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In this article, we present a general methodology for control problems driven by the Brownian motion filtration including non-Markovian and non-semimartingale state processes controlled by mutually singular measures. The main result of this…

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We introduce a novel approach based on stochastic optimization to find the optimal sampling distribution for the data-driven stability analysis of switched linear systems. Our goal is to address limitations of existing approaches, in…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2025-09-01 Alexis Vuille , Guillaume O. Berger , Raphaël M. Jungers

Recent advancements in diffusion models and diffusion bridges primarily focus on finite-dimensional spaces, yet many real-world problems necessitate operations in infinite-dimensional function spaces for more natural and interpretable…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-03-03 Byoungwoo Park , Jungwon Choi , Sungbin Lim , Juho Lee

Schr\"{o}dinger bridge is a stochastic optimal control problem to steer a given initial state density to another, subject to controlled diffusion and deadline constraints. A popular method to numerically solve the Schr\"{o}dinger bridge…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2023-09-14 Alexis M. H. Teter , Yongxin Chen , Abhishek Halder

In this paper, we consider stochastic optimal control of systems driven by stochastic differential equations with irregular drift coefficient. We establish a necessary and sufficient stochastic maximum principle. To achieve this, we first…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2021-01-18 Olivier Menoukeu-Pamen , Ludovic Tangpi

Most modern bridge-diffusion methods achieve finite-time transport by specifying an interpolation, Schr\"odinger-bridge, or stochastic-control objective and then learning the associated score or drift field with a neural network. In…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-05-06 Michael Chertkov

This work establishes a general stochastic maximum principle for partially observed optimal control of semi-linear stochastic partial differential equations in a nonconvex control domain. The state evolves in a Hilbert space driven by a…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2025-04-22 Yanzhao Cao , Hongjiang Qian , George Yin

We consider the problem to identify the most likely flow in phase space, of (inertial) particles under stochastic forcing, that is in agreement with spatial (marginal) distributions that are specified at a set of points in time. The…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2019-02-25 Yongxin Chen , Giovanni Conforti , Tryphon T. Georgiou , Luigia Ripani

In this paper, we investigate finite-horizon optimal density steering problems for discrete-time stochastic linear dynamical systems whose state probability densities can be represented as Gaussian Mixture Models (GMMs). Our goal is to…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2025-01-07 Isin M Balci , Efstathios Bakolas

Schr\"odinger bridges (SBs) provide an elegant framework for modeling the temporal evolution of populations in physical, chemical, or biological systems. Such natural processes are commonly subject to changes in population size over time…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-06-16 Matteo Pariset , Ya-Ping Hsieh , Charlotte Bunne , Andreas Krause , Valentin De Bortoli

Devising optimal interventions for constraining stochastic systems is a challenging endeavour that has to confront the interplay between randomness and nonlinearity. Existing methods for identifying the necessary dynamical adjustments…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2022-10-18 Dimitra Maoutsa , Manfred Opper

We consider the Schr\"odinger bridge problem which, given ensemble measurements of the initial and final configurations of a stochastic dynamical system and some prior knowledge on the dynamics, aims to reconstruct the "most likely"…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2026-02-04 Stephen Y. Zhang , Michael P H Stumpf

The Mean-Field Schrodinger Bridge (MFSB) problem is an optimization problem aiming to find the minimum effort control policy to drive a McKean-Vlassov stochastic differential equation from one probability measure to another. In the context…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-06-19 George Rapakoulias , Ali Reza Pedram , Panagiotis Tsiotras

In this work, we revisit the discrete-time Schr\"{o}dinger Bridge (SB) and Density Steering (DS) problems for Gaussian mixture model (GMM) boundary distributions. Building on the existing literature, we construct a set of feasible Markovian…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2026-04-02 George Rapakoulias , Fengjiao Liu , Panagiotis Tsiotras

In this paper, we study optimal stochastic control problems for stochastic systems driven by non-Markov sub-diffusion $B_{L_t}$, which have the mixed features of deterministic and stochastic controls. Here $B_t$ is the standard Brownian…

Probability · Mathematics 2023-11-28 Shuaiqi Zhang , Zhen-Qing Chen

In this paper we study the stochastic control problem of partially observed (multi-dimensional) stochastic system driven by both Brownian motions and fractional Brownian motions. In the absence of the powerful tool of Girsanov…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2023-08-22 Yueyang Zheng , Yaozhong Hu

We consider a class of stochastic optimal control problems for discrete-time stochastic linear systems which seek for control policies that will steer the probability distribution of the terminal state of the system close to a desired…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2020-10-01 Isin M. Balci , Efstathios Bakolas

In this work, we study the mean field Schr\"odinger problem from a purely probabilistic point of view by exploiting its connection to stochastic control theory for McKean-Vlasov diffusions. Our main result shows that the mean field…

Probability · Mathematics 2024-09-27 Camilo Hernández , Ludovic Tangpi

An optimal control for a dynamical system optimizes a certain objective function. Here we consider the construction of an optimal control for a stochastic dynamical system with a random structure, Poisson perturbations and random jumps,…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2023-01-24 Taras Lukashiv , Yuliia Litvinchuk , Igor Malyk , Anna Golebiewska , Petr V. Nazarov

We study a stochastic optimal control problem for jump-diffusion systems whose drift coefficient is piecewise Lipschitz continuous and exhibits threshold-induced discontinuities. Such dynamics naturally arise in applications with…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2026-05-08 Antoine-Marie Bogso , Edward Fuituh Kameh , Olivier Menoukeu-Pamen , Felix Shu