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This paper studies a robust stochastic control problem with a monotone mean-variance cost functional and random coefficients. The main technique is to find the saddle point through two backward stochastic differential equations (BSDEs) with…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2024-08-19 Yuyang Chen , Tianjiao Hua , Peng Luo

The subject of this work has its roots in the so called Schroedginer Bridge Problem (SBP) which asks for the most likely distribution of Brownian particles in their passage between observed empirical marginal distributions at two distinct…

Systems and Control · Computer Science 2016-08-15 Yongxin Chen , Tryphon T. Georgiou , Michele Pavon

This paper deals with partially-observed optimal control problems for the state governed by stochastic differential equation with delay. We develop a stochastic maximum principle for this kind of optimal control problems using a variational…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2020-10-15 Shuaiqi Zhang , Xun Li , Jie Xiong

This paper introduces a dynamic formulation of divergence-regularized optimal transport with weak targets on the path space. In our formulation, the classical relative entropy penalty is replaced by a general convex divergence, and terminal…

Probability · Mathematics 2026-03-31 Camilo Hernández , Ludovic Tangpi

A new method for stochastic control based on neural networks and using randomisation of discrete random variables is proposed and applied to optimal stopping time problems. The method models directly the policy and does not need the…

Computational Finance · Quantitative Finance 2021-01-11 Thomas Deschatre , Joseph Mikael

Stochastic optimal control problems have a long tradition in applied probability, with the questions addressed being of high relevance in a multitude of fields. Even though theoretical solutions are well understood in many scenarios, their…

Statistics Theory · Mathematics 2024-05-28 Sören Christensen , Claudia Strauch , Lukas Trottner

In this paper, we consider a state constrained optimal control problem governed by the transient Stokes equations. The state constraint is given by an L2 functional in space, which is required to fulfill a pointwise bound in time. The…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2026-05-20 Dmitriy Leykekhman , Boris Vexler , Jakob Wagner

This paper exploit the equivalence between the Schr\"odinger Bridge problem and the entropy penalized optimal transport in order to find a different approach to the duality, in the spirit of optimal transport. This approach results in a…

Probability · Mathematics 2019-11-19 Simone Di Marino , Augusto Gerolin

An initial-boundary value problem for the $n$-dimensional ($n\geq 2$) time-dependent Schr\"odinger equation in a semi-infinite (or infinite) parallelepiped is considered. Starting from the Numerov-Crank-Nicolson finite-difference scheme, we…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2026-01-05 Bernard Ducomet , Alexander Zlotnik , Alla Romanova

In this paper, we mainly focus on solving high-dimensional stochastic Hamiltonian systems with boundary condition, which is essentially a Forward Backward Stochastic Differential Equation (FBSDE in short), and propose a novel method from…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2021-12-13 Shaolin Ji , Shige Peng , Ying Peng , Xichuan Zhang

Conventional stochastic control methods have several limitations. They focus on optimizing the average performance and, in some cases, performance variability; however, their problem settings still require an explicit specification of the…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2026-03-12 Yuma Shida , Yuji Ito

We study distributed optimization problems over a network when the communication between the nodes is constrained, and so information that is exchanged between the nodes must be quantized. This imperfect communication poses a fundamental…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2018-10-30 Thinh T. Doan , Siva Theja Maguluri , Justin Romberg

We consider the Schr{\"o}dinger bridge problem in discrete time, where the pathwise cost is replaced by a sum of quadratic functions, taking the form of a linear quadratic regulator (LQR) cost. This cost comprises potential terms that act…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2025-11-25 Marc Lambert

We propose an {\em implementable} numerical scheme for the discretization of linear-quadratic optimal control problems involving SDEs in higher dimensions with {\em control constraint}. For time discretization, we employ the implicit Euler…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2024-12-12 Abhishek Chaudhary

In this work, we study a discrete Schr\"odinger bridge problem with partial marginal observations. A main difficulty compared to the classical Schr\"odinger bridge formulation is that our problem is not strictly convex and standard…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2026-04-08 Michele Mascherpa , Victor Molnö , Carsten Skovmose Kallesøe , Johan Karlsson

We study nonparametric estimation of Schr\"odinger bridge (SB) drifts from i.i.d.\ data observed on a single time interval. Starting from the conditional-ratio form of the Schr\"odinger bridge time-series (SBTS) drift formula, we analyze a…

Statistics Theory · Mathematics 2026-05-08 Othmane Mazhar , Huyên Pham

We consider the Schr\"odinger bridge problem which, given ensemble measurements of the initial and final configurations of a stochastic dynamical system and some prior knowledge on the dynamics, aims to reconstruct the "most likely"…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2026-02-04 Stephen Y. Zhang , Michael P H Stumpf

We consider a system described by a controlled bilinear Schr{\"o}dinger equation with three external inputs. We provide a constructive method to approximately steer the system from a given energy level to a superposition of energy levels…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2015-02-25 Paolo Mason , Francesca Chittaro

The boundary control problem is a non-convex optimization and control problem in many scientific domains, including fluid mechanics, structural engineering, and heat transfer optimization. The aim is to find the optimal values for the…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-10-25 Zenin Easa Panthakkalakath , Juraj Kardoš , Olaf Schenk

In this paper, we consider stochastic optimal control of systems driven by stochastic differential equations with irregular drift coefficient. We establish a necessary and sufficient stochastic maximum principle. To achieve this, we first…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2021-01-18 Olivier Menoukeu-Pamen , Ludovic Tangpi