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Symplectic integration methods based on operator splitting are well established in many branches of science. For Hamiltonian systems which split in more than two parts, symplectic methods of higher order have been studied in detail only for…

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Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-07-11 Shaoru Chen , Eric Wong , J. Zico Kolter , Mahyar Fazlyab

The splitting method is a powerful method for solving partial differential equations. Various splitting methods have been designed to separate different physics, nonlinearities, and so on. Recently, a new splitting approach has been…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2023-03-22 Yalchin Efendiev , Wing Tat Leung , Wenyuan Li , Zecheng Zhang

The goal of this paper is to solve a class of stochastic optimal control problems numerically, in which the state process is governed by an It\^o type stochastic differential equation with control process entering both in the drift and the…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2020-06-05 Richard Archibald , Feng Bao , Jiongmin Yong , Tao Zhou

In this paper, we propose an original approach to stochastic control problems. We consider a weak formulation that is written as an optimization (minimization) problem on the space of probability measures. We then introduce a penalized…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2025-08-05 Thibaut Bourdais , Nadia Oudjane , Francesco Russo

This paper presents a novel parallel-in-time algorithm able to compute time-periodic solutions of problems where the period is not given. Exploiting the idea of the multiple shooting method, the proposed approach calculates the initial…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2020-07-08 Iryna Kulchytska-Ruchka , Sebastian Schöps

We provide theoretical foundations and computational tools for the systematic design of optimization-based control laws with constraints that have different priorities. By introducing the concept of prioritized intersections, we extend and…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2025-12-23 Daniel Arnström , Gianluca Garofalo

A class of optimal control problems governed by linear fractional diffusion equation with control constraint is considered. We first establish some results on the existence of strong solution to the state equation and the existence of…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2022-11-24 Bui Trong Kien , Bui Ngoc Muoi , Ching-Feng Wen , Jen-Chih Yao

We propose a novel approach to solving input- and state-constrained parametric mixed-integer optimal control problems using Differentiable Predictive Control (DPC). Our approach follows the differentiable programming paradigm by learning an…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-06-25 Ján Boldocký , Shahriar Dadras Javan , Martin Gulan , Martin Mönnigmann , Ján Drgoňa

We present formulations and numerical algorithms for solving diffeomorphic shape matching problems. We formulate shape matching as a variational problem governed by a dynamical system that models the flow of diffeomorphism $f_t \in…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2023-07-20 Andreas Mang , Jiwen He , Robert Azencott

This paper presents a method to approximately solve stochastic optimal control problems in which the cost function and the system dynamics are polynomial. For stochastic systems with polynomial dynamics, the moments of the state can be…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2017-02-24 Andrew Lamperski , Khem Raj Ghusinga , Abhyudai Singh

This paper introduces a new method of partitioning the solution space of a multi-objective optimisation problem for parallel processing, called Efficient Projection Partitioning. This method projects solutions down into a single dimension,…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2017-11-23 William Pettersson , Melih Ozlen

Safety-critical cyber-physical systems require control strategies whose worst-case performance is robust against adversarial disturbances and modeling uncertainties. In this paper, we present a framework for approximate control and learning…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2023-04-04 Aditya Dave , Ioannis Faros , Nishanth Venkatesh , Andreas A. Malikopoulos

A time-inconsistent optimal control problem is formulated and studied for a controlled linear ordinary differential equation with quadratic cost functional. A notion of equilibrium control is introduced, which can be regarded as a…

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Optimization is an important module of modern machine learning applications. Tremendous efforts have been made to accelerate optimization algorithms. A common formulation is achieving a lower loss at a given time. This enables a…

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We consider the uniform parallel machines scheduling problem in the context of optimistic bilevel optimization, where two speed options are considered. In this scenario, the leader aims to minimize the weighted number of tardy jobs, while…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2026-03-06 Quentin Schau , Olivier Ploton , Vincent T'kindt , Han Hoogeveen , Federico Della Croce , Jippe Hoogeveen

The solution of the continuous time filtering problem can be represented as a ratio of two expectations of certain functionals of the signal process that are parametrized by the observation path. We introduce a class of discretization…

Probability · Mathematics 2017-11-23 Dan Crisan , Salvador Ortiz-Latorre

We present a dynamic programming-based solution to a stochastic optimal control problem up to a hitting time for a discrete-time Markov control process. Firstly, we determine an optimal control policy to steer the process toward a compact…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2009-09-28 Debasish Chatterjee , Eugenio Cinquemani , Giorgos Chaloulos , John Lygeros

An optimal control problem for the continuity equation is considered. The aim of a controller is to maximize the total mass within a target set at a given type moment. An iterative numerical algorithm for solving this problem is presented.

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2017-08-21 Nikolay Pogodaev

The problem of automatically clustering data is an age old problem. People have created numerous algorithms to tackle this problem. The execution time of any of this algorithm grows with the number of input points and the number of cluster…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2014-12-08 Aditya AV Sastry , Kalyan Netti