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A general backward stochastic linear-quadratic optimal control problem is studied, in which both the state equation and the cost functional contain the nonhomogeneous terms. The main feature of the problem is that the weighting matrices in…
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This paper develops a quantitative framework for analyzing the mean-square exponential stabilization of stochastic linear systems with multiplicative noise, focusing specifically on the optimal stabilizing rate, which characterizes the…
We consider an optimal control problem constrained by a parabolic partial differential equation (PDE) with Robin boundary conditions. We use a well-posed space-time variational formulation in Lebesgue--Bochner spaces with minimal…
This paper is devoted to an optimal control problem of fully coupled forward-backward stochastic differential equations driven by sub-diffusion, whose solutions are not Markov processes. The stochastic maximum principle is obtained, where…
We study a pointwise tracking optimal control problem for the stationary Navier--Stokes equations; control constraints are also considered. The problem entails the minimization of a cost functional involving point evaluations of the state…
In this paper, we develop a rigorous optimal control-theoretic approach to Transformer training that respects key structural constraints such as (i) realized-input-independence during execution, (ii) the ensemble control nature of the…
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Safety is essential for autonomous systems, in particular for interconnected systems in which the interactions among subsystems are involved. Motivated by the recent interest in cyber-physical and interconnected autonomous systems, we…
We consider stochastic control with discretionary stopping for the drift of a diffusion process over an infinite time horizon. The objective is to choose a control process and a stopping time to minimize the expectation of a convex terminal…
This paper studies indefinite stochastic linear-quadratic (LQ) optimal control for jump-diffusion systems with random coefficients. We construct an algebraic inverse flow from the zero-control base system, extract the semimartingale kernel…
We prove the global-in-time well-posedness for a broad class of mean field game problems, which is beyond the special linear-quadratic setting, as long as the mean field sensitivity is not too large. Through the stochastic maximum…
We study a constrained stochastic control problem with jumps; the jump times of the controlled process are given by a Poisson process. The cost functional comprises quadratic components for an absolutely continuous control and the…
In this paper we investigate a kind of optimal control problem of coupled forward-backward stochastic system with jumps whose cost functional is defined through a coupled forward-backward stochastic differential equation with Brownian…
In this paper, we obtain the maximum principle for optimal controls of stochastic systems with jumps by introducing a new method of variation. The control is allowed to enter both diffusion and jump term and the control domain need not to…