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This paper introduces \textbf{Measure Learning}, a paradigm for modeling ambiguity via non-linear expectations. We define Neural Expectation Operators as solutions to Backward Stochastic Differential Equations (BSDEs) whose drivers are…

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By analogy with the theory of Backward Stochastic Differential Equations, we define Backward Stochastic Difference Equations on spaces related to discrete time, finite state processes. This paper considers these processes as constructions…

Probability · Mathematics 2010-07-12 Samuel N. Cohen , Robert J. Elliott

In [5] the authors obtained Mean-Field backward stochastic differential equations (BSDE) associated with a Mean-field stochastic differential equation (SDE) in a natural way as limit of some highly dimensional system of forward and backward…

Probability · Mathematics 2007-11-21 Rainer Buckdahn , Juan Li , Shige Peng

(Working Paper) Using a purely probabilistic argument, we prove the global well-posedness of multidimensional superquadratic backward stochastic differential equations (BSDEs) without Markovian assumption. The key technique is the interplay…

Probability · Mathematics 2022-01-21 Kihun Nam

In this paper, we introduce a new type of backward stochastic differential equations (BSDEs), called conditional expectation BSDEs, whose drivers depend not only on the value of the solutions but also on their conditional expectations with…

Probability · Mathematics 2026-04-27 Hanwu Li

In this paper we study a class of infinite horizon fully coupled forward-backward stochastic differential equations (FBSDEs), that are stimulated by various continuous time future expectations models with random coefficients. Under standard…

Probability · Mathematics 2016-09-29 Xanthi-Isidora Kartala , Nikolaos Englezos , Athanasios N. Yannacopoulos

In this paper, we obtain a comparison theorem and a invariant representation theorem for backward stochastic differential equations (BSDEs) without any assumption on the second variable $z$. Using the two results, we further develop the…

Probability · Mathematics 2024-03-05 Shiqiu Zheng

We consider stochastic optimization problems involving an expected value of a nonlinear function of a base random vector and a conditional expectation of another function depending on the base random vector, a dependent random vector, and…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2024-05-20 Andrzej Ruszczyński , Shangzhe Yang

We derive a new class of non-linear expectations from first-principles deterministic chaotic dynamics. The homogenization of the system's skew-adjoint microscopic generator is achieved using the spectral theory of transfer operators for…

Probability · Mathematics 2025-12-02 Qian Qi

In this paper we investigate mean-field backward doubly stochastic differential equations (BDSDEs), i.e., BDSDEs whose driving coefficients also depend on the joint law of the solution process as well as the solution of an associated…

Probability · Mathematics 2021-11-16 Rainer Buckdahn , Juan Li , Chuanzhi Xing

In the present paper we discuss a new type of mean-field coupled forward-backward stochastic differential equations (MFFBSDEs). The novelty consists in the fact that the coefficients of both the forward as well as the backward SDEs depend…

Probability · Mathematics 2023-07-27 Rainer Buckdahn , Juan Li , Junsong Li , Chuanzhi Xing

We consider a stochastic control problem for a class of nonlinear kernels. More precisely, our problem of interest consists in the optimisation, over a set of possibly non-dominated probability measures, of solutions of backward stochastic…

Probability · Mathematics 2017-07-28 Dylan Possamaï , Xiaolu Tan , Chao Zhou

In a recent paper, Bouchard, Elie and Reveillac \cite{BER} have studied a new class of Backward Stochastic Differential Equations with weak terminal condition, for which the $T$-terminal value $Y_T$ of the solution $(Y,Z)$ is not fixed as a…

Probability · Mathematics 2016-02-02 Roxana Dumitrescu

This paper is devoted to a global stochastic maximum principle for conditional mean-field forward-backward stochastic differential equations (FBSDEs, for short) with regime switching. The control domain is unnecessarily convex and the…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2022-12-06 Tao Hao , Jiaqiang Wen , Jie Xiong

In this article, we propose a wellposedness theory for a class of second order backward doubly stochastic differential equation (2BDSDE). We prove existence and uniqueness of the solution under a Lipschitz type assumption on the generator,…

Probability · Mathematics 2016-10-14 Anis Matoussi , Dylan Possamai , Wissal Sabbagh

This paper focuses on investigating an inexact stochastic model-based optimization algorithm that integrates preconditioning techniques for solving stochastic composite optimization problems. The proposed framework unifies and extends the…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2025-12-12 Chenglong Bao , Yancheng Yuan , Shulan Zhu

This paper introduces a backward stochastic differential equation driven by both Brownian motion and a Markov chain (BSDEBM). Regime-switching is also incorporated through its driver. The existence and uniqueness of the solution of the…

Probability · Mathematics 2022-03-08 Engel John C. Dela Vega , Robert J. Elliott

The theory of Forward-Backward Stochastic Differential Equations (FBSDEs) paves a way to probabilistic numerical methods for nonlinear parabolic PDEs. The majority of the results on the numerical methods for FBSDEs relies on the global…

Probability · Mathematics 2016-07-25 Arnaud Lionnet , Gonçalo dos Reis , Lukasz Szpruch

Unsupervised learning aims at the discovery of hidden structure that drives the observations in the real world. It is essential for success in modern machine learning. Latent variable models are versatile in unsupervised learning and have…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2016-06-13 Furong Huang

Mathematical mean-field approaches have been used in many fields, not only in Physics and Chemistry, but also recently in Finance, Economics, and Game Theory. In this paper we will study a new special mean-field problem in a purely…

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