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Fast and accurate predictions for complex physical dynamics are a significant challenge across various applications. Real-time prediction on resource-constrained hardware is even more crucial in real-world problems. The deep operator…

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With the recent advancements in machine learning (ML), artificial neural networks (ANN) are starting to play an increasingly important role in quantitative finance. Dynamic portfolio optimization is among many problems that have…

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In this article, we provide a numerical method based on fitted finite volume method to approximate the Hamilton-Jacobi-Bellman (HJB) equation coming from stochastic optimal control problems. The computational challenge is due to the nature…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2020-02-21 Christelle Dleuna Nyoumbi , Antoine Tambue

Designing optimal controllers for nonlinear dynamical systems often relies on reinforcement learning and adaptive dynamic programming (ADP) to approximate solutions of the Hamilton Jacobi Bellman (HJB) equation. However, these methods…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2025-11-27 Akash Vyas , Shreyas Kumar , Jayant Kumar Mohanta , Ravi Prakash

Ensuring the safety of autonomous systems under uncertainty is a critical challenge. Hamilton-Jacobi reachability (HJR) analysis is a widely used method for guaranteeing safety under worst-case disturbances. In this work, we propose HJRNO,…

Robotics · Computer Science 2025-06-09 Yankai Li , Mo Chen

The control of relaxation-type systems of ordinary differential equations is investigated using the Hamilton-Jacobi-Bellman equation. First, we recast the model as a singularly perturbed dynamics which we embed in a family of controlled…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2024-04-23 Michael Herty , Hicham Kouhkouh

Recent literature has proposed approaches that learn control policies with high performance while maintaining safety guarantees. Synthesizing Hamilton-Jacobi (HJ) reachable sets has become an effective tool for verifying safety and…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-08-23 Milan Ganai , Sicun Gao , Sylvia Herbert

In this paper we present a new algorithm for the solution of Hamilton-Jacobi-Bellman equations related to optimal control problems. The key idea is to divide the domain of computation into subdomains which are shaped by the optimal dynamics…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2014-08-04 Simone Cacace , Emiliano Cristiani , Maurizio Falcone , Athena Picarelli

Optimal feedback control with implicit Hamiltonians poses a fundamental challenge for learning-based value function methods due to the absence of closed-form optimal control laws. Recent work~\cite{gelphman2025end} introduced an implicit…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2026-04-28 Eric Gelphman , Deepanshu Verma , Nicole Tianjiao Yang , Stanley Osher , Samy Wu Fung

Many processes, such as discrete event systems in engineering or population dynamics in biology, evolve in discrete space and continuous time. We consider the problem of optimal decision making in such discrete state and action space…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-10-27 Bastian Alt , Matthias Schultheis , Heinz Koeppl

In this paper, we are concerned with the classical solvability of a class of second-order Hamilton-Jacobi-Bellman equations (HJB equations) arising from stochastic optimal control problems with linear dynamics and uniformly convex cost…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2025-12-19 Jinghua Li , Zhiyong Yu

We study a stochastic optimal control problem with the state constrained to a smooth, compact domain. The control influences both the drift and a possibly degenerate, control-dependent dispersion matrix, leading to a fully nonlinear,…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2025-08-08 Anderson O. Calixto , Bernardo Freitas Paulo da Costa , Glauco Valle

In this paper, we study a stochastic recursive optimal control problem in which the system is governed by a functional forward-backward stochastic differential equation. Under standard assumptions, we establish the dynamic programming…

Probability · Mathematics 2013-01-03 Shaolin Ji , Shuzhen Yang

We present a kernel-based linear matrix inequality (LMI) approach for the approximate solution of Hamilton--Jacobi--Bellman (HJB) equations arising in nonlinear optimal control. The method represents the gradient of the value function in a…

Dynamical Systems · Mathematics 2026-05-19 Boumediene Hamzi , Umesh Vaidya

A procedure for the numerical approximation of high-dimensional Hamilton-Jacobi-Bellman (HJB) equations associated to optimal feedback control problems for semilinear parabolic equations is proposed. Its main ingredients are a…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2019-02-08 Dante Kalise , Karl Kunisch

Stochastic optimal control problems for Hamiltonian dynamics on graphs have wide-ranging applications in mechanics and quantum field theory, particularly in systems with graph-based structures. In this paper, we establish the existence and…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2025-10-01 Jianbo Cui , Tonghe Dang

We revisit the linear programming approach to deterministic, continuous time, infinite horizon discounted optimal control problems. In the first part, we relax the original problem to an infinite-dimensional linear program over a measure…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2017-06-08 Angeliki Kamoutsi , Tobias Sutter , Peyman Mohajerin Esfahani , John Lygeros

We study a time-optimal control problem of a two-peakon collision. First, we state the controllability. Next, we find the time-optimal strategy. This is done via the HamiltonJacobi-Bellman equation and the dynamic programming method. We…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2021-05-24 Tomasz Cieślak , Bidesh Das

Reachability analysis is important for studying optimal control problems and differential games, which are powerful theoretical tools for analyzing and modeling many practical problems in robotics, aircraft control, among other application…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2016-03-22 Mo Chen , Claire J. Tomlin