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In this paper we propose a new identification scheme for Hammerstein systems, which are dynamic systems consisting of a static nonlinearity and a linear time-invariant dynamic system in cascade. We assume that the nonlinear function can be…

Systems and Control · Computer Science 2016-05-20 Riccardo Sven Risuleo , Giulio Bottegal , Håkan Hjalmarsson

In this paper we introduce a novel method for linear system identification with quantized output data. We model the impulse response as a zero-mean Gaussian process whose covariance (kernel) is given by the recently proposed stable spline…

Systems and Control · Computer Science 2015-04-28 Giulio Bottegal , Gianluigi Pillonetto , Håkan Hjalmarsson

Learning from examples is one of the key problems in science and engineering. It deals with function reconstruction from a finite set of direct and noisy samples. Regularization in reproducing kernel Hilbert spaces (RKHSs) is widely used to…

Systems and Control · Computer Science 2016-12-30 Gianluigi Pillonetto

This paper proposes a fully data-driven approach for optimal control of nonlinear control-affine systems represented by a stochastic diffusion. The focus is on the scenario where both the nonlinear dynamics and stage cost functions are…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2025-11-03 Nicolas Hoischen , Petar Bevanda , Stefan Sosnowski , Sandra Hirche , Boris Houska

The classical approach to linear system identification is given by parametric Prediction Error Methods (PEM). In this context, model complexity is often unknown so that a model order selection step is needed to suitably trade-off bias and…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2013-03-13 Aleksandr Y. Aravkin , James V. Burke , Gianluigi Pillonetto

In this paper, we consider the coefficient-based regularized distribution regression which aims to regress from probability measures to real-valued responses over a reproducing kernel Hilbert space (RKHS), where the regularization is put on…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2022-08-29 Yuan Mao , Lei Shi , Zheng-Chu Guo

This work presents a nonparametric framework for dissipativity learning in reproducing kernel Hilbert spaces, which enables data-driven certification of stability and performance properties for unknown nonlinear systems without requiring an…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-11-03 Xiuzhen Ye , Wentao Tang

Efficiently estimating system dynamics from data is essential for minimizing data collection costs and improving model performance. This work addresses the challenge of designing future control inputs to maximize information gain, thereby…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-04-29 Joshua Ott , Mykel J. Kochenderfer , Stephen Boyd

Reproducing kernel Hilbert spaces (RKHSs) are key spaces for machine learning that are becoming popular also for linear system identification. In particular, the so-called stable RKHSs can be used to model absolutely summable impulse…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-05-07 Mauro Bisiacco , Gianluigi Pillonetto

This paper extends a conventional, general framework for online adaptive estimation problems for systems governed by unknown nonlinear ordinary differential equations. The central feature of the theory introduced in this paper represents…

Systems and Control · Computer Science 2017-07-11 Parag Bobade , Suprotim Majumdar , Savio Pereira , Andrew J. Kurdila , John B. Ferris

Input design is an important issue for classical system identification methods but has not been investigated for the kernel-based regularization method (KRM) until very recently. In this paper, we consider in the time domain the input…

Systems and Control · Computer Science 2017-08-21 Biqiang Mu , Tianshi Chen

In modern robotics, effectively computing optimal control policies under dynamically varying environments poses substantial challenges to the off-the-shelf parametric policy gradient methods, such as the Deep Deterministic Policy Gradient…

Robotics · Computer Science 2022-03-29 Apan Dastider , Mingjie Lin

Inverse optimization seeks to recover unknown objective parameters from observed decisions, yet fundamental questions about when recovery is possible have received limited formal treatment. This paper develops a comprehensive theoretical…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2026-03-19 Farzin Ahmadi , Fardin Ganjkhanloo , Kimia Ghobadi

This paper introduces a novel approach to system identification for nonlinear input-output models that minimizes the simulation error and frames the problem as a constrained optimization task. The proposed method addresses vanishing…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2025-12-17 Vito Cerone , Sophie M. Fosson , Simone Pirrera , Diego Regruto

This paper proposes a data-driven control framework to regulate an unknown, stochastic linear dynamical system to the solution of a (stochastic) convex optimization problem. Despite the centrality of this problem, most of the available…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2021-08-31 Gianluca Bianchin , Miguel Vaquero , Jorge Cortes , Emiliano Dall'Anese

Inverse reinforcement learning (IRL) for linear systems seeks a cost function whose optimal controller reproduces an expert policy from data. Existing data-driven methods for discrete-time linear systems are largely built on iterative…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2026-05-12 Duc Cuong Nguyen , Phuong Nam Dao

In this paper, we propose an outlier-robust regularized kernel-based method for linear system identification. The unknown impulse response is modeled as a zero-mean Gaussian process whose covariance (kernel) is given by the recently…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2013-12-25 Giulio Bottegal , Aleksandr Y. Aravkin , Hakan Hjalmarsson , Gianluigi Pillonetto

This paper proposes a ridgeless kernel method for solving infinite-horizon, deterministic, continuous-time models in economic dynamics, formulated as systems of differential-algebraic equations with asymptotic boundary conditions (e.g.,…

General Economics · Economics 2025-10-30 Mahdi Ebrahimi Kahou , Jesse Perla , Geoff Pleiss

The identification of continuous-time (CT) systems from discrete-time (DT) input and output signals, i.e., the sampled data, has received considerable attention for half a century. The state-of-the-art methods are parametric methods and…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-10-29 Xiaozhu Fang , Biqiang Mu , Tianshi Chen

Estimating the dissipativity of nonlinear systems from empirical data is useful for the analysis and control of nonlinear systems, especially when an accurate model is unavailable. Based on a Koopman operator model of the nonlinear system…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2026-04-03 Xiuzhen Ye , Wentao Tang