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We study semi Lagrangian approximation schemes for Hamilton Jacobi Bellman equations arising from finite horizon optimal control problems. Classical error estimates for these schemes include the term $\frac{1}{\Delta t}$ which leads to…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2026-02-18 Alessandro Alla , Filippo Mayer

In this article we study the well-posedness of the Master Equation of Mean Field Games in a framework of Neumann boundary condition. The definition of solution is closely related to the classical one of the Mean Field Games system, but the…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2021-05-19 Michele Ricciardi

Variational problems that involve Wasserstein distances have been recently proposed to summarize and learn from probability measures. Despite being conceptually simple, such problems are computationally challenging because they involve…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2015-08-26 Marco Cuturi , Gabriel Peyré

The purpose of this paper is to describe the numerical solution of the Hamilton-Jacobi-Bellman (HJB) for an optimal control problem for quantum spin systems. This HJB equation is a first order nonlinear partial differential equation defined…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2011-10-05 Srinivas Sridharan , Matthew R. James

We study wave maps from the circle to a general compact Riemannian manifold. We prove that the global controllability of this geometric equation is characterized precisely by the homotopy class of the data. As a remarkable intermediate…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2025-09-17 Jean-Michel Coron , Joachim Krieger , Shengquan Xiang

This paper deals with a class of neural SDEs and studies the limiting behavior of the associated sampled optimal control problems as the sample size grows to infinity. The neural SDEs with $N$ samples can be linked to the $N$-particle…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2025-06-19 Huafu Liao , Alpár R. Mészáros , Chenchen Mou , Chao Zhou

We give the first rigorous proof of the convergence of Riemannian Hamiltonian Monte Carlo, a general (and practical) method for sampling Gibbs distributions. Our analysis shows that the rate of convergence is bounded in terms of natural…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2017-10-18 Yin Tat Lee , Santosh S. Vempala

The consensus problem -- achieving agreement among a network of agents -- is a central theme in both theory and applications. Recently, this problem has been extended from Euclidean spaces to the space of probability measures, where the…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2025-10-01 Pilgyu Jung , Yoon Mo Jung

We prove the global-in-time well-posedness for a broad class of mean field game problems, which is beyond the special linear-quadratic setting, as long as the mean field sensitivity is not too large. Through the stochastic maximum…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2025-01-23 Alain Bensoussan , Ho Man Tai , Tak Kwong Wong , Sheung Chi Phillip Yam

Stochastic Spatio-Temporal processes are prevalent across domains ranging from modeling of plasma to the turbulence in fluids to the wave function of quantum systems. This letter studies a measure-theoretic description of such systems by…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2021-05-25 George I. Boutselis , Ethan N. Evans , Marcus A. Pereira , Evangelos A. Theodorou

The present analysis deals with the regularity of solutions of bilinear control systems of the type $x'=(A+u(t)B)x$where the state $x$ belongs to some complex infinite dimensional Hilbert space, the (possibly unbounded) linear operators $A$…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2019-10-01 Thomas Chambrion , Nabile Boussaid , Marco Caponigro

In this article, a notion of viscosity solutions is introduced for first order path-dependent Hamilton-Jacobi-Bellman (PHJB) equations associated with optimal control problems for path-dependent evolution equations in Hilbert space. We…

Probability · Mathematics 2020-07-09 Jianjun Zhou

In this paper, a risk-aware motion control scheme is considered for mobile robots to avoid randomly moving obstacles when the true probability distribution of uncertainty is unknown. We propose a novel model predictive control (MPC) method…

Robotics · Computer Science 2020-01-15 Astghik Hakobyan , Insoon Yang

For a large class of random matrices $A$ and vectors $b$, we show that linear systems formed from the pair $(A,b)$ are controllable with high probability. Despite the fact that minimal controllability problems are, in general, NP-hard, we…

Probability · Mathematics 2015-06-11 Sean O'Rourke , Behrouz Touri

In this paper, we focus on the analysis of the regularized Wasserstein barycenter problem. We provide uniqueness and a characterization of the barycenter for two important classes of probability measures: (i) Gaussian distributions and (ii)…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2022-08-09 S. Kum , M. H. Duong , Y. Lim , S. Yun

This paper presents recent results from Mean Field Game theory underlying the introduction of common noise that imposes to incorporate the distribution of the agents as a state variable. Starting from the usual mean field games equations…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2011-10-19 Olivier Guéant

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

This paper is devoted to the stochastic optimal control problem of ordinary differential equations allowing for both path-dependence and measurable randomness. As opposed to the deterministic path-dependent cases, the value function turns…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2021-10-25 Jinniao Qiu

We study existence of probability measure valued jump-diffusions described by martingale problems. We develop a simple device that allows us to embed Wasserstein spaces and other similar spaces of probability measures into locally compact…

Probability · Mathematics 2020-12-03 Martin Larsson , Sara Svaluto-Ferro

We study a family of optimal control problems in which one aims at minimizing a cost that mixes a quadratic control penalization and the variance of the system, both for finitely many agents and for the mean-field dynamics as their number…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2021-07-30 Benoît Bonnet , Francesco Rossi