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The emergence of Context-aware systems in the domains of autonomic, monitoring, and safety-critical applications asks for the definition of methods to formally assess their correctness and dependability properties. Many of these properties…

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Learning a universal policy across different robot morphologies can significantly improve learning efficiency and generalization in continuous control. However, it poses a challenging multi-task reinforcement learning problem, as the…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2023-08-07 Zheng Xiong , Jacob Beck , Shimon Whiteson

The starting point of our network architecture is the Credibility Transformer which extends the classical Transformer architecture by a credibility mechanism to improve model learning and predictive performance. This Credibility Transformer…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-01-15 Kishan Padayachy , Ronald Richman , Salvatore Scognamiglio , Mario V. Wüthrich

Model Predictive Control (MPC) is a powerful control strategy widely utilized in domains like energy management, building control, and autonomous systems. However, its effectiveness in real-world settings is challenged by the need to…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-09-08 Ruixiang Wu , Jiahao Ai , Tongxin Li

Control of complex systems involves both system identification and controller design. Deep neural networks have proven to be successful in many identification tasks, however, from model-based control perspective, these networks are…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2019-02-28 Yize Chen , Yuanyuan Shi , Baosen Zhang

We propose an end-to-end differentiable training paradigm for stable training of a rationalized transformer classifier. Our approach results in a single model that simultaneously classifies a sample and scores input tokens based on their…

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In-context learning, i.e., learning from context examples, is an impressive ability of Transformer. Training Transformers to possess this in-context learning skill is computationally intensive due to the occurrence of learning plateaus,…

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Real-time adaptation is imperative to the control of robots operating in complex, dynamic environments. Adaptive control laws can endow even nonlinear systems with good trajectory tracking performance, provided that any uncertain dynamics…

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In this paper, we focus on the problem about direct way to design a stable controller for nonlinear system. A framework of learning controller with Lyapunov-based constraint is proposed, which is intended to transform designing and analyis…

Systems and Control · Computer Science 2019-03-11 Me Le , Chi Yanxun , Li Zhiwei , Xu Dongfu , Zhang Yulong

Selecting or designing an appropriate domain adaptation algorithm for a given problem remains challenging. This paper presents a Transformer model that can provably approximate and opt for domain adaptation methods for a given dataset in…

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We study Transformers through the perspective of optimal control theory, using tools from continuous-time formulations to derive actionable insights into training and architecture design. This framework improves the performance of existing…

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We describe a particular control method for a system controlled by several actuators with the same control constants. We show under certain assumptions that the control constants for the whole system can be obtained immediately from the…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2022-05-26 Stephen Montgomery-Smith

Designing a controller for autonomous vehicles capable of providing adequate performance in all driving scenarios is challenging due to the highly complex environment and inability to test the system in the wide variety of scenarios which…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2019-12-24 Sampo Kuutti , Richard Bowden , Yaochu Jin , Phil Barber , Saber Fallah

Advanced model-based controllers are well established in process industries. However, such controllers require regular maintenance to maintain acceptable performance. It is a common practice to monitor controller performance continuously…

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Recently introduced by some of the authors, the in-context identification paradigm aims at estimating, offline and based on synthetic data, a meta-model that describes the behavior of a whole class of systems. Once trained, this meta-model…

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We address the longstanding challenge of producing flexible, realistic humanoid character controllers that can perform diverse whole-body tasks involving object interactions. This challenge is central to a variety of fields, from graphics…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2020-06-17 Josh Merel , Saran Tunyasuvunakool , Arun Ahuja , Yuval Tassa , Leonard Hasenclever , Vu Pham , Tom Erez , Greg Wayne , Nicolas Heess

The in-context learning ability of Transformer models has brought new possibilities to visual navigation. In this paper, we focus on the video navigation setting, where an in-context navigation policy needs to be learned purely from videos…

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Scaling large language models (LLMs) leads to an emergent capacity to learn in-context from example demonstrations. Despite progress, theoretical understanding of this phenomenon remains limited. We argue that in-context learning relies on…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2023-03-15 Michael Hahn , Navin Goyal

Questions in causality, control, and reinforcement learning go beyond the classical machine learning task of prediction under i.i.d. observations. Instead, these fields consider the problem of learning how to actively perturb a system to…