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We propose a new numerical method for solving the Hamilton-Jacobi-Bellman quasi-variational inequality associated with the combined impulse and stochastic optimal control problem over a finite time horizon. Our method corresponds to an…

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Optimal control problems driven by evolutionary partial differential equations arise in many industrial applications and their numerical solution is known to be a challenging problem. One approach to obtain an optimal feedback control is…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2023-05-16 Gerhard Kirsten , Luca Saluzzi

We consider the optimal control of solutions of first order Hamilton-Jacobi equations, where the Hamiltonian is convex with linear growth. This models the problem of steering the propagation of a front by constructing an obstacle. We prove…

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In this paper we study the existence of sufficiently regular representations of Hamilton-Jacobi equations in the optimal control theory with unbounded control set. We use a new method to construct representations for a wide class of…

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In this paper, we introduce Hamilton-Jacobi-Bellman (HJB) equations for Q-functions in continuous time optimal control problems with Lipschitz continuous controls. The standard Q-function used in reinforcement learning is shown to be the…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2020-05-05 Jeongho Kim , Insoon Yang

We consider continuous-state and continuous-time control problems where the admissible trajectories of the system are constrained to remain on a union of half-planes which share a common straight line. This set will be named a junction. We…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2014-12-10 Salomé Oudet

In this paper we propose a new way of proving the value of a firm that is currently producing a certain product and faces the option to exit the market. The problem of optimal exiting is an optimal stopping problem, that can be solved using…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2013-09-23 Manuel Guerra , Cláudia Nunes , Carlos Oliveira

Two key challenges in optimal control include efficiently solving high-dimensional problems and handling optimal control problems with state-dependent running costs. In this paper, we consider a class of optimal control problems whose…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2023-05-16 Paula Chen , Jérôme Darbon , Tingwei Meng

This paper is a review of results on Optimisation which are perhaps not so standard in the PDE realm. To this end, we consider the problem of deriving the PDEs associated to the optimal control of a system of either ODEs or SDEs with…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2018-01-16 Nikos Katzourakis , Tristan Pryer

Models involving hybrid systems are versatile in their application but difficult to optimize efficiently due to their combinatorial nature. This work presents a method to cope with hybrid optimal control problems which, in contrast to…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2025-05-20 Viktoriya Nikitina , Alberto De Marchi , Matthias Gerdts

This paper presents a physics-informed machine learning approach for synthesizing optimal feedback control policy for infinite-horizon optimal control problems by solving the Hamilton-Jacobi-Bellman (HJB) partial differential equation(PDE).…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-11-24 Tanay Raghunandan Srinivasa , Suraj Kumar

We propose a novel data-driven neural network (NN) optimization framework for solving an optimal stochastic control problem under stochastic constraints. Customized activation functions for the output layers of the NN are applied, which…

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In this paper, we study a stochastic recursive optimal control problem in which the cost functional is described by the solution of a backward stochastic differential equation driven by G-Brownian motion. Under standard assumptions, we…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2014-10-15 Mingshang Hu , Shaolin Ji

This paper deals with optimal combined singular and regular controls for stochastic Volterra integral equations, where the solution X^{u,\xi}(t)=X(t) is given by X(t) =\phi(t)+\int_{0}^{t}}b(t,s,X(s),u(s))…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2021-04-15 Nacira Agram , Saloua Labed , Bernt Øksendal , Samia Yakhlef

This article is a continuation of a previous work where we studied infinite horizon control problems for which the dynamic, running cost and control space may be different in two half-spaces of some euclidian space $\R^N$. In this article…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2014-01-27 Guy Barles , Ariela Briani , Emmanuel Chasseigne

We show that the value function of a stochastic control problem is the unique solution of the associated Hamilton-Jacobi-Bellman (HJB) equation, completely avoiding the proof of the so-called dynamic programming principle (DPP). Using…

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This work proposes a novel numerical scheme for solving the high-dimensional Hamilton-Jacobi-Bellman equation with a functional hierarchical tensor ansatz. We consider the setting of stochastic control, whereby one applies control to a…

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A new method for stochastic control based on neural networks and using randomisation of discrete random variables is proposed and applied to optimal stopping time problems. The method models directly the policy and does not need the…

Computational Finance · Quantitative Finance 2021-01-11 Thomas Deschatre , Joseph Mikael

The solution to a stochastic optimal control problem can be determined by computing the value function from a discretization of the associated Hamilton-Jacobi-Bellman equation. Alternatively, the problem can be reformulated in terms of a…

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