Entropy-regularized penalization schemes and reflected BSDEs with singular generators

Daniel Chee, Noufel Frikha and Libo Li

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Abstract: This paper extends our previous work to continuous-time optimal stopping, focusing on American options in an exploratory setting. Our first contribution is an entropy-regularized penalization scheme, inspired by classical penalization techniques for reflected BSDEs. It yields a smooth approximation of the stopping rule, promotes exploration, and enables gradient-based learning methods. We prove well-posedness, convergence, and illustrate numerical performance in low-dimensional examples. Our second contribution analyzes the behaviour of the scheme as the penalization parameter grows, showing that the limit solves a reflected BSDE with a logarithmically singular generator, for which we establish existence and uniqueness via a monotone limit argument.

Date: 2026-02, Revised 2026-03
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