An entropy penalized approach for stochastic optimization with marginal law constraints. Complete version

This paper focuses on stochastic optimal control problems with constraints in law, which are rewritten as optimization (minimization) of probability measures problem on the canonical space. We introduce a penalized version of this type of problems by splitting the optimization variable and adding an entropic penalization term. We prove that this penalized version constitutes a good approximation of the original control problem and we provide an alternating procedure which converges, under a so called ‘‘Stability Condition’’, to an approximate solution of the original problem. We extend the approach introduced in a previous paperof the same authors including a jump dynamics, non-convex costs and constraints on the marginal laws of the controlled process. The interest of our approach is illustrated by numerical simulations related to demand-side management problems arising in power systems.