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We consider stochastic model predictive control of a multi-agent systems with constraints on the probabilities of inter-agent collisions. We first study a sample-based approximation of the collision probabilities and use this approximation…

Systems and Control · Computer Science 2011-08-17 Daniel Lyons , Jan-P. Calliess , Uwe D. Hanebeck

Analyzing and controlling system entropy is a powerful tool for regulating predictability of control systems. Applications benefiting from such approaches range from reinforcement learning and data security to human-robot collaboration. In…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2026-03-06 Menno van Zutphen , Giannis Delimpaltadakis , Duarte J. Antunes

The solutions to surface evolution problems like mean curvature flow can be expressed as value functions of suitable stochastic control problems, obtained as limit of a family of regularised control problems. The control-theoretical…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2020-05-22 Nicolas Dirr , Federica Dragoni , Raffaele Grande

In this paper, we study infinite dimensional stochastic systems having both unbounded control and observation operators. First of all, using a semigroup approach, we give another take of the well-posedness of such systems treated in [SIAM…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2021-05-31 Fatima-Zahra Lahbiri , Said Hadd

We propose a new approach to studying classical solutions of the Bellman equation and Master equation for mean field type control problems, using a novel form of the "lifting" idea introduced by P.-L. Lions. Rather than studying the usual…

Probability · Mathematics 2023-05-10 Alain Bensoussan , P. Jameson Graber , Sheung Chi Phillip Yam

In data-driven control, a central question is how to handle noisy data. In this work, we consider the problem of designing a stabilizing controller for an unknown linear system using only a finite set of noisy data collected from the…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-06-29 Andrea Bisoffi , Claudio De Persis , Pietro Tesi

The stochastic optimal control of many agents is an important problem in various fields. We investigate the problem of partial observations, where the state of each agent is not fully observed and the control must be decided based on noisy…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2023-05-30 Aaron Zeff Palmer

In this paper, we introduce a novel approach to solve the (mean-covariance) steering problem for a fairly general class of linear continuous-time stochastic systems subject to input delays. Specifically, we aim at steering delayed linear…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2023-11-27 Gabriel Velho , Riccardo Bonalli , Jean Auriol , Islam Boussaada

A properly designed controller can help improve the quality of experimental measurements or force a dynamical system to follow a completely new time-evolution path. Recent developments in deep reinforcement learning have made steep advances…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2025-02-26 Ruslan Mukhamadiarov

This paper presents a method to approximately solve stochastic optimal control problems in which the cost function and the system dynamics are polynomial. For stochastic systems with polynomial dynamics, the moments of the state can be…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2017-02-24 Andrew Lamperski , Khem Raj Ghusinga , Abhyudai Singh

We study optimal control for mean-field forward backward stochastic differential equations with payoff functionals of mean-field type. Sufficient and necessary optimality conditions in terms of a stochastic maximum principle are derived. As…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2019-05-14 Nacira Agram , Salah Eddine Choutri

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

This note is addressed to giving a short introduction to control theory of stochastic systems, governed by stochastic differential equations in both finite and infinite dimensions. We will mainly explain the new phenomenon and difficulties…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2016-12-09 Qi Lu , Xu Zhang

We establish an algebraic rate of convergence in the large number of players limit of the value functions of N-particle stochastic control problems towards the value function of the corresponding McKean-Vlasov problem also known as mean…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2023-01-09 Pierre Cardaliaguet , Samuel Daudin , Joe Jackson , Panagiotis Souganidis

In this paper, we study the generalized mean-field stochastic control problem when the usual stochastic maximum principle (SMP) is not applicable due to the singularity of the Hamiltonian function. In this case, we derive a second order…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2017-04-27 Hancheng Guo , Jie Xiong

This work develops a mean-field analysis for the asymptotic behavior of deep BitNet-like architectures as smooth quantization parameters approach zero. We establish that empirical measures of latent weights converge weakly to solutions of…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2025-09-03 Dongwon Kim , Dongseok Lee

Stochastic gradient descent is one of the most successful approaches for solving large-scale problems, especially in machine learning and statistics. At each iteration, it employs an unbiased estimator of the full gradient computed from one…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2018-12-05 Bangti Jin , Xiliang Lu

In this article, we propose a new unifying framework for the investigation of multi-agent control problems in the mean-field setting. Our approach is based on a new definition of differential inclusions for continuity equations formulated…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2020-09-15 Benoît Bonnet , Hélène Frankowska

We consider a finite-time stochastic drift control problem with the assumption that the control is bounded and the system is controlled until the state process leaves the half-line. Assuming general conditions, it is proved that the…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2025-12-10 Dariusz Zawisza

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