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Neural network (NN) dynamics models and control policies achieve strong performance in robotics, but providing sound guarantees under uncertainty remains difficult, especially for closed-loop NN systems. Existing reachability tools provide…

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Neural Networks (NNs) can provide major empirical performance improvements for closed-loop systems, but they also introduce challenges in formally analyzing those systems' safety properties. In particular, this work focuses on estimating…

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The matrix exponential is a fundamental operator in scientific computing and system simulation, with applications ranging from control theory and quantum mechanics to modern generative machine learning. While Pad\'e approximants combined…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-01-12 Jorge Sastre , Daniel Faronbi , José Miguel Alonso , Peter Traver , Javier Ibáñez , Nuria Lloret

While prior work established a verifier-based polynomial-time framework for NP, explicit deterministic machines for concrete NP-complete problems have remained elusive. In this paper, we construct fully specified deterministic Turing…

Computational Complexity · Computer Science 2026-04-30 Changryeol Lee

The control of large-scale cyber-physical systems requires optimal distributed policies relying solely on limited communication with neighboring agents. However, computing stabilizing controllers for nonlinear systems while optimizing…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-11-26 Muhammad Zakwan , Giancarlo Ferrari-Trecate

Neural networks (NNs) have been shown to learn complex control laws successfully, often with performance advantages or decreased computational cost compared to alternative methods. Neural network controllers (NNCs) are, however, highly…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-09-08 Oliver Gates , Matthew Newton , Konstantinos Gatsis

In this paper, we present a sparse neural network decoder (SNND) of polar codes based on belief propagation (BP) and deep learning. At first, the conventional factor graph of polar BP decoding is converted to the bipartite Tanner graph…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2018-11-27 Weihong Xu , Xiaohu You , Chuan Zhang , Yair Be'ery

In this paper, we introduce a set representation called polynomial logical zonotopes for performing exact and computationally efficient reachability analysis on logical systems. We prove that through this polynomial-like construction, we…

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We offer a novel perspective on reward modeling by formulating it as a policy discriminator, which quantifies the difference between two policies to generate a reward signal, guiding the training policy towards a target policy with desired…

We show that low-rank adaptation of large-scale models suffers from a low stable rank that is well below the linear algebraic rank of the subspace, degrading fine-tuning performance. To mitigate the underutilization of the allocated…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-11-03 Kai Lion , Liang Zhang , Bingcong Li , Niao He

In this paper, we leverage polar codes and the well-established channel polarization to design capacity-achieving codes with a certain constraint on the weights of all the columns in the generator matrix (GM) while having a low-complexity…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2023-03-17 James Chin-Jen Pang , Hessam Mahdavifar , S. Sandeep Pradhan

We study the problem of verifiable polynomial evaluation in the user-server and multi-party setups. We propose {INTERPOL}, an information-theoretically verifiable algorithm that allows a user to delegate the evaluation of a polynomial to a…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2019-04-30 Saeid Sahraei , A. Salman Avestimehr

Reachability analysis is a critical tool for the formal verification of dynamical systems and the synthesis of controllers for them. Due to their computational complexity, many reachability analysis methods are restricted to systems with…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-07-14 Alex Devonport , Mahmoud Khaled , Murat Arcak , Majid Zamani

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…

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The demand for precision predictions in the field of high energy physics has dramatically increased over recent years. Experiments conducted at the LHC, as well as precision measurements at the intensity frontier such as Belle II require…

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The general subject considered in this thesis is a recently discovered coding technique, polar coding, which is used to construct a class of error correction codes with unique properties. In his ground-breaking work, Ar{\i}kan proved that…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2014-12-16 Mine Alsan

Neural network controllers (NNCs) have shown great promise in autonomous and cyber-physical systems. Despite the various verification approaches for neural networks, the safety analysis of NNCs remains an open problem. Existing verification…

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Wide-field imaging Mueller polarimetry is a revolutionary, label-free, and non-invasive modality for computer-aided intervention: in neurosurgery it aims to provide visual feedback of white matter fibre bundle orientation from derived…

This paper presents TIRA, a Matlab library gathering several methods for the computation of interval over-approximations of the reachable sets for both continuous- and discrete-time nonlinear systems. Unlike other existing tools, the main…

Systems and Control · Computer Science 2019-02-15 Pierre-Jean Meyer , Alex Devonport , Murat Arcak

Polar coding is a method for communication over noisy classical channels which is provably capacity-achieving and has an efficient encoding and decoding. Recently, this method has been generalized to the realm of quantum information…

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