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We consider mean field social optimization in nonlinear diffusion models. By dynamic programming with a representative agent employing cooperative optimizer selection, we derive a new Hamilton--Jacobi--Bellman (HJB) equation to be called…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2026-05-19 Minyi Huang , Shuenn-Jyi Sheu , Li-Hsien Sun

Inverse problems in physical or biological sciences often involve recovering an unknown parameter that is random. The sought-after quantity is a probability distribution of the unknown parameter, that produces data that aligns with…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2024-10-02 Qin Li , Maria Oprea , Li Wang , Yunan Yang

We extend the work \cite{bensoussan2019control} by two of the coauthors, which dealt with a deterministic control problem for which the Hilbert space could be generic and investigated a novel form of the `lifting' technique proposed by P.…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2021-08-26 Alain Bensoussan , Henry Hang Cheung , Sheung Chi Phillip Yam

In this paper, we discuss the approximate controllability for control systems governed by stochastic evolution hemivariational inequalities in Hilbert spaces. The interest in studying this type of equation comes from its application in some…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2025-04-22 Bholanath Kumbhakar , Deeksha , Dwijendra Narain Pandey

We study optimal control problems governed by abstract infinite dimensional stochastic differential equations using the dynamic programming approach. In the first part, we prove Lipschitz continuity, semiconcavity and semiconvexity of the…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2025-02-27 Filippo de Feo , Andrzej Święch , Lukas Wessels

This paper studies mean-field control problems with state-control joint law dependence and Poissonian common noise. We develop the stochastic maximum principle (SMP) and establish its connection to the Hamiltonian-Jacobi-Bellman (HJB)…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2026-04-27 Lijun Bo , Jingfei Wang , Xiaoli Wei , Xiang Yu

Stochastic optimal control problems for Hamiltonian dynamics on graphs have wide-ranging applications in mechanics and quantum field theory, particularly in systems with graph-based structures. In this paper, we establish the existence and…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2025-10-01 Jianbo Cui , Tonghe Dang

In this paper we model the role of a government of a large population as a mean field optimal control problem. Such control problems are constrainted by a PDE of continuity-type, governing the dynamics of the probability distribution of the…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2016-08-08 Giacomo Albi , Young-Pil Choi , Massimo Fornasier , Dante Kalise

We study a stochastic control problem on a bounded domain, which arises from a continuous-time optimal management model. Via the corresponding Hamilton-Jacobi-Bellman equation the value function is shown to be jointly continuous and to…

Probability · Mathematics 2017-10-24 Ruoting Gong , Christian Houdré

In this note, we study a class of indefinite stochastic McKean-Vlasov linear-quadratic (LQ in short) control problem under the control taking nonnegative values. In contrast to the conventional issue, both the classical dynamic programming…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2023-10-05 Xun Li , Liangquan Zhang

In this article, we investigate some of the fine properties of the value function associated to an optimal control problem in the Wasserstein space of probability measures. Building on new interpolation and linearisation formulas for…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2021-11-29 Benoît Bonnet , Hélène Frankowska

This article is a continuation of a previous work where we studied infinite horizon control problems for which the dynamic, running cost and control space may be different in two half-spaces of some euclidian space $\R^N$. In this article…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2014-01-27 Guy Barles , Ariela Briani , Emmanuel Chasseigne

In this paper, we show that the value functions of mean field control problems with common noise are the unique viscosity solutions to fully second-order Hamilton-Jacobi-Bellman equations, in a Crandall-Lions-like framework. We allow the…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2025-01-06 Erhan Bayraktar , Hang Cheung , Ibrahim Ekren , Jinniao Qiu , Ho Man Tai , Xin Zhang

In this paper, we revisit the technique of doubling variables in first order Hamilton-Jacobi equations, especially when the equations arise in optimal control. We show that by tuning the penalization between the two points, we can change…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2025-12-04 Charles Bertucci , Giacomo Ceccherini Silberstein

We consider an optimal control problem where the average welfare of weakly interacting agents is of interest. We examine the mean-field control problem as the fluid approximation of the N-agent control problem with the setup of finite-state…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2024-02-13 Jingruo Sun

In this paper, we study the well-posedness (existence and uniqueness) of the Master Equation of Mean Field Games under invariance-type conditions, otherwise known as viability conditions for the controlled dynamics. The interior regularity…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2022-11-15 Antonios Zitridis

This paper aims to explore the relationship between maximum principle and dynamic programming principle for stochastic recursive control problem with random coefficients. Under certain regular conditions for the coefficients, the…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2020-12-10 Yuchao Dong , Qingxin Meng , Qi Zhang

We study the quadratic regulator problem on a finite time horizon for the wave equation with high internal damping controlled on the boundary by square integrable controls. The approach in this paper transforms the wave equation with high…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2025-05-20 L. Pandolfi

In this paper, we first establish the dynamic programming principle for stochastic optimal control problems defined on compact Riemannian manifolds without boundary. Subsequently, we derive the associated Hamilton-Jacobi-Bellman (HJB)…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2025-07-03 Dingqian Gao , Qi Lü

We study optimization problems whereby the optimization variable is a probability measure. Since the probability space is not a vector space, many classical and powerful methods for optimization (e.g., gradients) are of little help. Thus,…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2024-06-18 Nicolas Lanzetti , Antonio Terpin , Florian Dörfler