Optimal wealth strategy derived for jump-diffusion models with liabilities.
problem Maximizing utility in jump-diffusion models with random liabilities.
method Forward Backward SDEs system for optimal strategy.
result Explicit results for pure jump model and exponential utilities.
New ranking system balances fairness and user utility.
problem Achieving group fairness in ranking systems.
method Formulated a minimax game between a ranking player and an adversary.
result Better utility for highly fair rankings.
SORTE optimizes systemic performance over individual rationality.
problem Systemic risk and optimal risk transfer.
method Endogenous determination of budget constraints through systemic utility maximization.
result Existence, uniqueness, and Pareto optimality of SORTE.
In this note, we study the utility maximization problem on the terminal wealth under proportional transaction costs and bounded random endowment. In particular, we restrict ourselves to the numéraire-based model and work with utility functions only supporting R+. Under the assumption of existence of consistent price sy…
In this paper we study the problem of maximizing expected utility from the terminal wealth with proportional transaction costs and random endowment. In the context of the existence of consistent price systems, we consider the duality between the primal utility maximization problem and the dual one, which is set up on t…
Algorithm improves recommendation subset selection in the presence of biases.
problem Maximizing submodular functions for recommendation in the presence of social biases.
method Algorithm for submodular maximization with fairness constraints.
result Algorithm provably outputs subsets with near-optimal utility and proportional representation.
This paper solves robust utility maximization with unknown claim dependencies.
problem Investor optimizes utility in the presence of an intractable contingent claim.
method Quantile optimization approach, transforming dynamic problem into static concave optimization.
result Optimal payoffs depend on ambiguity attitude, market conditions, and claim characteristics.
Assemblies of modular subsystems are being pressed into service to perform sensing, reasoning, and decision making in high-stakes, time-critical tasks in such areas as transportation, healthcare, and industrial automation. We address the opportunity to maximize the utility of an overall computing system by employing re…
Paper tackles utility maximization with job-switching and retirement constraints.
problem Maximizing utility with job-switching and retirement constraints.
method Dual-martingale approach and double obstacle problem theory.
result Characterization of optimal job-switching strategy and wealth boundaries.
Investor optimizes utility in a market with endogenous pricing.
problem Maximizing utility in an incomplete market with endogenous pricing.
method Characterized optimality via FBSDEs and BSPDEs using generalized subgradients.
result Existence and smoothness of solutions for optimal investment and FBSDEs.
Optimizes long-term social welfare in recommender systems by matching users to providers.
problem Realistic recommender systems dynamics affect all agents, not just users.
method Formulated as an optimal constrained matching problem, solved using dynamical system equilibrium selection.
result Ensures maximal social welfare with diverse viable providers, improving over myopic matching.
Optimizes football play calls using reinforcement learning.
problem Maximizing game outcomes with limited data.
method Reinforcement learning to optimize decision-making.
result Optimized play calls lead to better game outcomes.
The need for diversification of recommendation lists manifests in a number of recommender systems use cases. However, an increase in diversity may undermine the utility of the recommendations, as relevant items in the list may be replaced by more diverse ones. In this work we propose a novel method for maximizing the u…
Optimal futures trading strategy in a changing market model.
problem Dynamic trading in a regime-switching market.
method Utility maximization approach with HJB equations reduced to linear ODEs.
result Optimal futures positions and portfolio value across market regimes.
Study robust utility maximization with uncertain continuous semimartingales.
problem Maximizing utility in continuous time under model uncertainty.
method Duality and conjugate problems for logarithmic, exponential, and power utilities.
result Existence of optimal portfolios for various utilities.
This paper tackles robust control of noisy systems with uncertain distributions.
problem Optimal control of sampled-data stochastic systems with multiplicative noise and distributional ambiguity.
method Develops a convex relaxation to handle the ``concave-max'' geometry and derives a probabilistic performance guarantee.
result Derives an explicit, non-asymptotic bound on the duality gap and proves robust viability conditions.
Active inference minimizes expected free energy for optimal behavior.
problem Understanding and optimizing behavior in complex systems.
method Combines Bayesian decision theory, optimal Bayesian design, and the free energy principle.
result Active inference emerges as a unified framework for information-seeking, utility maximization, and goal-directed behavior.
