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Virtual Reference Feedback Tuning (VRFT) is a well known and very successful data-driven control design method. It has been initially conceived for linear plants and this original formulation has been much explored in the literature,…
The simplified modeling of a complex system allied with a low-order controller structure can lead to poor closed-loop performance and robustness. A feasible solution is to avoid the necessity of a model by using data for the controller…
In this paper the application of Virtual Reference Feedback Tuning (VRFT) for control of nonlinear systems with regulators defined by Echo State Networks (ESN) and Long Short Term Memory (LSTM) networks is investigated. The capability of…
One-shot direct model-reference control design techniques, like the Virtual Reference Feedback Tuning (VRFT) approach, offer time-saving solutions for the calibration of fixed-structure controllers for dynamic systems. Nonetheless, such…
This paper investigates the optimality analysis of the recursive least-squares (RLS) algorithm for autoregressive systems with exogenous inputs (ARX systems). A key challenge in analyzing is managing the potential unboundedness of the…
In this paper we study a maximization version of the classical Feedback Vertex Set (FVS) problem, namely, the Max Min FVS problem, in the realm of parameterized complexity. In this problem, given an undirected graph $G$, a positive integer…
A recursive least squares algorithm with variable rate forgetting (VRF) is derived by minimizing a quadratic cost function.Under persistent excitation and boundedness of the forgetting factor, the minimizer given by VRF is shown to converge…
For a digraph $G$, a set $F\subseteq V(G)$ is said to be a feedback vertex set (FVS) if $G-F$ is acyclic. The problem of finding a smallest FVS is NP-hard. We present a matrix scaling technique for finding feedback vertex sets in…
We propose a low-complexity variable forgetting factor (VFF) mechanism for recursive least square (RLS) algorithms in interference suppression applications. The proposed VFF mechanism employs an updated component related to the time average…
Vector Fitting is a popular method of constructing rational approximants designed to fit given frequency response measurements. The original method, which we refer to as VF, is based on a least-squares fit to the measurements by a rational…
We present the Residual Quadratic Programming Active-Set Subspace (ResQPASS) method that solves large-scale linear least-squares problems with bound constraints on the variables. The problem is solved by creating a series of small problems…
This paper introduces two novel approaches for Online Multi-Task Learning (MTL) Regression Problems. We employ a high performance graph-based MTL formulation and develop two alternative recursive versions based on the Weighted Recursive…
The study of fault-tolerant data structures for various network design problems is a prominent area of research in computer science. Likewise, the study of NP-Complete problems lies at the heart of computer science with numerous results in…
Post-training Large Vision-and-Language Models (LVLMs) typically involves Supervised Fine-Tuning (SFT) for knowledge injection or Reinforcement Learning with Verifiable Rewards (RLVR) for performance enhancement. However, SFT often leads to…
Vision-Language-Action (VLA) models enable embodied decision-making but rely heavily on imitation learning, leading to compounding errors and poor robustness under distribution shift. Reinforcement learning (RL) can mitigate these issues…
Reinforcement Fine-Tuning (RFT) in Large Reasoning Models like OpenAI o1 learns from feedback on its answers, which is especially useful in applications when fine-tuning data is scarce. Recent open-source work like DeepSeek-R1 demonstrates…
Convex regression (CR) problem deals with fitting a convex function to a finite number of observations. It has many applications in various disciplines, such as statistics, economics, operations research, and electrical engineering.…
Pretrained on large-scale and diverse datasets, VLA models demonstrate strong generalization and adaptability as general-purpose robotic policies. However, Supervised Fine-Tuning (SFT), which serves as the primary mechanism for adapting…
Multi-channel short-time Fourier transform (STFT) domain-based processing of reverberant microphone signals commonly relies on power-spectral-density (PSD) estimates of early source images, where early refers to reflections contained within…
Vision-Language-Action (VLA) models have shown substantial potential in real-world robotic manipulation. However, fine-tuning these models through supervised learning struggles to achieve robust performance due to limited, inconsistent…