Special Session 29: Mean field stochastic control problems and related topics

Some New Results on Entropy Regularized Backward Stochastic Control Systems

Qi Zhang
Fudan University
Peoples Rep of China
Co-Author(s):    Ziyue Chen, Qi Zhang
Abstract:
The entropy regularization is inspired by information entropy from machine learning and the ideas of exploration and exploitation in reinforcement learning, which appears in the control problem to design an approximating algorithm for the optimal control. I will introduce our new results on the optimal exploratory control for backward stochastic system, generated by the backward stochastic differential equation and with the entropy regularization in its cost functional. We give the theoretical depict of the optimal relaxed control so as to lay the foundation for the application of such a backward stochastic control system to mathematical finance and algorithm implementation.