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Solving chance-constrained optimal control problems for systems subject to non-stationary uncertainties is a significant challenge.Conventional robust model predictive control (MPC) often yields excessive conservatism by relying on static…

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A large body of recent work has begun to explore the potential of parametrized quantum circuits (PQCs) as machine learning models, within the framework of hybrid quantum-classical optimization. In particular, theoretical guarantees on the…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2023-05-09 Matthias C. Caro , Elies Gil-Fuster , Johannes Jakob Meyer , Jens Eisert , Ryan Sweke

The `renormalon' or `dispersive' method for estimating non-perturbative corrections to QCD observables is reviewed. The corrections are power-suppressed, i.e. of the form $A/Q^p$ where $Q$ is the hard process momentum scale. The renormalon…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2009-10-30 B. R. Webber

Perturbative QCD in mass independent schemes leads in general to running coupling $a(Q^2)$ which is nonanalytic (nonholomorphic) in the regime of low spacelike momenta $|Q^2| \lesssim 1 \ {\rm GeV}^2$. Such (Landau) singularities are…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2015-06-11 Carlos Contreras , Gorazd Cvetic , Reinhart Kogerler , Pawel Kroger , Oscar Orellana

In the standard approach, predictions of perturbative Quantum Chromodynamics for ratios of cross sections are computed as the ratio of fixed-order predictions for the numerator and the denominator. Beyond the lowest order in the…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2021-12-03 L. Sawyer , C. Waits , M. Wobisch

In this paper, we present Robust Model Predictive Control (MPC) problems with adjustable uncertainty sets. In contrast to standard Robust MPC problems with known uncertainty sets, we treat the uncertainty sets in our problems as additional…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2018-09-21 Yeojun Kim , Xiaojing Zhang , Jacopo Guanetti , Francesco Borrelli

Model predictive control (MPC) has become the most widely used advanced control method in process industry. In many cases, forecasts of the disturbances are available, e.g., predicted renewable power generation based on weather forecast.…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-06-08 Ryan McCloy , Lai Wei , Jie Bao

Conformal prediction is a popular technique for constructing prediction intervals with distribution-free coverage guarantees. The coverage is marginal, meaning it only holds on average over the entire population but not necessarily for any…

Methodology · Statistics 2026-05-28 Yao Zhang , Emmanuel J. Candès

This work proposes a novel robust model predictive control (MPC) algorithm for linear systems affected by dynamic model uncertainty and exogenous disturbances. The uncertainty is modeled using a linear fractional perturbation structure with…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-06-10 Anilkumar Parsi , Andrea Iannelli , Roy S. Smith

The quark contribution to the QCD pressure, $P_q$, is evaluated up to next-to-leading order (NLO) within the renormalization group optimized perturbation theory (RGOPT) resummation approach. To evaluate the complete QCD pressure we simply…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2021-09-01 Jean-Loïc Kneur , Marcus Benghi Pinto , Tulio E. Restrepo

Predictive coding (PC) is a biologically plausible alternative to standard backpropagation (BP) that minimises an energy function with respect to network activities before updating weights. Recent work has improved the training stability of…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-05-25 Francesco Innocenti , El Mehdi Achour , Rafal Bogacz

Uncertainty quantification (UQ) is essential for safe deployment of generative AI models such as large language models (LLMs), especially in high stakes applications. Conformal prediction (CP) offers a principled uncertainty quantification…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-06-09 Sima Noorani , Shayan Kiyani , George Pappas , Hamed Hassani

A method of resummation of truncated perturbation series, related to diagonal Pad\'e approximants but giving results independent of the renormalization scale, was developed more than ten years ago by us with a view of applying it in…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2015-05-28 Gorazd Cvetič , Reinhart Kögerler

Model Predictive Control (MPC) is widely used to operate safety-critical infrastructure by predicting future trajectories and optimizing control actions. However, nonlinear dynamics, hard safety constraints, and numerical optimization often…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2026-05-12 Ramesh Arvind Naagarajan , Zühal Wagner , Stefan Streif

We study the conformal window of QCD using perturbation theory, starting from the perturbative upper edge and going down as much as we can towards the strongly coupled regime. We do so by exploiting the available five-loop computation of…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2024-12-25 Lorenzo Di Pietro , Marco Serone

Recently it has been pointed out that diagonal Pad\'e approximants to truncated perturbative series in gauge theories have the remarkable property of being independent of the choice of the renormalization scale as long as the gauge coupling…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2009-10-30 G. Cvetic

We consider the problem of quantifying the uncertainty on theoretical predictions based on perturbation theory due to missing higher orders. The most widely used approach, scale variation, is largely arbitrary and it has no probabilistic…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2020-11-02 Marco Bonvini

We propose a novel approach to design a robust Model Predictive Controller (MPC) for constrained uncertain linear systems. The uncertain system is modeled as linear parameter varying with additive disturbance. Set bounds for the system…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-08-11 Monimoy Bujarbaruah , Ugo Rosolia , Yvonne R Stürz , Xiaojing Zhang , Francesco Borrelli

Model predictive control (MPC) is an optimal control technique which involves solving a sequence of constrained optimization problems across a given time horizon. In this paper, we introduce a category theoretic framework for constructing…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2024-03-12 Tyler Hanks , Baike She , Matthew Hale , Evan Patterson , Matthew Klawonn , James Fairbanks

Conformal prediction (CP) is a framework to quantify uncertainty of machine learning classifiers including deep neural networks. Given a testing example and a trained classifier, CP produces a prediction set of candidate labels with a…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-08-01 Subhankar Ghosh , Yuanjie Shi , Taha Belkhouja , Yan Yan , Jana Doppa , Brian Jones