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This paper studies the problem of identifying low-order linear systems via Hankel nuclear norm regularization. Hankel regularization encourages the low-rankness of the Hankel matrix, which maps to the low-orderness of the system. We provide…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2022-04-01 Yue Sun , Samet Oymak , Maryam Fazel

The focus of this paper is on linear system identification in the setting where it is known that the underlying partially-observed linear dynamical system lies within a finite collection of known candidate models. We first consider the…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2024-04-15 Haoyuan Sun , Ali Jadbabaie

The paper studies identification of linear systems with multiplicative noise from multiple-trajectory data. An algorithm based on the least-squares method and multiple-trajectory data is proposed for joint estimation of the nominal system…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-06-07 Yu Xing , Benjamin Gravell , Xingkang He , Karl Henrik Johansson , Tyler Summers

Least squares linear regression is one of the oldest and widely used data analysis tools. Although the theoretical analysis of the ordinary least squares (OLS) estimator is as old, several fundamental questions are yet to be answered.…

Statistics Theory · Mathematics 2019-10-16 Arun K. Kuchibhotla , Lawrence D. Brown , Andreas Buja , Junhui Cai

This paper focuses on the system identification of an important class of nonlinear systems: linearly parameterized nonlinear systems, which enjoys wide applications in robotics and other mechanical systems. We consider two system…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-11-22 Negin Musavi , Ziyao Guo , Geir Dullerud , Yingying Li

In this paper, we consider a least-squares (LS)-based distributed algorithm build on a sensor network to estimate an unknown parameter vector of a dynamical system, where each sensor in the network has partial information only but is…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-12-19 Siyu Xie , Yaqi Zhang , Lei Guo

We propose a version of least-mean-square (LMS) algorithm for sparse system identification. Our algorithm called online linearized Bregman iteration (OLBI) is derived from minimizing the cumulative prediction error squared along with an…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2012-10-03 Tao Hu , Dmitri B. Chklovskii

In this paper we consider estimating the system parameters and designing stable observer for unknown noisy linear time-invariant (LTI) systems. We propose a Support Vector Regression (SVR) based estimator to provide adjustable asymmetric…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-05-17 Xuda Ding , Han Wang , Jianping He , Cailian Chen , Xinping Guan

Linear Least Squares is a very well known technique for parameter estimation, which is used even when sub-optimal, because of its very low computational requirements and the fact that exact knowledge of the noise statistics is not required.…

Statistics Theory · Mathematics 2018-10-16 Michael Krikheli , Amir Leshem

Control of linear dynamics with multiplicative noise naturally introduces robustness against dynamical uncertainty. Moreover, many physical systems are subject to multiplicative disturbances. In this work we show how these dynamics can be…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2023-12-27 Peter Coppens , Panagiotis Patrinos

I show that ordinary least squares (OLS) predictions can be rewritten as the output of a restricted attention module, akin to those forming the backbone of large language models. This connection offers an alternative perspective on…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-01-13 Philippe Goulet Coulombe

This paper proposes a new algorithm for linear system identification from noisy measurements. The proposed algorithm balances a data fidelity term with a norm induced by the set of single pole filters. We pose a convex optimization problem…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2012-04-04 Parikshit Shah , Badri Narayan Bhaskar , Gongguo Tang , Benjamin Recht

Ordinary Differential Equations are a simple but powerful framework for modeling complex systems. Parameter estimation from times series can be done by Nonlinear Least Squares (or other classical approaches), but this can give…

Methodology · Statistics 2014-10-29 Quentin Clairon , Nicolas Brunel

We study the problem of estimating an unknown deterministic signal that is observed through an unknown deterministic data matrix under additive noise. In particular, we present a minimax optimization framework to the least squares problems,…

Systems and Control · Computer Science 2014-04-28 N. Denizcan Vanli , Mehmet A. Donmez , Suleyman S. Kozat

We study the problem of learning mixtures of linear dynamical systems (MLDS) from input-output data. The mixture setting allows us to leverage observations from related dynamical systems to improve the estimation of individual models.…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-06-03 Maryann Rui , Munther Dahleh

In this article we study post-model selection estimators that apply ordinary least squares (OLS) to the model selected by first-step penalized estimators, typically Lasso. It is well known that Lasso can estimate the nonparametric…

Statistics Theory · Mathematics 2013-03-21 Alexandre Belloni , Victor Chernozhukov

This paper introduces a novel approach to system identification for nonlinear input-output models that minimizes the simulation error and frames the problem as a constrained optimization task. The proposed method addresses vanishing…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2025-12-17 Vito Cerone , Sophie M. Fosson , Simone Pirrera , Diego Regruto

We study the problem of learning a mixture of multiple linear dynamical systems (LDSs) from unlabeled short sample trajectories, each generated by one of the LDS models. Despite the wide applicability of mixture models for time-series data,…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2022-05-26 Yanxi Chen , H. Vincent Poor

We consider the problem of estimating an unknown $n_1 \times n_2$ matrix $\mathbf{\theta^*}$ from noisy observations under the constraint that $\mathbf{\theta}^*$ is nondecreasing in both rows and columns. We consider the least squares…

Statistics Theory · Mathematics 2015-11-03 Sabyasachi Chatterjee , Adityanand Guntuboyina , Bodhisattva Sen

For the identification of switched systems with a measured switching signal, this work aims to analyze the effect of switching strategies on the estimation error. The data for identification is assumed to be collected from globally…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-07-26 Shengling Shi , Othmane Mazhar , Bart De Schutter