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An algorithm for approximating the p-Wasserstein distance between histograms defined on unstructured discrete grids is presented. It is based on the computation of a barycenter constrained to be supported on a low dimensional subspace,…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2020-09-24 Nicolas Papadakis

Uncertainty propagation in non-linear dynamical systems has become a key problem in various fields including control theory and machine learning. In this work we focus on discrete-time non-linear stochastic dynamical systems. We present a…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-09-12 Eduardo Figueiredo , Andrea Patane , Morteza Lahijanian , Luca Laurenti

Optimal transportation distances are a fundamental family of parameterized distances for histograms. Despite their appealing theoretical properties, excellent performance in retrieval tasks and intuitive formulation, their computation…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2014-03-25 Marco Cuturi

We develop an algorithm for computing bounded reachability probability for hybrid systems, i.e., the probability that the system reaches an unsafe region within a finite number of discrete transitions. In particular, we focus on hybrid…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2015-05-13 Fedor Shmarov , Paolo Zuliani

A suitable measure for the similarity of shapes represented by parameterized curves or surfaces is the Fr\'echet distance. Whereas efficient algorithms are known for computing the Fr\'echet distance of polygonal curves, the same problem for…

Computational Geometry · Computer Science 2007-05-23 Helmut Alt , Maike Buchin

Simulation-based verification algorithms can provide formal safety guarantees for nonlinear and hybrid systems. The previous algorithms rely on user provided model annotations called discrepancy function, which are crucial for computing…

Systems and Control · Computer Science 2015-02-09 Chuchu Fan , Sayan Mitra

The proliferation of neural networks in safety-critical applications necessitates the development of effective methods to ensure their safety. This letter presents a novel approach for computing the exact backward reachable sets of neural…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2023-03-21 Yuhao Zhang , Hang Zhang , Xiangru Xu

Recently, time scales calculus is developed to unify continuous and discrete analysis. By extending the definition of time scales properly, this paper introduces the concept of a signal set as well as its stability properties in terms of…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-11-26 Ti-Chung Lee , Ying Tan , Iven Mareels

We consider the problem of proving that each point in a given set of states ("target set") can indeed be reached by a given nondeterministic continuous-time dynamical system from some initial state. We consider this problem for abstract…

Systems and Control · Computer Science 2017-04-12 Ievgen Ivanov

Metrics on the space of sets of trajectories are important for scientists in the field of computer vision, machine learning, robotics, and general artificial intelligence. However, existing notions of closeness between sets of trajectories…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-11-17 José Bento , Jia Jie Zhu

Pairwise Euclidean distance calculation is a fundamental step in many machine learning and data analysis algorithms. In real-world applications, however, these distances are frequently distorted by heteroskedastic noise$\unicode{x2014}$a…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2025-09-12 Keyi Li , Yuval Kluger , Boris Landa

Determining the reachable set for a given nonlinear control system is crucial for system control and planning. However, computing such a set is impossible if the system's dynamics are not fully known. This paper is motivated by a scenario…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2021-08-26 Taha Shafa , Melkior Ornik

We introduce a new measure of distance between datasets, based on vineyards from topological data analysis, which we call the vineyard distance. Vineyard distance measures the extent of topological change along an interpolation from one…

Algebraic Topology · Mathematics 2026-01-23 Alvan Arulandu , Daniel Gottschalk , Thomas Payne , Alexander Richardson , Thomas Weighill

Backward reachability analysis is essential to synthesizing controllers that ensure the correctness of closed-loop systems. This paper is concerned with developing scalable algorithms that under-approximate the backward reachable sets, for…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-08-29 Liren Yang , Hang Zhang , Jean-Baptiste Jeannin , Necmiye Ozay

While the existing stochastic control theory is well equipped to handle dynamical systems with stochastic uncertainties, a paradigm shift using distance measure based decision making is required for the effective further exploration of the…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2025-12-02 Venkatraman Renganathan , Sei Zhen Khong

The Sinkhorn "distance", a variant of the Wasserstein distance with entropic regularization, is an increasingly popular tool in machine learning and statistical inference. However, the time and memory requirements of standard algorithms for…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2021-11-16 Jason Altschuler , Francis Bach , Alessandro Rudi , Jonathan Niles-Weed

We consider data-driven reachability analysis of discrete-time stochastic dynamical systems using conformal inference. We assume that we are not provided with a symbolic representation of the stochastic system, but instead have access to a…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-09-19 Navid Hashemi , Xin Qin , Lars Lindemann , Jyotirmoy V. Deshmukh

In this work, we present a numerical optimal control framework for reachable set computation using \emph{normotopes}, a new set representation as a norm ball with a shaping matrix. In reachable set computations, we expect to continuously…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2025-09-30 Akash Harapanahalli , Samuel Coogan

We present a method to overapproximate forward stochastic reach sets of discrete-time, stochastic nonlinear systems with interval geometry. This is made possible by extending the theory of mixed-monotone systems to incorporate stochastic…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-12-05 Vignesh Sivaramakrishnan , Rosalyn A. Devonport , Murat Arcak , Meeko M. K. Oishi

The Skorokhod embedding problem aims to represent a given probability measure on the real line as the distribution of Brownian motion stopped at a chosen stopping time. In this paper, we consider an extension of the optimal Skorokhod…

Probability · Mathematics 2016-08-04 Gaoyue Guo , Xiaolu Tan , Nizar Touzi