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Signal alignment has become a popular problem in robotics due in part to its fundamental role in action recognition. Currently, the most successful algorithms for signal alignment are Dynamic Time Warping (DTW) and its variant 'Fast'…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-07-17 Thomas Mitchel , Sipu Ruan , Yixin Gao , Gregory S. Chirikjian

In this book chapter, we discuss recent advances in data-driven approaches for inverse problems. In particular, we focus on the \emph{paired autoencoder} framework, which has proven to be a powerful tool for solving inverse problems in…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-08-20 Matthias Chung , Bas Peters , Michael Solomon

In this paper we propose a new parameter estimator that ensures global exponential convergence of linear regression models requiring only the necessary assumption of identifiability of the regression equation,which we show is equivalent to…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-08-20 Lei Wang , Romeo Ortega , Alexey Bobtsov , Jose Guadalupe Romero , Bowen Yi

Imitation learning is a widely used approach for training agents to replicate expert behavior in complex decision-making tasks. However, existing methods often struggle with compounding errors and limited generalization, due to the inherent…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-04-21 Haldun Balim , Yang Hu , Yuyang Zhang , Na Li

We present a new $4$-approximation algorithm for the Combinatorial Motion Planning problem which runs in $\mathcal{O}(n^2\alpha(n^2,n))$ time, where $\alpha$ is the functional inverse of the Ackermann function, and a fully distributed…

Discrete Mathematics · Computer Science 2018-05-24 Simran Dokania , Aditya Paliwal , Shrisha Rao

This paper considers real-time control and learning problems for finite-dimensional linear systems under binary-valued and randomly disturbed output observations. This has long been regarded as an open problem because the exact values of…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-11-12 Lantian Zhang , Lei Guo

Practical model building processes are often time-consuming because many different models must be trained and validated. In this paper, we introduce a novel algorithm that can be used for computing the lower and the upper bounds of model…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2014-02-11 Yoshiki Suzuki , Kohei Ogawa , Yuki Shinmura , Ichiro Takeuchi

We propose a new stopping criterion for Krylov subspace iterative regularization of large-scale ill-posed inverse problems. Our stopping criterion accurately filters the data using a generalization of the Picard parameter that was…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2017-07-14 Eitan Levin , Alexander Y. Meltzer

Parametric analysis is a powerful tool for designing modern embedded systems, because it permits to explore the space of design parameters, and to check the robustness of the system with respect to variations of some uncontrollable…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2013-02-07 Youcheng Sun , Romain Soulat , Giuseppe Lipari , Étienne André , Laurent Fribourg

Timed automata are a widely used formalism for specifying the discrete-state/continuous-time behavior of time-critical reactive systems. For the fundamental verification problem of comparing two timed automata, it has been shown that timed…

Formal Languages and Automata Theory · Computer Science 2026-04-01 Alexander Lieb , Hendrik Göttmann , Lars Luthmann , Malte Lochau , Andy Schürr

In this article we study the problem of recovering the unknown solution of a linear ill-posed problem, via iterative regularization methods. We review the problem of projection-regularization from a statistical point of view. A basic…

Statistics Theory · Mathematics 2007-06-13 Ana K. Fermin , Carenne Ludena

Estimating and quantifying uncertainty in unknown system parameters from limited data remains a challenging inverse problem in a variety of real-world applications. While many approaches focus on estimating constant parameters, a subset of…

Methodology · Statistics 2023-05-09 Andrea Arnold

Data-adaptive (machine learning-based) effect estimators are increasingly popular to reduce bias in high-dimensional bioinformatic and clinical studies (e.g. real-world data, target trials, -omic discovery). Their relative statistical…

Methodology · Statistics 2022-06-13 Xiang Meng , Jonathan Huang

This paper addresses the optimal time-invariant formation tracking problem with the aim of providing a distributed solution for multi-agent systems with second-order integrator dynamics. In the literature, most of the results related to…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-01-08 Marco Fabris , Giulio Fattore , Angelo Cenedese

Parametric timed automata are a powerful formalism for reasoning on concurrent real-time systems with unknown or uncertain timing constants. Reducing their state space is a significant way to reduce the inherently large analysis times. We…

Formal Languages and Automata Theory · Computer Science 2022-12-12 Étienne André , Dylan Marinho , Laure Petrucci , Jaco van de Pol

Robots performing manipulation tasks must operate under uncertainty about both their pose and the dynamics of the system. In order to remain robust to modeling error and shifts in payload dynamics, agents must simultaneously perform…

Systems and Control · Computer Science 2017-07-31 Patrick Slade , Preston Culbertson , Zachary Sunberg , Mykel Kochenderfer

Online platforms in the Internet Economy commonly incorporate recommender systems that recommend products (or "arms") to users (or "agents"). A key challenge in this domain arises from myopic agents who are naturally incentivized to exploit…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2024-06-19 Xiaowu Dai , Wenlu Xu , Yuan Qi , Michael I. Jordan

We propose methods to solve time-varying, sensor and actuator (SaA) selection problems for uncertain cyber-physical systems. We show that many SaA selection problems for optimizing a variety of control and estimation metrics can be posed as…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2018-07-26 Ahmad F. Taha , Nikolaos Gatsis , Tyler Summers , Sebastian Nugroho

We aim at computing the derivative of the solution to a parametric optimization problem with respect to the involved parameters. For a class broader than that of strongly convex functions, this can be achieved by automatic differentiation…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2019-10-15 Sheheryar Mehmood , Peter Ochs

Real-time optimization problems are ubiquitous in control and estimation, and are typically parameterized by incoming measurement data and/or operator commands. This paper proposes solving parameterized constrained nonlinear programs using…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2018-12-06 Dominic Liao-McPherson , Marco Nicotra , Ilya Kolmanovsky