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A Bounded Regret Strategy for Linear Dynamics with Unknown Control

Optimization and Control 2023-11-28 v2

Abstract

We consider a simple linear control problem in which a single parameter bb, describing the effect of the control variable, is unknown and must be learned. We work in the setting of agnostic control: we allow bb to be any real number and we do not assume that we have a prior belief about bb. For any fixed time horizon, we produce a strategy whose expected cost is within a constant factor of the best possible.

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@article{arxiv.2311.13365,
  title  = {A Bounded Regret Strategy for Linear Dynamics with Unknown Control},
  author = {Jacob Carruth},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2311.13365},
  year   = {2023}
}

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minor revisions; 32 pages

R2 v1 2026-06-28T13:28:31.889Z