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In this paper, we continue our study on a general time-inconsistent stochastic linear--quadratic (LQ) control problem originally formulated in [6]. We derive a necessary and sufficient condition for equilibrium controls via a flow of…

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We consider a general class of mean field control problems described by stochastic delayed differential equations of McKean-Vlasov type. Two numerical algorithms are provided based on deep learning techniques, one is to directly…

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In this work, we propose a feedback control based temporal discretization for linear quadratic optimal control problems (LQ problems) governed by controlled mean-field stochastic differential equations. We firstly decompose the original…

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This paper deals with partially-observed optimal control problems for the state governed by stochastic differential equation with delay. We develop a stochastic maximum principle for this kind of optimal control problems using a variational…

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We analyze a class of multidimensional linear-quadratic stochastic control problems with random coefficients, motivated by multi-asset optimal trade execution. The problems feature non-diffusive controlled state dynamics and a terminal…

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This paper applies a reinforcement learning (RL) method to solve infinite horizon continuous-time stochastic linear quadratic problems, where drift and diffusion terms in the dynamics may depend on both the state and control. Based on…

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This paper is concerned with a general linear quadratic (LQ) control problem of mean-field backward stochastic differential equation (BSDE). Here, the weighting matrices in the cost functional are allowed to be indefinite. Necessary and…

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In this paper, we consider optimal control problems derived by stochastic systems with delay, where control domains are non-convex and the diffusion coefficients depend on control variables. By an estimate of the integral of…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2022-10-25 Qixia Zhang

Aiming for more realistic optimal dividend policies, we consider a stochastic control problem with linearly bounded control rates using a performance function given by the expected present value of dividend payments made up to ruin. In a…

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In this paper we study stochastic control problems with delayed information, that is, the control at time $t$ can depend only on the information observed before time $t-H$ for some delay parameter $H$. Such delay occurs frequently in…

Probability · Mathematics 2018-08-23 Yuri F. Saporito , Jianfeng Zhang

In this paper, we study the necessary and sufficient conditions for ensuring the well-posedness of the stochastic singular systems. Moreover, we investigate the stochastic singular linear-quadratic control problems, considering both finite…

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We investigate the asymptotic properties of a finite-time horizon linear-quadratic optimal control problem driven by a multiscale stochastic process with multiplicative Brownian noise. We approach the problem by considering the associated…

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This paper is concerned with a stochastic linear quadratic (LQ, for short) control problem with a recursive cost functional in an infinite horizon. A main difficult is well-posedness of the BSDE in $L^1$ and in infinite horizon. A notion of…

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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.…

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This paper is concerned with the existence of optimal controls for backward stochastic partial differential equations with random coefficients, in which the control systems are represented in an abstract evolution form, i.e. backward…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2016-12-07 Qingxin Meng , Yang Shen , Peng Shi

We study stochastic delay differential equations (SDDE) where the coefficients depend on the moving averages of the state process. As a first contribution, we provide sufficient conditions under which a linear path functional of the…

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In this paper, the solvability of discrete-time stochastic linear-quadratic (LQ) optimal control problem in finite horizon is considered. Firstly, it shows that the closed-loop solvability for the LQ control problem is optimal if and only…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2025-02-25 Yue Sun , Xianping Wu , Xun Li

We consider an Ito stochastic differential equation with delay, driven by brownian motion, whose solution, by an appropriate reformulation, defines a Markov process $X$ with values in a space of continuous functions $\mathbf C$, with…

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