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The path-integral control, which stems from the stochastic Hamilton-Jacobi-Bellman equation, is one of the methods to control stochastic nonlinear systems. This paper gives a new insight into nonlinear stochastic optimal control problems…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2021-09-14 Jun Ohkubo

High-dimensional stochastic optimal control (SOC) becomes harder with longer planning horizons: existing methods scale linearly in the horizon $T$, with performance often deteriorating exponentially. We overcome these limitations for a…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-03-25 Louis Claeys , Artur Goldman , Zebang Shen , Niao He

We study an agent's lifecycle portfolio choice problem with stochastic labor income, borrowing constraints and a finite retirement date. Similarly to arXiv:2002.00201, wages evolve in a path-dependent way, but the presence of a finite…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2024-02-27 Sara Biagini , Enrico Biffis , Fausto Gozzi , Margherita Zanella

This paper is concerned with an optimal control problem for a forward-backward stochastic differential equation (FBSDE, for short) with a recursive cost functional determined by a backward stochastic Volterra integral equation (BSVIE, for…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2022-09-20 Hanxiao Wang , Jiongmin Yong , Chao Zhou

We aim to provide a Feynman-Kac type representation for Hamilton-Jacobi-Bellman equation, in terms of forward backward stochastic differential equation (FBSDE) with a simulatable forward process. For this purpose, we introduce a class of…

Probability · Mathematics 2015-09-10 Idris Kharroubi , Huyên Pham

The aim of this work is to develop a deep learning method for solving high-dimensional stochastic control problems based on the Hamilton--Jacobi--Bellman (HJB) equation and physics-informed learning. Our approach is to parameterize the…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2025-06-23 Zhe Jiao , Wantao Jia , Weiqiu Zhu

Feynman's path integral approach is to sum over all possible spatio-temporal paths to reproduce the quantum wave function and the corresponding time evolution, which has enormous potential to reveal quantum processes in classical view.…

Feynman's path integral formulation arose from his attempt to incorporate the Lagrangian framework into quantum mechanics, offering what he regarded as a more fundamental perspective than the Hamiltonian approach, particularly in the…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-09-23 Bernat Frangi , Héctor López

In this note, we study a class of indefinite stochastic McKean-Vlasov linear-quadratic (LQ in short) control problem under the control taking nonnegative values. In contrast to the conventional issue, both the classical dynamic programming…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2023-10-05 Xun Li , Liangquan Zhang

A kink-based expression for the canonical partition function is developed using Feynman's path integral formulation of quantum mechanics and a discrete basis set. The approach is exact for a complete set of states. The method is tested on…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2009-11-07 Randall W. Hall

Path integral control in Gaussian belief space requires a structural matching condition between the observation-driven diffusion of the belief mean and the actuation authority, which a fixed observation matrix cannot enforce. We treat the…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2026-04-22 Goutam Das , Takashi Tanaka

This contribution mainly focuses on the finite horizon optimal control problems of a susceptible-infected-vaccinated(SIV) epidemic system governed by reaction-diffusion equations and Markov switching. Stochastic dynamic programming is…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2024-01-23 Zong Wang

We develop dual approaches for continuous-time stochastic control problems, enabling the computation of robust dual bounds in high-dimensional state and control spaces. Building on the dual formulation proposed in [L. C. G. Rogers, SIAM…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2026-04-10 Mathieu Laurière , Jiefei Yang

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

Discretizations of the Feynman-Kac path integral representation of the quantum mechanical density matrix are investigated. Each infinite-dimensional path integral is approximated by a Riemann integral over a finite-dimensional function…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2007-05-23 Stephen D. Bond , Brian B. Laird , Benedict J. Leimkuhler

For the description of a pandemic mathematical models could be interesting. Both for physicians and politicians as a base for decisions to treat the disease. The responsible estimation of parameters is a main issue of mathematical pandemic…

Populations and Evolution · Quantitative Biology 2020-04-15 Günter Bärwolff

We address the path-wise control of systems described by a set of nonlinear stochastic differential equations. For this class of systems, we introduce a notion of stochastic relative degree and a change of coordinates which transforms the…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-12-14 Alberto Mellone , Giordano Scarciotti

The path optimization method, which is proposed to control the sign problem in quantum field theories with continuous degrees of freedom by machine learning, is applied to a spin model with discrete degrees of freedom. The path optimization…

High Energy Physics - Lattice · Physics 2024-01-25 Kouji Kashiwa , Yusuke Namekawa , Akira Ohnishi , Hayato Takase

The Path integral Quantum Control (PiQC) algorithm was recently introduced by Villanueva et al. (2025) as a new approach for computing optimal controls in open and closed quantum systems. Originally proposed for pulse-based quantum control,…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-09-30 Peyman Najafi , Aarón Villanueva , Hilbert Kappen

In this research paper we modify a classical SIR model to better adapt to the dynamics of COVID-19, that is we propose the heterogeneous SQAIRD model where COVID-19 spreads over a population of economic agents, namely: the elderly, adults…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2021-05-19 Elena Gubar , Laura Policardo , Edgar J. Sanchez Carrera , Vladislav Taynitskiy