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An optimal control problem is studied for a linear mean-field stochastic differential equation with a quadratic cost functional. The coefficients and the weighting matrices in the cost functional are all assumed to be deterministic.…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2016-02-26 Xun Li , Jingrui Sun , Jiongmin Yong

In this paper, we study a stochastic optimal control problem under a type of consistent convex expectation dominated by G-expectation. By the separation theorem for convex sets, we get the representation theorems for this convex expectation…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2024-08-21 Xiaojuan Li , Mingshang Hu

The goal of this paper is to solve a class of stochastic optimal control problems numerically, in which the state process is governed by an It\^o type stochastic differential equation with control process entering both in the drift and the…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2020-06-05 Richard Archibald , Feng Bao , Jiongmin Yong , Tao Zhou

In this paper, we consider the stochastic optimal control problem for the interacting particle system. We obtain the stochastic maximum principle of the optimal control system by introducing a generalized backward stochastic differential…

Probability · Mathematics 2025-05-14 Andrey A. Dorogovtsev , Yuecai Han , Kateryna Hlyniana , Yuhang Li

We consider a stochastic control problem with the assumption that the system is controlled until the state process breaks the fixed barrier. Assuming some general conditions, it is proved that the resulting Hamilton Jacobi Bellman equations…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2025-03-24 Dariusz Zawisza

This paper investigates the stabilization and control problems for linear continuous-time mean-field systems (MFS). Under standard assumptions, necessary and sufficient conditions to stabilize the mean-field systems in the mean square sense…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2017-05-26 Qingyuan Qi , Huanshui Zhang

This paper outlines a novel extension of the classical Pontryagin minimum (maximum) principle to stochastic optimal control problems. Contrary to the well-known stochastic Pontryagin minimum principle involving forward-backward stochastic…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2026-05-11 Manfred Opper , Sebastian Reich

This work establishes two versions of the Pontryagin-type maximum principles for partially observed optimal control of coupled forward stochastic partial differential equations (FSPDEs) and backward stochastic differential equations (BSDEs)…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2026-03-03 Hongjiang Qian , George Yin , Yanzhao Cao , Guannan Zhang

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

This paper is concerned with a discrete-time mean-field stochastic linear-quadratic optimal control problem arose from financial application. Through matrix dynamical optimization method, a group of linear feedback controls is investigated.…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2017-06-15 Xun Li , Allen H. Tai , Fei Tian

We derive a Maximum Principle for optimal control problems with constraints given by the coupling of a system of ODEs and a PDE of Vlasov-type. Such problems arise naturally as ${\Gamma}$-limits of optimal control problems subject to ODE…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2015-04-10 Mattia Bongini , Massimo Fornasier , Francesco Rossi , Francesco Solombrino

In this article, we analyse the existence of an optimal feedback controller of stochastic optimal control problems governed by SDEs which have the control in the diffusion part. To this end, we consider the underlying Fokker-Planck equation…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2024-11-05 Luca Di Persio , Peter Kuchling

In this paper, we prove the necessary and sufficient maximum principles (NSMPs in short) for the optimal control of systems described by a quasilinear stochastic heat equation within convex control domains, which all the coefficients…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2012-11-01 Liangquan Zhang , Yufeng Shi

In this paper, we consider the stochastic optimal control problem for a generalized Volterra control system. The corresponding state process is a kind of a generalized stochastic Volterra integral differential equations. We prove the…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2023-12-22 Yuhang Li , Yuecai Han

We study a stochastic control problem for nonlinear systems governed by stochastic differential equations with irregular drift. The drift coefficient is assumed to decompose as $b(t,x,a)=b_1(t,x)+b_2(x)b_3(t,a)$, where $b_1$ is bounded and…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2026-04-02 Antoine Marie Bogso , Rhoss Likibi Pellat , Wilfried Kuissi Kamdem , Olivier Menoukeu Pamen

A dual control problem is presented for the optimal stochastic control of a system governed by partial differential equations. Relationships between the optimal values of the original and the dual problems are investigated and two duality…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2017-05-03 Shinji Tanimoto

We prove a stochastic maximum principle ofPontryagin's type for the optimal control of a stochastic partial differential equationdriven by white noise in the case when the set of control actions is convex. Particular attention is paid to…

Probability · Mathematics 2017-06-12 Marco Fuhrman , Ying Hu , Gianmario Tessitore

The objective of the present paper is to investigate the solution of fully coupled mean-field forward-backward stochastic differential equations (FBSDEs in short) and to study the stochastic control problems of mean-field type as well as…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2012-07-19 Ruimin Xu , Liangquan Zhang

We study a coupled system of controlled stochastic differential equations (SDEs) driven by a Brownian motion and a compensated Poisson random measure, consisting of a forward SDE in the unknown process $X(t)$ and a \emph{predictive…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2015-05-20 Bernt Øksendal , Agnès Sulem