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The considered optimal control problem of a stochastic power system, is to select the set of power supply vectors which infimizes the probability that the phase-angle differences of any power flow of the network, endangers the transient…

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Stochastic optimal control with unknown randomness distributions has been studied for a long time, encompassing robust control, distributionally robust control, and adaptive control. We propose a new episodic Bayesian approach that…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2025-06-02 Alexander Shapiro , Enlu Zhou , Yifan Lin , Yuhao Wang

We consider numerical approaches for deterministic, finite-dimensional optimal control problems whose dynamics depend on unknown or uncertain parameters. We seek to amortize the solution over a set of relevant parameters in an offline stage…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2024-02-16 Deepanshu Verma , Nick Winovich , Lars Ruthotto , Bart van Bloemen Waanders

In this paper, we present a novel reinforcement learning framework designed to optimize molecular dynamics by focusing on the entire trajectory rather than just the final molecular configuration. Leveraging a stochastic version of…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2024-10-22 Chandrajit Bajaj , Minh Nguyen , Conrad Li

In this paper, a highly parallel and derivative-free martingale neural network learning method is proposed to solve Hamilton-Jacobi-Bellman (HJB) equations arising from stochastic optimal control problems (SOCPs), as well as general…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2024-12-23 Wei Cai , Shuixin Fang , Wenzhong Zhang , Tao Zhou

This paper introduces a new formulation for stochastic optimal control and stochastic dynamic optimization that ensures safety with respect to state and control constraints. The proposed methodology brings together concepts such as…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-02-19 Marcus Aloysius Pereira , Ziyi Wang , Ioannis Exarchos , Evangelos A. Theodorou

We derive first-order Pontryagin optimality conditions for stochastic optimal control with deterministic controls for systems modeled by rough differential equations (RDE) driven by Gaussian rough paths. This Pontryagin Maximum Principle…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2025-10-07 Thomas Lew

This paper presents a stochastic model predictive control approach for nonlinear systems subject to time-invariant probabilistic uncertainties in model parameters and initial conditions. The stochastic optimal control problem entails a cost…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2014-10-17 Stefan Streif , Matthias Karl , Ali Mesbah

The paper provides a new approach to the determination of a single state value for stochastic output feedback problems using paradigms from Model Predictive Control, particularly the distinction between open-loop and closed-loop control and…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2023-03-03 Mohammad S. Ramadan , Robert R. Bitmead , Ke Huang

In this paper, we focus on a method based on optimal control to address the optimization problem. The objective is to find the optimal solution that minimizes the objective function. We transform the optimization problem into optimal…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2023-09-12 Yeming Xu , Ziyuan Guo , Hongxia Wang , Huanshui Zhang

This paper consists of a detailed and novel stochastic optimal control analysis of a coupled non-linear dynamical system. The state equations are modeled as additional food provided prey-predator system with Holling Type-III functional…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2023-09-01 D. Bhanu Prakash , D. K. K. Vamsi

Selecting the best hyperparameters for a particular optimization instance, such as the learning rate and momentum, is an important but nonconvex problem. As a result, iterative optimization methods such as hypergradient descent lack global…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-12-05 Xinyi Chen , Elad Hazan

State-space models (SSMs) are effective architectures for sequential modeling, but a rigorous theoretical understanding of their training dynamics is still lacking. In this work, we formulate the training of SSMs as an ensemble optimal…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2026-03-17 Ye Feng , Jianfeng Lu

Given a sequential learning algorithm and a target model, sequential machine teaching aims to find the shortest training sequence to drive the learning algorithm to the target model. We present the first principled way to find such shortest…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2018-10-17 Laurent Lessard , Xuezhou Zhang , Xiaojin Zhu

We present a numerical algorithm that allows the approximation of optimal controls for stochastic reaction-diffusion equations with additive noise by first reducing the problem to controls of feedback form and then approximating the…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2023-09-15 Wilhelm Stannat , Alexander Vogler , Lukas Wessels

Neural network approaches that parameterize value functions have succeeded in approximating high-dimensional optimal feedback controllers when the Hamiltonian admits explicit formulas. However, many practical problems, such as the space…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2025-10-08 Eric Gelphman , Deepanshu Verma , Nicole Tianjiao Yang , Stanley Osher , Samy Wu Fung

Reliable high-fidelity quantum state transformation has always been considered as an inseparable part of quantum information processing. In this regard, Pontryagin maximum principle has proved to play an important role to achieve the…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2023-02-21 Nahid Binandeh Dehaghani , A. Pedro Aguiar

This paper studies stochastic control problems with the action space taken to be probability measures, with the objective penalised by the relative entropy. We identify suitable metric space on which we construct a gradient flow for the…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2024-01-26 David Šiška , Łukasz Szpruch

Closed-loop optimal control design for high-dimensional nonlinear systems has been a long-standing challenge. Traditional methods, such as solving the associated Hamilton-Jacobi-Bellman equation, suffer from the curse of dimensionality.…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2026-01-01 Xuanxi Zhang , Jihao Long , Wei Hu , Weinan E , Jiequn Han

We propose a function-learning methodology with a control-theoretical foundation. We parametrise the approximating function as the solution to a control system on a reproducing-kernel Hilbert space, and propose several methods to find the…

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