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One-shot direct model-reference control design techniques, like the Virtual Reference Feedback Tuning (VRFT) approach, offer time-saving solutions for the calibration of fixed-structure controllers for dynamic systems. Nonetheless, such…

In this paper we propose a novel methodology that allows to design, in a purely data-based fashion and for linear single-input and single-output systems, both robustly stable and performing control systems for tracking piecewise constant…

Virtual Reference Feedback Tuning (VRFT) is a well known and very successful data-driven control design method. It has been initially conceived for linear plants and this original formulation has been much explored in the literature,…

In this paper the application of Virtual Reference Feedback Tuning (VRFT) for control of nonlinear systems with regulators defined by Echo State Networks (ESN) and Long Short Term Memory (LSTM) networks is investigated. The capability of…

Vision-Language-Action (VLA) models enable embodied decision-making but rely heavily on imitation learning, leading to compounding errors and poor robustness under distribution shift. Reinforcement learning (RL) can mitigate these issues…

Transfer learning has become a popular task adaptation method in the era of foundation models. However, many foundation models require large storage and computing resources, which makes off-the-shelf deployment impractical. Post-training…

Affective computing systems are increasingly embedded in pervasive and interactive environments, such as adaptive games, assistive technologies, and resource-constrained platforms, where computational efficiency must be balanced with…

Reinforcement learning (RL) for mathematical reasoning can suffer from reward sparsity: for challenging problems, LLM fails to sample any correct trajectories, preventing RL from receiving meaningful positive feedback. At the same time,…

Reinforcement Learning with Verifiable Rewards (RLVR) has achieved great success in developing Large Language Models (LLMs) with chain-of-thought rollouts for many tasks such as math and coding. Nevertheless, RLVR struggles with sample…

Thresholding based iterative algorithms have the trade-off between effectiveness and optimality. Some are effective but involving sub-matrix inversions in every step of iterations. For systems of large sizes, such algorithms can be…

This paper introduces a reinforcement learning approach to optimize the Stochastic Vehicle Routing Problem with Time Windows (SVRP), focusing on reducing travel costs in goods delivery. We develop a novel SVRP formulation that accounts for…

Reinforcement Learning from Human Feedback (RLHF) is crucial for aligning large language models with human preferences. While recent research has focused on algorithmic improvements, the importance of prompt-data construction has been…

Large Language Models (LLMs) increasingly rely on Supervised Fine-Tuning (SFT) and Reinforcement Learning from Human Feedback (RLHF) to align model responses with human preferences. While RLHF employs a reinforcement learning approach with…

Fine-tuning pretrained models is a standard and effective workflow in modern machine learning. However, robust fine-tuning (RFT), which aims to simultaneously achieve adaptation to a downstream task and robustness to adversarial examples,…

This work investigates the feasibility of using input-output data-driven control techniques for building control and their susceptibility to data-poisoning techniques. The analysis is performed on a digital replica of the KTH Livein Lab, a…

The theory of swarm control shows promise for controlling multiple objects, however, scalability is hindered by cost constraints, such as hardware and infrastructure. Virtual Reality (VR) can overcome these limitations, but research on…

This paper presents a systematic approach to nonlinear state-feedback control design that has three main advantages: (i) it ensures exponential stability and $ \mathcal{L}_2 $-gain performance with respect to a user-defined set of reference…

While Supervised Fine-Tuning (SFT) and Rejection Sampling Fine-Tuning (RFT) are standard for LLM alignment, they either rely on costly expert data or discard valuable negative samples, leading to data inefficiency. To address this, we…

The massive scale of modern AI accelerators presents critical challenges to traditional fault assessment methodologies, which face prohibitive computational costs and provide poor coverage of critical failure modes. This paper introduces…

Pretrained on large-scale and diverse datasets, VLA models demonstrate strong generalization and adaptability as general-purpose robotic policies. However, Supervised Fine-Tuning (SFT), which serves as the primary mechanism for adapting…