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Large-scale distributed systems such as sensor networks, often need to achieve filtering and consensus on an estimated parameter from high-dimensional measurements. Running a Kalman filter on every node in such a network is computationally…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2017-04-12 Mathias Hudoba de Badyn , Mehran Mesbahi

Nonlinear filtering problems are encountered in many applications, and one solution approach is the extended Kalman filter, which is not always convergent. Therefore, it is crucial to identify conditions under which the extended Kalman…

Probability · Mathematics 2026-03-24 Ibrahim Mbouandi Njiasse , Florent Ouabo Kamkumo , Ralf Wunderlich

While reinforcement learning has shown experimental success in a number of applications, it is known to be sensitive to noise and perturbations in the parameters of the system, leading to high variance in the total reward amongst different…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-12-02 Erfaun Noorani , Christos Mavridis , John Baras

In this paper, we introduce a new iteration method and show that this iteration method can be used to approximate fixed point of almost contraction mappings. Furthermore, we prove that the new iteration method is equivalent to both Mann…

Functional Analysis · Mathematics 2019-11-05 Vatan Karakaya , Yunus Atalan , Kadri Dogan , Nour El Houda Bouzara

We study coherent risk measures which are time-consistent for multiple filtrations. We show that a coherent risk measure is time-consistent for every filtration if and only if it is one of four main types. Furthermore, if the risk measure…

Risk Management · Quantitative Finance 2010-07-06 Samuel N. Cohen

From a stability perspective, a renewable generation (RG)-rich power system is a constrained system. As the quasistability boundary of a constrained system is structurally very different from that of an unconstrained system, finding the…

Systems and Control · Computer Science 2020-02-05 Chetan Mishra , Anamitra Pal , Virgilio A. Centeno

We introduce a novel framework to account for sensitivity to rewards uncertainty in sequential decision-making problems. While risk-sensitive formulations for Markov decision processes studied so far focus on the distribution of the…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-09-16 Nelson Vadori , Sumitra Ganesh , Prashant Reddy , Manuela Veloso

This work presents a notion of strong detectability for linear time varying systems affected by unknown inputs. It is shown that this notion is equivalent to detectability of an auxiliary system without unknown inputs. This allows a…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-03-24 Markus Tranninger , Richard Seeber , Juan G. Rueda-Escobedo , Martin Horn

We analyze inexact fixed point iterations where the generating function contains an inexact solve of an equation system to answer the question of how tolerances for the inner solves influence the iteration error of the outer fixed point…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2014-03-12 Philipp Birken

In this paper, we present a local convergence analysis of the self-consistent field (SCF) iteration using the density matrix as the state of a fixed-point iteration. Sufficient and almost necessary conditions for local convergence are…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2018-11-26 Parikshit Upadhyaya , Elias Jarlebring , Emanuel H. Rubensson

The Kalman filter is indispensable for state estimation across diverse fields but faces computational challenges with higher dimensions. Approaches such as Riccati equation approximations aim to alleviate this complexity, yet ensuring…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2024-09-05 Daiki Tsuzuki , Kentaro Ohki

We propose a new robust filtering paradigm considering the situation in which model uncertainty, described through an ambiguity set, is present only in the observations. We derive the corresponding robust estimator, referred to as…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2026-05-25 Shenglun Yi , Mattia Zorzi

This paper introduces the risk-sensitive control as inference (RCaI) that extends CaI by using R\'{e}nyi divergence variational inference. RCaI is shown to be equivalent to log-probability regularized risk-sensitive control, which is an…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-11-05 Kaito Ito , Kenji Kashima

The Ensemble Kalman inversion (EKI) method is a method for the estimation of unknown parameters in the context of (Bayesian) inverse problems. The method approximates the underlying measure by an ensemble of particles and iteratively…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2021-08-02 Dirk Blömker , Claudia Schillings , Philipp Wacker , Simon Weissmann

Standard formulations of prescribed worst-case disturbance energy-gain control policies for linear time-varying systems depend on all forward model data. In discrete time, this dependence arises through a backward Riccati recursion. This…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2026-05-22 Jintao Sun , Michael Cantoni

We apply methods of the fixed point theory to a Lambda policy iteration with a randomization algorithm for weak contractions mappings. This type of mappings covers a broader range than the strong contractions typically considered in the…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2025-10-16 Abdelkader Belhenniche , Roman Chertovskih

We consider the problem of estimating the sparse time-varying parameter vectors of a point process model in an online fashion, where the observations and inputs respectively consist of binary and continuous time series. We construct a novel…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2016-04-20 Alireza Sheikhattar , Jonathan B. Fritz , Shihab A. Shamma , Behtash Babadi

In this paper we first introduce the setting of filtering on Stiefel manifolds. Then, assuming the underlying system process is constant, the convergence of the extended Kalman filter with Stiefel manifold-valued observations is proved.…

Statistics Theory · Mathematics 2025-11-05 Jordi-Lluís Figueras , Aron Persson , Lauri Viitasaari

The Kalman-Bucy filter is extensively utilized across various applications. However, its computational complexity increases significantly in large-scale systems. To mitigate this challenge, a low-rank approximated Kalman--Bucy filter was…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2024-07-09 Daiki Tsuzuki , Kentaro Ohki

Uncertain parameters of state-space models have always been a considerable problem. Consider Kalman filter (CKF) and desensitized Kalman filter (DKF) are two methods to solve this problem. Based on the sensitivity matrix respected to the…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2015-03-31 Taishan Lou