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We solve explicitly a two-dimensional singular control problem of finite fuel type for infinite time horizon. The problem stems from the optimal liquidation of an asset position in a financial market with multiplicative and transient price…

Probability · Mathematics 2019-06-27 Dirk Becherer , Todor Bilarev , Peter Frentrup

This paper studies the risk-adjusted optimal timing to liquidate an option at the prevailing market price. In addition to maximizing the expected discounted return from option sale, we incorporate a path-dependent risk penalty based on…

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We present a numerical method to solve the optimal transport problem with a quadratic cost when the source and target measures are periodic probability densities. This method is based on a numerical resolution of the corresponding…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2011-03-02 Louis-Philippe Saumier , Martial Agueh , Boualem Khouider

Given the marginal distribution information of the underlying asset price at two future times $T_1$ and $T_2$, we consider the problem of determining a model-free upper bound on the price of a class of American options that must be…

Probability · Mathematics 2023-11-03 Tongseok Lim

We study the Lagrangian formulation of a class of the Monge-Kantorovich optimal transportation problem. It can be considered a stochastic optimal transportation problem for absolutely continuous stochastic processes. A cost function and…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2023-01-02 Toshio Mikami , Haruka Yamamoto

Finding Bertram's optimal trading strategy for a pair of cointegrated assets following the Ornstein--Uhlenbeck price difference process can be formulated as an unconstrained convex optimization problem for maximization of expected profit…

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A numerical method for the solution of the elliptic Monge-Ampere Partial Differential Equation, with boundary conditions corresponding to the Optimal Transportation (OT) problem is presented. A local representation of the OT boundary…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2012-08-27 Jean-David Benamou , Brittany D. Froese , Adam M. Oberman

We present a primal-dual dynamical formulation of the multi-marginal optimal transport problem for (semi-)convex cost functions. Even in the two-marginal setting, this formulation applies to cost functions not covered by the classical…

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We introduce the Local Occupied Volatility (LOV) model that sits between Dupire's local volatility and fully path-dependent dynamics. By design, the LOV model ensures automatic calibration to European vanilla options, while offering the…

Mathematical Finance · Quantitative Finance 2026-04-30 Valentin Tissot-Daguette

We rephrase Monge's optimal transportation (OT) problem with quadratic cost--via a Monge-Amp\`ere equation--as an infinite-dimensional optimization problem, which is in fact a convex problem when the target is a log-concave measure with…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2017-08-29 Michael Lindsey , Yanir A. Rubinstein

The Bass local volatility model introduced by Backhoff-Veraguas, Beiglb\"ock, Huesmann, and K\"allblad is a Markov model perfectly calibrated to vanilla options at finitely many maturities, that approximates the Dupire local volatility…

Mathematical Finance · Quantitative Finance 2025-07-31 Beatrice Acciaio , Antonio Marini , Gudmund Pammer

We propose a distributed optimization method for solving a distributed model predictive consensus problem. The goal is to design a distributed controller for a network of dynamical systems to optimize a coupled objective function while…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2012-12-07 Tyler H. Summers , John Lygeros

We propose a generic calibration framework to both vanilla and no-touch options for a large class of continuous semi-martingale models. The method builds upon the forward partial integro-differential equation (PIDE) derived in Hambly et al.…

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Several problems in machine learning are naturally expressed as the design and analysis of time-evolving probability distributions. This includes sampling via diffusion methods, optimizing the weights of neural networks, and analyzing the…

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We introduce a price impact model which accounts for finite market depth, tightness and resilience. Its coupled bid- and ask-price dynamics induce convex liquidity costs. We provide existence of an optimal solution to the classical problem…

Mathematical Finance · Quantitative Finance 2018-04-23 Peter Bank , Moritz Voß

By the classical Martingale Representation Theorem, replication of random vectors can be achieved via stochastic integrals or solutions of stochastic differential equations. We introduce a new approach to replication of random vectors via…

Portfolio Management · Quantitative Finance 2013-08-01 Nikolai Dokuchaev

In this paper, we present a numerical method, based on iterative Bregman projections, to solve the optimal transport problem with Coulomb cost. This is related to the strong interaction limit of Density Functional Theory. The first idea is…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2015-05-11 Jean-David Benamou , Guillaume Carlier , Luca Nenna

We propose two deep neural network-based methods for solving semi-martingale optimal transport problems. The first method is based on a relaxation/penalization of the terminal constraint, and is solved using deep neural networks. The second…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2021-03-08 Ivan Guo , Nicolas Langrené , Grégoire Loeper , Wei Ning

Nonconvex and structured optimization problems arise in many engineering applications that demand scalable and distributed solution methods. The study of the convergence properties of these methods is in general difficult due to the…

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