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Optimal control of heterogeneous mean-field stochastic differential equations with common noise has not been addressed in the literature. In this work, we initiate the study of such models. We formulate the problem within a linear-quadratic…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2025-11-25 Filippo de Feo , Samy Mekkaoui

We consider a one dimensional elliptic distributed optimal control problem with pointwise constraints on the derivative of the state. By exploiting the variational inequality satisfied by the derivative of the optimal state, we obtain…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2021-06-18 Susanne C. Brenner , Li-yeng Sung , Winnifried Wollner

We consider the control problem of the stochastic Navier-Stokes equations in multidimensional domains introduced in \cite{ocpc} restricted to noise terms defined by Q-Wiener processes. Using a stochastic maximum principle, we derive a…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2018-10-30 Peter Benner , Christoph Trautwein

We consider a class of optimal control problems, with finite or infinite horizon, for a continuous-time Markov chain with finite state space. In this case, the control process affects the transition rates. We suppose that the controlled…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2026-02-19 Fulvia Confortola , Marco Fuhrman

We extend Peng's maximum principle to the case of stochastic delay differential equations of mean-field type. More precisely, the coefficients of our control problem depend on the state, on the past trajectory and on its expected value.…

Probability · Mathematics 2025-12-02 Giuseppina Guatteri , Federica Masiero , Lukas Wessels

Linear-quadratic optimal control problems are considered for mean-field stochastic differential equations with deterministic coefficients. Time-inconsistency feature of the problems is carefully investigated. Both open-loop and closed-loop…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2013-05-07 Jiongmin Yong

A general stochastic maximum principle is proved for optimal controls of semilinear stochastic evolution equations. Stochastic evolution operators, and the control with values in a general set enter into both drift and diffusion terms.

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2012-07-03 Kai Du , Qingxin Meng

This paper is concerned with a kind of linear-quadratic (LQ) optimal control problem of backward stochastic differential equation (BSDE) with partial information. The cost functional includes cross terms between the state and control, and…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2025-09-03 Jialong Li , Zhiyong Yu , Wanying Yue

We study a high-dimensional stochastic optimization problem which features both control and stopping. In particular, a central planner steers a large population of particles, and can also remove particles at any time by paying a penalty. In…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2026-03-24 Pierre Cardaliaguet , Joe Jackson , Panagiotis E. Souganidis

In this paper, we study the maximum principle of mean field type control problems when the volatility function depends on the state and its measure and also the control, by using our recently developed method. Our method is to embed the…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2023-09-14 Alain Bensoussan , Ziyu Huang , Sheung Chi Phillip Yam

Optimal control of stochastic nonlinear dynamical systems is a major challenge in the domain of robot learning. Given the intractability of the global control problem, state-of-the-art algorithms focus on approximate sequential optimization…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-04-23 Joe Watson , Hany Abdulsamad , Jan Peters

We consider a unifying framework for stochastic control problem including the following features: partial observation, path-dependence (both with respect to the state and the control), and without any non-degeneracy condition on the…

Probability · Mathematics 2016-09-14 Elena Bandini , Andrea Cosso , Marco Fuhrman , Huyên Pham

We analyze the problem of stochastic optimal control of SDEs where the driver includes a self-exciting stochastic process. Due to the non-Markovian nature of the problem, we apply the stochastic maximum principle approach. We derive a…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2026-05-13 Heidar Eyjolfsson , Kristina Rognlien Dahl

In this paper, we study an optimal control problem of a mean-field forward-backward stochastic system with random jumps in progressive structure, where both regular and singular controls are considered in our formula. In virtue of the…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2023-05-30 Tian Chen , Kai Du , Zongyuan Huang , Zhen Wu

We are interested in the optimal control problem associated with certain quadratic cost functionals depending on the solution $X=X^\alpha$ of the stochastic mean-field type evolution equation in $\mathbb R^d$ $dX_t=b(t,X_t,\mathcal…

Probability · Mathematics 2020-07-06 Antoine Hocquet , Alexander Vogler

We consider the control of McKean-Vlasov dynamics whose coefficients have mean field interactions in the state and control. We show that for a class of linear-convex mean field control problems, the unique optimal open-loop control admits…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2021-09-27 Christoph Reisinger , Wolfgang Stockinger , Yufei Zhang

We consider a control problem for the nonlinear stochastic Fokker--Planck equation. This equation describes the evolution of the distribution of nonlocally interacting particles affected by a common source of noise. The system is directed…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2025-10-17 Ben Hambly , Philipp Jettkant

We consider a stochastic control problem where the set of strict (classical) controls is not necessarily convex and the the variable control has two components, the first being absolutely continuous and the second singular. The system is…

Probability · Mathematics 2008-12-20 Seid Bahlali

This paper investigates the $H_{2}/H_{\infty}$ control problem for linear stochastic differential systems under partial observation. Unlike existing studies that assume full state accessibility, we consider the scenario where the controller…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2026-04-24 Changwang Xiao , Nan Yang , Qingxin Meng

We introduce the concept of {\it mean-field optimal control} which is the rigorous limit process connecting finite dimensional optimal control problems with ODE constraints modeling multi-agent interactions to an infinite dimensional…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2019-02-20 Massimo Fornasier , Francesco Solombrino