Study on hedging with delayed strategies for exponential utility maximization.
problem Maximizing exponential utility in semistatic hedging.
method Explicit computations for delayed semistatic hedging.
result Developed methods for hedging with delayed strategies.
Market equilibrium price proven in a large-agent model.
problem Proving market equilibrium in a large-agent setting.
method Proved existence of equilibrium price in a complete, continuous time market with infinite agents.
result The equilibrium price dynamics decouple as the number of agents increases.
PDBAL targets experiments for probabilistic models to maximize insights.
problem Designing experiments to yield valuable insights efficiently.
method Combines user-specified risk function with probabilistic model to adaptively choose designs.
result PDBAL consistently outperforms standard approaches in simulations and real-world drug screen data.
Study utility maximization with costs, proving convergence and strategies.
problem Utility maximization with proportional transaction costs.
method Extended weak convergence theory and Meyer--Zheng topology.
result Prove convergence of utility maximization problems and optimal trading strategies.
In our previous paper, "A Unified Approach to Systemic Risk Measures via Acceptance Set" (\textit{Mathematical Finance, 2018}), we have introduced a general class of systemic risk measures that allow for random allocations to individual banks before aggregation of their risks. In the present paper, we prove the dual re…
Investor maximizes utility from an unknown claim using robust optimization.
problem Maximizing utility from an unknown contingent claim.
method Robust optimization with quantile formulation and variational inequalities.
result Optimal trading strategy and utility indifference price determined.
We introduce and solve a new type of quadratic backward stochastic differential equation systems defined in an infinite time horizon, called \emph{ergodic BSDE systems}. Such systems arise naturally as candidate solutions to characterize forward performance processes and their associated optimal trading strategies in a…
No arbitrage holds if a Pareto solution exists for vector-valued utility maximization.
problem Existence of no arbitrage in markets with transaction costs and multiple assets.
method Prove no arbitrage condition equivalent to Pareto solution for vector-valued utility maximization.
result A consistent price process can be constructed from the Pareto maximizer.
Econometrics is based on the nonempiric notion of utility. Prices, dynamics, and market equilibria are supposed to be derived from utility. Utility is usually treated by economists as a price potential, other times utility rates are treated as Lagrangians. Assumptions of integrability of Lagrangians and dynamics are im…
Study examines insider information's impact on arbitrage and utility maximization in financial portfolios.
problem Analyzing the relationship between insider information and arbitrage in financial portfolio optimization.
method Examines the utility maximization problem under different utility functions (logarithmic and CRRA) with and without no temporary-bankruptcy restriction, considering altered information flow.
result Insider information's value is bounded when arbitrage holds, and it does not always imply arbitrage.
Solves utility maximization for delayed informed investors.
problem Maximizing utility in a discrete time framework with delayed information.
method Utilizes theory from [4] and optimal portfolio guessing.
result Solution for exponential utility maximization in a multivariate normal setting with delay.
The paper examines utility maximization in markets with hidden Gaussian drift, finding restrictions on model parameters.
problem Utility maximization problems in markets with hidden Gaussian drift mean-reverting processes.
method Derives sufficient conditions for bounded maximum expected utility of terminal wealth for models with full and partial information.
result Restrictions on model parameters for bounded maximum expected utility.
New method for fair resource allocation in AI-aware networks with unknown utility functions.
problem Fair resource allocation in AI-aware communication networks with unknown utility functions.
method Distributed, data-driven bilevel optimization approach to learn surrogate utility functions.
result The proposed algorithm learns from data to autotune surrogate utility functions for unknown utility functions.
Proposes a new trust framework for AI models to maximize utility.
problem Concerns over bias and discrimination in predictive models.
method Introduces a novel trust framework inspired by philosophy, focusing on maximizing Bayes utility.
result Properly-ranked models are inherently U-trustworthy. Solves utility maximization with uncertainty in drift and volatility.
problem Maximizing terminal wealth with uncertainty in stock drift and volatility.
method Explicit solutions for utility maximization under Knightian uncertainty.
result Solves robust optimization problems with various utility functions.
