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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…

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We propose a novel formulation for approximating reachable sets through a minimum discounted reward optimal control problem. The formulation yields a continuous solution that can be obtained by solving a Hamilton-Jacobi equation.…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2018-09-05 Anayo K. Akametalu , Shromona Ghosh , Jaime F. Fisac , Claire J. Tomlin

This paper is concerned with the approximation of the solution of partial differential equations by means of artificial neural networks. Here a feedforward neural network is used to approximate the solution of the partial differential…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2019-04-10 Henri Calandra , Serge Gratton , Elisa Riccietti , Xavier Vasseur

The paper deals with path-dependent Hamilton-Jacobi equations with a coinvariant derivative which arise in investigations of optimal control problems and differential games for neutral-type systems in Hale's form. A viscosity (generalized)…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2022-05-10 Anton Plaksin

The goal of this paper is to prove a comparison principle for viscosity solutions of semilinear Hamilton-Jacobi equations in the space of probability measures. The method involves leveraging differentiability properties of the…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2023-08-30 Samuel Daudin , Benjamin Seeger

This paper presents a stochastic block-coordinate proximal Newton method for minimizing the sum of a blockwise Lipschitz-continuously differentiable function and a separable nonsmooth convex function. At each iteration, the method randomly…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2026-03-25 Hong Zhu , Xun Qian

We provide a stochastic representation for a general class of viscous Hamilton-Jacobi (HJ) equations, which has convexity and superlinear nonlinearity in its gradient term, via a type of backward stochastic differential equation (BSDE) with…

Probability · Mathematics 2017-03-09 Andrea Cosso , Huyên Pham , Hao Xing

We prove precise rates of convergence for monotone approximation schemes of fractional and nonlocal Hamilton-Jacobi-Bellman (HJB) equations. We consider diffusion corrected difference-quadrature schemes from the literature and new…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2023-09-04 Indranil Chowdhury , Espen R. Jakobsen

For non convex Hamiltonians, the viscosity solution and the more geometric minimax solution of the Hamilton-Jacobi equation do not coincide in general. They are nevertheless related: we show that iterating the minimax procedure during…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2015-06-15 Qiaoling Wei

We present a Hermite interpolation based partial differential equation solver for Hamilton-Jacobi equations. Many Hamilton-Jacobi equations have a nonlinear dependency on the gradient, which gives rise to discontinuities in the derivatives…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2022-06-14 Allen Alvarez Loya , Daniel Appelö

We show strong uniform convergence of monotone P1 finite element methods to the viscosity solution of isotropic parabolic Hamilton-Jacobi-Bellman equations with mixed boundary conditions on unstructured meshes and for possibly degenerate…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2021-05-21 Bartosz Jaroszkowski , Max Jensen

We consider the computation of free energy-like quantities for diffusions in high dimension, when resorting to Monte Carlo simulation is necessary. Such stochastic computations typically suffer from high variance, in particular in a low…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2023-07-06 Grégoire Ferré

We propose a mesh-free policy iteration framework that combines classical dynamic programming with physics-informed neural networks (PINNs) to solve high-dimensional, nonconvex Hamilton--Jacobi--Isaacs (HJI) equations arising in stochastic…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2025-07-24 Hee Jun Yang , Minjung Gim , Yeoneung Kim

In this paper, we derive the lower bounds for the gradients of viscosity solutions to the Hamilton--Jacobi equation, where the convex Hamiltonian depends on the unknown function. We obtain gradient estimates using two different methods.…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2024-07-08 Kazuya Hirose

In this paper, we study the existence and uniqueness of viscosity solutions to a kind of Hamilton-Jacobi-Bellman (HJB) equations combined with algebra equations. This HJB equation is related to a stochastic optimal control problem for which…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2019-06-19 Mingshang Hu , Shaolin Ji , Xiaole Xue

We introduce a method for approximating viscosity solutions of stationary degenerate elliptic Hamilton--Jacobi--Bellman equations on bounded domains arising in stochastic exit-time control. Viscosity enforcement is formulated as a min--max…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2026-05-18 Alen E. Golpashin , Gokul Puthumanaillam , Melkior Ornik , Bruce A. Conway

We consider Hamilton--Jacobi equations, where the Hamiltonian depends discontinuously on both the spatial and temporal location. Our main results are the existence and well--posedness of a viscosity solution to the Cauchy problem. We define…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2007-05-23 Giuseppe Maria Coclite , Nils Henrik Risebro

We design fast numerical methods for Hamilton-Jacobi equations in density space (HJD), which arises in optimal transport and mean field games. We overcome the curse-of-infinite-dimensionality nature of HJD by proposing a generalized Hopf…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2018-05-07 Yat Tin Chow , Wuchen Li , Stanley Osher , Wotao Yin

Based on neural network and adaptive subspace approximation method, we propose a new machine learning method for solving partial differential equations. The neural network is adopted to build the basis of the finite dimensional subspace.…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2024-12-04 Zhongshuo Lin , Yifan Wang , Hehu Xie

We investigate high-order finite difference schemes for the Hamilton-Jacobi equation continuum limit of nondominated sorting. Nondominated sorting is an algorithm for sorting points in Euclidean space into layers by repeatedly removing…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2017-12-06 Warut Thawinrak , Jeff Calder