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In this paper we consider stopping problems with partial observation under a general risk-sensitive optimization criterion for problems with finite and infinite time horizon. Our aim is to maximize the certainty equivalent of the stopping…

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This paper is dedicated to the investigation of a new numerical method to approximate the optimal stopping problem for a discrete-time continuous state space Markov chain under partial observations. It is based on a two-step discretization…

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We use the geometry of suitably generalised potentials to solve risk-sensitive Markovian optimal stopping problems. As in the linear case due to Dynkin and Yushkievich (1967), the value function is the pointwise infimum of those functions…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2025-06-12 Tomasz Kosmala , John Moriarty

A method based on deep artificial neural networks and empirical risk minimization is developed to calculate the boundary separating the stopping and continuation regions in optimal stopping. The algorithm parameterizes the stopping boundary…

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We study problems of optimal boundary control with systems governed by linear hyperbolic partial differential equations. The objective function is quadratic and given by an integral over the finite time interval $(0,\, T)$ that depends on…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2018-11-08 Martin Gugat , Falk Hante

This paper presents a framework for fast and robust motion planning designed to facilitate automated driving. The framework allows for real-time computation even for horizons of several hundred meters and thus enabling automated driving in…

Robotics · Computer Science 2019-02-26 Zlatan Ajanovic , Bakir Lacevic , Barys Shyrokau , Michael Stolz , Martin Horn

We present stability conditions for deterministic time-varying nonlinear discrete-time systems whose inputs aim to minimize an infinite-horizon time-dependent cost. Global asymptotic and exponential stability properties for general…

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In this paper, problems of optimal control are considered where in the objective function, in addition to the control cost there is a tracking term that measures the distance to a desired stationary state. The tracking term is given by some…

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The closed-loop stability and infinite-horizon performance of receding-horizon approximations are studied for non-stationary linear-quadratic regulator (LQR) problems. The approach is based on a lifted reformulation of the optimal control…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-09-06 Jintao Sun , Michael Cantoni

Given a heterogeneous time-series sample, the objective is to find points in time (called change points) where the probability distribution generating the data has changed. The data are assumed to have been generated by arbitrary unknown…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2015-05-13 Azadeh Khaleghi , Daniil Ryabko

We consider deterministic infinite horizon optimal control problems with nonnegative stage costs. We draw inspiration from learning model predictive control scheme designed for continuous dynamics and iterative tasks, and propose a rollout…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2021-09-30 Yuchao Li , Karl H. Johansson , Jonas Mårtensson , Dimitri P. Bertsekas

A novel approach to solve the problem of distributed state estimation of linear time-invariant systems is proposed in this paper. It relies on the application of parameter estimation-based observers, where the state observation task is…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-05-28 Romeo Ortega , Emmanuel Nuño , Alexei Bobtsov

In this paper we develop a novel, discrete-time optimal control framework for mechanical systems with uncertain model parameters. We consider finite-horizon problems where the performance index depends on the statistical moments of the…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2017-05-17 George I. Boutselis , Yunpeng Pan , Gerardo De La Tore , Evangelos A. Theodorou

Early stopping based on hold-out data is a popular regularization technique designed to mitigate overfitting and increase the predictive accuracy of neural networks. Models trained with early stopping often provide relatively accurate…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2023-06-28 Ziyi Liang , Yanfei Zhou , Matteo Sesia

We consider an adaptive finite element method with arbitrary but fixed polynomial degree $p \ge 1$, where adaptivity is driven by an edge-based residual error estimator. Based on the modified maximum criterion from [Diening et al, Found.…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2021-01-29 Michael Innerberger , Dirk Praetorius

The application of existing methods for constructing optimal dynamic treatment regimes is limited to cases where investigators are interested in optimizing a utility function over a fixed period of time (finite horizon). In this manuscript,…

Methodology · Statistics 2015-10-22 Ashkan Ertefaie

The randomized unbiased estimators of Rhee and Glynn (Operations Research:63(5), 1026-1043, 2015) can be highly efficient at approximating expectations of path functionals associated with stochastic differential equations (SDEs). However,…

Statistics Theory · Mathematics 2026-04-09 Chao Zheng , Jiangtao Pan , Qun Wang

We propose a moving horizon estimation scheme for estimating the states and time-varying parameters of nonlinear systems. We consider the case where observability of the parameters depends on the excitation of the system and may be absent…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-08-21 Julian D. Schiller , Matthias A. Müller

In this paper the infinite horizon optimal regulation problem is solved online for a deterministic control-affine nonlinear dynamical system using the state following (StaF) kernel method to approximate the value function. Unlike…

Systems and Control · Computer Science 2017-07-25 Rushikesh Kamalapurkar , Joel A. Rosenfeld , Warren E. Dixon

We consider an expected utility maximization problem where the utility function is not necessarily concave and the time horizon is uncertain. We establish a necessary and sufficient condition for the optimality for general non-concave…

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