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We study methods for solving stochastic control problems of systems of forward-backward mean-field equations with delay, in finite or infinite horizon. Necessary and sufficient maximum principles under partial information are given. The…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2016-10-31 Nacira Agram , Elin Engen Rose

We consider optimal control problems for systems governed by mean-field stochastic differential equations, where the control enters both the drift and the diffusion coefficient. We study the relaxed model, in which admissible controls are…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2017-02-02 Khaled Bahlali , Meriem Mezerdi , Brahim Mezerdi

We study the existence of classical solutions to a broad class of local, first order, forward-backward Extended Mean Field Games systems, that includes standard Mean Field Games, Mean Field Games with congestion, and mean field type control…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2023-01-12 Sebastian Munoz

Variational inequalities are an important mathematical tool for modelling free boundary problems that arise in different application areas. Due to the intricate nonsmooth structure of the resulting models, their analysis and optimization is…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2017-11-23 Juan-Carlos De Los Reyes

Optimization problems with convex quadratic cost and polyhedral constraints are ubiquitous in signal processing, automatic control and decision-making. We consider here an enlarged problem class that allows to encode logical conditions and…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2026-04-09 Alberto De Marchi

In this work we develop a numerical method for solving a type of convex graph-structured tensor optimization problems. This type of problems, which can be seen as a generalization of multi-marginal optimal transport problems with…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2024-03-25 Axel Ringh , Isabel Haasler , Yongxin Chen , Johan Karlsson

The objective of this paper is to introduce and demonstrate a robust method for multi-constrained topology optimization. The method is derived by combining the topological sensitivity with the classic augmented Lagrangian formulation. The…

Computational Engineering, Finance, and Science · Computer Science 2022-03-31 Shiguang Deng , Krishnan Suresh

It has been shown recently that optimal control problems with the dynamical constraint given by a second order system admit a regular Lagrangian formulation. This implies that the optimality conditions can be obtained in a new form based on…

Modeling heterogeneous and multi-lane traffic flow is essential for understanding and controlling complex transportation systems. In this work, we consider three vehicle populations: two classes of human-driven vehicles (cars and trucks)…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2025-10-17 Maria Teresa Chiri , Christopher Denaro , Xiaoqian Gong , Benedetto Piccoli

In this work, we analyse the discretisation of a recently proposed new Lagrangian approach to optimal control problems of affine-controlled second-order differential equations with cost functions quadratic in the controls. We propose exact…

In this paper, we present a stochastic augmented Lagrangian approach on (possibly infinite-dimensional) Riemannian manifolds to solve stochastic optimization problems with a finite number of deterministic constraints.We investigate the…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2025-04-01 Caroline Geiersbach , Tim Suchan , Kathrin Welker

We study the problem of mean-field control when the state dynamics are given by general systems of forward-backward stochastic differential equations (FBSDEs) with heterogeneous mean-field interactions. Firstly, we introduce a novel…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2026-02-23 Andreas Sojmark , Zeng Zhang

We investigate finite-dimensional constrained structured optimization problems, featuring composite objective functions and set-membership constraints. Offering an expressive yet simple language, this problem class provides a modeling…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2023-02-09 Alberto De Marchi , Xiaoxi Jia , Christian Kanzow , Patrick Mehlitz

Constrained blackbox optimization is a difficult problem, with most approaches coming from the mathematical programming literature. The statistical literature is sparse, especially in addressing problems with nontrivial constraints. This…

Controlled Lagrangian and matching techniques are developed for the stabilization of relative equilibria and equilibria of discrete mechanical systems with symmetry as well as broken symmetry. Interesting new phenomena arise in the…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2007-05-23 Anthony M. Bloch , Melvin Leok , Jerrold E. Marsden , Dmitry V. Zenkov

Mean Field Games (MFG) have been introduced to tackle games with a large number of competing players. Considering the limit when the number of players is infinite, Nash equilibria are studied by considering the interaction of a typical…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2021-06-14 Mathieu Lauriere

Mean field games (MFG) and mean field control (MFC) are critical classes of multi-agent models for efficient analysis of massive populations of interacting agents. Their areas of application span topics in economics, finance, game theory,…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-06-08 Lars Ruthotto , Stanley Osher , Wuchen Li , Levon Nurbekyan , Samy Wu Fung

We show the existence of "mild solutions" for a first-order mean field game of controls under the state constraint that trajectories be confined in a closed and bounded set in euclidean space. This extends the results of Cannarsa and…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2023-01-24 Jameson Graber , Sergio Mayorga

We propose a variant of the classical augmented Lagrangian method for constrained optimization problems in Banach spaces. Our theoretical framework does not require any convexity or second-order assumptions and allows the treatment of…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2018-07-13 Christian Kanzow , Daniel Steck , Daniel Wachsmuth

In the present work, a general formulation is proposed to implement the contact angle boundary conditions for the second-order Phase-Field models, which is applicable to $N$-phase $(N \geqslant 2)$ moving contact line problems. To remedy…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2022-09-27 Ziyang Huang , Guang Lin , Arezoo M. Ardekani