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A critical decision process in data acquisition for mineral and energy resource exploration is how to efficiently combine a variety of sensor types and to minimize total cost. We propose a probabilistic framework for multi-objective…

Geophysics · Physics 2020-10-13 Sebastian Haan , Fabio Ramos , Dietmar Müller

This paper studies a distributed multi-agent convex optimization problem. The system comprises multiple agents in this problem, each with a set of local data points and an associated local cost function. The agents are connected to a…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2021-08-20 Kushal Chakrabarti , Nirupam Gupta , Nikhil Chopra

We study Frank-Wolfe (FW) methods for constrained bilevel optimization when the lower-level problem is solved only approximately, yielding biased and inexact hypergradients. We analyze inexact variants of vanilla FW as well as away-step and…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2026-02-27 Anthony Palmieri , Francesco Rinaldi , Saverio Salzo , Sara Venturini

This paper addresses the challenges of optimally placing a finite number of sensors to detect Poisson-distributed targets in a bounded domain. We seek to rigorously account for uncertainty in the target arrival model throughout the problem.…

Robotics · Computer Science 2023-07-11 Mingyu Kim , Harun Yetkin , Daniel J. Stilwell , Jorge Jimenez , Saurav Shrestha , Nina Stark

In unknown non-convex environments, such as indoor and underground spaces, deploying a fleet of robots to explore the surroundings while simultaneously searching for and tracking targets of interest to maintain high-precision data…

Robotics · Computer Science 2025-09-30 Jun Chen , Jiaqing Ma , Philip Dames

Optimal sensor and actuator selection is a central challenge in high-dimensional estimation and control. Nearly all subsequent control decisions are affected by these sensor/actuator locations, and optimal placement amounts to an…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2020-01-14 Krithika Manohar , J. Nathan Kutz , Steven L. Brunton

We consider the joint design of packet forwarding policies and controllers for wireless control loops where sensor measurements are sent to the controller over an unreliable and energy-constrained multi-hop wireless network. For fixed…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2014-07-02 Burak Demirel , Zhenhua Zou , Pablo Soldati , Mikael Johansson

Structural support vector machines (SSVMs) are amongst the best performing models for structured computer vision tasks, such as semantic image segmentation or human pose estimation. Training SSVMs, however, is computationally costly,…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2014-11-19 Neel Shah , Vladimir Kolmogorov , Christoph H. Lampert

We investigate a pilot allocation problem in wireless networks over Markovian fading channels. In wireless systems, the Channel State Information (CSI) is collected at the Base Station (BS), in particular, this paper considers a pilot-aided…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2016-08-31 Maialen Larranaga , Mohamad Assaad , Apostolos Destounis , Georgios S. Paschos

In Bayesian inference, the posterior distributions are difficult to obtain analytically for complex models such as neural networks. Variational inference usually uses a parametric distribution for approximation, from which we can easily…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2019-02-01 Futoshi Futami , Zhenghang Cui , Issei Sato , Masashi Sugiyama

Frank-Wolfe (FW) algorithms have been often proposed over the last few years as efficient solvers for a variety of optimization problems arising in the field of Machine Learning. The ability to work with cheap projection-free iterations and…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2015-10-27 Emanuele Frandi , Ricardo Nanculef , Stefano Lodi , Claudio Sartori , Johan A. K. Suykens

The paper introduces a new adaptive version of the Frank-Wolfe algorithm for relatively smooth convex functions. It is proposed to use the Bregman divergence other than half the square of the Euclidean norm in the formula for step-size.…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2024-07-23 Alexander Vyguzov , Fedor Stonyakin

We consider an optimization problem over measures for emergency response to out-of-hospital cardiac arrest (OHCA), where the goal is to allocate volunteer resources across a spatial region to minimize the probability of death. The problem…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2025-07-15 Di Yu , Shane G. Henderson , Raghu Pasupathy

Bearing--only estimation is one of the fundamental and challenging problems in target tracking. As in the case of radar tracking, the presence of offset or position biases can exacerbate the challenges in bearing--only estimation. Modeling…

Methodology · Statistics 2016-03-23 Ehsan Taghavi , R. Tharmarasa , T. Kirubarajan , Mike McDonald

Multiple parafoil landing is an enabling technology for massive supply delivery missions. However, it is still an open question to design a collision-free, computation-efficient guidance and control method for unpowered parafoils. To…

Robotics · Computer Science 2025-05-27 Zhenyu Wei , Zhijiang Shao , Lorenz T. Biegler

Learning-enabled control systems increasingly rely on multiple sensing modalities (e.g., vision, audio, language, etc.) for perception and decision support. A key challenge is that multi-modal sensor training dynamics are often imbalanced:…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-04-01 Heshan Fernando , Quan Xiao , Parikshit Ram , Yi Zhou , Horst Samulowitz , Nathalie Baracaldo , Tianyi Chen

In this paper, we present a motion planning framework for multi-modal vehicle dynamics. Our proposed algorithm employs transcription of the optimization objective function, vehicle dynamics, and state and control constraints into sparse…

Robotics · Computer Science 2021-07-07 L. Lao Beyer , N. Balabanska , E. Tal , S. Karaman

We present a new Frank-Wolfe (FW) type algorithm that is applicable to minimization problems with a nonsmooth convex objective. We provide convergence bounds and show that the scheme yields so-called coreset results for various Machine…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2017-08-23 Sathya N. Ravi , Maxwell D. Collins , Vikas Singh

Sensor scheduling is a well studied problem in signal processing and control with numerous applications. Despite its successful history, most of the related literature assumes the knowledge of the underlying probabilistic model of the…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2019-12-06 Marcos M. Vasconcelos , Urbashi Mitra

Wireless Sensor Network WSN is consisted of nodes with different sizes and a specific goal. Tracking applications are very important in WSNs. This study proposes a method for reducing energy consumption in WSNs, considering target tracking.…

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