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We present a delay-compensating control method that transforms exponentially stabilizing controllers for an undelayed system into a sample-based predictive controller with numerical integration. Our method handles both first-order and…

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Stochastic control problems with delay are challenging due to the path-dependent feature of the system and thus its intrinsic high dimensions. In this paper, we propose and systematically study deep neural networks-based algorithms to solve…

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Time delay estimation plays a critical role in control, stabilization and state estimation of many practical system with time delay. In this paper, we propose a method to estimate delay for discrete time linear multiple-input…

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We present a finite-time analysis of two smoothed functional stochastic approximation algorithms for simulation-based optimization. The first is a two time-scale gradient-based method, while the second is a three time-scale Newton-based…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-04-01 Kaustubh Kartikey , Shalabh Bhatnagar

In this paper, we introduce a novel approach to solve the (mean-covariance) steering problem for a fairly general class of linear continuous-time stochastic systems subject to input delays. Specifically, we aim at steering delayed linear…

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This paper deals with partially-observed optimal control problems for the state governed by stochastic differential equation with delay. We develop a stochastic maximum principle for this kind of optimal control problems using a variational…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2020-10-15 Shuaiqi Zhang , Xun Li , Jie Xiong

We study prescribed-time extremum seeking (PT-ES) for scalar maps in the presence of time delays. The PT-ES problem has been studied by Yilmaz and Krstic in 2023 using chirpy probing and time-varying gains that grow unbounded. To alleviate…

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This paper proposes a novel distributed optimization framework that addresses time-varying optimization problems without requiring explicit derivative information of the objective functions. Traditional distributed methods often rely on…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2025-09-29 Xuebin Li , Xuefei Yang , Emilia Fridman , Mamadou Diagne , Jiebao Sun

We consider stochastic optimization with delayed gradients where, at each time step $t$, the algorithm makes an update using a stale stochastic gradient from step $t - d_t$ for some arbitrary delay $d_t$. This setting abstracts asynchronous…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2021-11-16 Alon Cohen , Amit Daniely , Yoel Drori , Tomer Koren , Mariano Schain

One of the most important problems in the field of distributed optimization is the problem of minimizing a sum of local convex objective functions over a networked system. Most of the existing work in this area focus on developing…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2019-01-08 Fatemeh Mansoori , Ermin Wei

This paper investigates multivariable extremum seeking using unit-vector control. By employing the gradient algorithm and a polytopic embedding of the unknown Hessian matrix, we establish sufficient conditions, expressed as linear matrix…

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We propose a novel data-driven stochastic model predictive control framework for uncertain linear systems with noisy output measurements. Our approach leverages multi-step predictors to efficiently propagate uncertainty, ensuring chance…

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In this paper the finite-time stabilization problem is solved for a linear time-varying system with unknown control direction by exploiting a modified version of the classical extremum seeking algorithm. We propose to use a suitable…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2021-03-12 Adriano Mele , Gianmaria De Tommasi , Alfredo Pironti

This paper introduces extremum seeking (ES) algorithms designed to achieve perfect tracking of arbitrary time-varying extremum. In contrast to classical ES approaches that employ constant frequencies and controller gains, our algorithms…

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We consider distributed stochastic optimization problems that are solved with master/workers computation architecture. Statistical arguments allow to exploit statistical similarity and approximate this problem by a finite-sum problem, for…

Iterative trajectory optimization techniques for non-linear dynamical systems are among the most powerful and sample-efficient methods of model-based reinforcement learning and approximate optimal control. By leveraging time-variant local…

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This paper presents a stochastic model predictive control approach for nonlinear systems subject to time-invariant probabilistic uncertainties in model parameters and initial conditions. The stochastic optimal control problem entails a cost…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2014-10-17 Stefan Streif , Matthias Karl , Ali Mesbah

This paper investigates optimal control problems for delayed systems governed by Infinitely Anticipated Backward Stochastic Differential Equations (IABSDEs). Unlike existing frameworks limited to bounded delays, we introduce a generalized…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2025-12-22 Guanwei Cheng

This paper establishes a stochastic maximum principle for optimal control problems governed by time-changed forward-backward stochastic differential equations with L\'evy noise. The system incorporates a random, non-decreasing operational…

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