A Spectral Approach to Optimal Control of the Fokker-Planck Equation

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Autores principales: Kalise, Dante, Moschen, Lucas M., Pavliotis, Grigorios A., Vaes, Urbain
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Publicado: 2025
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author Kalise, Dante
Moschen, Lucas M.
Pavliotis, Grigorios A.
Vaes, Urbain
author_facet Kalise, Dante
Moschen, Lucas M.
Pavliotis, Grigorios A.
Vaes, Urbain
contents In this paper, we present a spectral optimal control framework for Fokker-Planck equations based on the standard ground state transformation that maps the Fokker-Planck operator to a Schrodinger operator. Our primary objective is to accelerate convergence toward the (unique) steady state. To fulfill this objective, a gradient-based iterative algorithm with Pontryagin's maximum principle and the Barzilai-Borwein update is developed to compute time-dependent controls. Numerical experiments on two-dimensional ill-conditioned normal distributions and double-well potentials demonstrate that our approach effectively targets slow-decaying modes, thus increasing the spectral gap.
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spellingShingle A Spectral Approach to Optimal Control of the Fokker-Planck Equation
Kalise, Dante
Moschen, Lucas M.
Pavliotis, Grigorios A.
Vaes, Urbain
Optimization and Control
Numerical Analysis
49M41, 35Q84, 65M70
G.1.6; G.1.8
In this paper, we present a spectral optimal control framework for Fokker-Planck equations based on the standard ground state transformation that maps the Fokker-Planck operator to a Schrodinger operator. Our primary objective is to accelerate convergence toward the (unique) steady state. To fulfill this objective, a gradient-based iterative algorithm with Pontryagin's maximum principle and the Barzilai-Borwein update is developed to compute time-dependent controls. Numerical experiments on two-dimensional ill-conditioned normal distributions and double-well potentials demonstrate that our approach effectively targets slow-decaying modes, thus increasing the spectral gap.
title A Spectral Approach to Optimal Control of the Fokker-Planck Equation
topic Optimization and Control
Numerical Analysis
49M41, 35Q84, 65M70
G.1.6; G.1.8
url https://arxiv.org/abs/2503.15125