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This paper is concerned with a discounted stochastic optimal control problem for regime switching diffusion in an infinite horizon. First, as a preliminary with particular interests in its own right, the global well-posedness of infinite…

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In this article we study an optimal stopping/optimal control problem which models the decision facing a risk-averse agent over when to sell an asset. The market is incomplete so that the asset exposure cannot be hedged. In addition to the…

Portfolio Management · Quantitative Finance 2008-12-10 Vicky Henderson , David Hobson

We consider risk-averse contextual optimization problems where the decision maker (DM) faces two types of uncertainties: problem data uncertainty (PDU) and contextual uncertainty (CU) associated with PDU, the DM makes an optimal decision by…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2026-05-12 Yuan Tao , Erick Delage , Huifu Xu

We study a class of singular stochastic control problems for a one-dimensional diffusion $X$ in which the performance criterion to be optimised depends explicitly on the running infimum $I$ (or supremum $S$) of the controlled process. We…

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The Inverse Optimal Control (IOC) problem is a structured system identification problem that aims to identify the underlying objective function based on observed optimal trajectories. This provides a data-driven way to model experts'…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2024-02-28 Han Zhang , Axel Ringh

The paper addresses an optimal control problem for a perturbed sweeping process of the rate-independent hysteresis type described by a controlled "play and stop" operator with separately controlled perturbations. This problem can be reduced…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2015-12-01 Tan H. Cao , Boris S. Mordukhovich

This paper presents a model-free reinforcement learning (RL) algorithm to solve the risk-averse optimal control (RAOC) problem for discrete-time nonlinear systems. While successful RL algorithms have been presented to learn optimal control…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-03-29 Yuzhen Han , Majid Mazouchi , Subramanya Nageshrao , Hamidreza Modares

In this paper, we aim to explore optimal regional trajectory tracking control problems of the anomalous subdiffusion processes governed by time-fractional diffusion systems under the Neumann boundary conditions. Using eigenvalue theory of…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2021-04-27 Fudong Ge , YangQuan Chen

This paper investigates the optimal control problem for a class of parabolic equations where the diffusion coefficient is influenced by a control function acting nonlocally. Specifically, we consider the optimization of a cost functional…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2025-03-11 Stefana-Lucia Anita , Luca Di Persio

Diffusion models (DMs) are a class of generative models that allow sampling from a distribution learned over a training set. When applied to solving inverse problems, the reverse sampling steps are modified to approximately sample from a…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-05-27 Ismail Alkhouri , Shijun Liang , Cheng-Han Huang , Jimmy Dai , Qing Qu , Saiprasad Ravishankar , Rongrong Wang

Long-horizon planning is crucial in complex environments, but diffusion-based planners like Diffuser are limited by the trajectory lengths observed during training. This creates a dilemma: long trajectories are needed for effective…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-11-18 Chang Chen , Hany Hamed , Doojin Baek , Taegu Kang , Samyeul Noh , Yoshua Bengio , Sungjin Ahn

Reinforcement Learning (RL)-based motion planning has recently shown the potential to outperform traditional approaches from autonomous navigation to robot manipulation. In this work, we focus on a motion planning task for an evasive target…

Robotics · Computer Science 2025-05-12 Zixuan Wu , Sean Ye , Manisha Natarajan , Matthew C. Gombolay

We present a heuristic policy and performance bound for risk-sensitive convex stochastic control that generalizes linear-exponential-quadratic regulator (LEQR) theory. Our heuristic policy extends standard, risk-neutral model predictive…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2022-05-30 Nicholas Moehle

This paper studies the consensus problem of heterogeneous multi-agent systems by the feedforward control and linear quadratic (LQ) optimal control theory. Different from the existing consensus control algorithms, which require to design an…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2024-03-19 Liping Zhang , Huanshui Zhang

We formulate the immersed-boundary method (IBM) as an inverse problem. A control variable is introduced on the boundary of a larger domain that encompasses the target domain. The optimal control is the one that minimizes the mismatch…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2019-09-04 Jianfeng Yan , Jason Edward Hicken

We consider a controlled reaction-diffusion equation, motivated by a pest eradication problem. Our goal is to derive a simpler model, describing the controlled evolution of a contaminated set. In this direction, the first part of the paper…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2021-08-24 Alberto Bressan , Maria Teresa Chiri , Najmeh Salehi

Diffusion models have attained prominence for their ability to synthesize a probability distribution for a given dataset via a diffusion process, enabling the generation of new data points with high fidelity. However, diffusion processes…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-11-25 Shervin Khalafi , Dongsheng Ding , Alejandro Ribeiro

We consider a class of stochastic control problems which has been widely used in optimal foraging theory. The state processes have two distinct dynamics, characterized by two pairs of drift and diffusion coefficients, depending on whether…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2024-04-12 Zengjing Chen , Panyu Wu , Xiaowen Zhou

We consider a stochastic control problem where the set of strict (classical) controls is not necessarily convex, and the system is governed by a nonlinear backward stochastic differential equation. By introducing a new approach, we…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2008-12-20 Seid Bahlali

Planning and control for autonomous vehicles usually are hierarchical separated. However, increasing performance demands and operating in highly dynamic environments requires an frequent re-evaluation of the planning and tight integration…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-03-29 Markus Koegel , Mohamed Ibrahim , Christian Kallies , Rolf Findeisen