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In this paper we propose and analyze a method based on the Riccati transformation for solving the evolutionary Hamilton-Jacobi-Bellman equation arising from the stochastic dynamic optimal allocation problem. We show how the fully nonlinear…

Portfolio Management · Quantitative Finance 2013-07-25 Sona Kilianova , Daniel Sevcovic

Bi-causal optimal transport (OT) is a natural framework for comparing and coupling stochastic processes under nonanticipative information constraints, with important applications in robust finance, sequential uncertainty quantification, and…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2026-05-19 Haoyang Cao , Jesse Hoekstra , Renyuan Xu , Yumin Xu , Ruixun Zhang

Optimal transport (OT) defines a powerful framework to compare probability distributions in a geometrically faithful way. However, the practical impact of OT is still limited because of its computational burden. We propose a new class of…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2016-05-30 Genevay Aude , Marco Cuturi , Gabriel Peyré , Francis Bach

We propose a globally convergent numerical method, called the convexification, to numerically compute the viscosity solution to first-order Hamilton-Jacobi equations through the vanishing viscosity process where the viscosity parameter is a…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2022-01-26 Michael Klibanov , Loc H. Nguyen , Hung V. Tran

In the realm of computer vision and graphics, accurately establishing correspondences between geometric 3D shapes is pivotal for applications like object tracking, registration, texture transfer, and statistical shape analysis. Moving…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-03-05 Tung Le , Khai Nguyen , Shanlin Sun , Nhat Ho , Xiaohui Xie

Optimal Transport (OT) is being widely used in various fields such as machine learning and computer vision, as it is a powerful tool for measuring the similarity between probability distributions and histograms. In previous studies, OT has…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2020-06-17 Yasunori Akagi , Yusuke Tanaka , Tomoharu Iwata , Takeshi Kurashima , Hiroyuki Toda

The discrete optimal transport (OT) problem, which offers an effective computational tool for comparing two discrete probability distributions, has recently attracted much attention and played essential roles in many modern applications.…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2024-05-20 Di Hou , Ling Liang , Kim-Chuan Toh

In this work we present a numerical method for the Optimal Mass Transportation problem. Optimal Mass Transportation (OT) is an active research field in mathematics.It has recently led to significant theoretical results as well as…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2013-08-06 Jean-David Benamou , Brittany D. Froese , Adam M. Oberman

Optimal Transport (OT) has recently emerged as a powerful framework for learning minimal-displacement maps between distributions. The predominant approach involves a neural parametrization of the Monge formulation of OT, typically assuming…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-07-23 Athina Sotiropoulou , David Alvarez-Melis

We consider the problem of optimal path planning on a manifold which is the image of a smooth function. Optimal path-planning is of crucial importance for motion planning, image processing, and statistical data analysis. In this work, we…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2024-12-19 Edward Huynh , Christian Parkinson

We present a method for optimal path planning of human walking paths in mountainous terrain, using a control theoretic formulation and a Hamilton-Jacobi-Bellman equation. Previous models for human navigation were entirely deterministic,…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2020-05-08 Christian Parkinson , David Arnold , Andrea L. Bertozzi , Stanley Osher

We propose a novel, mesh-free, and gradient-free fixed-point approach for computing viscosity solutions of high-dimensional Hamilton-Jacobi (HJ) equations. By leveraging the Hopf-Lax formula, our approach iteratively solves the associated…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2026-02-06 Yesom Park , Stanley Osher

In this paper, we develop algorithms to overcome the curse of dimensionality in possibly non-convex state-dependent Hamilton-Jacobi equations (HJ PDEs) arising from optimal control and differential game problems. The subproblems are…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2018-02-19 Yat Tin Chow , Jerome Darbon , Stanley Osher , Wotao Yin

We propose a novel data-driven neural network (NN) optimization framework for solving an optimal stochastic control problem under stochastic constraints. Customized activation functions for the output layers of the NN are applied, which…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2023-06-21 Marc Chen , Mohammad Shirazi , Peter A. Forsyth , Yuying Li

The aim of this article is twofold. First, we develop a unified framework for viscosity solutions to both first-order Hamilton-Jacobi equations and semilinear Hamilton-Jacobi equations driven by the idiosyncratic operator, defined on the…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2026-01-22 Giacomo Ceccherini Silberstein , Daniela Tonon

Comparing time series in a principled manner requires capturing both temporal alignment and distributional similarity of features. Optimal transport (OT) has recently emerged as a powerful tool for this task, but existing OT-based…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2025-12-29 Thai P. D. Nguyen , Hong T. M. Chu , Kim-Chuan Toh

We present a framework for efficient extraction of the viscosity solutions of nonlinear Hamilton-Jacobi equations with convex Hamiltonians. These viscosity solutions play a central role in areas such as front propagation, mean-field games,…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-02-17 Shi Jin , Nana Liu

The purpose of this paper is to describe the numerical solution of the Hamilton-Jacobi-Bellman (HJB) for an optimal control problem for quantum spin systems. This HJB equation is a first order nonlinear partial differential equation defined…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2011-10-05 Srinivas Sridharan , Matthew R. James

We introduce a new numerical method to approximate the solution of a finite horizon deterministic optimal control problem. We exploit two Hamilton-Jacobi-Bellman PDE, arising by considering the dynamics in forward and backward time. This…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2023-04-21 Marianne Akian , Stéphane Gaubert , Shanqing Liu

In this paper, we explore a new class of stochastic control problems characterized by specific control constraints. Specifically, the admissible controls are subject to the ratcheting constraint, meaning they must be non-decreasing over…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2024-12-17 Mingxin Guo , Zuo Quan Xu
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