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This note lays part of the theoretical ground for a definition of differential systems modeling reinforcement learning in continuous time non-Markovian rough environments. Specifically we focus on optimal relaxed control of rough equations…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2024-02-29 Prakash Chakraborty , Harsha Honnappa , Samy Tindel

Reinforcement learning (RL) has become an effective way to improve prompt alignment and perceptual quality in diffusion and flow-matching generators. A critical step for applying online RL to flow matching is turning the deterministic…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-05-25 Jade Zou , Tao Huang , Weijie Kong , Junzhe Li , Yue Wu , Qi Tian , Jiangfeng Xiong , Jianwei Zhang , Liefeng Bo , Zhao Zhong

We consider the control of semilinear stochastic partial differential equations (SPDEs) via deterministic controls. In the case of multiplicative noise, existence of optimal controls and necessary conditions for optimality are derived. In…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2021-10-28 Wilhelm Stannat , Lukas Wessels

We study optimal stochastic control problem for non-Markovian stochastic differential equations (SDEs) where the drift, diffusion coefficients, and gain functionals are path-dependent, and importantly we do not make any ellipticity…

Probability · Mathematics 2013-11-04 Marco Fuhrman , Huyên Pham

In this paper, we consider the stochastic optimal control problems under G-expectation. Based on the theory of backward stochastic differential equations driven by G-Brownian motion, which was introduced in [10.11], we can investigate the…

Probability · Mathematics 2013-08-19 Zhonghao Zheng , Xiuchun Bi , Shuguang Zhang

This paper presents a unified exposition of rough path methods applied to optimal control, robust filtering, and optimal stopping, addressing a notable gap in the existing literature where no single treatment covers all three areas. By…

Mathematical Finance · Quantitative Finance 2025-09-04 Jonathan A. Mavroforas , Anthony H. Dooley

This paper proposes to parameterize open loop controls in stochastic optimal control problems via suitable classes of functionals depending on the driver's path signature, a concept adopted from rough path integration theory. We rigorously…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2025-07-16 P. Bank , C. Bayer , P. P. Hager , S. Riedel , T. Nauen

In this paper, we study a stochastic recursive optimal control problem in which the cost functional is described by the solution of a backward stochastic differential equation driven by G-Brownian motion. Under standard assumptions, we…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2014-10-15 Mingshang Hu , Shaolin Ji

In this paper we study a class of combined regular and singular stochastic control problems that can be expressed as constrained BSDEs. In the Markovian case, this reduces to a characterization through a PDE with gradient constraint. But…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2018-01-11 Bruno Bouchard , Patrick Cheridito , Ying Hu

We study an optimal control problem on infinite horizon for a controlled stochastic differential equation driven by Brownian motion, with a discounted reward functional. The equation may have memory or delay effects in the coefficients,…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2017-10-19 F. Confortola , A. Cosso , M. Fuhrman

We unify and extend the semigroup and the PDE approaches to stochastic maximal regularity of time-dependent semilinear parabolic problems with noise given by a cylindrical Brownian motion. We treat random coefficients that are only…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2019-02-12 Pierre Portal , Mark Veraar

This paper build on our recent work where we presented a dual stochastic optimal control formulation of the nonlinear filtering problem [1]. The constraint for the dual problem is a backward stochastic differential equations (BSDE). The…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2021-11-02 Jin Won Kim , Prashant G. Mehta

We consider a class of infinite-dimensional singular stochastic control problems. These can be thought of as spatial monotone follower problems and find applications in spatial models of production and climate transition. Let…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2026-03-06 Salvatore Federico , Giorgio Ferrari , Frank Riedel , Michael Röckner

We consider a general class of stochastic optimal control problems, where the state process lives in a real separable Hilbert space and is driven by a cylindrical Brownian motion and a Poisson random measure; no special structure is imposed…

Probability · Mathematics 2018-10-04 Elena Bandini , Fulvia Confortola , Andrea Cosso

We study a class of backward stochastic differential equations (BSDEs) driven by a random measure or, equivalently, by a marked point process. Under appropriate assumptions we prove well-posedness and continuous dependence of the solution…

Probability · Mathematics 2012-05-24 Fulvia Confortola , Marco Fuhrman

In this paper, we study a stochastic optimal control problem under degenerate G-expectation. By using implied partition method, we show that the approximation result for admissible controls still hold. Based on this result, we prove that…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2022-10-19 Xiaojuan Li

We study the optimal control of general stochastic McKean-Vlasov equation. Such problem is motivated originally from the asymptotic formulation of cooperative equilibrium for a large population of particles (players) in mean-field…

Probability · Mathematics 2017-01-06 Huyên Pham , Xiaoli Wei

In this article we consider a stochastic optimal control problem where the dynamics of the state process, $X(t)$, is a controlled stochastic differential equation with jumps, delay and \emph{noisy memory}. The term noisy memory is, to the…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2015-08-28 Kristina R. Dahl , Salah-Eldin A. Mohammed , Bernt Øksendal , Elin Røse

Backward stochastic differential equations (BSDEs) in the sense of Pardoux-Peng [Backward stochastic differential equations and quasilinear parabolic partial differential equations, Lecture Notes in Control and Inform. Sci., 176, 200--217,…

Probability · Mathematics 2010-08-03 Joscha Diehl , Peter Friz

This paper studies the dynamic programming principle using the measurable selection method for stochastic control of continuous processes. The novelty of this work is to incorporate intermediate expectation constraints on the canonical…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2020-04-22 Yuk-Loong Chow , Xiang Yu , Chao Zhou