English
Related papers

Related papers: Risk-Sensitive Mean-Field Type Control under Parti…

200 papers

We prove a version of the stochastic maximum principle, in the sense of Pontryagin, for the finite horizon optimal control of a stochastic partial differential equation driven by an infinite dimensional additive noise. In particular we…

Probability · Mathematics 2017-03-14 Marco Fuhrman , Carlo Orrieri

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

Many practical applications of control require that constraints on the inputs and states of the system be respected, while optimizing some performance criterion. In the presence of model uncertainties or disturbances, for many control…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2025-10-02 Georg Schildbach , Lorenzo Fagiano , Christoph Frei , Manfred Morari

In this paper, we study the numerical method for stochastic optimal control problems (SOCPs). By reducing the optimal control problem to the discrete case, we derive a discrete stochastic maximum principle (SMP). With the help of this SMP,…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2020-07-14 Mingshang Hu , Lianzi Jiang

We prove a sufficient stochastic maximum principle for the optimal control of a regime-switching diffusion model. We show the connection to dynamic programming and we apply the result to a quadratic loss minimization problem, which can be…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2014-01-31 Catherine Donnelly

We study the problem of optimal control for mean-field stochastic partial differential equations (stochastic evolution equations) driven by a Brownian motion and an independent Poisson random measure, in the case of \textit{partial…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2017-04-12 Roxana Dumitrescu , Bernt Øksendal , Agnès Sulem

We develop a limit theory for controlled mean field stochastic partial differential equations in a variational framework. More precisely, we prove existence results for mean field limits and particle approximations, and we establish a…

Probability · Mathematics 2026-05-20 David Criens

In this paper, we prove the necessary and sufficient maximum principles (NSMPs in short) for the optimal control of systems described by a quasilinear stochastic heat equation within convex control domains, which all the coefficients…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2012-11-01 Liangquan Zhang , Yufeng Shi

We consider optimal control problems for systems governed by mean-field stochastic differential equations, where the control enters both the drift and the diffusion coefficient. We study the relaxed model, in which admissible controls are…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2017-02-02 Khaled Bahlali , Meriem Mezerdi , Brahim Mezerdi

This paper presents a mean-field control approach for Piecewise Deterministic Markov Processes (PDMPs), specifically designed for controlling a large number of agents. By modeling the interactions of a large number of agents through an…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2025-11-04 Thomas Le Corre , Adrien Séguret , Ana Bušić

In this paper, we obtain the maximum principle for optimal controls of stochastic systems with jumps by introducing a new method of variation. The control is allowed to enter both diffusion and jump term and the control domain need not to…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2019-10-10 Yuanzhuo Song , Shanjian Tang , Zhen Wu

In this article, we apply a probabilistic approach to study general mean field type control (MFTC) problems with jump-diffusions, and give the first global-in-time solution. We allow the drift coefficient $b$ and the diffusion coefficient…

Probability · Mathematics 2025-10-01 Alain Bensoussan , Ziyu Huang , Shanjian Tang , Sheung Chi Phillip Yam

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

We study a class of mean-field stochastic differential equations driven by a fractional Brownian motion with Hurst parameter $H\in(1/2,1)$ and a related stochastic control problem. We derive a Pontryagin type maximum principle and the…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2017-07-10 Rainer Buckdahn , Shuai Jing

A general stochastic maximum principle is proved for optimal controls of semilinear stochastic evolution equations. Stochastic evolution operators, and the control with values in a general set enter into both drift and diffusion terms.

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2012-07-03 Kai Du , Qingxin Meng

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

The maximum principle for optimal control problems of fully coupled forward-backward doubly stochastic differential equations (FBDSDEs in short) in the global form is obtained, under the assumptions that the diffusion coefficients do not…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2012-05-28 Liangquan Zhang , Yufeng Shi

The finite horizon $H_2/H_\infty$ control problem of mean-field type for discrete-time systems is considered in this paper. Firstly, we derive a mean-field stochastic bounded real lemma (SBRL). Secondly, a sufficient condition for the…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2016-07-05 Zhang Weihai , Ma Limin

Many applications involving multi-agent systems require fulfilling safety constraints. Control barrier functions offer a systematic framework to enforce forward invariance of safety sets. Recent work extended this paradigm to mean-field…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2026-03-20 Cinzia Tomaselli , Gian Carlo Maffettone , Samy Wu Fung , Levon Nurbekyan , Mario di Bernardo

We develop a general theoretical framework for optimal probability density control on standard measure spaces, aimed at addressing large-scale multi-agent control problems. In particular, we establish a maximum principle (MP) for control…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2026-03-10 Nathan Gaby , Xiaojing Ye