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In this work, we propose an output-feedback tube-based model predictive control (MPC) scheme for linear systems under dynamic uncertainties that are described via integral quadratic constraints (IQC). By leveraging IQCs, a large class of…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-08-26 Lukas Schwenkel , Johannes Köhler , Matthias A. Müller , Frank Allgöwer

Transformers have rapidly increased in popularity in recent years, achieving state-of-the-art performance in processing text, images, audio and video. However, Transformers present large computational requirements for both training and…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-12-20 Amrit Nagarajan , Anand Raghunathan

The apparent dichotomy between information-processing and dynamical approaches to complexity science forces researchers to choose between two diverging sets of tools and explanations, creating conflict and often hindering scientific…

Neurons and Cognition · Quantitative Biology 2022-01-26 Pedro A. M. Mediano , Fernando E. Rosas , Juan Carlos Farah , Murray Shanahan , Daniel Bor , Adam B. Barrett

In this study, we explore the information capacity of open quantum systems, focusing on the effective channels formed by the subsystem of random quantum circuits and quantum Hamiltonian evolution. By analyzing the subsystem information…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-06-26 Yu-Qin Chen , Shuo Liu , Shi-Xin Zhang

To explain conceptual gap between classical/quantum and other, hypothetical descriptions of world, several principles has been proposed. So far, all these principles have not explicitly included the uncertainty relation. Here we introduce…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2017-02-22 L. Czekaj , M. Horodecki , P. Horodecki , R. Horodecki

In this paper we present a novel model checking approach to finite-time safety verification of black-box continuous-time dynamical systems within the framework of probably approximately correct (PAC) learning. The black-box dynamical…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-07-21 Bai Xue , Miaomiao Zhang , Arvind Easwaran , Qin Li

Information power is the capacity to convert data flows into durable shifts in attention, belief, and behavior. We argue that this power has migrated from broadcast persuasion to platform-ized, data-driven operations that fuse computational…

Computers and Society · Computer Science 2025-08-27 Chris Bronk , Jason Pittman , Carolyn Semmler

Distributed systems, such as biological and artificial neural networks, process information via complex interactions engaging multiple subsystems, resulting in high-order patterns with distinct properties across scales. Investigating how…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2025-04-23 Aaron J. Gutknecht , Fernando E. Rosas , David A. Ehrlich , Abdullah Makkeh , Pedro A. M. Mediano , Michael Wibral

Model predictive control (MPC) is a de facto standard control algorithm across the process industries. There remain, however, applications where MPC is impractical because an optimization problem is solved at each time step. We present a…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2019-07-10 Robert J. Lovelett , Felix Dietrich , Seungjoon Lee , Ioannis G. Kevrekidis

Generalized Polynomial Chaos (gPC) expansions are well established for forward uncertainty propagation in many application areas. Although the associated computational effort may be reduced in comparison to Monte Carlo techniques, for…

Computational Engineering, Finance, and Science · Computer Science 2023-07-26 Niklas Georg , Ulrich Römer

Polynomial Chaos Expansions represent a powerful tool to simulate stochastic models of dynamical systems. Yet, deriving the expansion's coefficients for complex systems might require a significant and non-trivial manipulation of the model,…

Computation · Statistics 2012-11-13 Lorenzo Fagiano , Mustafa Khammash

In model-predictive control (MPC), achieving the best closed-loop performance under a given computational resource is the underlying design consideration. This paper analyzes the MPC design problem with control performance and required…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2016-04-25 Vincent Bachtiar , Chris Manzie , William H. Moase , Eric C. Kerrigan

This paper argues that the operations of a 'Universal Turing Machine' (UTM) and equivalent mechanisms such as the 'Post Canonical System' (PCS) - which are widely accepted as definitions of the concept of `computing' - may be interpreted as…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2007-05-23 J Gerard Wolff

Conformal Prediction (CP) is a distribution-free uncertainty estimation framework that constructs prediction sets guaranteed to contain the true answer with a user-specified probability. Intuitively, the size of the prediction set encodes a…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-02-18 Alvaro H. C. Correia , Fabio Valerio Massoli , Christos Louizos , Arash Behboodi

Learning representations with diversified information remains as an open problem. Towards learning diversified representations, a new approach, termed Information Competing Process (ICP), is proposed in this paper. Aiming to enrich the…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2019-12-02 Jie Hu , Rongrong Ji , ShengChuan Zhang , Xiaoshuai Sun , Qixiang Ye , Chia-Wen Lin , Qi Tian

A robust model predictive control (MPC) method is presented for linear, time-invariant systems affected by bounded additive disturbances. The main contribution is the offline design of a disturbance-affine feedback gain whereby the…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-11-16 Anilkumar Parsi , Panagiotis Anagnostaras , Andrea Iannelli , Roy S. Smith

A Task Decomposition method for iterative learning Model Predictive Control (TDMPC) for linear time-varying systems is presented. We consider the availability of state-input trajectories which solve an original task T1, and design a…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-05-05 Charlott Vallon , Francesco Borrelli

The concept of autonomy is fundamental for understanding biological organization and the evolutionary transitions of living systems. Understanding how a system constitutes itself as an individual, cohesive, self-organized entity is a…

Neurons and Cognition · Quantitative Biology 2019-02-07 Miguel Aguilera , Ezequiel Di Paolo

In this paper we present an information theoretic approach to stochastic optimal control problems for systems with compound Poisson noise. We generalize previous work on information theoretic path integral control to discontinuous dynamics…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2019-07-03 Ziyi Wang , Grady Williams , Evangelos A. Theodorou

Efficiently estimating system dynamics from data is essential for minimizing data collection costs and improving model performance. This work addresses the challenge of designing future control inputs to maximize information gain, thereby…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-04-29 Joshua Ott , Mykel J. Kochenderfer , Stephen Boyd