Related papers: Linear Quadratic Control of Backward Stochastic Di…
We consider an infinite horizon discounted optimal control problem for piecewise deterministic Markov processes, where a piecewise open-loop control acts continuously on the jump dynamics and on the deterministic flow. For this class of…
In this paper, we study a class of quadratic Backward Stochastic Differential Equations (BSDEs) which arises naturally when studying the problem of utility maximization with portfolio constraints. We first establish existence and uniqueness…
In this paper, we propose a new methodology for state constrained stochastic optimal control (SOC) problems. The solution is based on past work in solving SOC problems using forward-backward stochastic differential equations (FBSDE). Our…
We analyze the problem of stochastic optimal control of SDEs where the driver includes a self-exciting stochastic process. Due to the non-Markovian nature of the problem, we apply the stochastic maximum principle approach. We derive a…
This paper deals with a stochastic optimal feedback control problem for the controlled stochastic partial differential equations. More precisely, we establish the existence of stochastic optimal feedback control for the controlled…
This paper investigates a class of unified stochastic linear quadratic Gaussian (LQG) social optima problems involving a large number of weakly-coupled interactive agents under a {generalized} setting. For each individual agent, the control…
In this paper, we consider the adaptive linear quadratic Gaussian control problem, where both the linear transformation matrix of the state $A$ and the control gain matrix $B$ are unknown. The proposed adaptive optimal control only assumes…
We consider the integral definition of the fractional Laplacian and analyze a linear-quadratic optimal control problem for the so-called fractional heat equation; control constraints are also considered. We derive existence and uniqueness…
This paper is concerned with a class of linear-quadratic stochastic large-population problems with partial information, where the individual agent only has access to a noisy observation process related to the state. The dynamics of each…
This paper considers the stochastic linear quadratic optimal control problem in which the control domain is nonconvex. By the functional analysis and convex perturbation methods, we establish a novel maximum principle. The application of…
In this study, we consider an optimal control problem driven by a stochastic differential system with a stopping time terminal cost functional. We establish the stochastic maximum principle for this new kind of an optimal control problem by…
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…
In this paper, we study a stochastic optimal control problem under a type of consistent convex expectation dominated by G-expectation. By the separation theorem for convex sets, we get the representation theorems for this convex expectation…
We solve the problem of mean-variance hedging for general semimartingale models via stochastic control methods. After proving that the value process of the associated stochastic control problem has a quadratic structure, we characterize its…
We consider a stochastic control problem, where the control domain is convex and the system is governed by a nonlinear backward stochastic differential equation. With a L1 terminal data, we derive necessary optimality conditions in the form…
This article explores the discrete-time stochastic optimal LQR control with delay and quadratic constraints. The inclusion of delay, compared to delay-free optimal LQR control with quadratic constraints, significantly increases the…
We present a deep recurrent neural network architecture to solve a class of stochastic optimal control problems described by fully nonlinear Hamilton Jacobi Bellmanpartial differential equations. Such PDEs arise when one considers…
An optimal control problem is studied for a linear mean-field stochastic differential equation with a quadratic cost functional. The coefficients and the weighting matrices in the cost functional are all assumed to be deterministic.…
In this paper, we study the following nonlinear backward stochastic integral partial differential equation with jumps \begin{equation*} \left\{ \begin{split} -d V(t,x) =&\displaystyle\inf_{u\in U}\bigg\{H(t,x,u, DV(t,x),D \Phi(t,x), D^2…
The challenge of constructing feedback control laws for risk-averse optimal control of partial differential equations (PDEs) with random coefficients is addressed. The control objective composes a tracking-type cost with the nonlinear…