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This is the first in a series of papers in which we study an efficient approximation scheme for solving the Hamilton-Jacobi-Bellman equation for multi-dimensional problems in stochastic control theory. The method is a combination of a WKB…

Computational Finance · Quantitative Finance 2014-06-26 Sakda Chaiworawitkul , Patrick S. Hagan , Andrew Lesniewski

We consider a Bolza-type optimal control problem for a dynamical system described by a fractional differential equation with the Caputo derivative of an order $\alpha \in (0, 1)$. The value of this problem is introduced as a functional in a…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2019-08-06 Mikhail I. Gomoyunov

For continuous systems modeled by dynamical equations such as ODEs and SDEs, Bellman's Principle of Optimality takes the form of the Hamilton-Jacobi-Bellman (HJB) equation, which provides the theoretical target of reinforcement learning…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-10-28 Haruki Settai , Naoya Takeishi , Takehisa Yairi

We propose and analyze a framework for discrete-time robust mean-field control problems under common noise uncertainty. In this framework, the mean-field interaction describes the collective behavior of infinitely many cooperative agents'…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2025-11-07 Mathieu Laurière , Ariel Neufeld , Kyunghyun Park

We study an optimal dividend problem under a bankruptcy constraint. Firms face a trade-off between potential bankruptcy and extraction of profits. In contrast to previous works, general cash flow drifts, including Ornstein--Uhlenbeck and…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2018-03-05 Max Reppen , Jean-Charles Rochet , H. Mete Soner

We propose a mathematical framework to explain implicit regularization from early stopping during the training of overparametrized neural networks. In the mean-field limit, the parameter distribution evolves according to a gradient flow on…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2026-03-24 Beatrice Acciaio , Jakob Heiss , Gudmund Pammer , Qinxin Yan

We propose a deep learning approach to compute mean field control problems with individual noises. The problem consists of the Fokker-Planck (FP) equation and the Hamilton-Jacobi-Bellman (HJB) equation. Using the differential of the…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2025-05-20 Mo Zhou , Stanley Osher , Wuchen Li

This paper is a continuation of Ishitani and Kato (2015), in which we derived a continuous-time value function corresponding to an optimal execution problem with uncertain market impact as the limit of a discrete-time value function. Here,…

Trading and Market Microstructure · Quantitative Finance 2015-11-10 Kensuke Ishitani , Takashi Kato

A mean field argument is used to derive a master equation for systems simultaneously interacting with external fields and coupled environmental degrees of freedom. We prove that this master equation preserves positivity of the reduced…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 Joshua Wilkie , Murat Cetinbas

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

Continuous-time stochastic processes underlie many natural and engineered systems. In healthcare, autonomous driving, and industrial control, direct interaction with the environment is often unsafe or impractical, motivating offline…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2025-11-14 Nicolas Hoischen , Petar Bevanda , Max Beier , Stefan Sosnowski , Boris Houska , Sandra Hirche

This paper first introduces a method to approximate the value function of high-dimensional optimal control by neural networks. Based on the established relationship between Pontryagin's maximum principle (PMP) and the value function of the…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2025-07-22 Mouhcine Assouli , Justina Gianatti , Badr Missaoui , Francisco J. Silva

In this paper, we consider a problem of contract theory in which several Principals hire a common Agent and we study the model in the continuous time setting. We show that optimal contracts should satisfy some equilibrium conditions and we…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2018-01-15 Thibaut Mastrolia , Zhenjie Ren

In this paper, we investigate the interaction of two populations with a large number of indistinguishable agents. The problem consists in two levels: the interaction between agents of a same population, and the interaction between the two…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2018-10-30 Alain Bensoussan , Tao Huang , Mathieu Laurière

In this paper, a stochastic optimal control problem is investigated in which the system is governed by a stochastic functional differential equation. In the framework of functional It\^o calculus, we build the dynamic programming principle…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2013-01-03 Shaolin Ji , Shuzhen Yang

We consider an economy made of competing firms which are heterogeneous in their capital and use several inputs for producing goods. Their consumption policy is fixed rationally by maximizing a utility and their capital cannot fall below a…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2022-07-13 Yves Achdou , Guillaume Carlier , Quentin Petit , Daniela Tonon

In this paper, we study one kind of stochastic recursive optimal control problem with the obstacle constraints for the cost function where the cost function is described by the solution of one reflected backward stochastic differential…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2007-05-23 Zhen Wu , Zhiyong Yu

This study investigates an optimal investment problem for an insurance company operating under the Cramer-Lundberg risk model, where investments are made in both a risky asset and a risk-free asset. In contrast to other literature that…

Mathematical Finance · Quantitative Finance 2024-06-25 J. Cerda-Hernandez , A. Sikov , A. Ramos

In this paper, we consider the social optimal problem of discrete time finite state space mean field games (referred to as finite mean field games [1]). Unlike the individual optimization of their own cost function in competitive models, in…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2024-08-09 Zijia Niu , Sanjin Huang , Lu Ren , Wang Yao , Xiao Zhang

We consider the valuation problem of an (insurance) company under partial information. Therefore we use the concept of maximizing discounted future dividend payments. The firm value process is described by a diffusion model with constant…

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