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This paper shows that penalized backward stochastic differential equation (BSDE), which is often used to approximate and solve the corresponding reflected BSDE, admits both optimal stopping representation and optimal control representation.…

Probability · Mathematics 2015-04-01 Gechun Liang

This paper proposes a thorough theoretical analysis of Stochastic Gradient Descent (SGD) with non-increasing step sizes. First, we show that the recursion defining SGD can be provably approximated by solutions of a time inhomogeneous…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2021-02-02 Xavier Fontaine , Valentin De Bortoli , Alain Durmus

We construct a family of SDEs whose solutions select a reflected Brownian flow as well as a stochastic damped transport process (W\_t). The latter gives a representation for the solutions to the heat equation for differential 1-forms with…

Probability · Mathematics 2017-02-01 Marc Arnaudon , Xue-Mei Li

Minimax optimization problems have attracted a lot of attention over the past few years, with applications ranging from economics to machine learning. While advanced optimization methods exist for such problems, characterizing their…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-02-21 Enea Monzio Compagnoni , Antonio Orvieto , Hans Kersting , Frank Norbert Proske , Aurelien Lucchi

The Skorokhod embedding problem aims to represent a given probability measure on the real line as the distribution of Brownian motion stopped at a chosen stopping time. In this paper, we consider an extension of the optimal Skorokhod…

Probability · Mathematics 2016-08-04 Gaoyue Guo , Xiaolu Tan , Nizar Touzi

Correlation and smoothness are terms used to describe a wide variety of random quantities. In time, space, and many other domains, they both imply the same idea: quantities that occur closer together are more similar than those further…

Methodology · Statistics 2020-06-11 David L Miller , Richard Glennie , Andrew E Seaton

In this paper, we study reflected backward stochastic difference equations (RBSDEs for short) with finitely many states in discrete time. The general existence and uniqueness result, as well as comparison theorems for the solutions, are…

Probability · Mathematics 2013-07-03 Lifen An , Samuel N. Cohen , Shaolin Ji

In this paper, we study the mean reflected backward stochastic differential equations with jump (BSDEJs). We extend the work of Briand and Hibon on the propagation of chaos for mean reflected BSDEs \cite{briand2021particles} to the jump…

Probability · Mathematics 2024-06-19 Yiqing Lin , Kun Xu

In this paper we study jump-diffusion stochastic differential equations (SDEs) with a discontinuous drift coefficient and a possibly degenerate diffusion coefficient. Such SDEs appear in applications such as optimal control problems in…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2021-01-15 Paweł Przybyłowicz , Michaela Szölgyenyi

The Skorokhod reflection of a continuous semimartingale is unfolded, in a possibly skewed manner, into another continuous semimartingale on an enlarged probability space according to the excursion-theoretic methodology of Prokaj (2009).…

Probability · Mathematics 2014-07-18 Tomoyuki Ichiba , Ioannis Karatzas

In this work, we introduce a new Skorokhod problem with two reflecting barriers when the trajectories of the driven process and the barriers are right and left limited. We show that this problem has an explicit unique solution in a…

Probability · Mathematics 2022-02-28 Astrid Hilbert , Imane Jarni , Youssef Ouknine

This paper is devoted to the study of reflected Stochastic Differential Equations when the constraint is not on the paths of the solution but acts on the law of the solution. These reflected equations have been introduced recently by…

Probability · Mathematics 2020-08-26 Philippe Briand , Paul-Éric Chaudru de Raynal , Arnaud Guillin , Céline Labart

Dynamical systems that are subject to continuous uncertain fluctuations can be modelled using Stochastic Differential Equations (SDEs). Controlling such system results in solving path constrained SDEs. Broadly, these problems fall under the…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2023-06-16 Sumit Suthar , Soumyendu Raha

We study penalization coupled with time discretization for decoupled Markovian doubly reflected BSDEs with obstacles \(p_b(t,X_t)\le Y_t\le p_w(t,X_t)\). The DRBSDE is approximated by a penalized BSDE with parameter \(\lambda\) and…

Probability · Mathematics 2026-04-13 Wonjae Lee , Hyungbin Park

We present a comprehensive discretization scheme for linear and nonlinear stochastic differential equations (SDEs) driven by either Brownian motions or $\alpha$-stable processes. Our approach utilizes compound Poisson particle…

Probability · Mathematics 2023-07-14 Xicheng Zhang

We introduce a new class of numerical methods for solving McKean-Vlasov stochastic differential equations, which are relevant in the context of distribution-dependent or mean-field models, under super-linear growth conditions for both the…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2025-02-10 Jiamin Jian , Qingshuo Song , Xiaojie Wang , Zhongqiang Zhang , Yuying Zhao

In this paper we study backward stochastic differential equations (BSDEs) driven by the compensated random measure associated to a given pure jump Markov process X on a general state space K. We apply these results to prove well-posedness…

Probability · Mathematics 2013-02-05 Fulvia Confortola , Marco Fuhrman

In the recent article [Jentzen, A., M\"uller-Gronbach, T., and Yaroslavtseva, L., Commun. Math. Sci., 14(6), 1477--1500, 2016] it has been established that for every arbitrarily slow convergence speed and every natural number $d \in…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2020-06-04 Máté Gerencsér , Arnulf Jentzen , Diyora Salimova

This paper studies the numerical methods to approximate the solutions for a sort of McKean-Vlasov neutral stochastic differential delay equations (MV-NSDDEs) that the growth of the drift coefficients is super-linear. First, We obtain that…

Probability · Mathematics 2022-11-04 Yuanping Cui , Xiaoyue Li , Yi Liu , Chenggui Yuan