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Over the recent past data-driven algorithms for solving stochastic optimal control problems in face of model uncertainty have become an increasingly active area of research. However, for singular controls and underlying diffusion dynamics…

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In this article, we analyse the existence of an optimal feedback controller of stochastic optimal control problems governed by SDEs which have the control in the diffusion part. To this end, we consider the underlying Fokker-Planck equation…

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In this paper, we study the optimal control problem for steering the state covariance of a discrete-time linear stochastic system over a finite time horizon. First, we establish the existence and uniqueness of the optimal control law for a…

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In this paper, an open problem is solved, for the stochastic optimal control problem with delay where the control domain is nonconvex and the diffusion term contains both control and its delayed term. Inspired by previous results by \O…

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We study optimal bilinear control problems for stochastic nonlinear Schr\"odinger equations in both the mass subcritical and critical case. For general initial data of the minimal L2 regularity, we prove the existence and first order…

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We address the problem of reshaping light in the Schr\"odinger optics regime from the perspective of optimal control theory. In technological applications, Schr\"odinger optics is often used to model a slowly-varying amplitude of a…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2022-05-04 Jimmie Adriazola , Roy H. Goodman

We study a stochastic control problem for nonlinear systems governed by stochastic differential equations with irregular drift. The drift coefficient is assumed to decompose as $b(t,x,a)=b_1(t,x)+b_2(x)b_3(t,a)$, where $b_1$ is bounded and…

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This paper discusses a method enabling optimal control of nonlinear systems that are subject to parametric uncertainty. A stochastic optimal tracking problem is formulated that can be expressed in function of the first two stochastic…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2018-08-22 Tom Lefebvre , Frederik De Belie , Guillaume Crevecoeur

In this paper, we consider the stochastic optimal control problems under G-expectation. Based on the theory of backward stochastic differential equations driven by G-Brownian motion, which was introduced in [10.11], we can investigate the…

Probability · Mathematics 2013-08-19 Zhonghao Zheng , Xiuchun Bi , Shuguang Zhang

We present a novel particle filtering framework for continuous-time dynamical systems with continuous-time measurements. Our approach is based on the duality between estimation and optimal control, which allows reformulating the estimation…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2021-10-08 Qinsheng Zhang , Amirhossein Taghvaei , Yongxin Chen

Progressively applying Gaussian noise transforms complex data distributions to approximately Gaussian. Reversing this dynamic defines a generative model. When the forward noising process is given by a Stochastic Differential Equation (SDE),…

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We study a controlled version of the Bayesian sequential testing problem for the drift of a Wiener process, in which the observer exercises discretion over the signal intensity. This control incurs a running cost that reflects the resource…

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This paper studies a {\it reversible} investment problem where a social planner aims to control its capacity production in order to fit optimally the random demand of a good. Our model allows for general diffusion dynamics on the demand as…

Probability · Mathematics 2013-07-08 Salvatore Federico , Huyen Pham

We tackle a nonlinear optimal control problem for a stochastic differential equation in Euclidean space and its state-linear counterpart for the Fokker-Planck-Kolmogorov equation in the space of probabilities. Our approach is founded on a…

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The optimal transport problem has recently developed into a powerful framework for various applications in estimation and control. Many of the recent advances in the theory and application of optimal transport are based on regularizing the…

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We consider a stochastic impulse control problem that is motivated by applications such as the optimal exploitation of a natural resource. In particular, we consider a stochastic system whose uncontrolled state dynamics are modelled by a…

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We provide an overview on how to use the measurable selection techniques to derive the dynamic programming principle for a general stochastic optimal control/stopping problem. By considering its martingale problem formulation on the…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2024-10-03 Nicole El Karoui , Xiaolu Tan

In this work, we study the control constrained distributed optimal control of a stationary doubly diffusive flow model. For the control problem, we use a well-posedness analysis based on minimal assumptions on data and domain. We show the…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2025-06-13 Jai Tushar , Arbaz Khan , Manil T. Mohan

We solve the problem of optimal stopping of a Brownian motion subject to the constraint that the stopping time's distribution is a given measure consisting of finitely-many atoms. In particular, we show that this problem can be converted to…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2017-07-07 Erhan Bayraktar , Christopher W. Miller

We consider a control problem constrained by the unsteady stochastic Stokes equations with nonhomogeneous boundary conditions in connected and bounded domains. In this paper, controls are defined inside the domain as well as on the…

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