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This paper studies finite-horizon stochastic linear-quadratic optimal control problems with random coefficients and Poisson jumps, where the weighting matrices may be random and indefinite. Under a uniform convexity condition on the cost…

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We provide a thorough study of a general class of linear-quadratic extended mean field games and control problems in any dimensions where the mean field terms are allowed to be unbounded and there are also presence of cross terms in the…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2023-11-10 Alain Bensoussan , Bohan Li , Sheung Chi Phillip Yam

This paper introduces a generalization of the well-known Riccati recursion for solving the discrete-time equality-constrained linear quadratic optimal control problem. The recursion can be used to compute the solutions as well as optimal…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2024-12-31 Lander Vanroye , Joris De Schutter , Wilm Decré

We consider the infinite dimensional linear programming (inf-LP) approach for solving stochastic control problems. The inf-LP corresponding to problems with uncountable state and input spaces is in general computationally intractable. By…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2018-10-16 Maryam Kamgarpour , Tyler Summers

This paper addresses a Stackelberg stochastic linear-quadratic (LQ) differential game under closed-loop information, a problem inherently time-inconsistent. Existing approaches rely on solving two coupled Hamilton-Jacobi-Bellman (HJB)…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2026-04-27 Qi Lü , Bowen Ma , Hanxiao Wang

In this paper, we examine a stochastic linear-quadratic control problem characterized by regime switching and Poisson jumps. All the coefficients in the problem are random processes adapted to the filtration generated by Brownian motion and…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2024-12-30 Xiaomin Shi , Zuo Quan Xu

We provide an exhaustive treatment of Linear-Quadratic control problems for a class of stochastic Volterra equations of convolution type, whose kernels are Laplace transforms of certain signed matrix measures which are not necessarily…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2020-11-30 Eduardo Abi Jaber , Enzo Miller , Huyên Pham

This paper investigates the optimal co-design of logical and continuous controls for switched linear systems governed by controlled logical switching dynamics. Unlike traditional switched systems with arbitrary or state-dependent switching,…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2026-03-25 Xiao Zhang , Min Meng , Changxi Li , Ka-Fai Cedric Yiu

We study the performance of the certainty equivalent controller on Linear Quadratic (LQ) control problems with unknown transition dynamics. We show that for both the fully and partially observed settings, the sub-optimality gap between the…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2019-06-25 Horia Mania , Stephen Tu , Benjamin Recht

This paper investigates numerical methods for solving stochastic linear quadratic (SLQ) optimal control problems governed by stochastic partial differential equations (SPDEs). Two distinct approaches, the open-loop and closed-loop ones, are…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2024-11-19 Andreas Prohl , Yanqing Wang

This paper studies indefinite stochastic linear-quadratic (LQ) optimal control for jump-diffusion systems with random coefficients. We construct an algebraic inverse flow from the zero-control base system, extract the semimartingale kernel…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2026-05-14 Xinyu Ma , Qingxin Meng

A time-inconsistent optimal control problem is formulated and studied for a controlled linear ordinary differential equation with quadratic cost functional. A notion of equilibrium control is introduced, which can be regarded as a…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2012-04-10 Jiongmin Yong

In this contribution, we introduce an efficient method for solving the optimal control problem for an unconstrained nonlinear switched system with an arbitrary cost function. We assume that the sequence of the switching modes are given but…

Systems and Control · Computer Science 2017-11-08 Farbod Farshidian , Maryam Kamgarpour , Diego Pardo , Jonas Buchli

In this paper, we consider the problem of distributed optimal control of linear dynamical systems with a quadratic cost criterion. We study the case of output feedback control for two interconnected dynamical systems, and show that the…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2012-04-18 Ather Gattami , Omid Khorsand

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

This paper is concerned with uniform stabilization and social optimality for general mean field linear quadratic control systems, where subsystems are coupled via individual dynamics and costs, and the state weight is not assumed with the…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2020-03-02 Bing-Chang Wang , Huanshui Zhang , Ji-Feng Zhang

This paper mainly investigates the optimal control and stabilization problems for linear discrete-time Markov jump systems. The general case for the finite-horizon optimal controller is considered, where the input weighting matrix in the…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2018-03-15 Chunyan Han , Hongdan Li , Wei Wang , Huanshui Zhang

In this paper, we consider a discrete-time stochastic control problem with uncertain initial and target states. We first discuss the connection between optimal transport and stochastic control problems of this form. Next, we formulate a…

This paper focuses on the linear quadratic control (LQC) design of systems corrupted by both stochastic noise and bounded noise simultaneously. When only of these noises are considered, the LQC strategy leads to stochastic or robust…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2025-12-15 Xuehui Ma , Shiliang Zhang , Xiaohui Zhang , Jing Xin , Hector Garcia de Marina

In this study, we provide an interpretation of the dual differential Riccati equation of Linear-Quadratic (LQ) optimal control problems. Adopting a novel viewpoint, we show that LQ optimal control can be seen as a regression problem over…

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