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Low-voltage distribution feeders were designed to sustain unidirectional power flows to residential neighborhoods. The increased penetration of roof-top photovoltaic (PV) systems has highlighted pressing needs to address power quality and…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2014-01-06 Emiliano Dall'Anese , Sairaj V. Dhople , Georgios B. Giannakis

The rise of distributed energy resources (DERs) is reshaping modern distribution grids, introducing new challenges in attaining voltage stability under dynamic and decentralized operating conditions. This paper presents NEO-Grid, a unified…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2026-05-08 Mohamad Chehade , Hao Zhu

Neural networks have shown tremendous potential for reconstructing high-resolution images in inverse problems. The non-convex and opaque nature of neural networks, however, hinders their utility in sensitive applications such as medical…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-12-10 Arda Sahiner , Morteza Mardani , Batu Ozturkler , Mert Pilanci , John Pauly

The growing penetration of distributed energy resources (DERs), electric vehicles (EVs), and heat pumps (HPs) in distribution networks underscores the need for secure, computationally efficient optimal power flow (OPF) solutions.…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2026-04-15 Savvas Panagi , Chrysovalantis Spanias , Petros Aristidou

The fragility of deep neural networks to adversarially-chosen inputs has motivated the need to revisit deep learning algorithms. Including adversarial examples during training is a popular defense mechanism against adversarial attacks. This…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2020-05-05 Jacob H. Seidman , Mahyar Fazlyab , Victor M. Preciado , George J. Pappas

Binarized Neural Networks (BNNs) can significantly reduce the inference latency and energy consumption in resource-constrained devices due to their pure-logical computation and fewer memory accesses. However, training BNNs is difficult…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-04-08 Ruizhou Ding , Ting-Wu Chin , Zeye Liu , Diana Marculescu

The distribution system problems, such as planning, loss minimization, and energy restoration, usually involve the phase balancing or network reconfiguration procedures. The determination of an optimal phase balance is, in general, a…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2015-03-23 A. Ukil , W. Siti , J. Jordaan

In this paper, we examine an important problem of learning neural networks that certifiably meet certain specifications on input-output behaviors. Our strategy is to find an inner approximation of the set of admissible policy parameters,…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-02-24 Zain ul Abdeen , He Yin , Vassilis Kekatos , Ming Jin

In this paper, we study the optimal convergence rate for distributed convex optimization problems in networks. We model the communication restrictions imposed by the network as a set of affine constraints and provide optimal complexity…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2018-11-16 César A. Uribe , Soomin Lee , Alexander Gasnikov , Angelia Nedić

Deep neural networks (DNNs) are powerful machine learning models and have succeeded in various artificial intelligence tasks. Although various architectures and modules for the DNNs have been proposed, selecting and designing the…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2018-01-24 Shinichi Shirakawa , Yasushi Iwata , Youhei Akimoto

A promising approach to optimal control of nonlinear systems involves iteratively linearizing the system and solving an optimization problem at each time instant to determine the optimal control input. Since this approach relies on online…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2025-01-30 Anran Li , John P. Swensen , Mehdi Hosseinzadeh

Topology optimization is computationally demanding that requires the assembly and solution to a finite element problem for each material distribution hypothesis. As a complementary alternative to the traditional physics-based topology…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2018-08-23 Saurabh Banga , Harsh Gehani , Sanket Bhilare , Sagar Patel , Levent Kara

Convolution Neural Networks, known as ConvNets exceptionally perform well in many complex machine learning tasks. The architecture of ConvNets demands the huge and rich amount of data and involves with a vast number of parameters that leads…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2017-12-14 Pushparaja Murugan , Shanmugasundaram Durairaj

In this paper, we study the problem of improving computational resource utilization of neural networks. Deep neural networks are usually over-parameterized for their tasks in order to achieve good performances, thus are likely to have…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-12-04 Siyuan Qiao , Zhe Lin , Jianming Zhang , Alan Yuille

In recent times, an increasing number of researchers have been devoted to utilizing deep neural networks for end-to-end flight navigation. This approach has gained traction due to its ability to bridge the gap between perception and…

Robotics · Computer Science 2024-10-11 Zhichao Han , Long Xu , Liuao Pei , Fei Gao

This paper introduces, for the first time to our knowledge, physics-informed neural networks to accurately estimate the AC-OPF result and delivers rigorous guarantees about their performance. Power system operators, along with several other…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-07-29 Rahul Nellikkath , Spyros Chatzivasileiadis

The increasing adoption of distributed energy resources, particularly photovoltaic (PV) panels, has presented new and complex challenges for power network control. With the significant energy production from PV panels, voltage issues in the…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-09-17 Maurizio Vassallo , Amina Benzerga , Alireza Bahmanyar , Damien Ernst

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

We present the viewpoint that optimization problems encountered in machine learning can often be interpreted as minimizing a convex functional over a function space, but with a non-convex constraint set introduced by model parameterization.…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-04-21 Yongqiang Cai , Qianxiao Li , Zuowei Shen

We consider joint optimization and learning problems arising in real-time decision systems. While most existing work focuses primarily on convex, revenue-based objectives, we extend this line of research to multi-objective formulations. In…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2026-04-14 Zijun Li , Aswin Kannan