In this paper, we study a class of quadratic Backward Stochastic Differential Equations (BSDEs) which arises naturally when studying the problem of utility maximization with portfolio constraints. We first establish existence and uniqueness results for such BSDEs and then, we give an application to the utility maximiza…
Study on robust utility maximization with nonconcave utility functions under projective determinacy.
problem Investor's optimal investment strategy under model ambiguity and nonconcave utility.
method Projective functions of the path and sets of priors, upper-semicontinuous utility.
result Existence of optimal investment strategy under PD.
The paper solves a portfolio selection problem in incomplete markets by balancing utility and risk.
problem Time-inconsistent portfolio selection in incomplete markets.
method Characterizes equilibrium via a coupled quadratic BSDE system, introduces approximate equilibrium for general cases.
result Established existence theory for equilibrium strategies in special and general cases.
Stability of the utility maximization problem with random endowment and indifference prices is studied for a sequence of financial markets in an incomplete Brownian setting. Our novelty lies in the nonequivalence of markets, in which the volatility of asset prices (as well as the drift) varies. Degeneracies arise from …
The effectiveness of utility-maximization techniques for portfolio management relies on our ability to estimate correctly the parameters of the dynamics of the underlying financial assets. In the setting of complete or incomplete financial markets, we investigate whether small perturbations of the market coefficient pr…
New framework for fair online allocation in continuous time with deadlines.
problem Fair allocation under deadlines in continuous-time online learning.
method Continuous-time utility maximization, dual ascent optimization for time averages.
result Achieves ildeO(B−1/2) regret bound in the absence of statistical knowledge. A note on utility maximization with costs, proving trading strategies.
problem Utility maximization with proportional transaction costs and stability of optimal portfolios.
method Proof of a limit theorem using a dual approach.
result Established a uniqueness result for optimal trading strategies.
We study the problem of utility maximization from terminal wealth in which an agent optimally builds her portfolio by investing in a bond and a risky asset. The asset price dynamics follow a diffusion process with regime-switching coefficients modeled by a continuous-time finite-state Markov chain. We consider an inves…
Investment and consumption strategy optimized under uncertain conditions.
problem Optimal investment and consumption under logarithmic utility and uncertainty model.
method Characterized using quadratic BSDE.
result Optimal solution found.
New algorithm tackles unknown utility network resource allocation.
problem Maximizing network utility with unknown agent utilities.
method Modeling as a bandit problem, proposing algorithms for resource allocation.
result Proposed algorithms are optimal when all agents have the same utility.
In the large financial market, which is described by a model with countably many traded assets, we formulate the problem of the expected utility maximization. Assuming that the preferences of an economic agent are modeled with a stochastic utility and that the consumption occurs according to a stochastic clock, we obta…
Bayesian decision theory outlines a rigorous framework for making optimal decisions based on maximizing expected utility over a model posterior. However, practitioners often do not have access to the full posterior and resort to approximate inference strategies. In such cases, taking the eventual decision-making task i…
Analyzes new economic paradigm for non-independent consumer choices.
problem Non-independent consumer choices due to firm supply and consumer information.
method Develops a new mathematical framework for economic systems.
result New paradigm for economic system description is necessary.
In this paper we study a robust expected utility maximization problem with random endowment in discrete time. We give conditions under which an optimal strategy exists and derive a dual representation for the optimal utility. Our approach is based on a general representation result for monotone convex functionals, a fu…
Closed-form optimal portfolios for exponential utility in small/large markets.
problem Optimal portfolios maximizing exponential utility in small/large financial markets.
method Closed-form expressions for optimal portfolios in small markets, convergence to large market optimal utility, numerical procedure for general utility functions.
result Optimal utility in large markets converges to optimal utility in small markets, requiring infinite diversification.
Study utility maximization with delayed information in continuous time Gaussian markets.
problem Maximizing utility with delayed information in continuous time Gaussian markets.
method Purely probabilistic approach based on Radon-Nikodym derivatives of Gaussian measures.
result Solution for optimal control and value in a specific Gaussian framework.