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Contraction analysis offers, through elegant mathematical developments, a unified way of designing observers for a general class of nonlinear systems, where the observer correction term is obtained by solving an infinite dimensional…
The Monge-Amp\`ere equation is a fundamental fully nonlinear elliptic partial differential equation that finds extensive applications across multiple disciplines. This study proposes a novel physics-informed neural network integrated with…
We consider the constrained Linear Inverse Problem (LIP), where a certain atomic norm (like the $\ell_1 $ norm) is minimized subject to a quadratic constraint. Typically, such cost functions are non-differentiable, which makes them not…
We study the parameterized complexity of testing approximate first-order stationarity at a prescribed point for continuous piecewise-affine (PA) functions, a basic task in nonsmooth optimization. PA functions form a canonical model for…
Parameterized max-affine (PMA) and parameterized log-sum-exp (PLSE) networks are proposed for general decision-making problems. The proposed approximators generalize existing convex approximators, namely, max-affine (MA) and log-sum-exp…
Nonlinear programming is explicitly analyzed via a novel perspective/method and from a bottom-up manner. The philosophy is based on the recent findings on convex quadratic equation (CQE), which help clarify a geometric interpretation that…
We study the problem of designing a controller that satisfies an arbitrary number of affine inequalities at every point in the state space. This is motivated by the fact that a variety of key control objectives, such as stability, safety,…
Large Language Models (LLMs) have shown immense potential in enhancing various aspects of our daily lives, from conversational AI to search and AI assistants. However, their growing capabilities come at the cost of extremely large model…
Piecewise affine neural networks (PANNs) provide a principled geometric perspective on neural network expressivity by characterizing the input--output map as a continuous piecewise affine (CPA) function whose complexity is governed by the…
We develop an indirect-adaptive model predictive control algorithm for uncertain linear systems subject to constraints. The system is modeled as a polytopic linear parameter varying system where the convex combination vector is constant but…
The problem of fixed knot approximation is convex and there are several efficient approaches to solve this problem, yet, when the knots joining the affine parts are also variable, finding conditions for a best Chebyshev approximation…
Recently a number of papers have suggested using neural-networks in order to approximate policy functions in DSGE models, while avoiding the curse of dimensionality, which for example arises when solving many HANK models, and while…
Neural networks have recently become popular for a wide variety of uses, but have seen limited application in safety-critical domains such as robotics near and around humans. This is because it remains an open challenge to train a neural…
This paper introduces a concept of a derivative of the optimal value function in linear programming (LP). Basically, it is the the worst case optimal value of an interval LP problem when the nominal data the data are inflated to intervals…
Pre-trained language models (PLMs) have gained increasing popularity due to their compelling prediction performance in diverse natural language processing (NLP) tasks. When formulating a PLM-based prediction pipeline for NLP tasks, it is…
Piecewise regression is a versatile approach used in various disciplines to approximate complex functions from limited, potentially noisy data points. In control, piecewise regression is, e.g., used to approximate the optimal control law of…
Neural networks have proven practical for a synergistic combination of advanced control techniques. This work analyzes the implementation of rectified linear unit neural networks to achieve constrained control in differentially flat…
Sensitivity analysis plays a crucial role in multiobjective linear programming (MOLP), where understanding the impact of parameter changes on efficient solutions is essential. This work builds upon and extends previous investigations. In…