with a nonempty control domain. For our problem, the first-order and second-order variational equations are fully coupled linear…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2018-12-05 Mingshang Hu , Shaolin Ji , Xiaole Xue

The paper is devoted to the optimal control of a system with two time-scales, in a regime when the limit equation is not of averaging type but, in the spirit of Wong-Zakai principle, it is a stochastic differential equation for the slow…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2024-11-26 Franco Flandoli , Giuseppina Guatteri , Umberto Pappalettera , Gianmario Tessitore

The main purpose of this paper is to establish the first and second order necessary optimality conditions for stochastic optimal controls using the classical variational analysis approach. The control system is governed by a stochastic…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2016-11-09 Hélène Frankowska , Haisen Zhang , Xu Zhang