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This paper considers the relaxed version of the transport problem for general nonlinear control systems, where the objective is to design time-varying feedback laws that transport a given initial probability measure to a target probability…

Systems and Control · Computer Science 2018-07-27 Karthik Elamvazhuthi , Piyush Grover , Spring Berman

We establish central limit theorems for the Sample Average Approximation (SAA) method in discrete-time, finite-horizon stochastic optimal control. Our analysis is based on an abstract limit theorem for stochastic backward recursions, which…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2026-04-21 Johannes Milz , Alexander Shapiro

For probability measures on countable spaces we derive distributional limits for empirical entropic optimal transport quantities. More precisely, we show that the empirical optimal transport plan weakly converges to a centered Gaussian…

Probability · Mathematics 2022-12-27 Shayan Hundrieser , Marcel Klatt , Axel Munk

We derive limit distributions for certain empirical regularized optimal transport distances between probability distributions supported on a finite metric space and show consistency of the (naive) bootstrap. In particular, we prove that the…

Statistics Theory · Mathematics 2019-05-02 Marcel Klatt , Carla Tameling , Axel Munk

Motivated by the statistical analysis of the discrete optimal transport problem, we prove distributional limits for the solutions of linear programs with random constraints. Such limits were first obtained by Klatt, Munk, & Zemel (2022),…

Statistics Theory · Mathematics 2023-02-27 Shuyu Liu , Florentina Bunea , Jonathan Niles-Weed

Linear optimization problems are investigated whose parameters are uncertain. We apply coherent distortion risk measures to capture the possible violation of a restriction. Each risk constraint induces an uncertainty set of coefficients,…

Methodology · Statistics 2017-12-18 Karl Mosler , Pavel Bazovkin

This paper investigates asymptotic behaviors of gradient descent algorithms (particularly accelerated gradient descent and stochastic gradient descent) in the context of stochastic optimization arising in statistics and machine learning…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2019-11-13 Yazhen Wang

We study statistical properties of the optimal value and optimal solutions of the Sample Average Approximation of risk averse stochastic problems. Central Limit Theorem type results are derived for the optimal value and optimal solutions…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2016-03-25 Vincent Guigues , Volker Krätschmer , Alexander Shapiro

Conditions are established under which the optimal control of processes having both absolutely continuous and singular (with respect to time) controls are equivalent to linear programs over a space of measures on the state and control…

Probability · Mathematics 2017-07-31 Thomas G. Kurtz , Richard H. Stockbridge

We formulate and study the infinite dimensional linear programming (LP) problem associated with the deterministic discrete time long-run average criterion optimal control problem. Along with its dual, this LP problem allows one to…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2019-05-29 Vivek S. Borkar , Vladimir Gaitsgory , Ilya Shvartsman

The linear programming (LP) approach is, together with value iteration and policy iteration, one of the three fundamental methods to solve optimal control problems in a dynamic programming setting. Despite its simple formulation,…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-10-31 Lucia Falconi , Andrea Martinelli , John Lygeros

Recent studies have explored finite-time dissipation-minimizing protocols for stochastic thermodynamic systems driven arbitrarily far from equilibrium, when granted full external control to drive the system. However, in both simulation and…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2022-10-27 Adrianne Zhong , Michael R. DeWeese

We introduce an extension of Dual Dynamic Programming (DDP) to solve linear dynamic programming equations. We call this extension IDDP-LP which applies to situations where some or all primal and dual subproblems to be solved along the…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2019-07-09 Vincent Guigues

We explore the limit of stochastic differential equations driven by some random processes satisfying singularly perturbed second order stochastic differential equations. The main tool we employ is the universal limit theorem in rough path…

Probability · Mathematics 2026-04-08 Qingming Zhao , Xueru Liu , Wei Wang

We establish a linear programming formulation for the solution of joint chance constrained optimal control problems over finite time horizons. The joint chance constraint may represent an invariance, reachability or reach-avoid…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2024-05-21 Niklas Schmid , Marta Fochesato , Tobias Sutter , John Lygeros

We establish weak limits for the empirical entropy regularized optimal transport cost, the expectation of the empirical plan and the conditional expectation. Our results require only uniform boundedness of the cost function and no…

Statistics Theory · Mathematics 2023-05-18 Alberto González-Sanz , Shayan Hundrieser

Many causal and structural parameters in economics can be identified and estimated by computing the value of an optimization program over all distributions consistent with the model and the data. Existing tools apply when the data is…

Econometrics · Economics 2025-07-31 Andrei Voronin

The superiority of stochastic symplectic methods over non-symplectic counterparts has been verified by plenty of numerical experiments, especially in capturing the asymptotic behaviour of the underlying solution process. How can one…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2024-04-24 Chuchu Chen , Xinyu Chen , Tonghe Dang , Jialin Hong

We investigate statistical properties of the optimal value of the Sample Average Approximation of stochastic programs, continuing the study in Kr\"atschmer (2023). Central Limit Theorem type results are derived for the optimal value. As a…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2023-12-12 Volker Krätschmer

The addition of lower level integrality constraints to a bi-level linear program is known to result in significantly weaker analytical properties. Most notably, the upper level goal function in the optimistic setting lacks lower…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2022-12-13 Johanna Burtscheidt , Matthias Claus
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