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Many optimal control problems are formulated as two point boundary value problems (TPBVPs) with conditions of optimality derived from the Hamilton-Jacobi-Bellman (HJB) equations. In most cases, it is challenging to solve HJBs due to the…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2019-07-25 Sixiong You , Ran Dai , Ping Lu

In this paper, we are concerned with the classical solvability of a class of second-order Hamilton-Jacobi-Bellman equations (HJB equations) arising from stochastic optimal control problems with linear dynamics and uniformly convex cost…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2025-12-19 Jinghua Li , Zhiyong Yu

This paper considers consumption and portfolio optimization problems with recursive preferences in both infinite and finite time regions. Specially, the financial market consists of a risk-free asset and a risky asset that follows a general…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2024-12-30 Jian-hao Kang , Zhun Gou , Nan-jing Huang

This paper investigates a Hamilton-Jacobi (HJ) analysis to solve finite-horizon optimal control problems for high-dimensional systems. Although grid-based methods, such as the level-set method [1], numerically solve a general class of HJ…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-06-28 Donggun Lee , Claire J. Tomlin

The Bellman equation and its continuous-time counterpart, the Hamilton-Jacobi-Bellman (HJB) equation, serve as necessary conditions for optimality in reinforcement learning and optimal control. While the value function is known to be the…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-03-07 Haoxiang You , Lekan Molu , Ian Abraham

The ergodic control problem for a non-degenerate controlled diffusion controlled through its drift is considered under a uniform stability condition that ensures the well-posedness of the associated Hamilton-Jacobi-Bellman (HJB) equation. A…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2019-03-20 Ari Arapostathis , Vivek S. Borkar

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…

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The main goal of this paper is to establish existence, regularity and uniqueness results for the solution of a Hamilton-Jacobi-Bellman (HJB) equation, whose operator is an elliptic integro-differential operator. The HJB equation studied in…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2016-12-01 Harold A. Moreno-Franco

We present a simple and easy to implement method for the numerical solution of a rather general class of Hamilton-Jacobi-Bellman (HJB) equations. In many cases, the considered problems have only a viscosity solution, to which, fortunately,…

Computational Finance · Quantitative Finance 2011-02-17 Jan Hendrik Witte , Christoph Reisinger

A tensor decomposition approach for the solution of high-dimensional, fully nonlinear Hamilton-Jacobi-Bellman equations arising in optimal feedback control of nonlinear dynamics is presented. The method combines a tensor train approximation…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2021-03-17 Sergey Dolgov , Dante Kalise , Karl Kunisch

The purpose of this paper is to describe the numerical solution of the Hamilton-Jacobi-Bellman (HJB) for an optimal control problem for quantum spin systems. This HJB equation is a first order nonlinear partial differential equation defined…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2011-10-05 Srinivas Sridharan , Matthew R. James

In this paper we study the existence of sufficiently regular representations of Hamilton-Jacobi equations in the optimal control theory with unbounded control set. We use a new method to construct representations for a wide class of…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2021-08-17 Arkadiusz Misztela

In this article, a class of optimal control problems of differential equations with delays are investigated for which the associated Hamilton-Jacobi-Bellman (HJB) equations are nonlinear partial differential equations with delays. This type…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2015-07-16 Jianjun Zhou

The aim of this work is to develop a deep learning method for solving high-dimensional stochastic control problems based on the Hamilton--Jacobi--Bellman (HJB) equation and physics-informed learning. Our approach is to parameterize the…

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We study semi Lagrangian approximation schemes for Hamilton Jacobi Bellman equations arising from finite horizon optimal control problems. Classical error estimates for these schemes include the term $\frac{1}{\Delta t}$ which leads to…

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This paper is about operator-theoretic methods for solving nonlinear stochastic optimal control problems to global optimality. These methods leverage on the convex duality between optimally controlled diffusion processes and…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2023-05-30 Boris Houska

Controlling systems of ordinary differential equations (ODEs) is ubiquitous in science and engineering. For finding an optimal feedback controller, the value function and associated fundamental equations such as the Bellman equation and the…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2021-04-14 Mathias Oster , Leon Sallandt , Reinhold Schneider

Environmental management optimizing a long-run objective is an ergodic control problem whose resolution can be achieved by solving an associated non-local Hamilton-Jacobi-Bellman (HJB) equation having an effective Hamiltonian. Focusing on…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2022-05-11 Hidekazu Yoshioka , Motoh Tsujimura , Yuta Yaegashi

Maximum entropy reinforcement learning (RL) methods have been successfully applied to a range of challenging sequential decision-making and control tasks. However, most of existing techniques are designed for discrete-time systems. As a…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2020-09-29 Jeongho Kim , Insoon Yang