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We consider the control problem of the stochastic Navier-Stokes equations in multidimensional domains introduced in \cite{ocpc} restricted to noise terms defined by Q-Wiener processes. Using a stochastic maximum principle, we derive a…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2018-10-30 Peter Benner , Christoph Trautwein

We study the problem of optimal control for mean-field stochastic partial differential equations (stochastic evolution equations) driven by a Brownian motion and an independent Poisson random measure, in the case of \textit{partial…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2017-04-12 Roxana Dumitrescu , Bernt Øksendal , Agnès Sulem

We consider N-player and mean field games in continuous time over a finite horizon, where the position of each agent belongs to {-1,1}. If there is uniqueness of mean field game solutions, e.g. under monotonicity assumptions, then the…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2019-02-06 Alekos Cecchin , Paolo Dai Pra , Markus Fischer , Guglielmo Pelino

We establish existence of nearly-optimal controls, conditions for existence of an optimal control and a saddle-point for respectively a control problem and zero-sum differential game associated with payoff functionals of mean-field type,…

Probability · Mathematics 2017-07-25 Boualem Djehiche , Said Hamadène

This paper investigates a multidimensional non-homogeneous stochastic linear-quadratic optimal control problem featuring random coefficients and a terminal mean-field term in the cost functional, enabling its direct application to…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2026-05-27 Guojiang Shao , Zuo Quan Xu , Qi Zhang

We propose a mean-field optimal control problem for the parameter identification of a given pattern. The cost functional is based on the Wasserstein distance between the probability measures of the modeled and the desired patterns. The…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2021-04-08 Martin Burger , Lisa Maria Kreusser , Claudia Totzeck

We provide a new version of the Tikhonov theorem for both two-scale forward systems and also two-scale forward-backward systems of stochastic differential equations, which also covers the McKean-Vlasov case. Differently from what is usually…

Probability · Mathematics 2024-03-26 Matteo Burzoni , Alekos Cecchin , Andrea Cosso

Linear-quadratic optimal control problems are considered for mean-field stochastic differential equations with deterministic coefficients. Time-inconsistency feature of the problems is carefully investigated. Both open-loop and closed-loop…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2013-05-07 Jiongmin Yong

Multi-agent reinforcement learning methods have shown remarkable potential in solving complex multi-agent problems but mostly lack theoretical guarantees. Recently, mean field control and mean field games have been established as a…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-12-20 Kai Cui , Anam Tahir , Mark Sinzger , Heinz Koeppl

This article is concerned with an optimal control problem derived by mean-field forward-backward stochastic differential equation with noisy observation, where the drift coefficients of the state equation and the observation equation are…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2017-01-09 Guangchen Wang , Hua Xiao , Guojing Xing

We study the stochastic control-stopping problem when the data are of polynomial growth. The approach is based on backward stochastic dierential equations (BSDEs for short). The problem turns into the study of a specic reected BSDE with a…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2020-05-15 Brahim Asri , Said Hamadène , Khalid Oufdil

We discuss a class of explicitly solvable mean field type control problems/mean field games with a clear economic interpretation. More precisely, we consider long term average impulse control problems with underlying general one-dimensional…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2021-04-28 Sören Christensen , Berenice Anne Neumann , Tobias Sohr

We study the mean field game problem for a nervous system consisting of a large number of neurons with mean-field interaction. In this system, each neuron can modulate its spiking activity by controlling its membrane potential to…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2024-12-18 Lijun Bo , Dongfang Yang , Shihua Wang

Mean field control (MFC) problems have vast applications in artificial intelligence, engineering, and economics, while solving MFC problems accurately and efficiently in high-dimensional spaces remains challenging. This work introduces…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2025-03-26 Jiaxi Zhao , Mo Zhou , Xinzhe Zuo , Wuchen Li

This paper studies the mean-field Markov decision process (MDP) with the centralized stopping under the non-exponential discount. The problem differs fundamentally from most existing studies on mean-field optimal control/stopping due to its…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2025-01-22 Xiang Yu , Fengyi Yuan

Recent work linking deep neural networks and dynamical systems opened up new avenues to analyze deep learning. In particular, it is observed that new insights can be obtained by recasting deep learning as an optimal control problem on…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2020-07-21 Weinan E , Jiequn Han , Qianxiao Li

For algorithms based on interacting particle systems that admit a mean-field description, convergence analysis is often more accessible at the mean-field level. In order to transfer convergence results obtained at the mean-field level to…

Probability · Mathematics 2025-11-03 Nicolai Jurek Gerber , Franca Hoffmann , Urbain Vaes

We consider a pathwise stochastic optimal control problem and study the associated (not necessarily adapted) Hamilton-Jacobi-Bellman stochastic partial differential equation. We show that the value process is the unique solution of this…

Probability · Mathematics 2023-11-02 Neeraj Bhauryal , Ana Bela Cruzeiro , Carlos Oliveira

We study a stochastic optimal control problem motivated by the operation of a large ensemble of residential storage devices coordinated by an energy aggregator. The aggregator remunerates prosumers in exchange for direct control of their…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2026-03-03 Margherita Fabini , Andrea Pascucci , Alessio Rondelli

This paper studies the problem of steering a linear time-invariant system subject to state and input constraints towards a goal location that may be inferred only through partial observations. We assume mixed-observable settings, where the…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2022-11-22 Ugo Rosolia , Yuxiao Chen , Shreyansh Daftry , Masahiro Ono , Yisong Yue , Aaron D. Ames