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most citedOptimal investment with intermediate consumption under no unbounded profit with bounded risk

32 citations · 104 across the 30 of their papers we have counts for

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35 papers

math.OC2026

Continuous-Time q-Learning with Nonsmooth Value Functions: a BSDE Approach

Manuel Asero, Elena Bandini, Andrea Cosso +1

We study continuous-time q-learning for entropy-regularized diffusion control without assuming classical differentiability of the value function. Rewards and admissible policies ne…

math.PR2026

A new probabilistic approach for mean field games of optimal stopping

Andrea Cosso, Laura D'Andolfi, Roxana Dumitrescu

We propose a novel probabilistic formulation for optimal stopping mean field games (OS-MFGs) with randomized strategies. We characterize mean field equilibria through a new class o…

physics.ins-det2026

Calorimeter Shower Superresolution with Conditional Normalizing Flows: Implementation and Statistical Evaluation

Andrea Cosso

In High Energy Physics, detailed calorimeter simulations and reconstructions are essential for accurate energy measurements and particle identification, but their high granularity…

math.PR2025

Mean convergence rates for Gaussian-smoothed Wasserstein distances and classical Wasserstein distances

Andrea Cosso, Mattia Martini, Laura Perelli

We establish upper bounds for the expected -th power of the Gaussian-smoothed -Wasserstein distance between a probability measure and the corresponding empirical measure…

math.OC2025

Mean field optimal stopping with uncontrolled state

Andrea Cosso, Laura Perelli

We study a specific class of finite-horizon mean field optimal stopping problems by means of the dynamic programming approach. In particular, we consider problems where the state p…

math.OC2025

On the optimal stopping problem for diffusions and an approximation result for stopping times

Andrea Cosso, Laura Perelli

In this article, we study the classical finite-horizon optimal stopping problem for multidimensional diffusions through an approach that differs from what is typically found in the…

math.PR2023★ 7 cited

On smooth approximations in the Wasserstein space

Andrea Cosso, Mattia Martini

In this paper we investigate the approximation of continuous functions on the Wasserstein space by smooth functions, with smoothness meant in the sense of Lions differentiability.…

math.PR2022

A Tikhonov theorem for McKean-Vlasov two-scale systems and a new application to mean field optimal control problems

Matteo Burzoni, Alekos Cecchin, Andrea Cosso

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 cov…

math.AP2021

Master Bellman equation in the Wasserstein space: Uniqueness of viscosity solutions

Andrea Cosso, Fausto Gozzi, Idris Kharroubi +2

We study the Bellman equation in the Wasserstein space arising in the study of mean field control problems, namely stochastic optimal control problems for McKean-Vlasov diffusion p…

math.PR2021★ 5 cited

Path-dependent Hamilton-Jacobi-Bellman equation: Uniqueness of Crandall-Lions viscosity solutions

Andrea Cosso, Fausto Gozzi, Mauro Rosestolato +1

We formulate a path-dependent stochastic optimal control problem under general conditions, for which weprove rigorously the dynamic programming principle and that the value functio…

math.OC2020★ 2 cited

Optimal control of path-dependent McKean-Vlasov SDEs in infinite dimension

Andrea Cosso, Fausto Gozzi, Idris Kharroubi +2

We study the optimal control of path-dependent McKean-Vlasov equations valued in Hilbert spaces motivated by non Markovian mean-field models driven by stochastic PDEs. We first est…

q-fin.CP2020★ 3 cited

Equilibrium price in intraday electricity markets

René Aid, Andrea Cosso, Huyên Pham

We formulate an equilibrium model of intraday trading in electricity markets. Agents face balancing constraints between their customers consumption plus intraday sales and their pr…

math.AP2019★ 5 cited

Crandall-Lions Viscosity Solutions for Path-Dependent PDEs: The Case of Heat Equation

Andrea Cosso, Francesco Russo

We address our interest to the development of a theory of viscosity solutions {à} la Crandall-Lions for path-dependent partial differential equations (PDEs), namely PDEs in the spa…

math.PR2018

BSDE Representation and Randomized Dynamic Programming Principle for Stochastic Control Problems of Infinite-Dimensional Jump-Diffusions

Elena Bandini, Fulvia Confortola, Andrea Cosso

We consider a general class of stochastic optimal control problems, where the state process lives in a real separable Hilbert space and is driven by a cylindrical Brownian motion a…

math.PR2018★ 1 cited

Ergodic Control of Infinite Dimensional SDEs with Degenerate Noise

Andrea Cosso, Giuseppina Guatteri, Gianmario Tessitore

The present paper is devoted to the study of the asymptotic behavior of the value functions of both finite and infinite horizon stochastic control problems and to the investigation…

q-fin.MF2018

The value of informational arbitrage

Huy N. Chau, Andrea Cosso, Claudio Fontana

In the context of a general semimartingale model of a complete market, we aim at answering the following question: How much is an investor willing to pay for learning some inside i…

math.PR2018

Zero-sum stochastic differential games of generalized McKean-Vlasov type *

Huyen Pham, Andrea Cosso

We study zero-sum stochastic differential games where the state dynamics of the two players is governed by a generalized McKean-Vlasov (or mean-field) stochastic differential equat…

math.OC2017★ 1 cited

Backward SDEs and infinite horizon stochastic optimal control

F. Confortola, A. Cosso, M. Fuhrman

We study an optimal control problem on infinite horizon for a controlled stochastic differential equation driven by Brownian motion, with a discounted reward functional. The equati…

math.PR2016

Randomized filtering and Bellman equation in Wasserstein space for partial observation control problem

Elena Bandini, Andrea Cosso, Marco Fuhrman +1

We study a stochastic optimal control problem for a partially observed diffusion. By using the control randomization method in [4], we prove a corresponding randomized dynamic prog…

math.PR2016★ 2 cited

Randomized dynamic programming principle and Feynman-Kac representation for optimal control of McKean-Vlasov dynamics

Erhan Bayraktar, Andrea Cosso, Huyên Pham

We analyze a stochastic optimal control problem, where the state process follows a McKean-Vlasov dynamics and the diffusion coefficient can be degenerate. We prove that its value f…

math.PR2015

Randomization method and backward SDEs for optimal control of partially observed path-dependent stochastic systems

Elena Bandini, Andrea Cosso, Marco Fuhrman +1

We consider a unifying framework for stochastic control problem including the following features: partial observation, path-dependence (both with respect to the state and the contr…

q-fin.PM2015★ 32 cited

Optimal investment with intermediate consumption under no unbounded profit with bounded risk

Huy N. Chau, Andrea Cosso, Claudio Fontana +1

We consider the problem of optimal investment with intermediate consumption in a general semimartingale model of an incomplete market, with preferences being represented by a utili…

math.PR2015

Functional it{ô} versus banach space stochastic calculus and strict solutions of semilinear path-dependent equations

Andrea Cosso, Francesco Russo

Functional Itô calculus was introduced in order to expand a functional depending on time , past and present values of the process . Another possibi…

math.PR2015★ 3 cited

BSDEs with diffusion constraint and viscous Hamilton-Jacobi equations with unbounded data

Andrea Cosso, Huyên Pham, Hao Xing

We provide a stochastic representation for a general class of viscous Hamilton-Jacobi (HJ) equations, which has convexity and superlinear nonlinearity in its gradient term, via a t…