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We study the optimal control formulation for stochastic nonlinear Schrodinger equation (SNLSE) on a finite graph. By viewing the SNLSE as a stochastic Wasserstein Hamiltonian flow on density manifold, we show the global existence of a…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2022-09-13 Jianbo Cui , Shu Liu , Haomin Zhou

This article discusses an optimal control problem for a phase field model of two immiscible incompressible fluid flow, incorporating surface tension effects. The optimal control problem is defined with a $L^2$-cost functional and subject to…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2026-05-12 Arghya Kundu

Navigating a collision-free and optimal trajectory for a robot is a challenging task, particularly in environments with moving obstacles such as humans. We formulate this problem as a stochastic optimal control problem. Since solving the…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2026-03-17 Seyyed Reza Jafari , Anders Hansson , Bo Wahlberg

This paper proposes a novel approach for locally stable convergence to Nash equilibrium in duopoly noncooperative games based on a distributed event-triggered control scheme. The proposed approach employs extremum seeking, with sinusoidal…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2024-04-12 Victor Hugo Pereira Rodrigues , Tiago Roux Oliveira , Miroslav Krstić , Tamer Başar

We consider a velocity tracking problem for stochastic Navier-Stokes equations in a 2D-bounded domain. The control acts on the boundary through an injection-suction device with uncertainty, which acts in accordance with the non-homogeneous…

Probability · Mathematics 2024-09-04 Nikolai Chemetov , Fernanda Cipriano

The problem of synthesizing stochastic explicit model predictive control policies is known to be quickly intractable even for systems of modest complexity when using classical control-theoretic methods. To address this challenge, we present…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-05-24 Ján Drgoňa , Sayak Mukherjee , Aaron Tuor , Mahantesh Halappanavar , Draguna Vrabie

We consider a bilevel continuous knapsack problem where the leader controls the capacity of the knapsack, while the follower chooses a feasible packing maximizing his own profit. The leader's aim is to optimize a linear objective function…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2022-07-19 Christoph Buchheim , Dorothee Henke , Jannik Irmai

This paper is concerned with a Stackelberg stochastic differential game, where the systems are driven by stochastic differential equation (SDE for short), in which the control enters the randomly disturbed coefficients (drift and…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2021-08-12 Liangquan Zhang , Wei Zhang

This review surveys previous and recent results on null controllability and inverse problems for parabolic systems with dynamic boundary conditions. We aim to demonstrate how classical methods such as Carleman estimates can be extended to…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2024-09-17 S. E. Chorfi , L. Maniar

This paper investigates full stability properties for \emph{variational Nash equilibriums} of a system of parametric nonconvex optimal control problems governed by semilinear elliptic partial differential equations. We first obtain some new…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2020-02-21 Nguyen Thanh Qui , Daniel Wachsmuth

In \cite{LPP:2025}, it was shown that, in arbitrary dimension, the spatial semi-discretization of a controlled stochastic parabolic operator is generically not null-controllable. Nevertheless, $\phi$-null controllability results remain…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2026-04-08 Rodrigo Lecaros , Ariel A. Pérez , Manuel F. Prado

This paper is concerned with a linear-quadratic mean field Stackelberg stochastic differential game with partial information and common noise, which contains a leader and a large number of followers. To be specific, the followers face a…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2025-03-25 Yu Si , Jingtao Shi

We address two-player general-sum stochastic Stackelberg games (SSGs), where the leader's policy is optimized considering the best-response follower whose policy is optimal for its reward under the leader. Existing policy gradient and value…

Computer Science and Game Theory · Computer Science 2026-03-17 Mikoto Kudo , Youhei Akimoto

Stackelberg games are a classic example of bilevel optimization problems, which are often encountered in game theory and economics. These are complex problems with a hierarchical structure, where one optimization task is nested within the…

Computer Science and Game Theory · Computer Science 2013-07-25 Ankur Sinha , Pekka Malo , Anton Frantsev , Kalyanmoy Deb

We study incentive designs for a class of stochastic Stackelberg games with one leader and a large number of (finite as well as infinite population of) followers. We investigate whether the leader can craft a strategy under a dynamic…

Computer Science and Game Theory · Computer Science 2024-02-13 Sina Sanjari , Subhonmesh Bose , Tamer Başar

In this paper we extend the adaptive gradient descent (AdaGrad) algorithm to the optimal distributed control of parabolic partial differential equations with uncertain parameters. This stochastic optimization method achieves an improved…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2021-10-22 Yanzhao Cao , Somak Das , Hans-Werner van Wyk

A dual control problem is presented for the optimal stochastic control of a system governed by partial differential equations. Relationships between the optimal values of the original and the dual problems are investigated and two duality…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2017-05-03 Shinji Tanimoto

We consider a stochastic control problem where the set of controls is not necessarily convex and the system is governed by a nonlinear backward stochastic differential equation. We establish necessary as well as sufficient conditions of…

Probability · Mathematics 2008-12-20 Seid Bahlali

This paper aims to formulate and study the inverse problem of non-cooperative linear quadratic games: Given a profile of control strategies, find cost parameters for which this profile of control strategies is Nash. We formulate the problem…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2022-07-14 Yunhan Huang , Tao Zhang , Quanyan Zhu

In this paper, we study the necessary and sufficient conditions for ensuring the well-posedness of the stochastic singular systems. Moreover, we investigate the stochastic singular linear-quadratic control problems, considering both finite…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2024-09-04 Mengzhen Li , Tianyang Nie , Zhen Wu