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A general backward stochastic linear-quadratic optimal control problem is studied, in which both the state equation and the cost functional contain the nonhomogeneous terms. The main feature of the problem is that the weighting matrices in…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2022-03-01 Jingrui Sun , Jiaqiang Wen , Jie Xiong

This paper presents a novel approach for steering the state of a stochastic control-affine system to a desired target within a finite time horizon. Our method leverages the time-reversal of diffusion processes to construct the required…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2025-09-11 Yuhang Mei , Amirhossein Taghvaei , Ali Pakniyat

We consider control and inference problems where control protocols and internal dynamics are informed by two types of constraints. Our data consist of i) statistics on the ensemble and ii) trajectories or final disposition of selected…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2025-09-05 Asmaa Eldesoukey , Mahmoud Abdelgalil , Tryphon T. Georgiou

Consider the problem of matching two independent i.i.d. samples of size $N$ from two distributions $P$ and $Q$ in $\mathbb{R}^d$. For an arbitrary continuous cost function, the optimal assignment problem looks for the matching that…

Probability · Mathematics 2023-01-03 Zaid Harchaoui , Lang Liu , Soumik Pal

This paper addresses the inverse optimal control problem of finding the state weighting function that leads to a quadratic value function when the cost on the input is fixed to be quadratic. The paper focuses on a class of infinite horizon…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2022-11-21 Luis Rodrigues

This paper deals with the reconstruction of the desired demand in an optimal control problem, stated over a tree-shaped transportation network which is governed by a linear hyperbolic conservation law. As desired demands typically undergo…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2024-04-24 Simone Göttlich , Patrick Mehlitz , Thomas Schillinger

This paper is devoted to an optimal control problem of fully coupled forward-backward stochastic differential equations driven by sub-diffusion, whose solutions are not Markov processes. The stochastic maximum principle is obtained, where…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2025-03-11 Chenhui Hao , Jingtao Shi , Shuaiqi Zhang

In this paper, we study a stochastic optimal control problem under a type of consistent convex expectation dominated by G-expectation. By the separation theorem for convex sets, we get the representation theorems for this convex expectation…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2024-08-21 Xiaojuan Li , Mingshang Hu

In this paper, we study the inverse random source scattering problem for the biharmonic Schrodinger equation in two and three dimensions. The driven source is assumed to be a generalized microlocally isotropic Gaussian random function whose…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2024-12-24 Tianjiao Wang , Xiang Xu , Yue Zhao

Inverse Optimal Control (IOC) seeks to recover an unknown cost from expert demonstrations, and it provides a systematic way of modeling experts' decision mechanisms while considering the prior information of the cost functions.…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2025-12-01 Ziliang Wang , Han Zhang , Axel Ringh

In control theory, typically a nominal model is assumed based on which an optimal control is designed and then applied to an actual (true) system. This gives rise to the problem of performance loss due to the mismatch between the true model…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2023-09-19 Somnath Pradhan , Serdar Yuksel

This paper is concerned with the mathematical analysis of the inverse random source problem for the time fractional diffusion equation, where the source is assumed to be driven by a fractional Brownian motion. Given the random source, the…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2020-04-22 Xiaoli Feng , Peijun Li , Xu Wang

In this paper, we consider a class of stochastic control problems for stochastic differential equations with random coefficients. The control domain need not to be convex but the control process is not allowed to enter in diffusion term.…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2020-08-06 Ishak Alia , Mohamed Sofiane Alia

We present a set-oriented graph-based computational framework for continuous-time optimal transport over nonlinear dynamical systems. We recover provably optimal control laws for steering a given initial distribution in phase space to a…

Dynamical Systems · Mathematics 2018-12-21 Karthik Elamvazhuthi , Piyush Grover

We consider stochastic optimal control of linear dynamical systems with additive non-Gaussian disturbance. We propose a novel, sampling-free approach, based on Fourier transformations and convex optimization, to cast the stochastic optimal…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2020-10-06 Vignesh Sivaramakrishnan , Abraham P. Vinod , Meeko M. K. Oishi

Classic optimal transport theory is formulated through minimizing the expected transport cost between two given distributions. We propose the framework of distorted optimal transport by minimizing a distorted expected cost, which is the…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2025-05-20 Haiyan Liu , Bin Wang , Ruodu Wang , Sheng Chao Zhuang

We consider a two-sided singular stochastic control problem with a risk-sensitive ergodic criterion. In particular, we consider a stochastic system whose uncontrolled dynamics are modelled by a linear diffusion. The control that can be…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2025-09-15 Justin Gwee , Mihail Zervos

We study high-dimensional stochastic optimal control problems in which many agents cooperate to minimize a convex cost functional. We consider both the full-information problem, in which each agent observes the states of all other agents,…

Probability · Mathematics 2023-01-10 Joe Jackson , Daniel Lacker

We consider a stochastic control model driven by a fractional Brownian motion. This model is a formal approximation to a queueing network with an on-off input process. We study stochastic control problems associated with the long-run…

Probability · Mathematics 2008-08-12 Arka P. Ghosh , Alexander Roitershtein , Ananda Weerasinghe

Recently, a series of papers proposed deep learning-based approaches to sample from target distributions using controlled diffusion processes, being trained only on the unnormalized target densities without access to samples. Building on…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-05-24 Lorenz Richter , Julius Berner