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For an infinite-horizon control problem, the optimal control can be represented by the stable manifold of the characteristic Hamiltonian system of Hamilton-Jacobi-Bellman (HJB) equation in a semiglobal domain. In this paper, we first…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2024-05-14 Guoyuan Chen

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

Hamilton-Jacobi partial differential equations (HJ PDEs) have deep connections with a wide range of fields, including optimal control, differential games, and imaging sciences. By considering the time variable to be a higher dimensional…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-12-12 Paula Chen , Tingwei Meng , Zongren Zou , Jérôme Darbon , George Em Karniadakis

Koopman operators provide tractable means of learning linear approximations of non-linear dynamics. Many approaches have been proposed to find these operators, typically based upon approximations using an a-priori fixed class of models.…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-02-09 Mario Sznaier

This work introduces the use of the Koopman operator theory to generate approximate analytical solutions for the zonal harmonics problem of a satellite orbiting a non-spherical celestial body. Particularly, the solution proposed directly…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2021-10-22 David Arnas , Richard Linares

This work proposes a novel numerical scheme for solving the high-dimensional Hamilton-Jacobi-Bellman equation with a functional hierarchical tensor ansatz. We consider the setting of stochastic control, whereby one applies control to a…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2025-07-01 Xun Tang , Nan Sheng , Lexing Ying

We study the convergence of Hermitian Dynamic Mode Decomposition (DMD) to the spectral properties of self-adjoint Koopman operators. Hermitian DMD is a data-driven method that approximates the Koopman operator associated with an unknown…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2024-10-08 Nicolas Boullé , Matthew J. Colbrook

The Bellman equation and its continuous form, the Hamilton-Jacobi-Bellman equation, are ubiquitous in reinforcement learning and control theory. However, these equations become intractable for high-dimensional or nonlinear systems. This…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2026-05-04 Preston Rozwood , Edward Mehrez , Ludger Paehler , Wen Sun , Steven L. Brunton

We study semi Lagrangian approximation schemes for Hamilton Jacobi Bellman equations arising from finite horizon optimal control problems. Classical error estimates for these schemes include the term $\frac{1}{\Delta t}$ which leads to…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2026-02-18 Alessandro Alla , Filippo Mayer

Koopman operators and transfer operators represent dynamical systems through their induced linear action on vector spaces of observables, enabling the use of operator-theoretic techniques to analyze nonlinear dynamics in state space. The…

Dynamical Systems · Mathematics 2024-06-10 Claire Valva , Dimitrios Giannakis

The regression problem associated with finding a matrix approximation of the Koopman operator from data is considered. The regression problem is formulated as a convex optimization problem subject to linear matrix inequality (LMI)…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-10-20 Steven Dahdah , James Richard Forbes

The optimal \(H_{\infty}\) control problem over an infinite time horizon, which incorporates a performance function with a discount factor \(e^{-\alpha t}\) (\(\alpha > 0\)), is important in various fields. Solving this optimal…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2024-10-04 Guoyuan Chen , Yi Wang , Qinglong Zhou

This paper presents a mathematical formulation to perform temporal parallelisation of continuous-time optimal control problems, which can be solved via the Hamilton--Jacobi--Bellman (HJB) equation. We divide the time interval of the control…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2024-12-18 Simo Särkkä , Ángel F. García-Fernández

The interplay between stochastic processes and optimal control has been extensively explored in the literature. With the recent surge in the use of diffusion models, stochastic processes have increasingly been applied to sample generation.…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-10-10 Tingwei Meng , Zongren Zou , Jérôme Darbon , George Em Karniadakis

In the context of optimal control, we consider the inverse problem of Lagrangian identification given system dynamics and optimal trajectories. Many of its theoretical and practical aspects are still open. Potential applications are very…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2014-03-21 Edouard Pauwels , Didier Henrion , Jean-Bernard Bernard Lasserre

The main goal of this paper is to establish existence, regularity and uniqueness results for the solution of a Hamilton-Jacobi-Bellman (HJB) equation, whose operator is an elliptic integro-differential operator. The HJB equation studied in…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2016-12-01 Harold A. Moreno-Franco

We show that necessary and sufficient conditions of optimality in periodic optimization problems can be stated in terms of a solution of the corresponding HJB inequality, the latter being equivalent to a max-min type variational problem…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2013-09-10 Vladimir Gaitsgory , Ludmila Manic

We develop a Koopman operator framework for studying the {computational properties} of dynamical systems. Specifically, we show that the resolvent of the Koopman operator provides a natural abstraction of halting, yielding a ``Koopman…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2025-10-08 Francesco Caravelli , Jean-Charles Delvenne

We extend some aspects of the Hamilton-Jacobi theory to the category of stochastic Hamiltonian dynamical systems. More specifically, we show that the stochastic action satisfies the Hamilton-Jacobi equation when, as in the classical…

Probability · Mathematics 2008-06-06 Joan-Andreu Lázaro-Camí , Juan-Pablo Ortega

This paper is about operator-theoretic methods for solving nonlinear stochastic optimal control problems to global optimality. These methods leverage on the convex duality between optimally controlled diffusion processes and…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2023-05-30 Boris Houska