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We present a nonlinear dynamical approximation method for time-dependent Partial Differential Equations (PDEs). The approach makes use of parametrized decoder functions, and provides a general, and principled way of understanding and…

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Within the framework of viscosity solution, we study the relationship between the maximum principle (MP) in [9] and the dynamic programming principle (DPP) in [10] for a fully coupled forward-backward stochastic controlled system (FBSCS)…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2018-05-17 Mingshang Hu , Shaolin Ji , Xiaole Xue

In this article, a notion of viscosity solutions is introduced for fully nonlinear second order path-dependent partial differential equations in the spirit of [Zhou, Ann. Appl. Probab., 33 (2023), 5564-5612]. We prove the existence,…

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This paper presents a finite-dimensional approximation for a class of partial differential equations on the space of probability measures. These equations are satisfied in the sense of viscosity solutions. The main result states the…

Probability · Mathematics 2024-07-24 Mehdi Talbi

Path-dependent PDEs (PPDEs) are natural objects to study when one deals with non Markovian models. Recently, after the introduction of the so-called pathwise (or functional or Dupire) calculus (see [15]), in the case of finite-dimensional…

Probability · Mathematics 2017-03-07 Andrea Cosso , Salvatore Federico , Fausto Gozzi , Mauro Rosestolato , Nizar Touzi

This work introduces and rigorously analyzes a novel operator-splitting finite element scheme for approximating viscosity solutions of a broad class of constrained second-order partial differential equations. By decoupling the primary PDE…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2025-07-01 Po-Yi Wu

In this paper we prove an approximation result for the viscosity solution of a system of semi-linear partial differential equations with continuous coefficients and nonlinear Neumann boundary condition. The approximation we use is based on…

Probability · Mathematics 2015-10-30 Khaled Bahlali , Lucian Maticiuc , Adrian Zalinescu

For scalar fully nonlinear partial differential equations depending on the Hessian andspatial coordinates, we present a general theory for obtaining comparison principles and well posedness for the associated Dirichlet problem with…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2015-05-11 Marco Cirant , Kevin R. Payne

We consider a broad class of dynamic programming (DP) problems that involve a partially linear structure and some positivity properties in their system equation and cost function. We address deterministic and stochastic problems, possibly…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2026-04-21 Yuchao Li , Dimitri Bertsekas

We provide a representation formula for viscosity solutions to an elliptic Dirichlet problem involving Pucci's extremal operators. This is done through a dynamic programming principle derived from Denis, Hu and Peng (2010). The formula can…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2025-09-09 Marco Pozza

The objective of this paper is twofold. First, we propose two composable block solver methodologies to solve the discrete systems that arise from finite element discretizations of the double porosity/permeability (DPP) model. The DPP model,…

Computational Engineering, Finance, and Science · Computer Science 2019-05-01 M. S. Joshaghani , J. Chang , K. B. Nakshatrala , M. G. Knepley

In this paper, we propose a novel policy iteration method, called dynamic policy programming (DPP), to estimate the optimal policy in the infinite-horizon Markov decision processes. We prove the finite-iteration and asymptotic l\infty-norm…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2011-09-09 Mohammad Gheshlaghi Azar , Vicenc Gomez , Hilbert J. Kappen

Machine learning for scientific applications faces the challenge of limited data. We propose a framework that leverages a priori known physics to reduce overfitting when training on relatively small datasets. A deep neural network is…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2019-11-22 Jonathan B. Freund , Jonathan F. MacArt , Justin Sirignano

For years, there has been interest in approximation methods for solving dynamic programming problems, because of the inherent complexity in computing optimal solutions characterized by Bellman's principle of optimality. A wide range of…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2020-06-18 Yajing Liu , Edwin Chong , Ali Pezeshki , Zhenliang Zhang

We study robust convex quadratic programs where the uncertain problem parameters can contain both continuous and integer components. Under the natural boundedness assumption on the uncertainty set, we show that the generic problems are…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2018-12-19 Areesh Mittal , Can Gokalp , Grani A. Hanasusanto

We introduce a new definition of viscosity solution to path-dependent partial differential equations, which is a slight modification of the definition introduced in [8]. With the new definition, we prove the two important results till now…

Probability · Mathematics 2018-06-21 Zhenjie Ren , Mauro Rosestolato

Domain decomposition methods (DDMs) provide a unifying framework for the scalable numerical solution of partial differential equations. Originating from Schwarz's alternating method, they have evolved into a rich family of algorithms that…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2026-05-26 Victorita Dolean , Pierre Jolivet , Frédéric Nataf , Pierre-Henri Tournier

A template-based generic programming approach was presented in a previous paper that separates the development effort of programming a physical model from that of computing additional quantities, such as derivatives, needed for embedded…

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This paper provides an overview of the recently developed notion of viscosity solutions of path-dependent partial di erential equations. We start by a quick review of the Crandall- Ishii notion of viscosity solutions, so as to motivate the…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2015-03-10 Zhenjie Ren , Nizar Touzi , Jianfeng Zhang

Conventional finite-difference schemes for solving partial differential equations are based on approximating derivatives by finite-differences. In this work, an alternative theory is proposed which view finite-difference schemes as…

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