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Policy iteration (PI) is a widely used algorithm for synthesizing optimal feedback control policies across many engineering and scientific applications. When PI is deployed on infinite-horizon, nonlinear, autonomous optimal-control…

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The ergodic control problem for a non-degenerate controlled diffusion controlled through its drift is considered under a uniform stability condition that ensures the well-posedness of the associated Hamilton-Jacobi-Bellman (HJB) equation. A…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2019-03-20 Ari Arapostathis , Vivek S. Borkar

We introduce a regulated stochastic diffusion model for the recycling rate and formulate a joint control problem over production and process innovation via the dynamics of recycling investment and product pricing. The resulting stochastic…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2026-04-03 Bowen Xie , Yijin Gao

Computing optimal feedback controls for nonlinear systems generally requires solving Hamilton-Jacobi-Bellman (HJB) equations, which are notoriously difficult when the state dimension is large. Existing strategies for high-dimensional…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2021-04-09 Tenavi Nakamura-Zimmerer , Qi Gong , Wei Kang

The Dynamic Programming approach allows to compute a feedback control for nonlinear problems, but suffers from the curse of dimensionality. The computation of the control relies on the resolution of a nonlinear PDE, the…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2019-11-14 Alessandro Alla , Luca Saluzzi

We present an expansion for portfolio optimization in the presence of small, instantaneous, quadratic transaction costs. Specifically, the magnitude of transaction costs has a coefficient that is of the order $\epsilon$ small, which leads…

Trading and Market Microstructure · Quantitative Finance 2023-03-15 Andrew Papanicolaou , Shiva Chandra

We investigate the optimal strategy over a finite time horizon for a portfolio of stock and bond and a derivative in an multiplicative Markovian market model with transaction costs (friction). The optimization problem is solved by a…

Physics and Society · Physics 2011-06-24 Erik Aurell , Paolo Muratore-Ginanneschi

We consider an optimal control problem for a linear stochastic integro-diffe\-rential equation with conic constraints on the phase variable and the control of singular-regular type. Our setting includes consumption-investment problems for…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2015-01-20 Dimitri De Vallière , Yuri Kabanov , Emmanuel Lépinette

We propose a class of numerical schemes for nonlocal HJB variational inequalities (HJBVIs) with monotone drivers. The solution and free boundary of the HJBVI are constructed from a sequence of penalized equations, for which a continuous…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2018-05-17 Christoph Reisinger , Yufei Zhang

Portfolio Selection is an important real-world financial task and has attracted extensive attention in artificial intelligence communities. This task, however, has two main difficulties: (i) the non-stationary price series and complex asset…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-03-09 Yifan Zhang , Peilin Zhao , Qingyao Wu , Bin Li , Junzhou Huang , Mingkui Tan

This paper considers a robust time-consistent mean-variance-skewness portfolio selection problem for an ambiguity-averse investor by taking into account wealth-dependent risk aversion and wealth-dependent skewness preference as well as…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2022-01-19 Jian-hao Kang , Nan-jing Huang , Zhihao Hu , Ben-Zhang Yang

We study an optimal investment and consumption problem over a finite-time horizon, in which an individual invests in a risk-free asset and a risky asset, and evaluate utility using a general utility function that exhibits loss aversion with…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2025-07-08 Chonghu Guan , Xinfeng Gu , Wenhao Zhang , Xun Li

Environmental management optimizing a long-run objective is an ergodic control problem whose resolution can be achieved by solving an associated non-local Hamilton-Jacobi-Bellman (HJB) equation having an effective Hamiltonian. Focusing on…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2022-05-11 Hidekazu Yoshioka , Motoh Tsujimura , Yuta Yaegashi

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

This paper is concerned with a stochastic recursive optimal control problem with time delay, where the controlled system is described by a stochastic differential delayed equation (SDDE) and the cost functional is formulated as the solution…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2014-08-26 Jingtao Shi , Huanshui Zhang

This paper introduces Deep Policy Iteration (DPI), a novel approach that integrates the strengths of Neural Networks with the stability and convergence advantages of Policy Iteration (PI) to address high-dimensional stochastic Mean Field…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2024-07-15 Mouhcine Assouli , Badr Missaoui

We study an agent's lifecycle portfolio choice problem with stochastic labor income, borrowing constraints and a finite retirement date. Similarly to arXiv:2002.00201, wages evolve in a path-dependent way, but the presence of a finite…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2024-02-27 Sara Biagini , Enrico Biffis , Fausto Gozzi , Margherita Zanella

In this note, we study a class of indefinite stochastic McKean-Vlasov linear-quadratic (LQ in short) control problem under the control taking nonnegative values. In contrast to the conventional issue, both the classical dynamic programming…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2023-10-05 Xun Li , Liangquan Zhang

This paper concerns the continuous time mean-variance portfolio selection problem with a special nonlinear wealth equation. This nonlinear wealth equation has a nonsmooth coefficient and the dual method developed in [6] does not work. We…

Mathematical Finance · Quantitative Finance 2016-06-20 Shaolin Ji , Xiaomin Shi

This paper studies an optimal dividend problem with a drawdown constraint in a Brownian motion model, requiring the dividend payout rate to remain above a fixed proportion of its historical maximum. This leads to a path-dependent stochastic…

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