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The Hamilton Jacobi Bellman Equation (HJB) provides the globally optimal solution to large classes of control problems. Unfortunately, this generality comes at a price, the calculation of such solutions is typically intractible for systems…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2014-09-23 Matanya B. Horowitz , Anil Damle , Joel W. Burdick

We consider stochastic impulse control problems when the impulses cost functions are arbitrary. We use the dynamic programming principle and viscosity solutions approach to show that the value function is a unique viscosity solution for the…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2019-01-17 Brahim El Asri , Sehail Mazid

We consider a stochastic optimal control problem governed by a stochastic differential equation with delay in the control. Using a result of existence and uniqueness of a sufficiently regular mild solution of the associated…

Probability · Mathematics 2021-03-22 F. Gozzi , F. Masiero

Maximum entropy reinforcement learning (RL) methods have been successfully applied to a range of challenging sequential decision-making and control tasks. However, most of existing techniques are designed for discrete-time systems. As a…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2020-09-29 Jeongho Kim , Insoon Yang

In this note, we demonstrate that a locally semiconvex viscosity supersolution to a possibly degenerate fully nonlinear elliptic Hamilton-Jacobi-Bellman (HJB) equation is differentiable along the directions spanned by the range of the…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2025-01-28 Salvatore Federico , Giorgio Ferrari , Mauro Rosestolato

Within the framework of viscosity solution, we study the relationship between the maximum principle (MP) in [9] and the dynamic programming principle (DPP) in [10] for a fully coupled forward-backward stochastic controlled system (FBSCS)…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2018-05-17 Mingshang Hu , Shaolin Ji , Xiaole Xue

Optimal control and the associated second-order Hamilton-Jacobi-Bellman (HJB) equation are studied for unbounded stochastic evolution systems in Hilbert spaces. A new notion of viscosity solution, featured by absence of B-continuity, is…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2026-02-10 Shanjian Tang , Jianjun Zhou

We consider stochastic programs where the distribution of the uncertain parameters is only observable through a finite training dataset. Using the Wasserstein metric, we construct a ball in the space of (multivariate and non-discrete)…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2017-06-14 Peyman Mohajerin Esfahani , Daniel Kuhn

This paper analyses a stochastic differential game of control and stopping in which one of the players modifies a diffusion process using impulse controls, an adversary then chooses a stopping time to end the game. The paper firstly…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2019-10-04 David Mguni

We consider a discrete time stochastic Markovian control problem under model uncertainty. Such uncertainty not only comes from the fact that the true probability law of the underlying stochastic process is unknown, but the parametric family…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2022-03-23 Erhan Bayraktar , Tao Chen

In this paper we study stochastic optimal control problems of fully coupled forward-backward stochastic differential equations (FBSDEs). The recursive cost functionals are defined by controlled fully coupled FBSDEs. We study two cases of…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2013-02-06 Juan Li , Qingmeng Wei

We prove a stochastic representation formula for the viscosity solution of Dirichlet terminal-boundary value problem for a degenerate Hamilton-Jacobi-Bellman integro-partial differential equation in a bounded domain. We show that the unique…

Probability · Mathematics 2018-08-23 Ruoting Gong , Chenchen Mou , Andrzej Swiech

This article approaches deterministic filtering via an application of the min-plus linearity of the corresponding dynamic programming operator. This filter design method yields a set-valued state estimator for discrete-time nonlinear…

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In this work we study the stochastic recursive control problem, in which the aggregator (or called generator) of the backward stochastic differential equation describing the running cost is continuous but not necessarily Lipschitz with…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2015-09-15 Jiangyan Pu , Qi Zhang

We consider a class of exit time stochastic control problems for diffusion processes with discounted criterion, where the controller can utilize a given amount of resource, called "fuel". In contrast to the vast majority of existing…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2015-01-30 Dmitry B. Rokhlin , Georgii Mironenko

In this paper, we adapt stochastic Perron's method to analyze a stochastic target problem with unbounded controls in a jump diffusion set-up. With this method, we construct a viscosity sub-solution and super-solution to the associated…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2016-05-18 Erhan Bayraktar , Jiaqi Li

We consider a stochastic optimal control problem where the controller can anticipate the evolution of the driving noise over some dynamically changing time window. The controlled state dynamics are understood as a rough differential…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2025-10-07 Peter Bank , Franziska Bielert

We establish a comparison principle for viscosity solutions of a class of nonlinear partial differential equations posed on the space of nonnegative finite measures, thereby extending recent results for PDEs defined on the Wasserstein space…

Probability · Mathematics 2026-05-05 Ibrahim Ekren , Xihao He , Tianxu Lan , Xiaolu Tan

This paper presents a novel approach to addressing the distributionally robust nonlinear model predictive control (DRNMPC) problem. Current literature primarily focuses on the static Wasserstein distributionally robust optimal control…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2023-04-18 Zhengang Zhong , Jia-Jie Zhu