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We provide out-of-sample certificates on the controlled invariance property of a given set with respect to a class of black-box linear systems. Specifically, we consider linear time-invariant models whose state space matrices are known only…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2022-02-17 Filippo Fabiani , Kostas Margellos , Paul J. Goulart

This study proposes an adaptive subsystem-based control (SBC) for systematic and straightforward nonlinear~control of nth-order strict-feedback form (SFF) systems.~By decomposing the SFF system to subsystems, a generic~term (namely…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2024-07-16 Janne Koivumäki , Jukka-Pekka Humaloja , Lassi Paunonen , Wen-Hong Zhu , Jouni Mattila

Achieving safe control under uncertainty is a key problem that needs to be tackled for enabling real-world autonomous robots and cyber-physical systems. This paper introduces Probabilistic Safety Programs (PSP) that embed both the…

Robotics · Computer Science 2016-10-19 Ashish Kapoor , Debadeepta Dey , Shital Shah

This paper introduces a methodology for identifying and simulating financial and economic systems using stochastically structured reservoir computers (SSRCs). The framework combines structure-preserving embeddings with graph-informed…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2025-11-20 Lendy Banegas , Fredy Vides

Engineered infrastructure systems pose inverse problems in which hidden states, unknown parameters, and subsystem couplings must be inferred from sparse and noisy measurements. These problems are difficult because physical subsystems are…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2026-05-28 Esmaeil Ghorbani , Jürgen Hackl

Checking how well a fitted model explains the data is one of the most fundamental parts of a Bayesian data analysis. However, existing model checking methods suffer from trade-offs between being well-calibrated, automated, and…

Methodology · Statistics 2024-05-24 Jiawei Li , Jonathan H. Huggins

Spectral clustering is a popular method for effectively clustering nonlinearly separable data. However, computational limitations, memory requirements, and the inability to perform incremental learning challenge its widespread application.…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-11-15 Jo-Chun Chen , Hung-Hsuan Chen

Probabilistic graphical models are a central tool in AI; however, they are generally not as expressive as deep neural models, and inference is notoriously hard and slow. In contrast, deep probabilistic models such as sum-product networks…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2019-10-01 Xiaoting Shao , Alejandro Molina , Antonio Vergari , Karl Stelzner , Robert Peharz , Thomas Liebig , Kristian Kersting

This paper is devoted to the study of controllability of linear systems on generalized Heisenberg groups. Some general necessary controllability conditions and some sufficient ones are provided. We introduce the notion of decoupled systems,…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2015-10-15 Mouhamadou Dath , Philippe Jouan

In this paper, we provide an overview of the research conducted in the context of structural systems since the latest survey by Dion et al. in 2003. We systematically consider all the papers that cite this survey as well as the seminal work…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2020-08-27 Guilherme Ramos , A. Pedro Aguiar , Sergio Pequito

A robust model predictive control scheme for a class of constrained norm-bounded uncertain discrete-time linear systems is developed under the hypothesis that only partial state measurements are available for feedback. Off-line calculations…

Systems and Control · Computer Science 2018-07-23 Giuseppe Franzè , Massimiliano Mattei , Luciano Ollio , Valerio Scordamaglia

In this paper, we introduce a novel concept called the Graph Geometric Control Condition (GGCC). It turns out to be a simple, geometric rewriting of many of the frameworks in which the controllability of PDEs on graphs has been studied. We…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2025-07-25 Kaïs Ammari , Alessandro Duca , Romain Joly , Kévin Le Balc'h

In this letter, a new notion of stability is introduced, which is called triangular stability. A system is called triangularly stable if the norm of its state vector is bounded by a decreasing linear function of time such that its…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-04-16 Amir Shakouri , Nima Assadian

We propose automated techniques for the verification and control of probabilistic real-time systems that are only partially observable. To formally model such systems, we define an extension of probabilistic timed automata in which local…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2015-06-24 Gethin Norman , David Parker , Xueyi Zou

In this paper, we study the controllability properties and the Lie algebra structure of networks of particles with spin immersed in an electro-magnetic field. We relate the Lie algebra structure to the properties of a graph whose nodes…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 F. Albertini , D. D'Alessandro

Sparse coding (SC) is attracting more and more attention due to its comprehensive theoretical studies and its excellent performance in many signal processing applications. However, most existing sparse coding algorithms are nonconvex and…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2017-09-12 Xiaodong Feng , Zhiwei Tang , Sen Wu

A common goal in the control of a large network is to minimize the number of driver nodes or control inputs. Yet, the physical determination of control signals and the properties of the resulting control trajectories remain widely…

Disordered Systems and Neural Networks · Physics 2013-05-28 Jie Sun , Adilson E. Motter

The synthetic control method (SCM) is a widely used tool for evaluating causal effects of policy changes in panel data settings. Recent studies have extended its framework to accommodate complex outcomes that take values in metric spaces,…

Methodology · Statistics 2026-01-13 Ryo Okano , Daisuke Kurisu

Ensuring structural reliability remains a core concern in civil engineering, yet the quantitative effects of quality control measures on material variability and safety margins are not fully understood, especially for materials other than…

Applications · Statistics 2025-04-15 Tammam Bakeer , Wolfram Jaeger

This work develops a stochastic model predictive controller~(SMPC) for uncertain linear systems with additive Gaussian noise subject to state and control constraints. The proposed approach is based on the recently developed finite-horizon…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2019-11-26 Kazuhide Okamoto , Panagiotis Tsiotras