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Controlling systems of ordinary differential equations (ODEs) is ubiquitous in science and engineering. For finding an optimal feedback controller, the value function and associated fundamental equations such as the Bellman equation and the…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2021-04-14 Mathias Oster , Leon Sallandt , Reinhold Schneider

We consider deterministic mean field games where the dynamics of a typical agent is non-linear with respect to the state variable and affine with respect to the control variable. Particular instances of the problem considered here are mean…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2022-12-21 Justina Gianatti , Francisco J. Silva

We propose and investigate a general class of discrete time and finite state space mean field game (MFG) problems with potential structure. Our model incorporates interactions through a congestion term and a price variable. It also allows…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2023-03-07 J. Frédéric Bonnans , Pierre Lavigne , Laurent Pfeiffer

We study a family of optimal control problems in which one aims at minimizing a cost that mixes a quadratic control penalization and the variance of the system, both for finitely many agents and for the mean-field dynamics as their number…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2021-07-30 Benoît Bonnet , Francesco Rossi

We introduce a family of discontinuous Galerkin methods to approximate the eigenvalues and eigenfunctions of a Stokes-Brinkman type of problem based in the interior penalty strategy. Under the standard assumptions on the meshes and a…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2025-07-17 Felipe Lepe , Gonzalo Rivera , Jesus Vellojin

This paper develops a policy gradient method for entropy-regularized mean-field control in the discounted infinite-horizon setting. We consider randomized feedback policies and a coupled representative-particle/population system, in which…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2026-05-21 Erhan Bayraktar , Martin Hernandez , Qinxin Yan , Yuhua Zhu

This work examines the distributed optimal control of generalized Oseen equations with non-constant viscosity. We propose and analyze a new conforming augmented mixed finite element method and a Discontinuous Galerkin (DG) method for the…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2025-08-18 Harpal Singh , Arbaz Khan

We study a family of McKean-Vlasov (mean-field) type ergodic optimal control problems with linear control, and quadratic dependence on control of the cost function. For this class of problems we establish existence and uniqueness of an…

Probability · Mathematics 2021-05-26 Sergio Albeverio , Francesco C. De Vecchi , Andrea Romano , Stefania Ugolini

In this work, we study a class of mean-field linear quadratic Gaussian (LQG) problems. Under suitable conditions, explicit solutions of the distribution-dependent optimal control problems are obtained. Riccati systems are derived by…

Probability · Mathematics 2020-08-28 Yun Li , Qingshuo Song , Fuke Wu , George Yin

High-dimensional PDEs have been a longstanding computational challenge. We propose to solve high-dimensional PDEs by approximating the solution with a deep neural network which is trained to satisfy the differential operator, initial…

Mathematical Finance · Quantitative Finance 2018-10-17 Justin Sirignano , Konstantinos Spiliopoulos

We study the optimal control of general stochastic McKean-Vlasov equation. Such problem is motivated originally from the asymptotic formulation of cooperative equilibrium for a large population of particles (players) in mean-field…

Probability · Mathematics 2017-01-06 Huyên Pham , Xiaoli Wei

This paper is devoted to the numerical analysis of a control constrained distributed optimal control problem subject to a time fractional diffusion equation with non-smooth initial data. The solutions of state and co-state are decomposed…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2020-10-06 Tao Wang , Binjie Li , Xiaoping Xie

A general bilinear optimal control problem subject to an infinite-dimensional state equation is considered. Polynomial approximations of the associated value function are derived around the steady state by repeated formal differentiation of…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2017-06-19 Tobias Breiten , Karl Kunisch , Laurent Pfeiffer

We study the Bellman equation in the Wasserstein space arising in the study of mean field control problems, namely stochastic optimal control problems for McKean-Vlasov diffusion processes.Using the standard notion of viscosity solution \`a…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2022-02-10 Andrea Cosso , Fausto Gozzi , Idris Kharroubi , Huyên Pham , Mauro Rosestolato

In this paper we study a mean field model for discrete time, finite number of states, dynamic games. These models arise in situations that involve a very large number of agents moving from state to state according to certain optimality…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2009-03-10 Diogo A. Gomes , Joana Mohr , Rafael R. Souza

We consider fully discrete finite element approximations for a semilinear optimal control system of partial differential equations in two cases: for distributed and Robin boundary control. The ecological predator-prey optimal control model…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2024-04-25 EFthymios N. Karatzas

This paper treats the Merton problem how to invest in safe assets and risky assets to maximize an investor's utility, given by investment opportunities modeled by a $d$-dimensional state process. The problem is represented by a partial…

Portfolio Management · Quantitative Finance 2021-02-01 Daeyung Gim , Hyungbin Park

In this paper, we consider discrete-time partially observed mean-field games with the risk-sensitive optimality criterion. We introduce risk-sensitivity behaviour for each agent via an exponential utility function. In the game model, each…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-11-11 Naci Saldi , Tamer Basar , Maxim Raginsky

This paper proposes a new framework to model control systems in which a dynamic friction occurs. The model consists in a controlled differential inclusion with a discontinuous right hand side, which still preserves existence and uniqueness…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2020-12-02 Fabio Tedone , Michele Palladino

These notes present preliminary results regarding two different approximations of linear infinite-horizon optimal control problems arising in model predictive control. Input and state trajectories are parametrized with basis functions and a…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2016-09-04 Michael Muehlebach , Raffaello D'Andrea