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Inference-time scaling (ITS) in latent reasoning models typically relies on heuristic perturbations, such as dropout or fixed Gaussian noise, to generate diverse candidate trajectories. However, we show that stronger perturbations do not…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2026-03-19 Minghan Wang , Ye Bai , Thuy-Trang Vu , Ehsan Shareghi , Gholamreza Haffari

The problem of pure exploration in Markov decision processes has been cast as maximizing the entropy over the state distribution induced by the agent's policy, an objective that has been extensively studied. However, little attention has…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-06-19 Riccardo Zamboni , Duilio Cirino , Marcello Restelli , Mirco Mutti

This paper explores a class of fully coupled nonlinear forward-backward stochastic difference equations (FBS$\Delta$Es). Building on insights from linear quadratic optimal control problems, we introduce a more relaxed framework of…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2025-08-01 Zhipeng Niu , Qingxin Meng , Xun Li , Maoning Tang

In this paper, we provide a generalized framework for Variational Inference-Stochastic Optimal Control by using thenon-extensive Tsallis divergence. By incorporating the deformed exponential function into the optimality likelihood function,…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-04-02 Ziyi Wang , Oswin So , Jason Gibson , Bogdan Vlahov , Manan S. Gandhi , Guan-Horng Liu , Evangelos A. Theodorou

The behavior of stock market returns over a period of 1-60 days has been investigated for S&P 500 and Nasdaq within the framework of nonextensive Tsallis statistics. Even for such long terms, the distributions of the returns are…

Statistical Finance · Quantitative Finance 2017-09-18 Sandhya Devi

A policy in deep reinforcement learning (RL), either deterministic or stochastic, is commonly parameterized as a Gaussian distribution alone, limiting the learned behavior to be unimodal. However, the nature of many practical…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-08-20 SM Mazharul Islam , Manfred Huber

We propose an effective exponential model of delay discounting considering fluctuation in impulsivity. This model is seen to be dual to the two-parameter Tsallis model of delay discounting proposed by Takahashi in 2007. We demonstrate that…

Physics and Society · Physics 2023-05-22 Trambak Bhattacharyya , Shanu Shukla , Ranu Pandey

We present a computational framework for synthesis of distributed control strategies for a heterogeneous team of robots in a partially observable environment. The goal is to cooperatively satisfy specifications given as Truncated Linear…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2022-04-07 Ningyuan Zhang , Wenliang Liu , Calin Belta

In this paper, we study the maximum principle for stochastic optimal control problems of forward-backward stochastic difference systems (FBS{\Delta}Ss). Two types of FBS{\Delta}Ss are investigated. The first one is described by a partially…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2019-01-01 Shaolin Ji , Haodong Liu

In this paper, the authors study the distributed optimal control of a system of three evolutionary equations involving fractional powers of three selfadjoint, monotone, unbounded linear operators having compact resolvents. The system is a…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2019-07-25 Pierluigi Colli , Gianni Gilardi , Jürgen Sprekels

Animals have a developed ability to explore that aids them in important tasks such as locating food, exploring for shelter, and finding misplaced items. These exploration skills necessarily track where they have been so that they can plan…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-06-27 Arnav Kumar Jain , Lucas Lehnert , Irina Rish , Glen Berseth

The q-exponential distributions, which are generalizations of the Zipf-Mandelbrot power-law distribution, are frequently encountered in complex systems at their stationary states. From the viewpoint of the principle of maximum entropy, they…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2009-11-07 Sumiyoshi Abe

This paper investigates an optimal consumption-investment problem featuring recursive utility via Tsallis relative entropy. We establish a fundamental connection between this optimization problem and a quadratic backward stochastic…

Mathematical Finance · Quantitative Finance 2025-09-26 Xueying Huang , Peng Luo , Dejian Tian

We consider a one dimensional elliptic distributed optimal control problem with pointwise constraints on the derivative of the state. By exploiting the variational inequality satisfied by the derivative of the optimal state, we obtain…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2021-06-18 Susanne C. Brenner , Li-yeng Sung , Winnifried Wollner

A new method is proposed for analyzing complexity and studying the information in random geometric networks using Tsallis entropy tool. Tsallis entropy of the ensemble of random geometric networks is calculated based on the components of…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2025-02-20 O. K. Kazemi , S. M. Taheri

We study high-dimensional stochastic optimal control problems in which many agents cooperate to minimize a convex cost functional. We consider both the full-information problem, in which each agent observes the states of all other agents,…

Probability · Mathematics 2023-01-10 Joe Jackson , Daniel Lacker

We developed a strategic of optimal portfolio based on information theory and Tsallis statistics. The growth rate of a stock market is defined by using $q$-deformed functions and we find that the wealth after n days with the optimal…

Statistical Finance · Quantitative Finance 2019-10-24 Marco A. S. Trindade , Sergio Floquet , Lourival M. S. Filho

In this paper, we study the optimal dividend problem under the continuous time diffusion model with the bounded dividend rate from the Reinforcement Learning (RL) perspective. Unlike the standard literature, our main focus will be on…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2026-03-30 Lihua Bai , Thejani Gamage , Jin Ma , Gaozhan Wang

We study the problem of exploration in Reinforcement Learning and present a novel model-free solution. We adopt an information-theoretical viewpoint and start from the instance-specific lower bound of the number of samples that have to be…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-07-02 Alessio Russo , Alexandre Proutiere

In this work, we present numerical analysis for a distributed optimal control problem, with box constraint on the control, governed by a subdiffusion equation which involves a fractional derivative of order $\alpha\in(0,1)$ in time. The…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2017-12-22 Bangti Jin , Buyang Li , Zhi Zhou