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This paper studies the problem of option replication in general stochastic volatility markets with transaction costs, using a new specification for the volatility adjustment in Leland's algorithm \cite{Leland}. We prove several limit…

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In this paper, we consider a generic interest rate market in the presence of roll-over risk, which generates spreads in spot/forward term rates. We do not require classical absence of arbitrage and rely instead on a minimal market viability…

Pricing of Securities · Quantitative Finance 2023-10-06 Claudio Fontana , Simone Pavarana , Wolfgang J. Runggaldier

We study the problem of adaptive control of the stochastic linear quadratic regulator (LQR) with constraints that must be satisfied at every time step. Prior work on the multidimensional problem has shown $\tilde{O}(T^{2/3})$ regret and…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2026-05-08 Spencer Hutchinson , Nanfei Jiang , Mahnoosh Alizadeh

In this paper, we formulate a general time-inconsistent stochastic linear--quadratic (LQ) control problem. The time-inconsistency arises from the presence of a quadratic term of the expected state as well as a state-dependent term in the…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2011-11-04 Ying Hu , Hanqing Jin , Xun Yu Zhou

Recently, there has been a surge in interest in safe and robust techniques within reinforcement learning (RL). Current notions of risk in RL fail to capture the potential for systemic failures such as abrupt stoppages from system failures…

Systems and Control · Computer Science 2019-10-09 David Mguni

We analyse the regret arising from learning the price sensitivity parameter $\kappa$ of liquidity takers in the ergodic version of the Avellaneda-Stoikov market making model. We show that a learning algorithm based on a maximum-likelihood…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2025-07-15 Jialun Cao , David Šiška , Lukasz Szpruch , Tanut Treetanthiploet

We start with a stochastic control problem where the control process is of finite variation (possibly with jumps) and acts as integrator both in the state dynamics and in the target functional. Problems of such type arise in the stream of…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2023-09-29 Julia Ackermann , Thomas Kruse , Mikhail Urusov

We formulate option market making as a constrained, risk-sensitive control problem that unifies execution, hedging, and arbitrage-free implied-volatility surfaces inside a single learning loop. A fully differentiable eSSVI layer enforces…

Trading and Market Microstructure · Quantitative Finance 2025-10-07 Jian'an Zhang

In this paper long-run risk sensitive optimisation problem is studied with dyadic impulse control applied to continuous-time Feller-Markov process. In contrast to the existing literature, focus is put on unbounded and non-uniformly ergodic…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2019-06-18 Marcin Pitera , Łukasz Stettner

We describe an adaptive market-making architecture that preserves the analytical structure of the Avellaneda--Stoikov framework while introducing a successor measure-style adaptation mechanism. In our paper we keep Avellaneda--Stoikov fast…

Computational Engineering, Finance, and Science · Computer Science 2026-05-22 Arip Asadulaev

This paper proposes an off-policy risk-sensitive reinforcement learning based control framework for stabilization of a continuous-time nonlinear system that subjects to additive disturbances, input saturation, and state constraints. By…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-04-21 Cong Li , Qingchen Liu , Zhehua Zhou , Martin Buss , Fangzhou Liu

We explore how dynamic entry deterrence operates through feedback strategies in markets experiencing stochastic demand fluctuations. The incumbent firm, aware of its own cost structure, can deter a potential competitor by strategically…

Theoretical Economics · Economics 2024-10-22 Mustapha Nyenye Issah

We consider a stochastic control problem which is composed of a controlled stochastic differential equation, and whose associated cost functional is defined through a controlled backward stochastic differential equation. Under appropriate…

Probability · Mathematics 2009-02-17 Rainer Buckdahn , Boubakeur Labed , Catherine Rainer , Lazhar Tamer

Barrier derivatives depend on extrema and first-passage events and are therefore highly sensitive to volatility dynamics -- especially to the instantaneous return-volatility correlation $\rho$, often called ``leverage''. This sensitivity…

Computational Finance · Quantitative Finance 2026-05-11 Tristan Guillaume

We consider the problem of dynamic buying and selling of shares from a collection of $N$ stocks with random price fluctuations. To limit investment risk, we place an upper bound on the total number of shares kept at any time. Assuming that…

Portfolio Management · Quantitative Finance 2009-09-23 Michael J. Neely

In this paper, we consider a modified version of the control problem in a model free Markov decision process (MDP) setting with large state and action spaces. The control problem most commonly addressed in the contemporary literature is to…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2018-02-01 Ajin George Joseph , Shalabh Bhatnagar

This paper studies stochastic control problems motivated by optimal consumption with wealth benchmark tracking. The benchmark process is modeled by a combination of a geometric Brownian motion and a running maximum process, indicating its…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2024-04-26 Lijun Bo , Yijie Huang , Xiang Yu

We consider a stochastic inventory control problem under censored demands, lost sales, and positive lead times. This is a fundamental problem in inventory management, with significant literature establishing near-optimality of a simple…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2019-05-14 Shipra Agrawal , Randy Jia

We present a continuous-time equivalent to the well-known iterative linear-quadratic algorithm including an implementation of a backtracking line-search policy and a novel regularization approach based on the necessary conditions in the…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-05-22 Juraj Lieskovský , Jaroslav Bušek , Tomáš Vyhlídal

We consider the optimal control problem for a linear conditional McKean-Vlasov equation with quadratic cost functional. The coefficients of the system and the weigh-ting matrices in the cost functional are allowed to be adapted processes…

Probability · Mathematics 2017-03-09 Huyên Pham