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The paper is devoted to the study of a new class of optimal control problems governed by discontinuous constrained differential inclusions of the sweeping type with involving the duration of the dynamic process into optimization. We develop…

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We consider recent work of Haber and Ruthotto 2017 and Chang et al. 2018, where deep learning neural networks have been interpreted as discretisations of an optimal control problem subject to an ordinary differential equation constraint. We…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2019-10-02 Martin Benning , Elena Celledoni , Matthias J. Ehrhardt , Brynjulf Owren , Carola-Bibiane Schönlieb

We analyze integer linear programs which we obtain after discretizing two-dimensional subproblems arising from a trust-region algorithm for mixed integer optimal control problems with total variation regularization. We discuss NP-hardness…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2025-03-07 Paul Manns , Marvin Severitt

In PDE-constrained optimization, proper orthogonal decomposition (POD) provides a surrogate model of a (potentially expensive) PDE discretization, on which optimization iterations are executed. Because POD models usually provide good…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2021-08-05 Paul Manns , Stefan Ulbrich

We consider linear model reduction in both the control and state variables for unconstrained linear-quadratic optimal control problems subject to time-varying parabolic PDEs. The first-order optimality condition for a state-space reduced…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2025-10-17 Michael Kartmann , Stefan Volkwein

The theory of evolutionary computation for discrete search spaces has made significant progress in the last ten years. This survey summarizes some of the most important recent results in this research area. It discusses fine-grained models…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2021-11-01 Benjamin Doerr , Frank Neumann

We study the effect of the streamline upwind/Petrov Galerkin (SUPG) stabilized finite element method on the discretization of optimal control problems governed by linear advection-diffusion equations. We compare two approaches for the…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2024-11-18 S. Scott Collis , Matthias Heinkenschloss

Using an autoencoder for dimensionality reduction, this paper presents a novel projection-based reduced-order model for eigenvalue problems. Reduced-order modelling relies on finding suitable basis functions which define a low-dimensional…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2022-12-06 Toby Phillips , Claire E. Heaney , Paul N. Smith , Christopher C. Pain

The objective of this paper is to investigate how noisy and incomplete observations can be integrated in the process of building a reduced-order model. This problematic arises in many scientific domains where there exists a need for…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2018-05-18 Patrick Héas , Cédric Herzet

In this paper, we demonstrate a formulation for optimizing coupled submodular maximization problems with provable sub-optimality bounds. In robotics applications, it is quite common that optimization problems are coupled with one another…

Robotics · Computer Science 2021-11-19 Jun Liu , Ryan K. Williams

In this paper infinite horizon optimal control problems for nonlinear high-dimensional dynamical systems are studied. Nonlinear feedback laws can be computed via the value function characterized as the unique viscosity solution to the…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2016-02-22 Alessandro Alla , Maurizio Falcone , Stefan Volkwein

We consider fully discrete finite element approximations for a semilinear optimal control system of partial differential equations in two cases: for distributed and Robin boundary control. The ecological predator-prey optimal control model…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2024-04-25 EFthymios N. Karatzas

In this work, we consider the approximation of parametric maps using the so-called Galerkin POD-NN method. This technique combines the computation of a reduced basis via proper orthogonal decomposition (POD) and artificial neural networks…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2025-10-31 Jürgen Dölz , Fernando Henríquez

In this paper, we are concerned with a nonlinear optimal control problem of ordinary differential equations. We consider a discretization of the problem with the discontinuous Galerkin method with arbitrary order $r \in \mathbb{N}\cup…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2020-05-25 Woocheol Choi , Young-Pil Choi

An adaptive direct collocation method is developed for solving optimal control problems constrained by parabolic partial differential equations. The partial differential equation is first reformulated in a variational setting, where the…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2026-03-18 Alexander M. Davies , Sara Pollock , Miriam E. Dennis , Anil V. Rao

In this note, we develop the first-order theory of optimal control problems with box constraints on the control. We emphasize the precise modification of Pontryagin's maximum principle when the admissible control set is compact, the…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2026-04-08 Louis Shuo Wang

In this paper we investigate a priori error estimates for the space-time Galerkin finite element discretization of a simplified semilinear gradient enhanced damage model. The model equations are of a special structure as the state equation…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2020-04-14 Marita Holtmannspötter , Arnd Rösch

The purpose of this paper is to establish the first and second order necessary conditions for stochastic optimal controls in infinite dimensions. The control system is governed by a stochastic evolution equation, in which both drift and…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2018-12-27 Hélène Frankowska , Xu Zhang

Dimension reduction is a fundamental tool for analyzing high-dimensional data in supervised learning. Traditional methods for estimating intrinsic order often prioritize model-specific structural assumptions over predictive utility. This…

Methodology · Statistics 2026-01-16 Yue Yu , Guanghui Wang , Liu Liu , Changliang Zou

Solving nonlinear optimal control problems is a challenging task, particularly for high-dimensional problems. We propose algorithms for model-based policy iterations to solve nonlinear optimal control problems with convergence guarantees.…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2026-03-17 Yiming Meng , Ruikun Zhou , Amartya Mukherjee , Maxwell Fitzsimmons , Christopher Song , Jun Liu