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This paper studies systematic exploration for reinforcement learning with rich observations and function approximation. We introduce a new model called contextual decision processes, that unifies and generalizes most prior settings. Our…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2016-12-02 Nan Jiang , Akshay Krishnamurthy , Alekh Agarwal , John Langford , Robert E. Schapire

Recurrent neural networks are widely used on time series data, yet such models often ignore the underlying physical structures in such sequences. A new class of physics-based methods related to Koopman theory has been introduced, offering…

Computational Physics · Physics 2020-07-01 Omri Azencot , N. Benjamin Erichson , Vanessa Lin , Michael W. Mahoney

The field of quickest change detection (QCD) concerns design and analysis of algorithms to estimate in real time the time at which an important event takes place, and identify properties of the post-change behavior. It is shown in this…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2024-09-16 Austin Cooper , Sean Meyn

We study the robustness of deep reinforcement learning algorithms against distribution shifts within contextual multi-stage stochastic combinatorial optimization problems from the operations research domain. In this context, risk-sensitive…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-02-16 Tobias Enders , James Harrison , Maximilian Schiffer

Nonlinear dynamical systems can be made easier to control by lifting them into the space of observable functions, where their evolution is described by the linear Koopman operator. This paper describes how the Koopman operator can be used…

Robotics · Computer Science 2020-11-16 Daniel Bruder , Xun Fu , Ram Vasudevan

This paper proposes a unified family of learnable Koopman operator parameterizations that integrate linear dynamical systems theory with modern deep learning forecasting architectures. We introduce four learnable Koopman…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-03-16 Ali Forootani , Raffaele Iervolino

We develop a data-driven, model-free approach for the optimal control of the dynamical system. The proposed approach relies on the Deep Neural Network (DNN) based learning of Koopman operator for the purpose of control. In particular, DNN…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-10-16 Yiqiang Han , Wenjian Hao , Umesh Vaidya

Hard constraints in reinforcement learning (RL) often degrade policy performance. Lagrangian methods offer a way to blend objectives with constraints, but require intricate reward engineering and parameter tuning. In this work, we extend…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2025-12-05 William Sharpless , Dylan Hirsch , Sander Tonkens , Nikhil Shinde , Sylvia Herbert

Over the past decades, the Koopman operator has been widely applied in data-driven control, yet its theoretical foundations remain underexplored. This paper establishes a unified framework to address the robust stabilization problem in…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-08-18 Yicheng Lin , Bingxian Wu , Nan Bai , Zhiyong Sun , Yunxiao Ren , Chuanze Chen , Zhisheng Duan

H{\infty} control of nonlinear continuous-time system depends on the solution of the Hamilton-Jacobi-Isaacs (HJI) equation, which has been proved impossible to obtain a closed-form solution due to the nonlinearity of HJI equation. In order…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-03-20 Qi Wang

In recent years there has been a considerable drive towards data-driven analysis, discovery and control of dynamical systems. To this end, operator theoretic methods, namely, Koopman operator methods have gained a lot of interest. In…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-07-03 Subhrajit Sinha , Sai Pushpak Nandanoori , Enoch Yeung

Effective and causal observable functions for low-order lifting linearization of nonlinear controlled systems are learned from data by using neural networks. While Koopman operator theory allows us to represent a nonlinear system as a…

Robotics · Computer Science 2021-08-04 Nicholas Stearns Selby , H. Harry Asada

This paper presents a Koopman lifting linearization method that is applicable to nonlinear dynamical systems having both stable and unstable regions. It is known that DMD and other standard data-driven methods face a fundamental difficulty…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-01-18 Jerry Ng , H. Harry Asada

We propose a noise-robust learning framework for the Koopman operator of nonlinear dynamical systems, with guaranteed long-term stability and improved model performance for better model-based predictive control tasks. Unlike some existing…

Dynamical Systems · Mathematics 2025-08-25 Shahriar Akbar Sakib , Shaowu Pan

The Koopman operator is a mathematical tool that allows for a linear description of non-linear systems, but working in infinite dimensional spaces. Dynamic Mode Decomposition and Extended Dynamic Mode Decomposition are amongst the most…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-03-26 Francesco Zanini , Alessandro Chiuso

We develop a novel lifting technique for nonlinear system identification based on the framework of the Koopman operator. The key idea is to identify the linear (infinitedimensional) Koopman operator in the lifted space of observables,…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2019-04-25 Alexandre Mauroy , Jorge Goncalves

We provide a framework for incorporating robustness -- to perturbations in the transition dynamics which we refer to as model misspecification -- into continuous control Reinforcement Learning (RL) algorithms. We specifically focus on…

Data-driven analysis and control of dynamical systems have gained a lot of interest in recent years. While the class of linear systems is well studied, theoretical results for nonlinear systems are still rare. In this paper, we present a…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-11-28 Robin Strässer , Julian Berberich , Frank Allgöwer

The Koopman operator theory is an increasingly popular formalism of dynamical systems theory which enables analysis and prediction of the nonlinear dynamics from measurement data. Building on the recent development of the Koopman model…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2018-06-08 Hassan Arbabi , Milan Korda , Igor Mezic

The present paper treats the identification of nonlinear dynamical systems using Koopman-based deep state-space encoders. Through this method, the usual drawback of needing to choose a dictionary of lifting functions a priori is…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-06-16 Lucian Cristian Iacob , Gerben Izaak Beintema , Maarten Schoukens , Roland Tóth