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Training a classifier under non-convex constraints has gotten increasing attention in the machine learning community thanks to its wide range of applications such as algorithmic fairness and class-imbalanced classification. However, several…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2022-10-31 You-Lin Chen , Zhaoran Wang , Mladen Kolar

Training sophisticated agents for optimal decision-making under uncertainty has been key to the rapid development of modern autonomous systems across fields. Notably, model-free reinforcement learning (RL) has enabled decision-making agents…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-07-21 Thomas Banker , Ali Mesbah

We propose a method for efficiently incorporating constraints into a stochastic gradient Langevin framework for the training of deep neural networks. Constraints allow direct control of the parameter space of the model. Appropriately…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-06-22 Benedict Leimkuhler , Timothée Pouchon , Tiffany Vlaar , Amos Storkey

Many key problems in machine learning and data science are routinely modeled as optimization problems and solved via optimization algorithms. With the increase of the volume of data and the size and complexity of the statistical models used…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2020-08-28 Filip Hanzely

In wireless network, the optimization problems generally have complex constraints, and are usually solved via utilizing the traditional optimization methods that have high computational complexity and need to be executed repeatedly with the…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2022-01-25 Shiwen He , Shaowen Xiong , Zhenyu An , Wei Zhang , Yongming Huang , Yaoxue Zhang

In imitation learning, an agent learns how to behave in an environment with an unknown cost function by mimicking expert demonstrations. Existing imitation learning algorithms typically involve solving a sequence of planning or…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2016-06-17 Jonathan Ho , Jayesh K. Gupta , Stefano Ermon

Mathematical optimization is a fundamental tool for decision-making in a wide range of applications. However, in many real-world scenarios, the parameters of the optimization problem are not known a priori and must be predicted from…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-11-13 Senne Berden , Ali İrfan Mahmutoğulları , Dimos Tsouros , Tias Guns

Model-free algorithms are brought into the control system's research with the emergence of reinforcement learning algorithms. However, there are two practical challenges of reinforcement learning-based methods. First, learning by…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-09-18 Mi Zhou , Erik Verriest , Chaouki Abdallah

Power allocation is an important task in wireless communication networks. Classical optimization algorithms and deep learning methods, while effective in small and static scenarios, become either computationally demanding or unsuitable for…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-09-04 Irched Chafaa , Giacomo Bacci , Luca Sanguinetti

This work develops an LLM-based optimization framework ensuring strict constraint satisfaction in network optimization. While LLMs possess contextual reasoning capabilities, existing approaches often fail to enforce constraints, causing…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2025-09-10 Youngjin Song , Wookjin Lee , Hong Ki Kim , Sang Hyun Lee

Optimization problems are ubiquitous in our societies and are present in almost every segment of the economy. Most of these optimization problems are NP-hard and computationally demanding, often requiring approximate solutions for…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2021-06-23 James Kotary , Ferdinando Fioretto , Pascal Van Hentenryck

In this paper, we provide a mathematical framework for improving generalization in a class of learning problems which is related to point estimations for modeling of high-dimensional nonlinear functions. In particular, we consider a…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2024-12-13 Getachew K. Befekadu

Data driven models of dynamical systems help planners and controllers to provide more precise and accurate motions. Most model learning algorithms will try to minimize a loss function between the observed data and the model's predictions.…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2021-02-12 Clark Zhang , Santiago Paternain , Alejandro Ribeiro

In this paper, we investigate sequential power allocation over fast varying channels for mission-critical applications, aiming to minimize the expected sum power while guaranteeing the transmission success probability. In particular, a…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2023-06-09 Chongtao Guo , Zhengchao Li , Le Liang , Geoffrey Ye Li

Solving optimization problems with unknown parameters often requires learning a predictive model to predict the values of the unknown parameters and then solving the problem using these values. Recent work has shown that including the…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-10-23 Kai Wang , Bryan Wilder , Andrew Perrault , Milind Tambe

Modern buildings encompass complex dynamics of multiple electrical, mechanical, and control systems. One of the biggest hurdles in applying conventional model-based optimization and control methods to building energy management is the huge…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2017-11-08 Yize Chen , Yuanyuan Shi , Baosen Zhang

We employ constraints to control the parameter space of deep neural networks throughout training. The use of customized, appropriately designed constraints can reduce the vanishing/exploding gradients problem, improve smoothness of…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-06-22 Benedict Leimkuhler , Tiffany Vlaar , Timothée Pouchon , Amos Storkey

Data and knowledge representation are fundamental concepts in machine learning. The quality of the representation impacts the performance of the learning model directly. Feature learning transforms or enhances raw data to structures that…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2021-04-26 Filipe Alves Neto Verri , Renato Tinós , Liang Zhao

Decentralized optimization methods enable on-device training of machine learning models without a central coordinator. In many scenarios communication between devices is energy demanding and time consuming and forms the bottleneck of the…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2020-11-04 Dmitry Kovalev , Anastasia Koloskova , Martin Jaggi , Peter Richtarik , Sebastian U. Stich

State-of-the-art schemes for performance analysis and optimization of multiple-input multiple-output systems generally experience degradation or even become invalid in dynamic complex scenarios with unknown interference and channel state…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2022-07-01 Fan Meng , Shengheng Liu , Yongming Huang , Zhaohua Lu