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There has been an increasing interest in using neural networks in closed-loop control systems to improve performance and reduce computational costs for on-line implementation. However, providing safety and stability guarantees for these…

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Neural networks have become increasingly popular in controller design due to their versatility and efficiency. However, their integration into feedback systems can pose stability challenges, particularly in the presence of uncertainties.…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2025-03-04 Yuhao Zhang , Xiangru Xu

The stability of complex networks, from power grids to biological systems, is crucial for their proper functioning. It is thus important to control such systems to maintain or restore their stability. Traditional approaches rely on…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2025-09-23 Yuzhen Qin , Fabio Pasqualetti , Danielle S. Bassett , Marcel van Gerven

Network controllability robustness reflects how well a networked system can maintain its controllability against destructive attacks. Its measure is quantified by a sequence of values that record the remaining controllability of the network…

Physics and Society · Physics 2022-10-14 Yang Lou , Yaodong He , Lin Wang , Kim Fung Tsang , Guanrong Chen

We present a theoretically grounded approach to train deep neural networks, including recurrent networks, subject to class-dependent label noise. We propose two procedures for loss correction that are agnostic to both application domain and…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2017-03-23 Giorgio Patrini , Alessandro Rozza , Aditya Menon , Richard Nock , Lizhen Qu

Deep Neural Networks (DNNs) have become key components of many safety-critical applications such as autonomous driving and medical diagnosis. However, DNNs have been shown suffering from poor robustness because of their susceptibility to…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-07-28 Wenjie Wan , Zhaodi Zhang , Yiwei Zhu , Min Zhang , Fu Song

The robust disturbance rejection controller has been the subject of intensive research due to its undeniable importance for automation. Modern control theory tends to use model-based approaches versus model-free approaches, especially when…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-01-03 Atta Oveisi

Neural networks have shown great success in many machine learning related tasks, due to their ability to act as general function approximators. Recent work has demonstrated the effectiveness of neural networks in control systems (known as…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-07-13 Matthew Newton , Antonis Papachristodoulou

This paper proposes a novel approach to improve the performance of distributed nonlinear control systems while preserving stability by leveraging Deep Neural Networks (DNNs). We build upon the Neural System Level Synthesis (Neur-SLS)…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2024-08-01 Danilo Saccani , Leonardo Massai , Luca Furieri , Giancarlo Ferrari-Trecate

Control of complex systems involves both system identification and controller design. Deep neural networks have proven to be successful in many identification tasks, however, from model-based control perspective, these networks are…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2019-02-28 Yize Chen , Yuanyuan Shi , Baosen Zhang

Neural networks have been widely applied in security applications such as spam and phishing detection, intrusion prevention, and malware detection. This black-box method, however, often has uncertainty and poor explainability in…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2022-10-12 Mark Huasong Meng , Guangdong Bai , Sin Gee Teo , Zhe Hou , Yan Xiao , Yun Lin , Jin Song Dong

Deep neural networks have proven to be quite effective in a wide variety of machine learning tasks, ranging from improved speech recognition systems to advancing the development of autonomous vehicles. However, despite their superior…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2016-12-14 Qinglong Wang , Wenbo Guo , Alexander G. Ororbia , Xinyu Xing , Lin Lin , C. Lee Giles , Xue Liu , Peng Liu , Gang Xiong

The vulnerability of artificial intelligence (AI) and machine learning (ML) against adversarial disturbances and attacks significantly restricts their applicability in safety-critical systems including cyber-physical systems (CPS) equipped…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-04-28 Weiming Xiang , Hoang-Dung Tran , Xiaodong Yang , Taylor T. Johnson

Sophisticated multilayer neural networks have achieved state of the art results on multiple supervised tasks. However, successful applications of such multilayer networks to control have so far been limited largely to the perception portion…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2013-11-08 Sergey Levine

Recent research has shown that supervised learning can be an effective tool for designing optimal feedback controllers for high-dimensional nonlinear dynamic systems. But the behavior of these neural network (NN) controllers is still not…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2022-10-10 Tenavi Nakamura-Zimmerer , Qi Gong , Wei Kang

Recent research shows that supervised learning can be an effective tool for designing near-optimal feedback controllers for high-dimensional nonlinear dynamic systems. But the behavior of neural network controllers is still not well…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2022-10-10 Tenavi Nakamura-Zimmerer , Qi Gong , Wei Kang

Methods to certify the robustness of neural networks in the presence of input uncertainty are vital in safety-critical settings. Most certification methods in the literature are designed for adversarial or worst-case inputs, but researchers…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-01-26 Brendon G. Anderson , Somayeh Sojoudi

Robust and high-precision quantum control is extremely important but challenging for the functionization of scalable quantum computation. In this paper, we show that this hard problem can be translated to a supervised machine learning task…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2019-04-24 Re-Bing Wu , Haijin Ding , Daoyi Dong , Xiaoting Wang

It is widely accepted that the complex dynamics characteristic of recurrent neural circuits contributes in a fundamental manner to brain function. Progress has been slow in understanding and exploiting the computational power of recurrent…

Chaotic Dynamics · Physics 2013-07-18 Rodrigo Laje , Dean V. Buonomano

Backdoor attack intends to embed hidden backdoor into deep neural networks (DNNs), such that the attacked model performs well on benign samples, whereas its prediction will be maliciously changed if the hidden backdoor is activated by the…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2022-04-13 Shaik Mohammed Maqsood , Viveros Manuela Ceron , Addluri GowthamKrishna