NANAPRJun 25, 2018

Optimal stopping of McKean-Vlasov diffusions via regression on particle systems

arXiv:1806.094837 citationsh-index: 25
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It provides a theoretically grounded numerical method for optimal stopping in nonlinear Markov processes, which is a challenging problem in stochastic control.

The paper proposes a novel regression algorithm for solving optimal stopping problems for McKean-Vlasov diffusions using particle systems, proving its convergence and illustrating performance with a numerical example.

In this paper we study optimal stopping problems for nonlinear Markov processes driven by a McKean-Vlasov SDE and aim at solving them numerically by Monte Carlo. To this end we propose a novel regression algorithm based on the corresponding particle system and prove its convergence. The proof of convergence is based on perturbation analysis of a related linear regression problem. The performance of the proposed algorithms is illustrated by a numerical example.

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