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In this work, we systematically investigate mean field games and mean field type control problems with multiple populations using a coupled system of forward-backward stochastic differential equations of McKean-Vlasov type stemming from…

Probability · Mathematics 2020-11-03 Masaaki Fujii

This project investigates numerical methods for solving fully coupled forward-backward stochastic differential equations (FBSDEs) of McKean-Vlasov type. Having numerical solvers for such mean field FBSDEs is of interest because of the…

We study a class of mean-field control problems under partial observation. The controlled dynamics are of McKean-Vlasov type and are subject to regime switching driven by a hidden Markov chain. The observation process depends on the control…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2026-01-15 Marco Fuhrman , Huyên Pham , Silvia Ruda

We investigate the global numerical approximation of a class of extended mean field control problems (MFC), where the dynamics and costs depend on the joint distribution of the state and the control. We propose a framework to approximate…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2026-03-23 Athena Picarelli , Marco Scaratti , Jonathan Tam

In this paper we consider an optimal control problem for a large population of interacting agents with deterministic dynamics, aggregating potential and constraints on reciprocal distances, in dimension 1. We study existence and qualitative…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2021-05-26 Annalisa Cesaroni , Marco Cirant

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

In this paper, the finite horizon asymmetric information linear quadratic (LQ) control problem is investigated for a discrete-time mean field system. Different from previous works, multiple controllers with different information sets are…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2023-09-06 Qingyuan Qi , Zhiqiang Liu , Qianqian Zhang , Xinbei Lv

This paper introduces a new recursive stochastic optimal control problem driven by a forward-backward stochastic differential equations (FBSDEs), where the ter?minal time varies according to the constraints of the state of the forward…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2023-04-17 Jiaqi Wang , Shuzhen Yang

We study a class of sampled stochastic optimization problems, where the underlying state process has diffusive dynamics of the mean-field type. We establish the existence of optimal relaxed controls when the sample set has finite size. The…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2022-06-07 Lijun Bo , Agostino Capponi , Huafu Liao

In this paper we explore several novel notions of exact controllability for mean-field linear controlled stochastic differential equations (SDEs). A key feature of our study is that the noise coefficient is not required to be of full rank.…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2025-03-19 Dan Goreac , Juan Li , Xinru Zhang

This paper is concerned with a discrete-time mean-field stochastic linear-quadratic optimal control problem arose from financial application. Through matrix dynamical optimization method, a group of linear feedback controls is investigated.…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2017-06-15 Xun Li , Allen H. Tai , Fei Tian

We propose a PDE-based accelerated gradient algorithm for optimal feedback controls of McKean-Vlasov dynamics that involve mean-field interactions both in the state and action. The method exploits a forward-backward splitting approach and…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2024-05-03 Christoph Reisinger , Wolfgang Stockinger , Yufei Zhang

This paper is concerned with a constrained stochastic linear-quadratic optimal control problem, in which the terminal state is fixed and the initial state is constrained to lie in a stochastic linear manifold. The controllability of…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2019-06-11 Xiuchun Bi , Jingrui Sun , Jie Xiong

We consider mean-field control problems in discrete time with discounted reward, infinite time horizon and compact state and action space. The existence of optimal policies is shown and the limiting mean-field problem is derived when the…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2025-10-16 Nicole Bäuerle

We characterize the optimal control for a class of singular stochastic control problems as the unique solution to a related Skorokhod reflection problem. The considered optimization problems concern the minimization of a discounted cost…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2023-05-22 Jodi Dianetti , Giorgio Ferrari

We study a stochastic optimal control problem motivated by the operation of a large ensemble of residential storage devices coordinated by an energy aggregator. The aggregator remunerates prosumers in exchange for direct control of their…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2026-03-03 Margherita Fabini , Andrea Pascucci , Alessio Rondelli

In this paper, we generalise Pontryagin's stochastic maximum principle to controlled McKean-Vlasov equations with anticipating law. The associated new type of delayed backward equations with implicit terminal condition is studied.

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2017-07-03 Nacira Agram

We study a class of mean-field stochastic differential equations driven by a fractional Brownian motion with Hurst parameter $H\in(1/2,1)$ and a related stochastic control problem. We derive a Pontryagin type maximum principle and the…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2017-07-10 Rainer Buckdahn , Shuai Jing

In this paper, we focus on mean-field anticipated backward stochastic differential equations (MF-BSDEs, for short) driven by fractional Brownian motion with Hurst parameter H>1/2. First, the existence and uniqueness of this new type of…

Probability · Mathematics 2018-05-23 Soukaina Douissi , Jiaqiang Wen , Yufeng Shi

We study the problem of optimal control for mean-field stochastic partial differential equations (stochastic evolution equations) driven by a Brownian motion and an independent Poisson random measure, in the case of \textit{partial…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2017-04-12 Roxana Dumitrescu , Bernt Øksendal , Agnès Sulem