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In this paper, the finite horizon asymmetric information linear quadratic (LQ) control problem is investigated for a discrete-time mean field system. Different from previous works, multiple controllers with different information sets are…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2023-09-06 Qingyuan Qi , Zhiqiang Liu , Qianqian Zhang , Xinbei Lv

We consider a class of stochastic control problems with a delayed control, both in drift and diffusion, of the type dX t = $\alpha$ t--d (bdt + $\sigma$dW t). We provide a new characterization of the solution in terms of a set of Riccati…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2021-02-25 William Lefebvre , Enzo Miller

A modified Deep BSDE (backward differential equation) learning method with measurability loss, called Deep BSDE-ML method, is introduced in this paper to solve a kind of linear decoupled forward-backward stochastic differential equations…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2022-01-06 Yutian Wang , Yuan-Hua Ni

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

We address a class of McKean-Vlasov (MKV) control problems with common noise, called polynomial conditional MKV, and extending the known class of linear quadratic stochastic MKV control problems. We show how this polynomial class can be…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2018-10-01 Alessandro Balata , Côme Huré , Mathieu Laurière , Huyên Pham , Isaque Pimentel

In this paper, we present a scalable deep learning approach to solve opinion dynamics stochastic optimal control problems with mean field term coupling in the dynamics and cost function. Our approach relies on the probabilistic…

Multiagent Systems · Computer Science 2022-04-19 Tianrong Chen , Ziyi Wang , Evangelos A. Theodorou

This paper studies the optimal control problems of stochastic evolution equations with infinite delay of general functional type. By introducing a non-anticipative path derivative and its infinite-window dual operator, we derive the…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2026-05-26 Guanwei Cheng

We propose a decomposition method for solving a general class of linear-quadratic (LQ) McKean-Vlasov control problems involving conditional expectations and random coefficients, where the system dynamics are driven by two independent Wiener…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2026-04-15 Onésime Hounkpe , Dena Firoozi , Shuang Gao

We provide a new version of the Tikhonov theorem for both two-scale forward systems and also two-scale forward-backward systems of stochastic differential equations, which also covers the McKean-Vlasov case. Differently from what is usually…

Probability · Mathematics 2024-03-26 Matteo Burzoni , Alekos Cecchin , Andrea Cosso

In this paper we present a novel sampling-based numerical scheme designed to solve a certain class of stochastic optimal control problems, utilizing forward and backward stochastic differential equations (FBSDEs). By means of a nonlinear…

Systems and Control · Computer Science 2020-06-18 Ioannis Exarchos , Evangelos A. Theodorou

In this paper, we propose several approaches to learn the optimal population-dependent controls in order to solve mean field control problems (MFC). Such policies enable us to solve MFC problems with forms of common noises at a level of…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2023-11-21 Gokce Dayanikli , Mathieu Lauriere , Jiacheng Zhang

We study a class of mean-field control problems under partial observation. The controlled dynamics are of McKean-Vlasov type and are subject to regime switching driven by a hidden Markov chain. The observation process depends on the control…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2026-01-15 Marco Fuhrman , Huyên Pham , Silvia Ruda

Mean-field SDEs, also known as McKean-Vlasov equations, are stochastic differential equations where the drift and diffusion depend on the current distribution in addition to the current position. We describe an efficient numerical method…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2017-04-25 Peter Kloeden , Tony Shardlow

In this paper, we consider optimal control problems derived by stochastic systems with delay, where control domains are non-convex and the diffusion coefficients depend on control variables. By an estimate of the integral of…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2022-10-25 Qixia Zhang

This paper investigates the stabilization and control problems for linear continuous-time mean-field systems (MFS). Under standard assumptions, necessary and sufficient conditions to stabilize the mean-field systems in the mean square sense…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2017-05-26 Qingyuan Qi , Huanshui Zhang

The purpose of this paper is to explore the necessary conditions for optimality of mean-field forward-backward delay control systems. A new estimate is proved, which is a powerfultool to deal with the optimal control problems of mean-field…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2018-11-06 Tao Hao , Qingxin Meng

Most existing neural network-based approaches for solving stochastic optimal control problems using the associated backward dynamic programming principle rely on the ability to simulate the underlying state variables. However, in some…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2024-01-30 Christian Yeo

In this paper, we are concerned with a stochastic optimal control problem of mean-field type under partial observation, where the state equation is governed by the controlled nonlinear mean-field stochastic differential equation, moreover…

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

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

This paper investigates a class of generalized mean-reflected McKean-Vlasov type backward stochastic differential equations (BSDEs). Our new framework combines a mean reflection constraint on the solution's expectation with a generalized…

Probability · Mathematics 2026-05-12 Ruisen Qian