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Machine learning algorithms frequently require careful tuning of model hyperparameters, regularization terms, and optimization parameters. Unfortunately, this tuning is often a "black art" that requires expert experience, unwritten rules of…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2012-08-30 Jasper Snoek , Hugo Larochelle , Ryan P. Adams

Optimizing objectives under constraints, where both the objectives and constraints are black box functions, is a common scenario in real-world applications such as scientific experimental design, design of medical therapies, and industrial…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-10-16 Fengxue Zhang , Zejie Zhu , Yuxin Chen

An adaptive controller is proposed and analyzed for the class of infinite-horizon optimal control problems in positive linear systems presented in (Ohlin et al., 2024b). This controller is derived from the solution of a "data-driven…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2025-04-22 Fethi Bencherki , Anders Rantzer

The paper deals with the problem of output regulation of nonlinear systems by presenting a learning-based adaptive internal model-based design strategy. We borrow from the adaptive internal model design technique recently proposed in [1]…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-06-27 Lorenzo Gentilini , Michelangelo Bin , Lorenzo Marconi

Driverless vehicles are complex systems operating in constantly changing environments. Automated driving is achieved by controlling the coupled longitudinal and lateral vehicle dynamics. Model predictive control is one of the most promising…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2025-09-25 Yassine Kebbati , Naima Ait-Oufroukh , Vicenç Puig , Vincent Vigneron , Dalil Ichalal

This paper focuses on hyperparameter optimization for autonomous driving strategies based on Reinforcement Learning. We provide a detailed description of training the RL agent in a simulation environment. Subsequently, we employ Efficient…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-07-22 Nihal Acharya Adde , Hanno Gottschalk , Andreas Ebert

Optimal control of stochastic nonlinear dynamical systems is a major challenge in the domain of robot learning. Given the intractability of the global control problem, state-of-the-art algorithms focus on approximate sequential optimization…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-04-23 Joe Watson , Hany Abdulsamad , Jan Peters

In this paper we develop a Bayesian optimization based hyperparameter tuning framework inspired by statistical learning theory for classifiers. We utilize two key facts from PAC learning theory; the generalization bound will be higher for a…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2019-02-08 Tinu Theckel Joy , Santu Rana , Sunil Gupta , Svetha Venkatesh

We consider learning to optimize a classification metric defined by a black-box function of the confusion matrix. Such black-box learning settings are ubiquitous, for example, when the learner only has query access to the metric of…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-06-25 Gaurush Hiranandani , Jatin Mathur , Harikrishna Narasimhan , Mahdi Milani Fard , Oluwasanmi Koyejo

We propose a general framework for studying optimal impulse control problem in the presence of uncertainty on the parameters. Given a prior on the distribution of the unknown parameters, we explain how it should evolve according to the…

Probability · Mathematics 2017-12-06 N. Baradel , B. Bouchard , Ngoc Minh Dang

This work presents a technique for learning systems, where the learning process is guided by knowledge of the physics of the system. In particular, we solve the problem of the two-point boundary optimal control problem of linear…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-05-03 Vasanth Reddy , Hoda Eldardiry , Almuatazbellah Boker

We propose a simple, practical and intuitive approach to improve the performance of a conventional controller in uncertain environments using deep reinforcement learning while maintaining safe operation. Our approach is motivated by the…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-10-07 Tom Staessens , Tom Lefebvre , Guillaume Crevecoeur

We consider the problem of estimating the transition dynamics $T^*$ from near-optimal expert trajectories in the context of offline model-based reinforcement learning. We develop a novel constraint-based method, Inverse Transition Learning,…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-04-29 Leo Benac , Abhishek Sharma , Sonali Parbhoo , Finale Doshi-Velez

The Linear Quadratic Gaussian (LQG) problem is a classic and widely studied model in optimal control, providing a fundamental framework for designing controllers for linear systems subject to process and observation noises. In recent years,…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2026-03-17 Haoran Li , Xun Li , Yuan-Hua Ni , Xuebo Zhang

Determining the optimal cost function parameters of Model Predictive Control (MPC) to optimize multiple control objectives is a challenging and time-consuming task. Multiobjective Bayesian Optimization (BO) techniques solve this problem by…

Robotics · Computer Science 2024-02-06 Baha Zarrouki , Marios Spanakakis , Johannes Betz

In this paper, we introduce an adaptive kernel method for solving the optimal filtering problem. The computational framework that we adopt is the Bayesian filter, in which we recursively generate an optimal estimate for the state of a…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2022-03-11 Zezhong Zhang , Richard Archibald , Feng Bao

In many situations, simulation models are developed to handle complex real-world business optimisation problems. For example, a discrete-event simulation model is used to simulate the trailer management process in a big Fast-Moving Consumer…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2019-07-18 Dylan Rijnen , Jason Rhuggenaath , Paulo R. de O. da Costa , Yingqian Zhang

Bayesian Optimization (BO) is an effective method for optimizing expensive-to-evaluate black-box functions with a wide range of applications for example in robotics, system design and parameter optimization. However, scaling BO to problems…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-01-22 Lukas P. Fröhlich , Edgar D. Klenske , Christian G. Daniel , Melanie N. Zeilinger

Data-efficiency is crucial for autonomous robots to adapt to new tasks and environments. In this work we focus on robotics problems with a budget of only 10-20 trials. This is a very challenging setting even for data-efficient approaches…

Robotics · Computer Science 2019-07-11 Rika Antonova , Akshara Rai , Tianyu Li , Danica Kragic

This paper presents a machine learning approach for tuning the parameters of a family of stabilizing controllers for orbital tracking. An augmented random search algorithm is deployed, which aims at minimizing a cost function combining…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-08-08 Gianni Bianchini , Andrea Garulli , Antonio Giannitrapani , Mirko Leomanni , Renato Quartullo