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The classical stochastic control problem under partial information can be formulated as a control problem for Zakai equation, whose solution is the unnormalized conditional probability distribution of the state of the system. Zakai equation…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2019-09-27 Alain Bensoussan , Sheung Chi Phillip Yam

The purpose of this paper is to provide a detailed probabilistic analysis of the optimal control of nonlinear stochastic dynamical systems of the McKean Vlasov type. Motivated by the recent interest in mean field games, we highlight the…

Probability · Mathematics 2013-03-26 René Carmona , Francois Delarue

Time change is a powerful technique for generating noises and providing flexible models. In the framework of time changed Brownian and Poisson random measures we study the existence and uniqueness of a solution to a general mean-field…

Probability · Mathematics 2016-08-23 Giulia Di Nunno , Hannes Haferkorn

The stochastic optimal control of many agents is an important problem in various fields. We investigate the problem of partial observations, where the state of each agent is not fully observed and the control must be decided based on noisy…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2023-05-30 Aaron Zeff Palmer

In this paper, we consider a class of stochastic control problems for stochastic differential equations with random coefficients. The control domain need not to be convex but the control process is not allowed to enter in diffusion term.…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2020-08-06 Ishak Alia , Mohamed Sofiane Alia

We consider the problem of optimal control of a mean-field stochastic differential equation under model uncertainty. The model uncertainty is represented by ambiguity about the law $\mathcal{L}(X(t))$ of the state $X(t)$ at time $t$. For…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2018-06-27 Nacira Agram , Bernt Øksendal

IIn this paper, we study a partially observed progressive optimal control problem of forward-backward stochastic differential equations with random jumps, where the control domain is not necessarily convex, and the control variable enter…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2022-06-27 Yueyang Zheng , Jingtao Shi

In this work, we systematically investigate mean field games and mean field type control problems with multiple populations using a coupled system of forward-backward stochastic differential equations of McKean-Vlasov type stemming from…

Probability · Mathematics 2020-11-03 Masaaki Fujii

This paper is concerned with a partially observed hybrid optimal control problem, where continuous dynamics and discrete events coexist and in particular, the continuous dynamics can be observed while the discrete events, described by a…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2023-03-14 Siyu Lv , Jie Xiong , Wen Xu

This paper deals with partially-observed optimal control problems for the state governed by stochastic differential equation with delay. We develop a stochastic maximum principle for this kind of optimal control problems using a variational…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2020-10-15 Shuaiqi Zhang , Xun Li , Jie Xiong

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

In this paper, we consider a partial observed two-person zero-sum stochastic differential game problem where the system is governed by a stochastic differential equation of mean-field type. Under standard assumptions on the coefficients,…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2016-11-15 Maoning Tang , Qingxin Meng

In this paper, we first give the existence and uniqueness theorems for generalized mean-filed delay stochastic differential equations (GMFDSDEs) and mean-field anticipated backward stochastic differential equations (MFABSDEs). Then we study…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2017-08-14 Hancheng Guo , Jie Xiong , Jiayu Zheng

This paper is concerned with optimal control problems for systems governed by mean-field stochastic differential equation, in which the control enters both the drift and the diffusion coefficient. We prove that the relaxed state process,…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2017-02-03 Khaled Bahlali , Meriem Mezerdi , Brahim Mezerdi

We consider interacting agent systems with a large number of stochastic agents (or particles) influenced by a fixed number of external stochastic lead agents. Such examples arise, for example in models of opinion dynamics, where a small…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2025-12-23 Sebastian Zimper , Ana Djurdjevac , Carsten Hartmann , Christof Schütte , Nataša Djurdjevac Conrad

In this paper, we investigate a mean-field singular stochastic optimal control problem for systems governed by mean-field regime-switching singular stochastic differential equations. The state process is assumed to depend on both a regular…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2025-12-01 Maalvladédon Ganet Somé , Edward Korveh

We study the convergence problem of mean-field control theory in the presence of state constraints and non-degenerate idiosyncratic noise. Our main result is the convergence of the value functions associated to stochastic control problems…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2023-06-02 Samuel Daudin

We discuss and compare two methods of investigations for the asymptotic regime of stochastic differential games with a finite number of players as the number of players tends to the infinity. These two methods differ in the order in which…

Probability · Mathematics 2012-10-23 Rene Carmona , Francois Delarue , Aime Lachapelle

In this paper we study stochastic control problems with delayed information, that is, the control at time $t$ can depend only on the information observed before time $t-H$ for some delay parameter $H$. Such delay occurs frequently in…

Probability · Mathematics 2018-08-23 Yuri F. Saporito , Jianfeng Zhang

This work establishes a general stochastic maximum principle for partially observed optimal control of semi-linear stochastic partial differential equations in a nonconvex control domain. The state evolves in a Hilbert space driven by a…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2025-04-22 Yanzhao Cao , Hongjiang Qian , George Yin