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The classical stochastic control problem under partial information can be formulated as a control problem for Zakai equation, whose solution is the unnormalized conditional probability distribution of the state of the system. Zakai equation…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2019-09-27 Alain Bensoussan , Sheung Chi Phillip Yam

Recent work linking deep neural networks and dynamical systems opened up new avenues to analyze deep learning. In particular, it is observed that new insights can be obtained by recasting deep learning as an optimal control problem on…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2020-07-21 Weinan E , Jiequn Han , Qianxiao Li

We study a particle approximation for one-dimensional first-order Mean-Field-Games (MFGs) with local interactions with planning conditions. Our problem comprises a system of a Hamilton-Jacobi equation coupled with a transport equation. As…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2021-09-07 Marco Di Francesco , Serikbolsyn Duisembay , Diogo Aguiar Gomes , Ricardo Ribeiro

We give a new perspective on the existence of viscosity solutions for a stationary and a time-dependent first-order Hamilton-Jacobi equation. Following recent comparison principles, we work in a framework in which we consider a subsolution…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2025-11-25 Serena Della Corte , Richard C. Kraaij

Hamilton-Jacobi (HJ) Reachability is widely used to compute value functions for states satisfying specific control objectives. However, it becomes intractable for high-dimensional problems due to the curse of dimensionality. Dimensionality…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-05-16 Chong He , Mugilan Mariappan , Keval Vora , Mo Chen

In this paper, we present a mean field game to model the production behaviors of a very large number of producers, whose carbon emissions are regulated by government. Especially, an emission permits trading scheme is considered in our…

Economics · Quantitative Finance 2015-06-17 Shuhua Chang , Xinyu Wang , Alexander Shananin

The paper focuses on mean-field type multi-agent control problems with finite state and action spaces where the dynamics and cost structures are symmetric and homogeneous, and are affected by the distribution of the agents. A standard…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2025-07-03 Erhan Bayraktar , Ali D. Kara

We design fast numerical methods for Hamilton-Jacobi equations in density space (HJD), which arises in optimal transport and mean field games. We overcome the curse-of-infinite-dimensionality nature of HJD by proposing a generalized Hopf…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2018-05-07 Yat Tin Chow , Wuchen Li , Stanley Osher , Wotao Yin

We consider the convergence problem in the setting of mean field control with common noise and degenerate idiosyncratic noise. Our main results establish a rate of convergence of the finite-dimensional value functions $V^N$ towards the mean…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2025-01-22 Alekos Cecchin , Samuel Daudin , Joe Jackson , Mattia Martini

We apply the stochastic Perron method of Bayraktar and S\^irbu to a general infinite horizon optimal control problem, where the state $X$ is a controlled diffusion process, and the state constraint is described by a closed set. We prove…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2014-09-25 Dmitry B. Rokhlin

This paper studies a class of time-inconsistent mean field control (MFC) problems in the presence of common noise under non-exponential discount and joint law dependence of both state and control. We investigate the closed-loop…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2025-05-06 Zongxia Liang , Xiang Yu , Keyu Zhang

In this paper we model the role of a government of a large population as a mean field optimal control problem. Such control problems are constrainted by a PDE of continuity-type, governing the dynamics of the probability distribution of the…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2016-08-08 Giacomo Albi , Young-Pil Choi , Massimo Fornasier , Dante Kalise

This paper is devoted to the stochastic optimal control problem of ordinary differential equations allowing for both path-dependence and measurable randomness. As opposed to the deterministic path-dependent cases, the value function turns…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2021-10-25 Jinniao Qiu

We consider the control of McKean-Vlasov dynamics (or mean-field control) with probabilistic state constraints. We rely on a level-set approach which provides a representation of the constrained problem in terms of an unconstrained one with…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2022-11-03 Maximilien Germain , Huyên Pham , Xavier Warin

We consider the N-body Schr\"{o}dinger dynamics of bosons in the mean field limit with a bounded pair-interaction potential. According to the previous work \cite{AmNi}, the mean field limit is translated into a semiclassical problem with a…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2015-05-13 Z. Ammari , F. Nier

This paper develops a policy gradient method for entropy-regularized mean-field control in the discounted infinite-horizon setting. We consider randomized feedback policies and a coupled representative-particle/population system, in which…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2026-05-21 Erhan Bayraktar , Martin Hernandez , Qinxin Yan , Yuhua Zhu

The stochastic $H_2/H_\infty$ control problem for continuous-time mean-field stochastic differential equations with Poisson jumps over finite horizon is investigated in this paper. Continuous and jump diffusion terms in the system depend…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2026-01-12 Huimin Han , Shaolin Ji , Weihai Zhang

Mean-field control problems have received continuous interest over the last decade. Despite being more intricate than in classical optimal control, the linear-quadratic setting can still be tackled through Riccati equations. Remarkably, we…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2023-08-23 Pierre-Cyril Aubin-Frankowski , Alain Bensoussan

Motivated by parallels between mean field games and random matrix theory, we develop stochastic optimal control problems and viscosity solutions to Hamilton-Jacobi equations in the setting of non-commutative variables. Rather than real…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2025-02-25 Wilfrid Gangbo , David Jekel , Kyeongsik Nam , Aaron Z. Palmer

Important gaps remain in our understanding of the thermodynamics and statistical physics of self-gravitating systems. Using mean field theory, here we investigate the equilibrium properties of several spherically symmetric model systems…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2009-10-31 Peter J. Klinko , Bruce N. Miller
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