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This paper proves that, under a monotonicity condition, the invariant probability measure of a McKean--Vlasov process can be approximated by weighted empirical measures of some processes including itself. These processes are described by…

Probability · Mathematics 2021-12-30 Kai Du , Yifan Jiang , Jinfeng Li

We investigate the asymptotic properties of a finite-time horizon linear-quadratic optimal control problem driven by a multiscale stochastic process with multiplicative Brownian noise. We approach the problem by considering the associated…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2020-11-19 Beniamin Goldys , Gianmario Tessitore , James Yang , Zhou Zhou

In this paper, we generalise Pontryagin's stochastic maximum principle to controlled McKean-Vlasov equations with anticipating law. The associated new type of delayed backward equations with implicit terminal condition is studied.

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2017-07-03 Nacira Agram

In this paper, we study a regularised relaxed optimal control problem and, in particular, we are concerned with the case where the control variable is of large dimension. We introduce a system of mean-field Langevin equations, the invariant…

Probability · Mathematics 2019-10-07 Kaitong Hu , Anna Kazeykina , Zhenjie Ren

The purpose of this paper is to study optimal control of conditional McKean-Vlasov (mean-field) stochastic differential equations with jumps (conditional McKean-Vlasov jump diffusions, for short). To this end, we first prove a stochastic…

Probability · Mathematics 2023-01-10 Nacira Agram , Bernt Oksendal

Motivated by the design of fast reinforcement learning algorithms, we study the diffusive limit of a class of pure jump ergodic stochastic control problems. We show that, whenever the intensity of jumps is large enough, the approximation…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2022-10-03 Marc Abeille , Bruno Bouchard , Lorenzo Croissant

This paper studies a class of stationary mean-field games of singular stochastic control with regime-switching. The representative agent adjusts the dynamics of a Markov-modulated It\^o-diffusion via a two-sided singular stochastic control…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2024-12-31 Jodi Dianetti , Giorgio Ferrari , Ioannis Tzouanas

We consider a mean-field optimal control problem for stochastic differential equations with delay driven by fractional Brownian motion with Hurst parameter greater than one half. Stochastic optimal control problems driven by fractional…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2018-05-02 Nacira Agram , Soukaina Douissi , Astrid Hilbert

We consider control-constrained linear-quadratic optimal control problems on evolving surfaces. In order to formulate well-posed problems, we prove existence and uniqueness of weak solutions for the state equation, in the sense of…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2015-03-19 Morten Vierling

The article poses a general model for optimal control subject to information constraints, motivated in part by recent work of Sims and others on information-constrained decision-making by economic agents. In the average-cost optimal control…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2016-02-24 Ehsan Shafieepoorfard , Maxim Raginsky , Sean P. Meyn

The modelling of linear quadratic Gaussian optimal control problems on large complex networks is intractable computationally. Graphon theory provides an approach to overcome these issues by defining limit objects for infinite sequences of…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2024-07-02 Alex Dunyak , Peter E. Caines

This paper is concerned with a discrete-time mean-field stochastic linear-quadratic optimal control problem arose from financial application. Through matrix dynamical optimization method, a group of linear feedback controls is investigated.…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2017-06-15 Xun Li , Allen H. Tai , Fei Tian

In the context of mean field games, with possible control of the diffusion coefficient, we consider a path-dependent version of the planning problem introduced by P.L. Lions: given a pair of marginal distributions $(\mu_0, \mu_1)$, find a…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2023-05-19 Zhenjie Ren , Xiaolu Tan , Nizar Touzi , Junjian Yang

This paper is concerned with uniform stabilization and social optimality for general mean field linear quadratic control systems, where subsystems are coupled via individual dynamics and costs, and the state weight is not assumed with the…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2020-03-02 Bing-Chang Wang , Huanshui Zhang , Ji-Feng Zhang

In this work we are interested in the mean-field formulation of kinetic models under control actions where the control is formulated through a model predictive control strategy (MPC) with varying horizon. The relation between the (usually…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2015-11-30 Michael Herty , Mattia Zanella

We consider the problem of function approximation by two-layer neural nets with random weights that are "nearly Gaussian" in the sense of Kullback-Leibler divergence. Our setting is the mean-field limit, where the finite population of…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-06-25 Belinda Tzen , Maxim Raginsky

The goal of this paper is to study the long time behavior of solutions of the first-order mean field game (MFG) systems with a control on the acceleration. The main issue for this is the lack of small time controllability of the problem,…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2020-07-07 Pierre Cardaliaguet , Cristian Mendico

Relying on the careful study of a related problem in the calculus of variations, we study a class of optimal control problems in which the control lies on the acceleration, with state constraints on the position variable. In dimension one,…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2025-10-10 Yves Achdou

In this work, we focus on an infinite horizon mean-field linear-quadratic stochastic control problem with jumps. Firstly, the infinite horizon linear mean-field stochastic differential equations and backward stochastic differential…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2023-11-14 Qingmeng Wei , Yaqi Xu , Zhiyong Yu

This paper is concerned with stochastic linear quadratic (LQ, for short) optimal control problems in an infinite horizon with conditional mean-field term in a switching regime environment. The orthogonal decomposition introduced in [21] has…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2025-01-03 Hongwei Mei , Qingmeng Wei , Jiongmin Yong