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Maximum entropy reinforcement learning (RL) methods have been successfully applied to a range of challenging sequential decision-making and control tasks. However, most of existing techniques are designed for discrete-time systems. As a…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2020-09-29 Jeongho Kim , Insoon Yang

Hamilton-Jacobi (HJ) partial differential equations (PDEs) have diverse applications spanning physics, optimal control, game theory, and imaging sciences. This research introduces a first-order optimization-based technique for HJ PDEs,…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2023-10-04 Tingwei Meng , Wenbo Hao , Siting Liu , Stanley J. Osher , Wuchen Li

In usual stochastic volatility models, the process driving the volatility of the asset price evolves according to an autonomous one-dimensional stochastic differential equation. We assume that the coefficients of this equation are smooth.…

Probability · Mathematics 2011-10-19 Benjamin Jourdain , Mohamed Sbai

We mathematically analyze and numerically study an actor-critic machine learning algorithm for solving high-dimensional Hamilton-Jacobi-Bellman (HJB) partial differential equations from stochastic control theory. The architecture of the…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2026-05-20 Samuel N. Cohen , Jackson Hebner , Deqing Jiang , Justin Sirignano

We propose a novel data-driven neural network (NN) optimization framework for solving an optimal stochastic control problem under stochastic constraints. Customized activation functions for the output layers of the NN are applied, which…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2023-06-21 Marc Chen , Mohammad Shirazi , Peter A. Forsyth , Yuying Li

Solving partial differential equations (PDEs) within the framework of probabilistic numerics offers a principled approach to quantifying epistemic uncertainty arising from discretization. By leveraging Gaussian process regression and…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2025-08-18 Akshay Thakur , Sawan Kumar , Matthew Zahr , Souvik Chakraborty

This paper concerns a continuous time mean-variance (MV) portfolio selection problem in a jump-diffusion financial model with no-shorting trading constraint. The problem is reduced to two subproblems: solving a stochastic linear-quadratic…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2024-06-07 Xiaomin Shi , Zuo Quan Xu

We study the expected utility portfolio optimization problem in an incomplete financial market where the risky asset dynamics depend on stochastic factors and the portfolio allocation is constrained to lie within a given convex set. We…

Portfolio Management · Quantitative Finance 2023-03-20 Marcos Escobar-Anel , Michel Kschonnek , Rudi Zagst

We study the optimal control of path-dependent piecewise deterministic processes. An appropriate dynamic programming principle is established. We prove that the associated value function is the unique minimax solution of the corresponding…

Probability · Mathematics 2025-10-28 Elena Bandini , Christian Keller

In optimal control problems defined on stratified domains, the dynamics and the running cost may have discontinuities on a finite union of submanifolds of RN. In [8, 5], the corresponding value function is characterized as the unique…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2022-07-15 Simone Cacace , Fabio Camilli

This investigation is dedicated to a two-player zero-sum stochastic differential game (SDG), where a cost function is characterized by a backward stochastic differential equation (BSDE) with a continuous and monotonic generator regarding…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2024-04-19 Guangchen Wang , Zhuangzhuang Xing

We present a novel control variate technique for enhancing the efficiency of Monte Carlo (MC) estimation of expectations involving solutions to stochastic differential equations (SDEs). Our method integrates a primary fine-time-step…

Probability · Mathematics 2025-11-12 Josselin Garnier , Laurent Mertz

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 address a general optimal switching problem over finite horizon for a stochastic system described by a differential equation driven by Brownian motion. The main novelty is the fact that we allow for infinitely many modes (or regimes,…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2019-08-07 Marco Fuhrman , Marie-Amélie Morlais

This paper considers consumption and portfolio optimization problems with recursive preferences in both infinite and finite time regions. Specially, the financial market consists of a risk-free asset and a risky asset that follows a general…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2024-12-30 Jian-hao Kang , Zhun Gou , Nan-jing Huang

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

In this paper, we propose a two-level block preconditioned Jacobi-Davidson (BPJD) method for efficiently solving discrete eigenvalue problems resulting from finite element approximations of $2m$th ($m = 1, 2$) order symmetric elliptic…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2023-04-13 Qigang Liang , Wei Wang , Xuejun Xu

In this note, we study a class of indefinite stochastic McKean-Vlasov linear-quadratic (LQ in short) control problem under the control taking nonnegative values. In contrast to the conventional issue, both the classical dynamic programming…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2023-10-05 Xun Li , Liangquan Zhang

The purpose of this paper is to describe the numerical solution of the Hamilton-Jacobi-Bellman (HJB) for an optimal control problem for quantum spin systems. This HJB equation is a first order nonlinear partial differential equation defined…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2011-10-05 Srinivas Sridharan , Matthew R. James

A tensor decomposition approach for the solution of high-dimensional, fully nonlinear Hamilton-Jacobi-Bellman equations arising in optimal feedback control of nonlinear dynamics is presented. The method combines a tensor train approximation…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2021-03-17 Sergey Dolgov , Dante Kalise , Karl Kunisch