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This paper investigates a new class of homogeneous stochastic control problems with cone control constraints, extending the classical homogeneous stochastic linear-quadratic (LQ) framework to encompass nonlinear system dynamics and…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2025-07-30 Ying Hu , Xiaomin Shi , Zuo Quan Xu

Mixed optimal stopping and stochastic control problems define variational inequalities with non-linear Hamilton-Jacobi-Bellman (HJB) operators, whose numerical solution is notoriously difficult and lack of reliable benchmarks. We first use…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2025-05-27 Yun Zhao , Harry Zheng

We propose two numerical methods for the optimal control of McKean-Vlasov dynamics in finite time horizon. Both methods are based on the introduction of a suitable loss function defined over the parameters of a neural network. This allows…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2021-03-31 René Carmona , Mathieu Laurière

In this work, we extend deep learning-based numerical methods to fully coupled forward-backward stochastic differential equations (FBSDEs) within a non-Markovian framework. Error estimates and convergence are provided. In contrast to the…

Mathematical Finance · Quantitative Finance 2025-11-25 Hasib Uddin Molla , Matthew Backhouse , Ankit Banarjee , Jinniao Qiu

We analyze a stochastic optimal control problem, where the state process follows a McKean-Vlasov dynamics and the diffusion coefficient can be degenerate. We prove that its value function V admits a nonlinear Feynman-Kac representation in…

Probability · Mathematics 2016-11-15 Erhan Bayraktar , Andrea Cosso , Huyên Pham

This paper investigates first the existence and uniqueness of solutions for McKean-Vlasov forward-backward doubly stochastic differential equations (MV-FBDSDEs) in infinite-dimensional real separable Hilbert spaces. These equations combine…

Probability · Mathematics 2024-07-15 AbdulRahman Al-Hussein , Abdelhakim Ninouh , Boulakhras Gherbal

Devising optimal interventions for diffusive systems often requires the solution of the Hamilton-Jacobi-Bellman (HJB) equation, a nonlinear backward partial differential equation (PDE), that is, in general, nontrivial to solve. Existing…

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

In this paper we study the fully nonlinear stochastic Hamilton-Jacobi-Bellman (HJB) equation for the optimal stochastic control problem of stochastic differential equations with random coefficients. The notion of viscosity solution is…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2018-07-16 Jinniao Qiu

Variational methods have been used to study stochastic control for long, see Bensoussan (1982) and Bensoussan-Lions (1978) for the early works. More precisely, variational approaches apply to the study of Bellman equation as a parabolic…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2025-12-01 Alain Bensoussan , Ziyu Huang , Sheung Chi Phillip Yam

This paper provides a unifying theoretical framework for stochastic optimization algorithms by means of a latent stochastic variational problem. Using techniques from stochastic control, the solution to the variational problem is shown to…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2019-10-29 Philippe Casgrain

In this paper, we study non-homogeneous stochastic linear-quadratic (LQ) optimal control problems with multi-dimensional state and regime switching. We focus on the corresponding stochastic Riccati equation, which is the same as that one in…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2024-04-02 Yuyang Chen , Peng Luo

This paper is concerned with a general non-homogeneous stochastic linear quadratic (LQ) control problem with regime switching and random coefficients. We obtain the explicit optimal state feedback control and optimal value for this problem…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2023-07-17 Ying Hu , Xiaomin Shi , Zuo Quan Xu

Novel multi-step predictor-corrector numerical schemes have been derived for approximating decoupled forward-backward stochastic differential equations (FBSDEs). The stability and high order rate of convergence of the schemes are rigorously…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2021-02-12 Qiang Han , Shaolin Ji

An optimal control problem is considered for a stochastic differential equation containing a state-dependent regime switching, with a recursive cost functional. Due to the non-exponential discounting in the cost functional, the problem is…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2017-12-29 Hongwei Mei , Jiongmin Yong

This work proposes a novel numerical scheme for solving the high-dimensional Hamilton-Jacobi-Bellman equation with a functional hierarchical tensor ansatz. We consider the setting of stochastic control, whereby one applies control to a…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2025-07-01 Xun Tang , Nan Sheng , Lexing Ying

The classical Feynman-Kac formula states the connection between linear parabolic partial differential equations (PDEs), like the heat equation, and expectation of stochastic processes driven by Brownian motion. It gives then a method for…

Probability · Mathematics 2014-09-03 Huyen Pham

We study the problem of optimal portfolio selection under stochastic volatility within a continuous time reinforcement learning framework with portfolio constraints. Exploration is modeled through entropy-regularized relaxed controls, where…

Mathematical Finance · Quantitative Finance 2026-04-27 Thai Nguyen , Pertiny Nkuize

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

The goal of this thesis is to provide efficient and provably convergent numerical methods for solving partial differential equations (PDEs) coming from impulse control problems motivated by finance. Impulses, which are controlled jumps in a…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2018-02-05 Parsiad Azimzadeh

This paper presents a rigorous finite element framework for solving an optimal control problem governed by the steady Navier-Stokes-Brinkman equations, focusing on identifying a scalar permeability parameter $\gamma$ from local velocity…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2025-03-12 Jorge Aguayo Araneda , Julie Merten