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In this paper, we study the \emph{sparse integer least squares problem} (SILS), an NP-hard variant of least squares with sparse $\{0, \pm 1\}$-vectors. We propose an $\ell_1$-based SDP relaxation, and a randomized algorithm for SILS, which…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2026-05-19 Alberto Del Pia , Dekun Zhou

Reinforcement Learning (RL) has made significant strides in various domains, and policy gradient methods like Proximal Policy Optimization (PPO) have gained popularity due to their balance in performance, training stability, and…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-05-21 Andrei Cozma , Landon Harris , Hairong Qi

We present a novel class of minimax optimal control problems with positive dynamics, linear objective function and homogeneous constraints. The proposed problem class can be analyzed with dynamic programming and an explicit solution to the…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2023-12-11 Alba Gurpegui , Emma Tegling , Anders Rantzer

One of the most fundamental problems in Markov decision processes is analysis and control synthesis for safety and reachability specifications. We consider the stochastic reach-avoid problem, in which the objective is to synthesize a…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2017-10-09 Nikolaos Kariotoglou , Maryam Kamgarpour , Tyler Summers , John Lygeros

In this paper, we study high-dimensional sparse Quadratic Discriminant Analysis (QDA) and aim to establish the optimal convergence rates for the classification error. Minimax lower bounds are established to demonstrate the necessity of…

Methodology · Statistics 2019-12-09 T. Tony Cai , Linjun Zhang

Solving optimal control problems (OCPs) of autonomous agents operating under spatial and temporal constraints fast and accurately is essential in applications ranging from eco-driving of autonomous vehicles to quadrotor navigation. However,…

Robotics · Computer Science 2026-01-07 Shiying Dong , Zhipeng Shen , Rudolf Reiter , Hailong Huang , Bingzhao Gao , Hong Chen , Wen-Hua Chen

Optimal sensor placement is an important yet unsolved problem in control theory. In biological organisms, genetic activity is often highly nonlinear, making it difficult to design libraries of promoters to act as reporters of the cell…

Molecular Networks · Quantitative Biology 2019-09-19 Aqib Hasnain , Nibodh Boddupalli , Enoch Yeung

In remote control, efficient compression or representation of control signals is essential to send them through rate-limited channels. For this purpose, we propose an approach of sparse control signal representation using the compressive…

Systems and Control · Computer Science 2015-06-16 Masaaki Nagahara , Takahiro Matsuda , Kazunori Hayashi

The goal of this paper is to find a low-rank approximation for a given tensor. Specifically, we give a computable strategy on calculating the rank of a given tensor, based on approximating the solution to an NP-hard problem. In this paper,…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2016-10-20 Xiaofei Wang , Carmeliza Navasca

The aim of sparse approximation is to estimate a sparse signal according to the measurement matrix and an observation vector. It is widely used in data analytics, image processing, and communication, etc. Up to now, a lot of research has…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2018-05-31 Hao Wang , Ruibin Feng , Chi-Sing Leung

We propose a novel framework for safe navigation in dynamic environments by integrating Koopman operator theory with conformal prediction. Our approach leverages data-driven Koopman approximation to learn nonlinear dynamics and employs…

Robotics · Computer Science 2025-05-02 Kaier Liang , Guang Yang , Mingyu Cai , Cristian-Ioan Vasile

The paper aims at the development of an apparatus for analysis and construction of near optimal solutions of singularly perturbed (SP) optimal controls problems (that is, problems of optimal control of SP systems) considered on the infinite…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2014-08-20 Vladimir Gaitsgory , Sergei Rossomakhine

The design and analysis of optimal control policies for dynamical systems can be complicated by nonlinear dependence in the state variables. Koopman operators have been used to simplify the analysis of dynamical systems by mapping the flow…

Dynamical Systems · Mathematics 2019-08-07 Craig Bakker , Steven Rosenthal , Kathleen E. Nowak

We show that sparsity constrained optimization problems over low dimensional spaces tend to have a small duality gap. We use the Shapley-Folkman theorem to derive both data-driven bounds on the duality gap, and an efficient primalization…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2021-02-16 Armin Askari , Alexandre d'Aspremont , Laurent El Ghaoui

This paper presents a novel Koopman composition operator representation framework for control systems in reproducing kernel Hilbert spaces (RKHSs) that is free of explicit dictionary or input parametrizations. By establishing fundamental…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-09-03 Petar Bevanda , Bas Driessen , Lucian Cristian Iacob , Stefan Sosnowski , Roland Tóth , Sandra Hirche

We consider a framework for the construction of iterative schemes for operator equations that combine low-rank approximation in tensor formats and adaptive approximation in a basis. Under fairly general assumptions, we obtain a rigorous…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2014-03-17 Markus Bachmayr , Wolfgang Dahmen

Recently Koopman operator has become a promising data-driven tool to facilitate real-time control for unknown nonlinear systems. It maps nonlinear systems into equivalent linear systems in embedding space, ready for real-time linear control…

Robotics · Computer Science 2022-06-16 Haojie Shi , Max Q. -H. Meng

In this paper, stochastic optimal control problems in continuous time and space are considered. In recent years, such problems have received renewed attention from the lens of reinforcement learning (RL) which is also one of our motivation.…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-10-29 Anant A. Joshi , Amirhossein Taghvaei , Prashant G. Mehta , Sean P. Meyn

Koopman operator recently gained increasing attention in the control systems community for its abilities to bridge linear and nonlinear systems. Data driven Koopman operator approximations have established themselves as key enablers for…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2026-01-13 Selin Ezgi Ozcan , Mustafa Mert Ankarali

The goal of Sparse Convex Optimization is to optimize a convex function $f$ under a sparsity constraint $s\leq s^*\gamma$, where $s^*$ is the target number of non-zero entries in a feasible solution (sparsity) and $\gamma\geq 1$ is an…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-06-26 Kyriakos Axiotis , Maxim Sviridenko