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We consider the stochastic optimal control problem of nonlinear mean-field systems in discrete time. We reformulate the problem into a deterministic control problem with marginal distribution as controlled state variable, and prove that…

Probability · Mathematics 2015-12-01 Huyên Pham , Xiaoli Wei

This paper is concerned with a linear quadratic (LQ, for short) optimal control problem for mean-field backward stochastic differential equations (MF-BSDE, for short) driven by a Poisson random martingale measure and a Brownian motion.…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2016-11-22 Maoning Tang , Qingxin Meng

Neural network approaches that parameterize value functions have succeeded in approximating high-dimensional optimal feedback controllers when the Hamiltonian admits explicit formulas. However, many practical problems, such as the space…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2025-10-08 Eric Gelphman , Deepanshu Verma , Nicole Tianjiao Yang , Stanley Osher , Samy Wu Fung

This paper proposes two algorithms for solving stochastic control problems with deep learning, with a focus on the utility maximisation problem. The first algorithm solves Markovian problems via the Hamilton Jacobi Bellman (HJB) equation.…

Computational Finance · Quantitative Finance 2024-10-15 Ashley Davey , Harry Zheng

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

We study optimal stochastic control problems of general coupled systems of forward-backward stochastic differential equations with jumps. By means of the It\^o-Ventzell formula the system is transformed to a controlled backward stochastic…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2017-01-12 Bernt Øksendal , Agnès Sulem , Tusheng Zhang

We propose a single-level numerical approach to solve Stackelberg mean field game (MFG) problems. In Stackelberg MFG, an infinite population of agents play a non-cooperative game and choose their controls to optimize their individual…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2024-04-24 Gokce Dayanikli , Mathieu Lauriere

As it stands, a robust mathematical framework to analyse and study various topics in deep learning is yet to come to the fore. Nonetheless, viewing deep learning as a dynamical system allows the use of established theories to investigate…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-07-26 Nader Ganaba

We study an inverse problem of the stochastic optimal control of general diffusions with performance index having the quadratic penalty term of the control process. Under mild conditions on the system dynamics, the cost functions, and the…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2022-11-17 Yumiharu Nakano

We develop a scalable algorithm for mean field control problems with kernel interactions by combining particle system simulations with random Fourier feature approximations. The method replaces the quadratic-cost kernel evaluations by…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2026-05-25 Zhongyuan Cao , Kaustav Das , Nicolas Langrené , Mathieu Laurière

The Fokker-Planck (FP) equation governing the evolution of the probability density function (PDF) is applicable to many disciplines but it requires specification of the coefficients for each case, which can be functions of space-time and…

Computational Physics · Physics 2020-08-26 Xiaoli Chen , Liu Yang , Jinqiao Duan , George Em Karniadakis

We present the development and analysis of a reinforcement learning (RL) algorithm designed to solve continuous-space mean field game (MFG) and mean field control (MFC) problems in a unified manner. The proposed approach pairs the…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2025-03-07 Andrea Angiuli , Jean-Pierre Fouque , Ruimeng Hu , Alan Raydan

Mean field control provides a robust framework for coordinating large-scale populations with complex interactions and has wide applications across diverse fields. However, the inherent nonlinearity and the presence of unknown system…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2024-11-12 Yuhan Zhao , Juntao Chen , Yingdong Lu , Quanyan Zhu

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…

We propose a novel numerical method for high dimensional Hamilton--Jacobi--Bellman (HJB) type elliptic partial differential equations (PDEs). The HJB PDEs, reformulated as optimal control problems, are tackled by the actor-critic framework…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2022-01-07 Mo Zhou , Jiequn Han , Jianfeng Lu

Mean-field control problems have received continuous interest over the last decade. Despite being more intricate than in classical optimal control, the linear-quadratic setting can still be tackled through Riccati equations. Remarkably, we…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2023-08-23 Pierre-Cyril Aubin-Frankowski , Alain Bensoussan

We present an accelerated algorithm for the solution of static Hamilton-Jacobi-Bellman equations related to optimal control problems. Our scheme is based on a classic policy iteration procedure, which is known to have superlinear…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2016-02-22 Alessandro Alla , Maurizio Falcone , Dante Kalise

This paper studies linear quadratic Gaussian robust mean field social control problems in the presence of multiplicative noise. We aim to compute asymptotic decentralized strategies without requiring full prior knowledge of agents'…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-09-16 Zhenhui Xu , Jiayu Chen , Bing-Chang Wang , Yuhu Wu , Tielong Shen

This work is devoted to the study of optimal control of stochastic functional differential equations (SFDEs) and its application to mathematical finance. By using the Dynkin formula and solution of the Dirichlet-Poisson problem, the…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2014-04-04 Edson A. Coayla-Teran , Anatoly Swishchuk

We consider a singularly perturbed system of stochastic differential equations proposed by Chaudhari et al. (Res. Math. Sci. 2018) to approximate the Entropic Gradient Descent in the optimization of deep neural networks, via homogenisation.…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2024-03-11 Martino Bardi , Hicham Kouhkouh