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Controlling large swarms of robotic agents presents many challenges including, but not limited to, computational complexity due to a large number of agents, uncertainty in the functionality of each agent in the swarm, and uncertainty in the…

Systems and Control · Computer Science 2020-12-04 Bryce Doerr , Richard Linares , Pingping Zhu , Silvia Ferrari

We provide an overview of iterated function systems (IFS), where randomly chosen state-to-state maps are applied iteratively to a state. We aim to summarize the state of art and, where possible, identify fundamental challenges and…

Probability · Mathematics 2022-11-29 Ramen Ghosh , Jakub Marecek

Generalized semi-infinite programs (generalized SIPs) are problems featuring a finite number of decision variables but an infinite number of constraints. They differ from standard SIPs in that their constraint set itself depends on the…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2025-03-14 J. Wehbeh , E. C. Kerrigan

Generalist imitation learning policies trained on large datasets show great promise for solving diverse manipulation tasks. However, to ensure generalization to different conditions, policies need to be trained with data collected across a…

Symbolic approaches to the control design over complex systems employ the construction of finite-state models that are related to the original control systems, then use techniques from finite-state synthesis to compute controllers…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2013-02-18 Majid Zamani , Peyman Mohajerin Esfahani , Rupak Majumdar , Alessandro Abate , John Lygeros

We consider optimal planning in a large-scale system formalised as a hierarchical finite state machine (HFSM). A planning algorithm is proposed computing an optimal plan between any two states in the HFSM, consisting of two steps: A…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2026-05-06 Elis Stefansson , Karl H. Johansson

Self-consistency (SC), leveraging multiple samples from LLMs, shows significant gains on various reasoning tasks but struggles with free-form generation due to the difficulty of aggregating answers. Its variants, UCS and USC, rely on sample…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-07-03 Xinglin Wang , Yiwei Li , Shaoxiong Feng , Peiwen Yuan , Boyuan Pan , Heda Wang , Yao Hu , Kan Li

Driven by the growth of Web-scale decentralized services, Federated Clustering (FC) aims to extract knowledge from heterogeneous clients in an unsupervised manner while preserving the clients' privacy, which has emerged as a significant…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-01-13 Shenghong Cai , Zihua Yang , Yang Lu , Mengke Li , Yuzhu Ji , Yiqun Zhang , Yiu-Ming Cheung

Generalized planning studies the construction of solution strategies that generalize across families of planning problems sharing a common domain model, formally defined by a transition function $\gamma : S \times A \rightarrow S$.…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2026-03-23 Nitin Gupta , Vishal Pallagani , John A. Aydin , Biplav Srivastava

Synchronous programs are used extensively in implementation of safety critical embedded software. Imperative synchronous programming languages model multiple Finite State Machines (FSMs) executing in lockstep at logical clock ticks. The…

Programming Languages · Computer Science 2025-08-05 Avinash Malik

Arrays are ubiquitous in the context of software verification. However, effective reasoning over arrays is still rare in CP, as local reasoning is dramatically ill-conditioned for constraints over arrays. In this paper, we propose an…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2013-12-03 Sébastien Bardin , Arnaud Gotlieb

The constraint satisfaction problem (CSP) is a computational problem that includes a range of important problems in computer science. We point out that fundamental concepts of the CSP, such as the solution set of an instance and…

Category Theory · Mathematics 2022-11-04 Soichiro Fujii , Yuni Iwamasa , Kei Kimura

Federated Clustering (FC) is an emerging and promising solution in exploring data distribution patterns from distributed and privacy-protected data in an unsupervised manner. Existing FC methods implicitly rely on the assumption that…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-03-16 Yue Zhang , Chuanlong Qiu , Xinfa Liao , Yiqun Zhang

In this paper we describe an original computational model for solving different types of Distributed Constraint Satisfaction Problems (DCSP). The proposed model is called Controller-Agents for Constraints Solving (CACS). This model is…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2010-03-03 Sami Al-Maqtari , Habib Abdulrab , Eduard Babkin

Treating class with a single center may hardly capture data distribution complexities. Using multiple sub-centers is an alternative way to address this problem. However, highly correlated sub-classes, the classifier's parameters grow…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-05-24 Zhemin Zhang , Xun Gong

A method for constructing coherent states (CS) of finite-level systems with a given angular momentum is proposed. To this end we generalize the known spin equation (SE) to an infinite-dimensional Fock space. The equation describes a special…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-06-13 A. I. Breev , D. M. Gitman

Today's control systems are often characterized by modularity and safety requirements to handle complexity, resulting in hierarchical control structures. Although hierarchical model predictive control offers favorable properties, achieving…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-04-17 Felix Berkel , Kim Peter Wabersich , Hongxi Xiang , Elias Milios

Hybrid dynamical systems are viewed as the most complicated systems with continuous and event-based behaviors. Since traditional controllers cannot handle these systems, some newly-developed controllers have been published in recent decades…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-11-05 Ali Taghavian , Ali Safi , Esmaeel Khanmirza

In this article, we study the linear time-invariant state-feedback controller design problem for distributed systems. We follow the recently developed system level synthesis (SLS) approach and impose locality structure on the resulting…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-01-11 Emily Jensen , Bassam Bamieh

In this paper we will present a mathematical description and analysis of a fractional-order regulated system in the state space and the state-space controller design based on placing the closed-loop poles on the complex plane. Presented are…

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