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Differential equations are important tools to portray dynamic problems, and are widely used in finance, engineering and biology. Here, multiple dynamic differential models were built innovatively, and discretized with the Runge-Kutta…
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This paper investigates the convex optimization problem with general convex inequality constraints. To cope with this problem, a discrete-time algorithm, called augmented primal-dual gradient algorithm (Aug-PDG), is studied and analyzed. It…
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Many statistical problems involve optimization over a discrete parameter space having an unknown dimension. In such settings, gradient-based methods often fail due to the non-differentiability of the objective function or a non-convex or…
In modern robotics, effectively computing optimal control policies under dynamically varying environments poses substantial challenges to the off-the-shelf parametric policy gradient methods, such as the Deep Deterministic Policy Gradient…
We present a novel probabilistic approach for optimal path experimental design. In this approach a discrete path optimization problem is defined on a static navigation mesh, and trajectories are modeled as random variables governed by a…
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