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Multi-Task Dynamic Pricing in Credit Market with Contextual Information

We study the dynamic pricing problem faced by a broker seeking to learn prices for a large number of credit market securities, such as corporate bonds, government bonds, loans, and other credit-related securities. A major challenge in pricing these securities stems from their infrequent trading and

Holy Grail Math 8 Rigor 7 ·  September 29, 2026

Adaptive Partitioning and Learning for Stochastic Control of Diffusion Processes

We study reinforcement learning for controlled diffusion processes with unbounded continuous state spaces, bounded continuous actions, and polynomially growing rewards: settings that arise naturally in finance, economics, and operations research. To overcome the challenges of continuous and high-dim

Holy Grail Math 8.5 Rigor 5 ·  December 17, 2025

Exploratory Optimal Stopping: A Singular Control Formulation

This paper explores continuous-time and state-space optimal stopping problems from a reinforcement learning perspective. We begin by formulating the stopping problem using randomized stopping times, where the decision maker’s control is represented by the probability of stopping within a given time-

Lab Rats Math 9.5 Rigor 3.5 ·  August 18, 2024

Periodic Trading Activities in Financial Markets: Mean-field Liquidation Game with Major-Minor Players

Motivated by recent empirical findings on the periodic phenomenon of aggregated market volumes in equity markets, we aim to understand the causes and consequences of periodic trading activities through a game-theoretic perspective, examining market interactions among different types of participants.

Lab Rats Math 8.5 Rigor 3 ·  August 18, 2024

Schrödinger bridge for generative AI: Soft-constrained formulation and convergence analysis

Generative AI can be framed as the problem of learning a model that maps simple reference measures into complex data distributions, and it has recently found a strong connection to the classical theory of the Schrödinger bridge problems (SBPs) due partly to their common nature of interpolating betwe

Lab Rats Math 9.5 Rigor 1.5 ·  October 13, 2025

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