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This paper concerns the numerical solution of a fully nonlinear parabolic double obstacle problem arising from a finite portfolio selection with proportional transaction costs. We consider the optimal allocation of wealth among multiple…

Portfolio Management · Quantitative Finance 2017-11-06 Arash Fahim , Wan-Yu Tsai

Continuous-time reinforcement learning offers an appealing formalism for describing control problems in which the passage of time is not naturally divided into discrete increments. Here we consider the problem of predicting the distribution…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-06-20 Harley Wiltzer , David Meger , Marc G. Bellemare

This article studies a portfolio optimization problem, where the market consisting of several stocks is modeled by a multi-dimensional jump-diffusion process with age-dependent semi-Markov modulated coefficients. We study risk sensitive…

Portfolio Management · Quantitative Finance 2019-10-21 Milan Kumar Das , Anindya Goswami , Nimit Rana

We propose a new numerical method for solving the Hamilton-Jacobi-Bellman quasi-variational inequality associated with the combined impulse and stochastic optimal control problem over a finite time horizon. Our method corresponds to an…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2015-02-05 Masashi Ieda

In this paper, we investigate a fully nonlinear evolutionary Hamilton-Jacobi-Bellman (HJB) parabolic equation utilizing the monotone operator technique. We consider the HJB equation arising from portfolio optimization selection, where the…

Mathematical Finance · Quantitative Finance 2021-04-14 Daniel Sevcovic , Cyril Izuchukwu Udeani

This work proposes a novel numerical scheme for solving the high-dimensional Hamilton-Jacobi-Bellman equation with a functional hierarchical tensor ansatz. We consider the setting of stochastic control, whereby one applies control to a…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2025-07-01 Xun Tang , Nan Sheng , Lexing Ying

An advantageous feature of piecewise constant policy timestepping for Hamilton-Jacobi-Bellman (HJB) equations is that different linear approximation schemes, and indeed different meshes, can be used for the resulting linear equations for…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2016-01-21 Christoph Reisinger , Peter Forsyth

This paper aims to explore the relationship between maximum principle and dynamic programming principle for stochastic recursive control problem with random coefficients. Under certain regular conditions for the coefficients, the…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2020-12-10 Yuchao Dong , Qingxin Meng , Qi Zhang

In this article, two methods for solving mean-field type optimal control problems are proposed and investigated. The two methods are iterative methods: at each iteration, a Hamilton-Jacobi-Bellman equation is solved, for a terminal…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2017-03-30 Laurent Pfeiffer

We address the problem of combined stochastic and impulse control for a market maker operating in a limit order book. The problem is formulated as a Hamilton-Jacobi-Bellman quasi-variational inequality (HJBQVI). We propose an implicit…

Mathematical Finance · Quantitative Finance 2025-12-25 Alexey Meteykin

This is the first in a series of papers in which we study an efficient approximation scheme for solving the Hamilton-Jacobi-Bellman equation for multi-dimensional problems in stochastic control theory. The method is a combination of a WKB…

Computational Finance · Quantitative Finance 2014-06-26 Sakda Chaiworawitkul , Patrick S. Hagan , Andrew Lesniewski

This article approaches deterministic filtering via an application of the min-plus linearity of the corresponding dynamic programming operator. This filter design method yields a set-valued state estimator for discrete-time nonlinear…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2012-03-14 Abhijit G. Kallapur , Srinivas Sridharan , William M. McEneaney , Ian R. Petersen

In this article we study a finite horizon optimal control problem with monotone controls. We consider the associated Hamilton-Jacobi-Bellman (HJB) equation which characterizes the value function. We consider the totally discretized problem…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2014-07-08 Eduardo A. Philipp , Laura S. Aragone , Lisandro A. Parente

We introduce a generic numerical schemes for fully nonlinear parabolic PDEs on the full domain, where the nonlinearity is convex on the Hessian of the solution. The main idea behind this paper is reduction of a fully nonlinear problem to a…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2024-10-08 Hung Duong , Arash Fahim

We propose a new probabilistic numerical scheme for fully nonlinear equation of Hamilton-Jacobi-Bellman (HJB) type associated to stochastic control problem, which is based on the Feynman-Kac representation in [12] by means of control…

Probability · Mathematics 2019-06-28 Idris Kharroubi , Nicolas Langrené , Huyên Pham

We develop the max-plus finite element method to solve finite horizon deterministic optimal control problems. This method, that we introduced in a previous work, relies on a max-plus variational formulation, and exploits the properties of…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2016-11-18 Marianne Akian , Stephane Gaubert , Asma Lakhoua

We introduce a new and efficient numerical method for multicriterion optimal control and single criterion optimal control under integral constraints. The approach is based on extending the state space to include information on a "budget"…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2016-01-06 Ajeet Kumar , Alexander Vladimirsky

In this paper we present a new algorithm for the solution of Hamilton-Jacobi-Bellman equations related to optimal control problems. The key idea is to divide the domain of computation into subdomains which are shaped by the optimal dynamics…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2014-08-04 Simone Cacace , Emiliano Cristiani , Maurizio Falcone , Athena Picarelli

We consider the probabilistic numerical scheme for fully nonlinear PDEs suggested in \cite{cstv}, and show that it can be introduced naturally as a combination of Monte Carlo and finite differences scheme without appealing to the theory of…

Probability · Mathematics 2010-08-26 Arash Fahim , Nizar Touzi , Xavier Warin

We prove precise rates of convergence for monotone approximation schemes of fractional and nonlocal Hamilton-Jacobi-Bellman (HJB) equations. We consider diffusion corrected difference-quadrature schemes from the literature and new…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2023-09-04 Indranil Chowdhury , Espen R. Jakobsen