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We consider the sparse optimization problem with nonlinear constraints and an objective function, which is given by the sum of a general smooth mapping and an additional term defined by the $ \ell_0 $-quasi-norm. This term is used to obtain…

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The reliable operation of large-scale electric power networks is increasingly challenging, particularly with the integration of stochastic renewable generation. In this work, we address the problem of minimizing network transients by…

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We present a framework which incorporates three aspects of the estimation problem, namely, sparse sensor configuration, optimal precision, and robustness in the presence of model uncertainty. The problem is formulated in the…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-09-07 Vedang M. Deshpande , Raktim Bhattacharya

In large-scale, data-driven applications, parameters are often only known approximately due to noise and limited data samples. In this paper, we focus on high-dimensional optimization problems with linear constraints under uncertain…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2024-03-01 Naqi Huang , Nestor Parolya , Theresia van Essen

We investigate robustness to strong data corruption in offline sparse reinforcement learning (RL). In our setting, an adversary may arbitrarily perturb a fraction of the collected trajectories from a high-dimensional but sparse Markov…

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Performance degradation due to target deviation by, for example, drift or jitter, presents a significant issue to inter-satellite laser communications. In particular, with periodic acquisition for positioning the satellite receiver,…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-06-26 Zhanwei Yu , Yi Zhao , Di Yuan

This paper provides a comprehensive analysis of the design of optimal structured and sparse $H_\infty$ controllers for continuous-time linear time-invariant (LTI) systems. Three problems are considered. First, designing the sparsest…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2025-05-07 Zhaohua Yang , Pengyu Wang , Haishan Zhang , Shiyue Jia , Nachuan Yang , Yuxing Zhong , Ling Shi

We consider a distributionally robust stochastic optimization problem and formulate it as a stochastic two-level composition optimization problem with the use of the mean--semideviation risk measure. In this setting, we consider a single…

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We address the problem of designing optimal linear time-invariant (LTI) sparse controllers for LTI systems, which corresponds to minimizing a norm of the closed-loop system subject to sparsity constraints on the controller structure. This…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-07-14 Luca Furieri , Yang Zheng , Antonis Papachristodoulou , Maryam Kamgarpour

We consider a distributed learning setup where a sparse signal is estimated over a network. Our main interest is to save communication resource for information exchange over the network and reduce processing time. Each node of the network…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2018-04-03 Ahmed Zaki , Saikat Chatterjee , Partha P. Mitra , Lars K. Rasmussen

This paper proposes a frequency-wise approach for stability analysis of multi-input, multi-output (MIMO) Linear Time-Invariant (LTI) feedback systems through Scaled Relative Graphs (SRGs). Unlike traditional methods, such as the Generalized…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2026-01-26 Eder Baron-Prada , Alberto Padoan , Adolfo Anta , Florian Dörfler

Recent investigations have established the physical relevance of spatially-localized instability mechanisms in fluid dynamics and their potential for technological innovations in flow control. In this letter, we show that the mathematical…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2024-11-11 Talha Mushtaq , Maziar S. Hemati

Estimation of nonlinear dynamic models from data poses many challenges, including model instability and non-convexity of long-term simulation fidelity. Recently Lagrangian relaxation has been proposed as a method to approximate simulation…

Systems and Control · Computer Science 2018-10-12 Jack Umenberger , Ian R. Manchester

Meaningful comparison between sets of observations often necessitates alignment or registration between them, and the resulting optimization problems range in complexity from those admitting simple closed-form solutions to those requiring…

Methodology · Statistics 2025-10-08 Hajg Jasa , Ronny Bergmann , Christian Kümmerle , Avanti Athreya , Zachary Lubberts

For the linear inverse problem with sparsity constraints, the $l_0$ regularized problem is NP-hard, and existing approaches either utilize greedy algorithms to find almost-optimal solutions or to approximate the $l_0$ regularization with…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-02-14 Qinghua Tao , Xiangming Xi , Jun Xu , Johan A. K. Suykens

Flexible sparsity regularization means stably approximating sparse solutions of operator equations by using coefficient-dependent penalizations. We propose and analyse a general nonconvex approach in this respect, from both theoretical and…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2021-11-12 Daria Ghilli , Dirk A. Lorenz , Elena Resmerita

Quadratically-constrained basis pursuit has become a popular device in sparse regularization; in particular, in the context of compressed sensing. However, the majority of theoretical error estimates for this regularizer assume an a priori…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2017-11-23 Simone Brugiapaglia , Ben Adcock

This paper deals with sparse phase retrieval, i.e., the problem of estimating a vector from quadratic measurements under the assumption that few components are nonzero. In particular, we consider the problem of finding the sparsest vector…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2014-02-25 Fabien Lauer , Henrik Ohlsson

We design resilient sparse state-feedback controllers for a linear time-invariant (LTI) control system while attaining a pre-specified guarantee on ${\mathcal{H}}_\infty$ performance measure. We leverage a technique from non-fragile control…

Systems and Control · Computer Science 2019-09-30 MirSaleh Bahavarnia , Hossein K. Mousavi

Stabilizing an unknown dynamical system is one of the central problems in control theory. In this paper, we study the sample complexity of the learn-to-stabilize problem in Linear Time-Invariant (LTI) systems on a single trajectory. Current…

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