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This paper deals with a class of neural SDEs and studies the limiting behavior of the associated sampled optimal control problems as the sample size grows to infinity. The neural SDEs with $N$ samples can be linked to the $N$-particle…

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In this article we study optimization problems ruled by $\alpha$-fractional diffusion operators with volume constraints. By means of penalization techniques we prove existence of solutions. We also show that every solution is locally of…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2015-10-19 Eduardo V. Teixeira , Rafayel Teymurazyan

The aim of this paper is to design a band-limited optimal input with power constraints for identifying a linear multi-input multi-output system. It is assumed that the nominal system parameters are specified. The key idea is to use the…

Systems and Control · Computer Science 2017-06-14 Shravan Mohan , Mithun Im , Bharath Bhikkaji

Pattern recognition is a central topic in Learning Theory with numerous applications such as voice and text recognition, image analysis, computer diagnosis. The statistical set-up in classification is the following: we are given an i.i.d.…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2011-06-23 Madalin Guta , Wojciech Kotlowski

Classical stochastic control assumes perfect knowledge of the uncertainty affecting the plant. In practice, however, such information is often incomplete. To address this limitation, we consider a distributionally robust control (DRC)…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2026-05-06 Riccardo Cescon , Andrea Martin , Giancarlo Ferrari-Trecate

This paper studies the expected optimal value of a mixed 0-1 programming problem with uncertain objective coefficients following a joint distribution. We assume that the true distribution is not known exactly, but a set of independent…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2017-08-28 Guanglin Xu , Samuel Burer

We propose a near-optimum receiver for the discrimination of binary phase-shift-keyed coherent states employing photon-number-resolving detectors. The receiver exploits a discrimination strategy based on both the so-called homodyne-like and…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2023-03-10 Michele N. Notarnicola , Matteo G. A. Paris , Stefano Olivares

Accurate pattern center determination has long been a challenge for the electron backscatter diffraction (EBSD) community and is becoming critically accuracy-limiting for more recent advanced EBSD techniques. Here, we study the parameter…

Materials Science · Physics 2019-08-29 Edward L. Pang , Peter M. Larsen , Christopher A. Schuh

Constructing high-fidelity control fields that are robust to control, system, and/or surrounding environment uncertainties is a crucial objective for quantum information processing. Using the two-state Landau-Zener model for illustrative…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2012-05-23 Matthew D. Grace , Jason Dominy , Wayne M. Witzel , Malcolm S. Carroll

We apply theoretically open-loop quantum optimal control techniques to provide methods for the verification of various quantum coherent transport mechanisms in natural and artificial light-harvesting complexes under realistic experimental…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2012-05-01 Filippo Caruso , Simone Montangero , Tommaso Calarco , Susana F. Huelga , Martin B. Plenio

Uncertainty propagation in non-linear dynamical systems has become a key problem in various fields including control theory and machine learning. In this work we focus on discrete-time non-linear stochastic dynamical systems. We present a…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-09-12 Eduardo Figueiredo , Andrea Patane , Morteza Lahijanian , Luca Laurenti

In this work, we consider a two-level system (TLS) coupled to a one-dimensional continuum of bosonic modes in a transmission line. Using the master equation approach, a method for determining the photon number distribution of the scattered…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2016-02-03 Joel Lindkvist , Göran Johansson

Coherent states of the quantum electromagnetic field, the quantum description of ideal laser light, are prime candidates as information carriers for optical communications. A large body of literature exists on their quantum-limited…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2023-06-07 Jasminder S. Sidhu , Michael S. Bullock , Saikat Guha , Cosmo Lupo

We establish a simple method to assess the quantum Fisher information required for resolving two incoherent point sources with an imaging system. The resulting Cram\'er-Rao bound shows that the standard Rayleigh limit can be surpassed by…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2016-06-28 Martin Paur , Bohumil Stoklasa , Zdenek Hradil , Luis L. Sanchez-Soto , Jaroslav Rehacek

We consider the problem, where a camera is tasked with determining one of two hypotheses: first with an incoherently-radiating quasi-monochromatic point source and the second with two identical closely spaced point sources. We are given…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2016-09-07 Hari Krovi , Saikat Guha , Jeffrey H. Shapiro

To quantify quantum optical coherence requires both the particle- and wave-natures of light. For an ideal laser beam [1,2,3], it can be thought of roughly as the number of photons emitted consecutively into the beam with the same phase.…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2020-11-06 Travis J. Baker , S. N. Saadatmand , Dominic W. Berry , Howard M. Wiseman

Measurements approaching the ultimate quantum limits of sensitivity are central in quantum information processing, quantum metrology, and communication. Quantum measurements to discriminate multiple states at the single-photon level are…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2017-11-02 A. R. Ferdinand , M. T. DiMario , F. E. Becerra

We discuss a novel implementation of the minimum error state discrimination measurement, originally introduced by Helstrom. In this implementation, instead of performing the optimal projective measurement directly on the system, it is first…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2020-03-11 Rui Han , Gerd Leuchs , János A. Bergou

We develop a principled framework for analyzing and designing noise schedules in diffusion models. We show that one can recast this design problem as an optimal control problem, whose state is the Fisher information of the diffusion process…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-05-22 Seo Taek Kong , Weina Wang , R. Srikant

The problem of sampling a discrete-time sequence of spatially bandlimited fields with a bounded dynamic range, in a distributed, communication-constrained, processing environment is addressed. A central unit, having access to the data…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2016-11-18 Animesh Kumar , Prakash Ishwar , Kannan Ramchandran