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A dual control problem is presented for the optimal stochastic control of a system governed by partial differential equations. Relationships between the optimal values of the original and the dual problems are investigated and two duality…

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Optimal control of heterogeneous mean-field stochastic differential equations with common noise has not been addressed in the literature. In this work, we initiate the study of such models. We formulate the problem within a linear-quadratic…

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In this paper, we study the maximum principle of mean field type control problems when the volatility function depends on the state and its measure and also the control, by using our recently developed method. Our method is to embed the…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2023-09-14 Alain Bensoussan , Ziyu Huang , Sheung Chi Phillip Yam

In this paper, we solve an optimal control problem governed by a system of mean-field stochastic differential equations with multiple defaults (MMFSDEs). We transform the global optimal control problem into several optimal control…

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In this paper, we consider the stochastic optimal control problem for a generalized Volterra control system. The corresponding state process is a kind of a generalized stochastic Volterra integral differential equations. We prove the…

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Our paper is devoted to the study of Peng's stochastic maximum principle (SMP) for a stochastic control problem composed of a controlled forward stochastic differential equation (SDE) as dynamics and a controlled backward SDE which defines…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2024-04-11 Rainer Buckdahn , Juan Li , Yanwei Li , Yi Wang

This paper is concerned with a constrained stochastic linear-quadratic optimal control problem, in which the terminal state is fixed and the initial state is constrained to lie in a stochastic linear manifold. The controllability of…

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We consider a stochastic control problem where the set of strict (classical) controls is not necessarily convex and the the variable control has two components, the first being absolutely continuous and the second singular. The system is…

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In this paper, we study the maximum principle for stochastic optimal control problems of forward-backward stochastic difference systems (FBS{\Delta}Ss) where the uncertainty is modeled by a discrete time, finite state process, rather than…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2019-07-10 Shailin Ji , Haodong Liu

We consider a data-driven formulation of the classical discrete-time stochastic control problem. Our approach exploits the natural structure of many such problems, in which significant portions of the system are uncontrolled. Employing the…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2025-08-25 Boris Baros , Samuel N. Cohen , Christoph Reisinger

We derive a framework to compute optimal controls for problems with states in the space of probability measures. Since many optimal control problems constrained by a system of ordinary differential equations (ODE) modelling interacting…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2020-09-23 Martin Burger , René Pinnau , Claudia Totzeck , Oliver Tse

This paper investigates the near optimal control for a kind of linear stochastic control systems governed by the forward backward stochastic differential equations, where both the drift and diffusion terms are allowed to depend on controls…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2015-01-23 Liangquan Zhang , Jianhui Huang , Xun Li

Conditional McKean-Vlasov control problems involve controlling McKean-Vlasov diffusions where the interaction occurs through the law of the state process conditionally on it staying in a domain. Introduced by Lions in his 2016 lectures at…

Probability · Mathematics 2025-10-09 René Carmona , Ludovic Tangpi , Kaiwen Zhang

We consider a control problem where the system is driven by a decoupled as well as a coupled forward-backward stochastic differential equation. We prove the existence of an optimal control in the class of relaxed controls, which are…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2017-01-31 Fouzia Baghery , Nabil Khelfallah , Brahim Mezerdi , Isabelle Turpin

We consider a control problem constrained by the unsteady stochastic Stokes equations with nonhomogeneous boundary conditions in connected and bounded domains. In this paper, controls are defined inside the domain as well as on the…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2018-09-05 Peter Benner , Christoph Trautwein

In this paper, we derive sufficient and necessary maximum principles for a stochastic optimal control problem where the system state is given by a controlled stochastic differential equation with default. We prove existence of a unique…

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In this paper, we analyze mean-field game modulated by finite states markov chains. We first develop a sufficient stochastic maximum principle for the optimal control of a Markov-modulated stochastic differential equation (SDE) of…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2014-05-22 Yongming Tai

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

The aim of this notes is to give a concise introduction to control theory for systems governed by stochastic partial differential equations. We shall mainly focus on controllability and optimal control problems for these systems. For the…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2021-01-27 Qi Lü , Xu Zhang