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In this article, we analyse the existence of an optimal feedback controller of stochastic optimal control problems governed by SDEs which have the control in the diffusion part. To this end, we consider the underlying Fokker-Planck equation…

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We study relaxed stochastic control problems where the state equation is a one dimensional linear stochastic differential equation with random and unbounded coefficients. The two main results are existence of an optimal relaxed control and…

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Decentralized stochastic control (DSC) considers the optimal control problem of a multi-agent system. However, DSC cannot be solved except in the special cases because the estimation among the agents is generally intractable. In this work,…

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This paper examines the stochastic maximum principle (SMP) for a forward-backward stochastic control system where the backward state equation is characterized by the backward stochastic differential equation (BSDE) with quadratic growth and…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2023-08-22 Shaolin Ji , Rundong Xu

Mean-field backward doubly stochastic differential equations (MF-BDSDEs, for short) are introduced and studied. The existence and uniqueness of solutions for MF-BDSDEs is established. One probabilistic interpretation for the solutions to a…

Probability · Mathematics 2011-08-30 Tianxiao Wang , Qingfeng Zhu , Yufeng Shi

This paper is concerned with the partial information optimal control problem of mean-field type under partial observation, where the system is given by a controlled mean-field forward-backward stochastic differential equation with…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2017-08-21 Qingxin Meng , Qiuhong Shi , Maoning Tang

Based on the stochastic maximum principle for the partially coupled forward-backward stochastic control system (FBSCS for short), a modified method of successive approximations (MSA for short) is established for stochastic recursive optimal…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2022-01-11 Shaolin Ji , Rundong Xu

Our paper is devoted to the study of Peng's stochastic maximum principle (SMP) for a stochastic control problem composed of a controlled forward stochastic differential equation (SDE) as dynamics and a controlled backward SDE which defines…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2024-04-11 Rainer Buckdahn , Juan Li , Yanwei Li , Yi Wang

This paper is devoted to the numerical resolution of McKean-Vlasov control problems via the class of mean-field neural networks introduced in our companion paper [25] in order to learn the solution on the Wasserstein space. We propose…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2024-03-20 Huyên Pham , Xavier Warin

This paper considers the stochastic linear quadratic optimal control problem in which the control domain is nonconvex. By the functional analysis and convex perturbation methods, we establish a novel maximum principle. The application of…

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We investigate the complexities of the McKean-Vlasov optimal control problem, exploring its various formulations such as the strong and weak formulations, as well as both Markovian and non-Markovian setups within financial markets.…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2024-04-29 Timothy Bennett

We propose a generative framework for learning stochastic dynamics from endpoint and intermediate distributional observations. The method formulates generation as a McKean-Vlasov control problem in which terminal and time-marginal laws are…

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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

We consider the control of McKean-Vlasov dynamics whose coefficients have mean field interactions in the state and control. We show that for a class of linear-convex mean field control problems, the unique optimal open-loop control admits…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2021-09-27 Christoph Reisinger , Wolfgang Stockinger , Yufei Zhang

In this article, we provide an original systematic global-in-time analysis of mean field type control problems on $\mathbb{R}^n$ with generic cost functionals by the modified approach but not the same, firstly proposed in [7], as the…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2023-05-09 Alain Bensoussan , Ho Man Tai , Sheung Chi Phillip Yam

In this paper we prove a necessary condition of the optimal control problem for a class of general mean-field forward-backward stochastic systems with jumps in the case where the diffusion coefficients depend on control, the control set…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2019-02-20 Tao Hao , Qingxin Meng

Mean field optimal control problems are a class of optimization problems that arise from optimal control when applied to the many body setting. In the noisy case one has a set of controllable stochastic processes and a cost function that is…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2021-08-11 Pierfrancesco Urbani

We extend the work \cite{bensoussan2019control} by two of the coauthors, which dealt with a deterministic control problem for which the Hilbert space could be generic and investigated a novel form of the `lifting' technique proposed by P.…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2021-08-26 Alain Bensoussan , Henry Hang Cheung , Sheung Chi Phillip Yam

We study risk-sensitive optimal control of a stochastic differential equation (SDE) of mean-field type, where the coefficients are allowed to depend on some functional of the law as well as the state and control processes. Moreover the…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2017-02-07 Alain Bensoussan , Boualem Djehiche , Hamidou Tembine , Phillip Yam