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We propose a new deep learning algorithm for solving high-dimensional parabolic integro-differential equations (PIDEs) and forward-backward stochastic differential equations with jumps (FBSDEJs). This novel algorithm can be viewed as an…

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In Bender and Dokuchaev (2013), we studied a control problem related to swing option pricing in a general non-Markovian setting. The main result there shows that the value process of this control problem can be uniquely characterized in…

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In this paper, we introduce two novel methods to solve the American-style option pricing problem and its dual form at the same time using neural networks. Without applying nested Monte Carlo, the first method uses a series of neural…

Computational Finance · Quantitative Finance 2025-04-22 Ivan Guo , Nicolas Langrené , Jiahao Wu

We propose and study a scheme combining the finite element method and machine learning techniques for the numerical approximations of coupled nonlinear forward-backward stochastic partial differential equations (FBSPDEs) with homogeneous…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2020-12-16 Hasib Uddin Molla , Jinniao Qiu

In this paper, we consider dynamic risk measures induced by backward stochastic differential equations (BSDEs). We discuss different examples that come up in the literature, including the entropic risk measure and the risk measure arising…

Probability · Mathematics 2024-08-07 Nacira Agram , Jan Rems , Emanuela Rosazza Gianin

In this paper, we study the solvability of a class of multi-dimensional forward backward stochastic differential equations (FBSDEs) with oblique reflection and unbounded stopping time. Under some mild assumptions on the coefficients in such…

Probability · Mathematics 2012-07-03 Soufiane Aazizi , Imade Fakhouri

In this work, we study the numerical approximation of a class of singular fully coupled forward backward stochastic differential equations. These equations have a degenerate forward component and non-smooth terminal condition. They are…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2022-08-17 Jean-François Chassagneux , Mohan Yang

Many inverse and parameter estimation problems can be written as PDE-constrained optimization problems. The goal, then, is to infer the parameters, typically coefficients of the PDE, from partial measurements of the solutions of the PDE for…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2016-01-20 Tristan van Leeuwen , Felix J. Herrmann

A new gradient-based optimization approach by automatically scheduling the learning rate has been proposed recently, which is called Binary Forward Exploration (BFE). The Adaptive version of BFE has also been discussed thereafter. In this…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-09-23 Xin Cao

We consider controller-stopper problems in which the controlled processes can have jumps. The global filtration is represented by the Brownian filtration, enlarged by the filtration generated by the jump process. We assume that there exists…

Probability · Mathematics 2013-11-20 Erhan Bayraktar , Zhou Zhou

Fast pricing of American-style options has been a difficult problem since it was first introduced to financial markets in 1970s, especially when the underlying stocks' prices follow some jump-diffusion processes. In this paper, we propose a…

Computational Finance · Quantitative Finance 2013-05-21 Helin Zhu , Fan Ye , Enlu Zhou

We propose a deep signature/log-signature FBSDE algorithm to solve forward-backward stochastic differential equations (FBSDEs) with state and path dependent features. By incorporating the deep signature/log-signature transformation into the…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-08-22 Qi Feng , Man Luo , Zhaoyu Zhang

We introduce a novel approach to options trading strategies using a highly scalable and data-driven machine learning algorithm. In contrast to traditional approaches that often require specifications of underlying market dynamics or…

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We study the optimal stopping problem for dynamic risk measures represented by Backward Stochastic Differential Equations (BSDEs) with jumps and its relation with reflected BSDEs (RBSDEs). We first provide general existence, uniqueness and…

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We study linear-quadratic stochastic optimal control problems with bilinear state dependence for which the underlying stochastic differential equation (SDE) consists of slow and fast degrees of freedom. We show that, in the same way in…

Dynamical Systems · Mathematics 2018-03-21 Omar Kebiri , Lara Neureither , Carsten Hartmann

Recent advances in deep learning makes solving parabolic partial differential equations (PDEs) in high dimensional spaces possible via forward-backward stochastic differential equation (FBSDE) formulations. The implementation of most…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2025-06-19 Wenjun Xu , Wenzhong Zhang

This paper is concerned with a kind of linear-quadratic (LQ) optimal control problem of backward stochastic differential equation (BSDE) with partial information. The cost functional includes cross terms between the state and control, and…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2025-09-03 Jialong Li , Zhiyong Yu , Wanying Yue

This article introduces and solves a general class of fully coupled forward-backward stochastic dynamics by investigating the associated system of functional differential equations. As a consequence, we are able to solve many different…

Probability · Mathematics 2026-05-01 Matteo Casserini , Gechun Liang

In this paper we deal with the utility maximization problem with a general utility function. We derive a new approach in which we reduce the utility maximization problem with general utility to the study of a fully-coupled Forward-Backward…

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