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In this paper, we focus on a class of time-inconsistent stochastic control problems, where the objective function includes the mean and several higher-order central moments of the terminal value of state. To tackle the time-inconsistency,…

Mathematical Finance · Quantitative Finance 2025-05-08 Yike Wang , Jingzhen Liu , Alain Bensoussan , Ka-Fai Cedric Yiu , Jiaqin Wei

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

We consider a general class of nonzero-sum $N$-player stochastic games with impulse controls, where players control the underlying dynamics with discrete interventions. We adopt a verification approach and provide sufficient conditions for…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2020-10-06 Matteo Basei , Haoyang Cao , Xin Guo

This paper study a type of fully coupled mean-field forward-backward stochastic differential equations with jumps under the monotonicity condition, including the existence and the uniqueness of the solution of our equation as well as the…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2018-12-27 Wenqiang Li , Hui Min

Stochastic optimal control and games have a wide range of applications, from finance and economics to social sciences, robotics, and energy management. Many real-world applications involve complex models that have driven the development of…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2024-03-12 Ruimeng Hu , Mathieu Laurière

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

We consider a data-driven formulation of the classical discrete-time stochastic control problem. Our approach exploits the natural structure of many such problems, in which significant portions of the system are uncontrolled. Employing the…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2025-08-25 Boris Baros , Samuel N. Cohen , Christoph Reisinger

A robust control problem is considered in this paper, where the controlled stochastic differential equations (SDEs) include ambiguity parameters and their coefficients satisfy non-Lipschitz continuous and non-linear growth conditions, the…

Mathematical Finance · Quantitative Finance 2022-08-24 Zhou Yang , Jing Zhang , Chao Zhou

This paper is devoted to a global stochastic maximum principle for conditional mean-field forward-backward stochastic differential equations (FBSDEs, for short) with regime switching. The control domain is unnecessarily convex and the…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2022-12-06 Tao Hao , Jiaqiang Wen , Jie Xiong

We study the impact of transition scenario uncertainty, namely that of future carbon price and electricity demand, on the pace of decarbonization of the electricity industry. To this end, we develop a theory of optimal stopping mean-field…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2023-12-29 Roxana Dumitrescu , Marcos Leutscher , Peter Tankov

In this paper we study continuous-time stochastic control problems with both monotone and classical controls motivated by the so-called public good contribution problem. That is the problem of n economic agents aiming to maximize their…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2018-05-23 Giorgio Ferrari , Frank Riedel , Jan-Henrik Steg

This paper examines mean field linear-quadratic-Gaussian (LQG) social optimum control with volatility-uncertain common noise. The diffusion terms in the dynamics of agents contain an unknown volatility process driven by a common noise. We…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2019-12-16 Jianhui Huang , Bing-Chang Wang , Jiongmin Yong

We consider the stochastic optimal control problem of nonlinear mean-field systems in discrete time. We reformulate the problem into a deterministic control problem with marginal distribution as controlled state variable, and prove that…

Probability · Mathematics 2015-12-01 Huyên Pham , Xiaoli Wei

In this paper, we investigate the interaction of two populations with a large number of indistinguishable agents. The problem consists in two levels: the interaction between agents of a same population, and the interaction between the two…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2018-10-30 Alain Bensoussan , Tao Huang , Mathieu Laurière

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

In this paper, we consider a general time-inconsistent optimal control problem for a non homogeneous linear system, in which its state evolves according to a stochastic differential equation with deterministic coefficients, when the noise…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2015-05-19 Ishak Alia , Farid Chighoub , Ayesha Sohail

In an incomplete market driven by time-changed L\'evy noises we consider the problem of hedging a financial position coupled with the underlying risk of model uncertainty. Then we study hedging under worst-case-scenario. The proposed…

Probability · Mathematics 2015-05-15 Giulia Di Nunno , Erik Hove Karlsen

In this paper we propose a new methodology for solving a discrete time stochastic Markovian control problem under model uncertainty. By utilizing the Dirichlet process, we model the unknown distribution of the underlying stochastic process…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2022-03-29 Tao Chen , Jiyoun Myung

We study a class of deterministic mean field games and related optimal control problems, with a finite time horizon and in which the state space is a network. An agent controls her velocity, and, when she occupies a vertex, she can either…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2025-11-25 Yves Achdou , Claudio Marchi , Nicoletta Tchou

Sample average approximation--based stochastic dynamic programming (SDP) and model predictive control (MPC) are two different methods for approaching multistage stochastic optimization. In this paper we investigate the conditions under…

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