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In this work, we concern with the high order numerical methods for coupled forward-backward stochastic differential equations (FBSDEs). Based on the FBSDEs theory, we derive two reference ordinary differential equations (ODEs) from the…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2014-03-27 Weidong Zhao , Yu Fu , Tao Zhou

In [5] the authors obtained Mean-Field backward stochastic differential equations (BSDE) associated with a Mean-field stochastic differential equation (SDE) in a natural way as limit of some highly dimensional system of forward and backward…

Probability · Mathematics 2007-11-21 Rainer Buckdahn , Juan Li , Shige Peng

The optimal stopping problem is one of the core problems in financial markets, with broad applications such as pricing American and Bermudan options. The deep BSDE method [Han, Jentzen and E, PNAS, 115(34):8505-8510, 2018] has shown great…

Probability · Mathematics 2023-08-28 Chengfan Gao , Siping Gao , Ruimeng Hu , Zimu Zhu

In this work, we propose a novel backward differential deep learning-based algorithm for solving high-dimensional nonlinear backward stochastic differential equations (BSDEs), where the deep neural network (DNN) models are trained not only…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2024-04-15 Lorenc Kapllani , Long Teng

We establish an existence and uniqueness result for a class of multidimensional quadratic backward stochastic differential equations (BSDE). This class is characterized by constraints on some uniform a priori estimate on solutions of a…

Probability · Mathematics 2018-03-12 Jonathan Harter , Adrien Richou

Backward stochastic differential equation (BSDE) provides probabilistic solutions for a class of parabolic partial differential equations (PDEs). DeepBSDE and FBSNN are two deep learning approaches for solving high-dimensional PDEs through…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2026-04-29 Zhao Zhang , Zhuopeng Hou

There is a growing literature adopting a stochastic optimal control (SOC) perspective to fine-tune diffusion models and related generative policies. A prominent class of methods, known as iterative diffusion optimization, solves the SOC…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2026-03-24 Yuhang Mei , Amirhossein Taghvaei

This work deals with backward stochastic differential equation (BSDE) with random marked jumps, and their applications to default risk. We show that these BSDEs are linked with Brownian BSDEs through the decomposition of processes with…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2012-06-05 Idris Kharroubi , Thomas Lim

Backward Stochastic Differential Equations (BSDEs) have been widely employed in various areas of social and natural sciences, such as the pricing and hedging of financial derivatives, stochastic optimal control problems, optimal stopping…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2023-04-10 Jared Chessari , Reiichiro Kawai , Yuji Shinozaki , Toshihiro Yamada

Backward stochastic differential equations (BSDEs) belong nowadays to the most frequently studied equations in stochastic analysis and computational stochastics. In this paper we prove that Picard iterations of BSDEs with globally Lipschitz…

Probability · Mathematics 2022-10-05 Arzu Ahmadova , Nazim I. Mahmudov

We introduce the deep multi-FBSDE method for robust approximation of coupled forward-backward stochastic differential equations (FBSDEs), focusing on cases where the deep BSDE method of Han, Jentzen, and E (2018) fails to converge. To…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2025-06-03 Kristoffer Andersson , Adam Andersson , Cornelis W. Oosterlee

Two discretizations of a class of locally Lipschitz Markovian backward stochastic differential equations (BSDEs) are studied. The first is the classical Euler scheme which approximates a projection of the processes Z, and the second a novel…

Probability · Mathematics 2014-08-21 Plamen Turkedjiev

We introduce multilevel Picard (MLP) approximations for McKean--Vlasov stochastic differential equations (SDEs) with nonconstant diffusion coefficient. Under standard Lipschitz assumptions on the coefficients, we show that the MLP algorithm…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2025-11-25 Ariel Neufeld , Tuan Anh Nguyen , Philipp Schmocker

Partial differential equations (PDEs) are a fundamental tool in the modeling of many real world phenomena. In a number of such real world phenomena the PDEs under consideration contain gradient-dependent nonlinearities and are…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2021-10-12 Martin Hutzenthaler , Arnulf Jentzen , Thomas Kruse

Forward-backward stochastic differential equations (FBSDEs) have been generalized by introducing jumps for better capturing random phenomena, while the resulting FBSDEs are far more intricate than the standard one from every perspective. In…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2024-10-15 Reiichiro Kawai , Riu Naito , Toshihiro Yamada

We propose a new algorithm for solving parabolic partial differential equations (PDEs) and backward stochastic differential equations (BSDEs) in high dimension, by making an analogy between the BSDE and reinforcement learning with the…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2020-07-14 Weinan E , Jiequn Han , Arnulf Jentzen

This paper introduces a new approximation scheme for solving high-dimensional semilinear partial differential equations (PDEs) and backward stochastic differential equations (BSDEs). First, we decompose a target semilinear PDE (BSDE) into…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2022-02-09 Akihiko Takahashi , Yoshifumi Tsuchida , Toshihiro Yamada

A new asymptotic expansion scheme for backward SDEs (BSDEs) is proposed.The perturbation parameter is introduced just to scale the forward stochastic variables within a BSDE. In contrast to the standard small-diffusion asymptotic expansion…

Computational Finance · Quantitative Finance 2014-12-23 Masaaki Fujii

We study backward stochastic differential equations (BSDEs) in infinite horizon and design efficient numerical schemes for solving them. We establish a probabilistic representation of the solution of the BSDE using Malliavin derivative and…

Probability · Mathematics 2026-04-28 Emmanuel Gobet , Adrien Richou , Charu Shardul

A backward stochastic differential equation (BSDE) is an SDE of the form $-dY_t = f(t,Y_t,Z_t)dt - Z_t^*dW_t;\ Y_T = \xi$. The subject of BSDEs has seen extensive attention since their introduction in the linear case by Bismut (1973) and in…

Probability · Mathematics 2023-12-13 Weiye Yang