Learning to reflect: A unifying approach for data-driven stochastic control strategies
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| author | Christensen, Sören Strauch, Claudia Trottner, Lukas |
| author_facet | Christensen, Sören Strauch, Claudia Trottner, Lukas |
| contents | Stochastic optimal control problems have a long tradition in applied probability, with the questions addressed being of high relevance in a multitude of fields. Even though theoretical solutions are well understood in many scenarios, their practicability suffers from the assumption of known dynamics of the underlying stochastic process, raising the statistical challenge of developing purely data-driven strategies. For the mathematically separated classes of continuous diffusion processes and Lévy processes, we show that developing efficient strategies for related singular stochastic control problems can essentially be reduced to finding rate-optimal estimators with respect to the sup-norm risk of objects associated to the invariant distribution of ergodic processes which determine the theoretical solution of the control problem. From a statistical perspective, we exploit the exponential $β$-mixing property as the common factor of both scenarios to drive the convergence analysis, indicating that relying on general stability properties of Markov processes is a sufficiently powerful and flexible approach to treat complex applications requiring statistical methods. We show moreover that in the Lévy case $-$ even though per se jump processes are more difficult to handle both in statistics and control theory $-$ a fully data-driven strategy with regret of significantly better order than in the diffusion case can be constructed. |
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| spellingShingle | Learning to reflect: A unifying approach for data-driven stochastic control strategies Christensen, Sören Strauch, Claudia Trottner, Lukas Statistics Theory Optimization and Control Probability Machine Learning 62M05, 62G05, 93E20, 93E35, 60G10, 60G51, 60J60 Stochastic optimal control problems have a long tradition in applied probability, with the questions addressed being of high relevance in a multitude of fields. Even though theoretical solutions are well understood in many scenarios, their practicability suffers from the assumption of known dynamics of the underlying stochastic process, raising the statistical challenge of developing purely data-driven strategies. For the mathematically separated classes of continuous diffusion processes and Lévy processes, we show that developing efficient strategies for related singular stochastic control problems can essentially be reduced to finding rate-optimal estimators with respect to the sup-norm risk of objects associated to the invariant distribution of ergodic processes which determine the theoretical solution of the control problem. From a statistical perspective, we exploit the exponential $β$-mixing property as the common factor of both scenarios to drive the convergence analysis, indicating that relying on general stability properties of Markov processes is a sufficiently powerful and flexible approach to treat complex applications requiring statistical methods. We show moreover that in the Lévy case $-$ even though per se jump processes are more difficult to handle both in statistics and control theory $-$ a fully data-driven strategy with regret of significantly better order than in the diffusion case can be constructed. |
| title | Learning to reflect: A unifying approach for data-driven stochastic control strategies |
| topic | Statistics Theory Optimization and Control Probability Machine Learning 62M05, 62G05, 93E20, 93E35, 60G10, 60G51, 60J60 |
| url | https://arxiv.org/abs/2104.11496 |