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Tipping points characterize situations where a regulated system may experience a sudden and irreversible change and are generally associated with a random state of the system below which the change materializes. In this paper, we study a…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2026-02-25 Jean-Paul Décamps , Fabien Gensbittel , Thomas Mariotti , Stéphane Villeneuve

Change point detection becomes more and more important as datasets increase in size, where unsupervised detection algorithms can help users process data. To detect change points, a number of unsupervised algorithms have been developed which…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2021-06-18 Rebecca Gedda , Larisa Beilina , Ruomu Tan

We consider the problem of locating a jump discontinuity (change-point) in a smooth parametric regression model with a bounded covariate. It is assumed that one can sample the covariate at different values and measure the corresponding…

Statistics Theory · Mathematics 2009-08-14 Yan Lan , Moulinath Banerjee , George Michailidis

In this article we consider an optimization problem where the objective function is evaluated at the fixed-point of a contraction mapping parameterized by a control variable, and optimization takes place over this control variable. Since…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2020-05-04 Thomas Flynn

In this paper we consider a method of solving optimal stopping problems in discrete and continuous time based on their dual representation. A novel and generic simulation-based optimization algorithm not involving nested simulations is…

Probability · Mathematics 2013-09-10 Denis Belomestny

We describe algorithms, and experimental strategies, for the Pareto optimal control problem of simultaneously driving an arbitrary number of quantum observable expectation values to their respective extrema. Conventional quantum optimal…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2009-11-13 Raj Chakrabarti , Rebing Wu , Herschel Rabitz

This paper focuses on optimal control problem for a class of discrete-time nonlinear systems. In practical applications, computation time is a crucial consideration when solving nonlinear optimal control problems, especially under real-time…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2025-04-01 Chuanzhi Lv , Xunmin Yin , Hongdan Li , Huanshui Zhang

Temporal point processes have been widely applied to model event sequence data generated by online users. In this paper, we consider the problem of how to design the optimal control policy for point processes, such that the stochastic…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2017-11-13 Yichen Wang , Grady Williams , Evangelos Theodorou , Le Song

We consider the optimization of a dynamical system by switching at discrete time points between abstract evolution equations composed by nonlinearly perturbed strongly continuous semigroups, nonlinear state reset maps at mode transition…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2016-05-18 Fabian Rueffler , Falk M. Hante

Consider a polynomial optimisation problem, whose instances vary continuously over time. We propose to use a coordinate-descent algorithm for solving such time-varying optimisation problems. In particular, we focus on relaxations of…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2019-09-24 Jie Liu , Jakub Marecek , Andrea Simonetto , Martin Takac

We describe an algorithm to solve Bellman optimization that replaces a sum over paths determining the optimal cost-to-go by an analytic method localized in state space. Our approach follows from the established relation between stochastic…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2022-12-02 Michael D. Schneider , Caleb Miller , George F. Chapline , Jane Pratt , Dan Merl

Distributed optimization algorithms are used in a wide variety of problems involving complex network systems where the goal is for a set of agents in the network to solve a network-wide optimization problem via distributed update rules. In…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2025-09-23 Liam Hallinan , Ioannis Lestas

In the paper, we propose solving optimization problems (OPs) and understanding the Newton method from the optimal control view. We propose a new optimization algorithm based on the optimal control problem (OCP). The algorithm features…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2025-04-01 Huanshui Zhang , Hongxia Wang

This paper addresses an optimal control problem for a robot that has to find and collect a finite number of objects and move them to a depot in minimum time. The robot has fourth-order dynamics that change instantaneously at any pick-up or…

Systems and Control · Computer Science 2021-01-27 Vladislav Nenchev , Christos G. Cassandras , Jörg Raisch

This paper considers the problem of reachability analysis of control systems with optimal controllers, as a first step towards verifying the safety and correctness of such systems. Despite their appeal in guaranteeing task satisfaction…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2026-04-20 Dylan Le , Joel McCandless , Carlos Varela , Radoslav Ivanov

This paper proposes a new indirect solution method for solving state-constrained optimal control problems by revisiting the well-established optimal control theory and addressing the long-standing issue of discontinuous control and costate…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2024-03-08 Kenshiro Oguri

This paper deals with the problem of asymptotically optimal detection of changes in regime-switching stochastic models. We need to divide the whole obtained sample of data into several sub-samples with observations belonging to different…

Statistics Theory · Mathematics 2013-01-25 Boris Brodsky , Boris Darkhovsky

This paper proposes an algorithmic technique for a class of optimal control problems where it is easy to compute a pointwise minimizer of the Hamiltonian associated with every applied control. The algorithm operates in the space of relaxed…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2016-03-10 M. T. Hale , Y. Wardi , H. Jaleel , M. Egerstedt

Change point estimation in its offline version is traditionally performed by optimizing over the data set of interest, by considering each data point as the true location parameter and computing a data fit criterion. Subsequently, the data…

Methodology · Statistics 2020-04-10 Zhiyuan Lu , Moulinath Banerjee , George Michailidis

A method is devised for numerically solving a class of finite-horizon optimal control problems subject to cascade linear discrete-time dynamics. It is assumed that the linear state and input inequality constraints, and the quadratic measure…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2017-10-13 Michael Cantoni , Farhad Farokhi , Eric C. Kerrigan , Iman Shames