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In this paper, we aim to solve the high dimensional stochastic optimal control problem from the view of the stochastic maximum principle via deep learning. By introducing the extended Hamiltonian system which is essentially an FBSDE with a…

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This paper studies an optimal dividend problem for a company that aims to maximize the mean-variance (MV) objective of the accumulated discounted dividend payments up to its ruin time. The MV objective involves an integral form over a…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2025-08-19 Jingyi Cao , Dongchen Li , Virginia R. Young , Bin Zou

The Hamilton Jacobi Bellman Equation (HJB) provides the globally optimal solution to large classes of control problems. Unfortunately, this generality comes at a price, the calculation of such solutions is typically intractible for systems…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2014-09-23 Matanya B. Horowitz , Anil Damle , Joel W. Burdick

We consider a two-dimensional optimal dividend problem in the context of two branches of an insurance company with compound Poisson surplus processes dividing claims and premia in some specified proportions. We solve the stochastic control…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2018-04-12 Pablo Azcue , Nora Muler , Zbigniew Palmowski

In this paper we introduce a deep learning method for pricing and hedging American-style options. It first computes a candidate optimal stopping policy. From there it derives a lower bound for the price. Then it calculates an upper bound, a…

Computational Finance · Quantitative Finance 2021-03-23 Sebastian Becker , Patrick Cheridito , Arnulf Jentzen

We present an analytic solution of a differential-difference equation that appears when one solves an optimal stopping time problem with state process following a jump-diffusion process. This equation occurs in the context of real options…

Classical Analysis and ODEs · Mathematics 2019-01-29 Cláudia Nunes , Rita Pimentel , Ana Prior

We show how to solve Merton optimal investment stochastic control problem for Hawkes-based models in finance and insurance, i.e., for a wealth portfolio X(t) consisting of a bond and a stock price described by general compound Hawkes…

Portfolio Management · Quantitative Finance 2021-05-04 Anatoliy Swishchuk

We consider a spread financial market defined by the multidimensional Ornstein--Uhlenbeck (OU) process. We study the optimal consumption/investment problem for logarithmic utility functions in the base of stochastic dynamical programming…

Portfolio Management · Quantitative Finance 2018-09-24 Sahar Albosaily , Serguei Pergamenshchikov

Our goal is to analyze the system of Hamilton-Jacobi-Bellman equations arising in derivative securities pricing models. The European style of an option price is constructed as a difference of the certainty equivalents to the value functions…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2021-08-31 Pedro Polvora , Daniel Sevcovic

We assume a continuous-time price impact model similar to Almgren-Chriss but with the added assumption that the price impact parameters are stochastic processes modeled as correlated scalar Markov diffusions. In this setting, we develop…

Trading and Market Microstructure · Quantitative Finance 2018-04-13 Weston Barger , Matthew Lorig

We develop a novel deep learning approach for pricing European basket options written on assets that follow jump-diffusion dynamics. The option pricing problem is formulated as a partial integro-differential equation, which is approximated…

Computational Finance · Quantitative Finance 2026-02-10 Emmanuil H. Georgoulis , Antonis Papapantoleon , Costas Smaragdakis

The paper studies a system of first order Hamilton-Jacobi equations with discontinuous coefficients, arising from a model of deterministic optimal debt management in infinite time horizon, with exponential discount and currency devaluation.…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2021-02-09 Antonio Marigonda , Khai T. Nguyen

A hyperbolic integro-differential equation is considered, as a model problem, where the convolution kernel is assumed to be either smooth or no worse than weakly singular. Well-posedness of the problem is studied in the context of semigroup…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2013-03-12 Fardin Saedpanah

This paper concerns an optimal dividend distribution problem for an insurance company with surplus-dependent premium. In the absence of dividend payments, such a risk process is a particular case of so-called piecewise deterministic Markov…

Portfolio Management · Quantitative Finance 2016-04-26 Ewa Marciniak , Zbigniew Palmowski

We study optimal investment problem for a diffusion market consisting of a finite number of risky assets (for example, bonds, stocks and options). Risky assets evolution is described by Ito's equation, and the number of risky assets can be…

Probability · Mathematics 2008-12-02 Nikolai Dokuchaev

We consider fully nonlinear Hamilton-Jacobi-Bellman equations associated to diffusion control problems involving a finite set-valued (or switching) control and possibly a continuum-valued control. We construct a lower complexity…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2016-05-11 Marianne Akian , Eric Fodjo

In recent years, a significant amount of attention has been paid to solve partial differential equations (PDEs) by deep learning. For example, deep Galerkin method (DGM) uses the PDE residual in the least-squares sense as the loss function…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2020-06-09 Liyao Lyu , Zhen Zhang , Minxin Chen , Jingrun Chen

Physics-informed neural solvers offer a promising route to model-based reinforcement learning in continuous time, where optimal feedback synthesis is governed by Hamilton--Jacobi--Bellman (HJB) equations. Practical implementations often…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-05-11 Minseok Kim , Yeongjong Kim , Namkyeong Cho , Yeoneung Kim

In this work, we propose a class of numerical schemes for solving semilinear Hamilton-Jacobi-Bellman-Isaacs (HJBI) boundary value problems which arise naturally from exit time problems of diffusion processes with controlled drift. We…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2020-02-14 Kazufumi Ito , Christoph Reisinger , Yufei Zhang

We use a neural network to identify the optimal solution to a family of optimal investment problems, where the parameters determining an investor's risk and consumption preferences are given as inputs to the neural network in addition to…

Computational Finance · Quantitative Finance 2025-11-11 John Armstrong , Cristin Buescu , James Dalby , Rohan Hobbs