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Explicit time integration for immersed finite element discretizations severely suffers from the influence of poorly cut elements. In this contribution, we propose a generalized eigenvalue stabilization (GEVS) strategy for the element mass…

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State estimation incorporates the feedback in optimization based advanced process control systems and is very important for the performance of model predictive control. We describe the extended Kalman filter, the unscented Kalman filter,…

We study aleatoric and epistemic uncertainty estimation in a learned regressive system dynamics model. Disentangling aleatoric uncertainty (the inherent randomness of the system) from epistemic uncertainty (the lack of data) is crucial for…

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Learning to make decisions from observed data in dynamic environments remains a problem of fundamental importance in a number of fields, from artificial intelligence and robotics, to medicine and finance. This paper concerns the problem of…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2018-06-04 Jack Umenberger , Thomas B. Schön

Object pose estimation is frequently achieved by first segmenting an RGB image and then, given depth data, registering the corresponding point cloud segment against the object's 3D model. Despite the progress due to CNNs, semantic…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-05-17 Chaitanya Mitash , Abdeslam Boularias , Kostas Bekris

In this paper, we consider adaptive estimation of an unknown planar compact, convex set from noisy measurements of its support function on a uniform grid. Both the problem of estimating the support function at a point and that of estimating…

Statistics Theory · Mathematics 2015-08-18 Tony Cai , Adityanand Guntuboyina , Yuting Wei

Fast power system state estimation (SE) solution is of paramount importance for achieving real-time decision making in power grid operations. Semidefinite programming (SDP) reformulation has been shown effective to obtain the global optimum…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2019-06-20 Yu Lan , Hao Zhu , Xiaohong Guan

We revisit the problem of computing (robust) controlled invariant sets for discrete-time linear systems. Departing from previous approaches, we consider implicit, rather than explicit, representations for controlled invariant sets.…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2022-08-10 Tzanis Anevlavis , Zexiang Liu , Necmiye Ozay , Paulo Tabuada

We study the set of solutions to a parameterized, strongly convex optimization problem whose cost depends on uncertain, bounded parameters. We compute a certified outer approximation of the corresponding set of optimizers, using convergence…

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We propose a data-driven technique to automatically learn contextual uncertainty sets in robust optimization, resulting in excellent worst-case and average-case performance while also guaranteeing constraint satisfaction. Our method…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2025-06-25 Irina Wang , Bart Van Parys , Bartolomeo Stellato

In this paper, an optimization-based framework for generating estimation-aware trajectories is presented. In this setup, measurement (output) uncertainties are state-dependent and set-valued. Enveloping ellipsoids are employed to…

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We introduce a novel framework to approximate the aggregate frequency dynamics of coherent generators. By leveraging recent results on dynamics concentration of tightly connected networks, and frequency weighted balanced truncation, a…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-01-05 Hancheng Min , Fernando Paganini , Enrique Mallada

Complex-Valued Neural Networks (CVNNs) have significant advantages in handling tasks that involve complex numbers. However, existing CVNNs are unable to quantify predictive uncertainty. We propose, for the first time, dropout-based Bayesian…

Hardware Architecture · Computer Science 2026-04-23 Zehuan Zhang , Mark Chen , He Li , Wayne Luk

Conformal prediction provides a principled framework for constructing predictive sets with finite-sample validity. While much of the focus has been on univariate response variables, existing multivariate methods either impose rigid…

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Quantum coherence and entanglement are fundamental resources in quantum technologies, yet their efficient estimation for unknown states by employing minimal resources in experimental settings remains challenging, particularly in…

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Region extraction is necessary in a wide range of applications, from object detection in autonomous driving to analysis of subcellular morphology in cell biology. There exist two main approaches: convex hull extraction, for which exact and…

Computational Geometry · Computer Science 2022-06-24 Kevin Christopher VanHorn , Murat Can Çobanoğlu

Stochastic-gradient-based optimization has been a core enabling methodology in applications to large-scale problems in machine learning and related areas. Despite the progress, the gap between theory and practice remains significant, with…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2021-01-01 Lihua Lei , Michael I. Jordan

Consider the problem of simultaneous estimation and support recovery of the coefficient vector in a linear data model with additive Gaussian noise. We study the problem of estimating the model coefficients based on a recently proposed…

Statistics Theory · Mathematics 2022-11-15 Soham Jana , Henry Li , Yutaro Yamada , Ofir Lindenbaum

In recent years fully-parametric fast simulation methods based on generative models have been proposed for a variety of high-energy physics detectors. By their nature, the quality of data-driven models degrades in the regions of the phase…

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