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We study a family of optimal control problems under a set of controlled-loss constraints holding at different deterministic dates. The characterization of the associated value function by a Hamilton-Jacobi-Bellman equation usually calls for…

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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

In this paper we explore the relation between distributionally robust learning and different forms of regularization to enforce robustness of deep neural networks. In particular, starting from a concrete min-max distributionally robust…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2022-03-29 Camilo Garcia Trillos , Nicolas Garcia Trillos

We introduce a continuous policy-value iteration algorithm where the approximations of the value function of a stochastic control problem and the optimal control are simultaneously updated through Langevin-type dynamics. This framework…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2025-06-11 Qi Feng , Gu Wang

This paper is concerned with stochastic impulse control problems in which the running cost changes depending on the impulse control. Because of such a dependence, it brings several difficulties when the usual dynamic programming principle…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2025-11-11 Yuchen Cao , Jiongmin Yong

A control theoretic approach is presented in this paper for both batch and instantaneous updates of weights in feed-forward neural networks. The popular Hamilton-Jacobi-Bellman (HJB) equation has been used to generate an optimal weight…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2015-04-29 Vipul Arora , Laxmidhar Behera , Ajay Pratap Yadav

In this paper we define an infinite-dimensional controlled piecewise deterministic Markov process (PDMP) and we study an optimal control problem with finite time horizon and unbounded cost. This process is a coupling between a continuous…

Probability · Mathematics 2016-07-20 Vincent Renault , Michèle Thieullen , Emmanuel Trélat

In this paper, we propose a method to solve nonlinear optimal control problems (OCPs) with constrained control input in real-time using neural networks (NNs). We introduce what we have termed co-state Neural Network (CoNN) that learns the…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-03-04 Lihan Lian , Uduak Inyang-Udoh

In this note, we develop Fourier approximation methods for the solutions of first-order nonlocal mean-field games (MFG) systems. Using Fourier expansion techniques, we approximate a given MFG system by a simpler one that is equivalent to a…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2019-01-21 Levon Nurbekyan , Joao Saude

We propose a novel formulation for approximating reachable sets through a minimum discounted reward optimal control problem. The formulation yields a continuous solution that can be obtained by solving a Hamilton-Jacobi equation.…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2018-09-05 Anayo K. Akametalu , Shromona Ghosh , Jaime F. Fisac , Claire J. Tomlin

As demonstrated in many areas of real-life applications, neural networks have the capability of dealing with high dimensional data. In the fields of optimal control and dynamical systems, the same capability was studied and verified in many…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-12-04 Wei Kang , Qi Gong

The classical Dynamic Programming (DP) approach to optimal control problems is based on the characterization of the value function as the unique viscosity solution of a Hamilton-Jacobi-Bellman (HJB) equation. The DP scheme for the numerical…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2019-04-15 Alessandro Alla , Maurizio Falcone , Luca Saluzzi

In this paper, we study a regularised relaxed optimal control problem and, in particular, we are concerned with the case where the control variable is of large dimension. We introduce a system of mean-field Langevin equations, the invariant…

Probability · Mathematics 2019-10-07 Kaitong Hu , Anna Kazeykina , Zhenjie Ren

Mean Field Control Games (MFCGs) provide a powerful theoretical framework for analyzing systems of infinitely many interacting agents, blending elements from Mean Field Games (MFGs) and Mean Field Control (MFC). However, solving the coupled…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-01-03 Nianli Peng , Yilin Wang

We derive a Maximum Principle for optimal control problems with constraints given by the coupling of a system of ODEs and a PDE of Vlasov-type. Such problems arise naturally as ${\Gamma}$-limits of optimal control problems subject to ODE…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2015-04-10 Mattia Bongini , Massimo Fornasier , Francesco Rossi , Francesco Solombrino

We study the problem of representation learning in goal-conditioned hierarchical reinforcement learning. In such hierarchical structures, a higher-level controller solves tasks by iteratively communicating goals which a lower-level policy…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2019-01-10 Ofir Nachum , Shixiang Gu , Honglak Lee , Sergey Levine

This paper studies the existence and approximation of equilibria for general time-inconsistent mean field game (MFG) problems in continuous time. To handle the intricate nonlocal equilibrium Hamilton-Jacobi-Bellman (EHJB) system arising…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2026-05-29 Erhan Bayraktar , Zhenhua Wang , Xiang Yu , Keyu Zhang

In this paper, training a neural network is identified, exactly, as a search through Hamilton--Jacobi initial-value problems: each gradient step selects the initial data of a viscous Hamilton--Jacobi equation whose Hopf--Cole propagator…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-05-29 Jose Marie Antonio Miñoza , Erika Fille T. Legara , Christopher P. Monterola

In this paper, we present a scalable deep learning approach to solve opinion dynamics stochastic optimal control problems with mean field term coupling in the dynamics and cost function. Our approach relies on the probabilistic…

Multiagent Systems · Computer Science 2022-04-19 Tianrong Chen , Ziyi Wang , Evangelos A. Theodorou

Considering that the decision-making environment faced by reinforcement learning (RL) agents is full of Knightian uncertainty, this paper describes the exploratory state dynamics equation in Knightian uncertainty to study the…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2026-01-27 Ziyu Li , Chen Fei , Weiyin Fei