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We study optimal control for mean-field forward backward stochastic differential equations with payoff functionals of mean-field type. Sufficient and necessary optimality conditions in terms of a stochastic maximum principle are derived. As…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2019-05-14 Nacira Agram , Salah Eddine Choutri

We propose a deep learning approach to compute mean field control problems with individual noises. The problem consists of the Fokker-Planck (FP) equation and the Hamilton-Jacobi-Bellman (HJB) equation. Using the differential of the…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2025-05-20 Mo Zhou , Stanley Osher , Wuchen Li

This paper is devoted to the numerical resolution of McKean-Vlasov control problems via the class of mean-field neural networks introduced in our companion paper [25] in order to learn the solution on the Wasserstein space. We propose…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2024-03-20 Huyên Pham , Xavier Warin

In this paper we study stochastic optimal control problems of general fully coupled forward-backward stochastic differential equations (FBSDEs). In Li and Wei [8] the authors studied two cases of diffusion coefficients $\sigma$ of FSDEs, in…

Probability · Mathematics 2012-06-26 Juan Li

We study an optimal control problem of generalized mean-field dynamics with open-loop controls, where the coefficients depend not only on the state processes and controls, but also on the joint law of them. The value function $V$ defined in…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2024-08-16 Rainer Buckdahn , Juan Li , Zhanxin Li

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

This paper studies a class of mean-field control (MFC) problems with singular controls under general dynamic state-control-law constraints. We first propose a customized relaxed control formulation to cope with the dynamic mixed constraints…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2026-04-28 Lijun Bo , Jingfei Wang , Xiang Yu

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 project investigates numerical methods for solving fully coupled forward-backward stochastic differential equations (FBSDEs) of McKean-Vlasov type. Having numerical solvers for such mean field FBSDEs is of interest because of the…

In this paper, we study a kind of optimal control problem for forward-backward stochastic differential equations (FBSDEs for short) of McKean--Vlasov type via the dynamic programming principle (DPP for short) motivated by studying the…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2024-07-09 Liangquan Zhang

In this paper, we study the linear-quadratic control problem for mean-field backward stochastic differential equations (MF-BSDE) with random coefficients. We first derive a preliminary stochastic maximum principle to analyze the unique…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2025-03-04 Jie Xiong , Wen Xu , Ying Yang

Different from most of the previous works, this paper provides a thorough solution to the fundamental problems of linear-quadratic (LQ) control and stabilization for discrete-time mean-field systems under basic assumptions. Firstly, the…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2016-11-15 Huanshui Zhang , Qingyuan Qi

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

An optimal control problem is considered for linear stochastic differential equations with quadratic cost functional. The coefficients of the state equation and the weights in the cost functional are bounded operators on the spaces of…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2019-01-16 Qingmeng Wei , Jiongmin Yong , Zhiyong Yu

This paper studies a stochastic mean-field linear-quadratic Stackelberg differential game with random coefficients. The interaction between mean-field terms and random coefficients precludes the direct use of conventional decoupling…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2026-05-22 Ying Yang , Jie Xiong , Zhouyu Wang

This paper discusses the \( H_2/H_{\infty} \) control problem for continuous-time mean-field linear stochastic systems with affine terms over a finite horizon. We employ the Mean-Field Stochastic Bounded Real Lemma (MF-SBRL), which provides…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2025-07-29 Xuling Fang , Jun Moon , Maoning Tang , Qingxin Meng

This paper is concerned with linear quadratic optimal control problems for mean-field backward stochastic differential equations (MF-BSDEs, for short) with deterministic coefficients. The optimality system, which is a linear mean-field…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2016-10-11 Xun Li , Jingrui Sun , Jie Xiong

It is well known that time dependent Hamilton-Jacobi-Isaacs partial differential equations (HJ PDE), play an important role in analyzing continuous dynamic games and control theory problems. An important tool for such problems when they…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2016-05-09 Jérôme Darbon , Stanley Osher

The classical stochastic control problem under partial information can be formulated as a control problem for Zakai equation, whose solution is the unnormalized conditional probability distribution of the state of the system. Zakai equation…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2019-09-27 Alain Bensoussan , Sheung Chi Phillip Yam

One of the core problems in mean-field control and mean-field games is to solve the corresponding McKean-Vlasov forward-backward stochastic differential equations (MV-FBSDEs). Most existing methods are tailored to special cases in which the…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2023-09-20 Jiequn Han , Ruimeng Hu , Jihao Long