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The Feynman-Kac formulae (FKF) express local solutions of partial differential equations (PDEs) as expectations with respect to some complementary stochastic differential equation (SDE). Repeatedly sampling paths from the complementary SDE…

Methodology · Statistics 2016-03-15 Jake Carson , Murray Pollock , Mark Girolami

The work of Kalman and Bucy has established a duality between filtering and optimal estimation in the context of time-continuous linear systems. This duality has recently been extended to time-continuous nonlinear systems in terms of an…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2023-08-15 Jin Won Kim , Sebastian Reich

In this paper, we consider the fully coupled forward-backward stochastic functional differential equations (FBSFDEs) with stochastic functional differential equations as the forward equations and the generalized anticipated backward…

Probability · Mathematics 2013-12-05 Xiaoming Xu

Fully coupled McKean-Vlasov forward-backward stochastic differential equations (MV-FBSDEs) arise naturally from large population optimization problems. Judging the quality of given numerical solutions for MV-FBSDEs, which usually require…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2023-06-08 Christoph Reisinger , Wolfgang Stockinger , Yufei Zhang

This is one of our series papers on multistep schemes for solving forward backward stochastic differential equations (FBSDEs) and related problems. Here we extend (with non-trivial updates) our multistep schemes in [W. Zhao, Y. Fu and T.…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2015-02-12 Kong Tao , Weidong Zhao , Tao Zhou

We analyze a stochastic optimal control problem, where the state process follows a McKean-Vlasov dynamics and the diffusion coefficient can be degenerate. We prove that its value function V admits a nonlinear Feynman-Kac representation in…

Probability · Mathematics 2016-11-15 Erhan Bayraktar , Andrea Cosso , Huyên Pham

The classical Feynman-Kac formula states the connection between linear parabolic partial differential equations (PDEs), like the heat equation, and expectation of stochastic processes driven by Brownian motion. It gives then a method for…

Probability · Mathematics 2014-09-03 Huyen Pham

We extend the notion of forward performance criteria to settings with random endowment in incomplete markets. Building on these results, we introduce and develop the novel concept of \textit{forward optimized certainty equivalent (forward…

Portfolio Management · Quantitative Finance 2025-10-29 Gechun Liang , Yifan Sun , Thaleia Zariphopoulou

We propose a new probabilistic numerical scheme for fully nonlinear equation of Hamilton-Jacobi-Bellman (HJB) type associated to stochastic control problem, which is based on the Feynman-Kac representation in [12] by means of control…

Probability · Mathematics 2019-06-28 Idris Kharroubi , Nicolas Langrené , Huyên Pham

In this paper, we propose a deep forward-backward stochastic differential equation (FBSDE) based control algorithm for locomotion tasks. We also include state constraints in the FBSDE formulation to impose stable walking solutions or other…

Robotics · Computer Science 2021-07-19 Bolun Dai , Virinchi Roy Surabhi , Prashanth Krishnamurthy , Farshad Khorrami

In this paper, we are concerned with the numerical solution for the backward fractional Feynman-Kac equation with non-smooth initial data. Here we first provide the regularity estimate of the solution. And then we use the backward Euler and…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2020-06-23 Jing Sun , Daxin Nie , Weihua Deng

Forward-backward stochastic differential equations (FBSDEs) have attracted significant attention since they were introduced almost 30 years ago, due to their wide range of applications, from solving non-linear PDEs to pricing American-type…

Probability · Mathematics 2022-09-21 Elena Issoglio , Shuai Jing

In this paper,we mainly focus on the numerical solution of high-dimensional stochastic optimal control problem driven by fully-coupled forward-backward stochastic differential equations (FBSDEs in short) through deep learning. We first…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2024-08-21 Shaolin Ji , Shige Peng , Ying Peng , Xichuan Zhang

We propose an {\em implementable} numerical scheme for the discretization of linear-quadratic optimal control problems involving SDEs in higher dimensions with {\em control constraint}. For time discretization, we employ the implicit Euler…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2024-12-12 Abhishek Chaudhary

We propose a numerical recipe for risk evaluation defined by a backward stochastic differential equation. Using dual representation of the risk measure, we convert the risk valuation to a stochastic control problem where the control is a…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2020-08-24 Andrzej Ruszczynski , Jianing Yao

In this paper, we study an optimal control problem of linear backward stochastic differential equation (BSDE) with quadratic cost functional under partial information. This problem is solved completely and explicitly by using a stochastic…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2020-12-16 Guangchen Wang , Wencan Wang , Zhiguo Yan

In this paper we study stochastic optimal control problems of general fully coupled forward-backward stochastic differential equations (FBSDEs). In Li and Wei [8] the authors studied two cases of diffusion coefficients $\sigma$ of FSDEs, in…

Probability · Mathematics 2012-06-26 Juan Li

In this paper we study stochastic optimal control problems of fully coupled forward-backward stochastic differential equations (FBSDEs). The recursive cost functionals are defined by controlled fully coupled FBSDEs. We study two cases of…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2013-02-06 Juan Li , Qingmeng Wei

We study optimal stochastic control problem for non-Markovian stochastic differential equations (SDEs) where the drift, diffusion coefficients, and gain functionals are path-dependent, and importantly we do not make any ellipticity…

Probability · Mathematics 2013-11-04 Marco Fuhrman , Huyên Pham

We propose two numerical methods for the optimal control of McKean-Vlasov dynamics in finite time horizon. Both methods are based on the introduction of a suitable loss function defined over the parameters of a neural network. This allows…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2021-03-31 René Carmona , Mathieu Laurière