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This paper introduces a dynamic formulation of divergence-regularized optimal transport with weak targets on the path space. In our formulation, the classical relative entropy penalty is replaced by a general convex divergence, and terminal…

Probability · Mathematics 2026-03-31 Camilo Hernández , Ludovic Tangpi

In this work, we revisit the discrete-time Schr\"{o}dinger Bridge (SB) and Density Steering (DS) problems for Gaussian mixture model (GMM) boundary distributions. Building on the existing literature, we construct a set of feasible Markovian…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2026-04-02 George Rapakoulias , Fengjiao Liu , Panagiotis Tsiotras

We consider the problem of optimally stopping a Brownian bridge with an unknown pinning time so as to maximise the value of the process upon stopping. Adopting a Bayesian approach, we assume the stopper has a general continuous prior and is…

Probability · Mathematics 2020-03-17 Kristoffer Glover

We discuss the class of "Quadratic Normal Volatility" models, which have drawn much attention in the financial industry due to their analytic tractability and flexibility. We characterize these models as the ones that can be obtained from…

Pricing of Securities · Quantitative Finance 2013-03-19 Peter Carr , Travis Fisher , Johannes Ruf

We study the law of the minimum of a Brownian bridge, conditioned to take specific values at specific points, and the law of the location of the minimum. They are used to compare some non-adaptive optimisation algorithms for black-box…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2017-11-15 Aureli Alabert , Ricard Caballero

A variety of physically relevant bilinear Schr\"odinger equations are known to be approximately controllable in large times. There are however examples which are approximately controllable in large times, but not in small times. This…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2025-06-24 Karine Beauchard , Eugenio Pozzoli

We study the problem of stopping an $\alpha$-Brownian bridge as close as possible to its global maximum. This extends earlier results found for the Brownian bridge (the case $\alpha=1$). The exact behavior for $\alpha$ close to $0$ is…

Probability · Mathematics 2014-09-19 Maik Görgens

We study the uniqueness question for two inverse problems on graphs. Both problems consist in finding (possibly complex) edge or nodal based quantities from boundary measurements of solutions to the Dirichlet problem associated with a…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2015-10-13 Justin Boyer , Jack J. Garzella , Fernando Guevara Vasquez

We establish the existence of an optimal control for a general class of singular control problems with state constraints. The proof uses weak convergence arguments and a time rescaling technique. The existence of optimal controls for…

Probability · Mathematics 2007-05-23 Amarjit Budhiraja , Kevin Ross

We consider the situation of a two-level quantum system undergoing a continuous indirect measurement, giving rise to so-called "quantum trajectories". We first describe these quantum trajectories in a physically realistic discrete-time…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2010-04-21 S Attal , C Pellegrini

We study an ordinary differential equation controlled by a stochastic process. We present results on existence and uniqueness of solutions, on associated local times (Trotter and Ray-Knight theorems), and on time and direction of…

Probability · Mathematics 2007-05-23 Richard F. Bass , Krzysztof Burdzy

In this paper we provide a comprehensive analysis of a structural model for the dynamics of prices of assets traded in a market originally proposed in [1]. The model takes the form of an interacting generalization of the geometric Brownian…

Statistical Finance · Quantitative Finance 2018-06-06 Kartik Anand , Jonathan Khedair , Reimer Kuehn

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…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2021-03-12 Isabel Haasler , Axel Ringh , Yongxin Chen , Johan Karlsson

A Schr\"{o}dinger bridge establishes a dynamic transport map between two target distributions via a reference process, simultaneously solving an associated entropic optimal transport problem. We consider the setting where samples from the…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-01-22 Stefano Peluchetti

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

Leveraging connections between diffusion-based sampling, optimal transport, and stochastic optimal control through their shared links to the Schr\"odinger bridge problem, we propose novel objective functions that can be used to transport…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2024-10-11 Qijia Jiang , David Nabergoj

Motivated by recent developments in the calibration of stochastic volatility models (SVMs for short), we study continuous-time formulations of martingale optimal transport and martingale Schr\"odinger bridge problems. We establish duality…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2025-10-14 Antonios Zitridis

We propose a pseudo-market solution to resource allocation problems subject to constraints. Our treatment of constraints is general: including bihierarchical constraints due to considerations of diversity in school choice, or scheduling in…

Theoretical Economics · Economics 2020-11-09 Federico Echenique , Antonio Miralles , Jun Zhang

We consider a stochastic control model driven by a fractional Brownian motion. This model is a formal approximation to a queueing network with an on-off input process. We study stochastic control problems associated with the long-run…

Probability · Mathematics 2008-08-12 Arka P. Ghosh , Alexander Roitershtein , Ananda Weerasinghe

In this work, we study a discrete Schr\"odinger bridge problem with partial marginal observations. A main difficulty compared to the classical Schr\"odinger bridge formulation is that our problem is not strictly convex and standard…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2026-04-08 Michele Mascherpa , Victor Molnö , Carsten Skovmose Kallesøe , Johan Karlsson