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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 first establish the dynamic programming principle for stochastic optimal control problems defined on compact Riemannian manifolds without boundary. Subsequently, we derive the associated Hamilton-Jacobi-Bellman (HJB)…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2025-07-03 Dingqian Gao , Qi Lü

This paper studies a discrete-time stochastic control problem with linear quadratic criteria over an infinite-time horizon. We focus on a class of control systems whose system matrices are associated with random parameters involving unknown…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2022-01-17 Zhaorong Zhang , Juanjuan Xu , Xun Li

In this article, we provide a numerical method based on fitted finite volume method to approximate the Hamilton-Jacobi-Bellman (HJB) equation coming from stochastic optimal control problems. The computational challenge is due to the nature…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2020-02-21 Christelle Dleuna Nyoumbi , Antoine Tambue

Hamilton-Jacobi partial differential equations (HJ PDEs) have deep connections with a wide range of fields, including optimal control, differential games, and imaging sciences. By considering the time variable to be a higher dimensional…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-12-12 Paula Chen , Tingwei Meng , Zongren Zou , Jérôme Darbon , George Em Karniadakis

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

In this paper, we study the delayed stochastic recursive optimal control problem with a non-Lipschitz generator, in which both the dynamics of the control system and the recursive cost functional depend on the past path segment of the state…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2023-12-27 Jiaqiang Wen , Zhen Wu , Qi Zhang

This paper presents a mathematical formulation to perform temporal parallelisation of continuous-time optimal control problems, which can be solved via the Hamilton--Jacobi--Bellman (HJB) equation. We divide the time interval of the control…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2024-12-18 Simo Särkkä , Ángel F. García-Fernández

The method of generalized Hamilton-Jacobi-Bellman equations (GHJB) is a powerful way of creating near-optimal controllers by learning. It is based on the fact that if we have a feedback controller, and we learn to compute the gradient…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2009-08-21 Douglas Tweed

This paper addresses the model-free nonlinear optimal problem with generalized cost functional, and a data-based reinforcement learning technique is developed. It is known that the nonlinear optimal control problem relies on the solution of…

Systems and Control · Computer Science 2013-11-20 Biao Luo , Huai-Ning Wu , Tingwen Huang , Derong Liu

For continuous systems modeled by dynamical equations such as ODEs and SDEs, Bellman's Principle of Optimality takes the form of the Hamilton-Jacobi-Bellman (HJB) equation, which provides the theoretical target of reinforcement learning…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-10-28 Haruki Settai , Naoya Takeishi , Takehisa Yairi

In this paper, training a neural network is identified, exactly, as a search through Hamilton--Jacobi initial-value problems: each gradient step selects the initial data of a viscous Hamilton--Jacobi equation whose Hopf--Cole propagator…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-05-29 Jose Marie Antonio Miñoza , Erika Fille T. Legara , Christopher P. Monterola

This paper introduces a reinforcement learning-based tracking control approach for a class of nonlinear systems using neural networks. In this approach, adversarial attacks were considered both in the actuator and on the outputs. This…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-09-20 Farshad Rahimi , Sepideh Ziaei

We address two major challenges in scientific machine learning (SciML): interpretability and computational efficiency. We increase the interpretability of certain learning processes by establishing a new theoretical connection between…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-05-08 Paula Chen , Tingwei Meng , Zongren Zou , Jérôme Darbon , George Em Karniadakis

This paper, which is the natural continuation of a previous paper by the same authors, studies a class of optimal control problems with state constraints where the state equation is a differential equation with delays. This class includes…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2009-07-10 Salvatore Federico , Ben Goldys , Fausto Gozzi

This paper presents a novel method of global adaptive dynamic programming (ADP) for the adaptive optimal control of nonlinear polynomial systems. The strategy consists of relaxing the problem of solving the Hamilton-Jacobi-Bellman (HJB)…

Dynamical Systems · Mathematics 2017-01-11 Yu Jiang , Zhong-Ping Jiang

Stochastic optimal principle leads to the resolution of a partial differential equation (PDE), namely the Hamilton-Jacobi-Bellman (HJB) equation. In general, this equation cannot be solved analytically, thus numerical algorithms are the…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2021-09-14 Christelle Dleuna Nyoumbi , Antoine Tambue

Recent studies have extended the use of the stochastic Hamilton-Jacobi-Bellman (HJB) equation to include complex variables for deriving quantum mechanical equations. However, these studies often assume that it is valid to apply the HJB…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2024-10-14 Vasil Yordanov

We mathematically analyze and numerically study an actor-critic machine learning algorithm for solving high-dimensional Hamilton-Jacobi-Bellman (HJB) partial differential equations from stochastic control theory. The architecture of the…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2026-05-20 Samuel N. Cohen , Jackson Hebner , Deqing Jiang , Justin Sirignano

This paper studies an infinite horizon optimal control problem for discrete-time linear systems and quadratic criteria, both with random parameters which are independent and identically distributed with respect to time. A classical approach…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2020-11-11 Kai Du , Qingxin Meng , Fu Zhang