A Monotone Limit Approach to Entropy-Regularized American Options

Daniel Chee, Noufel Frikha and Libo Li

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Abstract: Recent advances in continuous-time optimal stopping have been driven by entropy-regularized formulations of randomized stopping problems, with most existing approaches relying on partial differential equation methods. In this paper, we propose a fully probabilistic framework based on the Doob-Meyer-Mertens decomposition of the Snell envelope and its representation through reflected backward stochastic differential equations. We introduce an entropy-regularized penalization scheme yielding a monotone approximation of the value function and establish explicit convergence rates under suitable regularity assumptions. In addition, we develop a policy improvement algorithm based on linear backward stochastic differential equations and illustrate its performance through a simple numerical experiment for an American-style max call option

Date: 2026-02
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