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We consider an optimal recovery problem for the Poisson problem when the boundary data is unknown. Compensating information is provided in the form of a finite number of measurements of the solution. A finite element algorithm for this…

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This study revisits the problem of identifying the unknown interior Robin boundary of a connected domain using Cauchy data from the exterior region of a harmonic function. It investigates two shape optimization reformulations employing…

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The present study investigates a linear-quadratic Dirichlet control problem governed by a non-coercive elliptic equation posed on a possibly non-convex polygonal domain. Tikhonov regularization is carried out in an energy seminorm. The…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2026-03-11 Thomas Apel , Mariano Mateos , Arnd Rösch

Potential based no-regret dynamics are shown to be related to fictitious play. Roughly, these are epsilon-best reply dynamics where epsilon is the maximal regret, which vanishes with time. This allows for alternative and sometimes much…

Dynamical Systems · Mathematics 2013-12-16 Yannick Viossat , Andriy Zapechelnyuk

The theory of reinforcement learning has focused on two fundamental problems: achieving low regret, and identifying $\epsilon$-optimal policies. While a simple reduction allows one to apply a low-regret algorithm to obtain an…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-06-23 Andrew Wagenmaker , Max Simchowitz , Kevin Jamieson

The Convex Envelope of a given function was recently characterized as the solution of a fully nonlinear Partial Differential Equation (PDE). In this article we study a modified problem: the Dirichlet problem for the underlying PDE. The main…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2010-07-07 Luis Silvestre , Adam M. Oberman

This paper investigates online composite optimization in dynamic environments, where each objective or loss function contains a time-varying nondifferentiable regularizer. To resolve it, an online proximal gradient algorithm is studied for…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2023-03-24 Ruijie Hou , Xiuxian Li , Yang Shi

No-regret learning has emerged as a powerful tool for solving extensive-form games. This was facilitated by the counterfactual-regret minimization (CFR) framework, which relies on the instantiation of regret minimizers for simplexes at each…

Computer Science and Game Theory · Computer Science 2017-11-10 Gabriele Farina , Christian Kroer , Tuomas Sandholm

Obtaining no-regret guarantees for reinforcement learning (RL) in the case of problems with continuous state and/or action spaces is still one of the major open challenges in the field. Recently, a variety of solutions have been proposed,…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-02-07 Davide Maran , Alberto Maria Metelli , Matteo Papini , Marcello Restell

We consider regret minimization in repeated games with non-convex loss functions. Minimizing the standard notion of regret is computationally intractable. Thus, we define a natural notion of regret which permits efficient optimization and…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2017-11-06 Elad Hazan , Karan Singh , Cyril Zhang

Over the recent past data-driven algorithms for solving stochastic optimal control problems in face of model uncertainty have become an increasingly active area of research. However, for singular controls and underlying diffusion dynamics…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2024-10-15 Sören Christensen , Asbjørn Holk Thomsen , Lukas Trottner

Minimizing the so-called "Dirichlet energy" with respect to the domain under a volume constraint is a standard problem in shape optimization which is now well understood. This article is devoted to a prototypal non-linear version of the…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2020-05-19 Antoine Henrot , Idriss Mazari , Yannick Privat

In this article we consider the Dirichlet problem on a bounded domain $\Omega \subset {\bf R}^d$ with respect to a second-order elliptic differential operator in divergence form. We do not assume a divergence condition as in the pioneering…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2025-12-19 W. Arendt , A. F. M. ter Elst , M. Sauter

In this paper error analysis for finite element discretizations of Dirichlet boundary control problems is developed. For the first time, optimal discretization error estimates are established in the case of three dimensional polyhedral and…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2024-01-05 Johannes Pfefferer , Boris Vexler

We discuss several optimization procedures to solve finite element approximations of linear-quadratic Dirichlet optimal control problems governed by an elliptic partial differential equation posed on a 2D or 3D Lipschitz domain. The control…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2019-01-25 Mariano Mateos

This work considered an online distributed optimization problem, with a group of agents whose local objective functions vary with time. Moreover, the value of the objective function is revealed to the corresponding agent after the decision…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2021-08-16 Yipeng Pang , Guoqiang Hu

We derive a novel asymptotic problem-dependent lower-bound for regret minimization in finite-horizon tabular Markov Decision Processes (MDPs). While, similar to prior work (e.g., for ergodic MDPs), the lower-bound is the solution to an…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-06-25 Andrea Tirinzoni , Matteo Pirotta , Alessandro Lazaric

Optimal control problems without control costs in general do not possess solutions due to the lack of coercivity. However, unilateral constraints together with the assumption of existence of strictly positive solutions of a pre-adjoint…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2017-02-27 Christian Clason , Anton Schiela

This paper addresses the problem of minimizing a convex, Lipschitz function $f$ over a convex, compact set $\xset$ under a stochastic bandit feedback model. In this model, the algorithm is allowed to observe noisy realizations of the…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2011-10-11 Alekh Agarwal , Dean P. Foster , Daniel Hsu , Sham M. Kakade , Alexander Rakhlin

We present an optimisation-based method for synthesising a dynamic regret optimal controller for linear systems with potentially adversarial disturbances and known or adversarial initial conditions. The dynamic regret is defined as the…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-05-31 Alexandre Didier , Jerome Sieber , Melanie N. Zeilinger