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Stochastic optimal control, which has the goal of driving the behavior of noisy systems, is broadly applicable in science, engineering and artificial intelligence. Our work introduces Stochastic Optimal Control Matching (SOCM), a novel…

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We study data-driven learning of robust stochastic control for infinite-horizon systems with potentially continuous state and action spaces. In many managerial settings--supply chains, finance, manufacturing, services, and dynamic…

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We systematically develop a learning-based treatment of stochastic optimal control (SOC), relying on direct optimization of parametric control policies. We propose a derivation of adjoint sensitivity results for stochastic differential…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-06-08 Stefano Massaroli , Michael Poli , Stefano Peluchetti , Jinkyoo Park , Atsushi Yamashita , Hajime Asama

Model Predictive Control is an extremely effective control method for systems with input and state constraints. Model Predictive Control performance heavily depends on the accuracy of the open-loop prediction. For systems with uncertainty…

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This article proposes an improved trajectory optimization approach for stochastic optimal control of dynamical systems affected by measurement noise by combining optimal control with maximum likelihood techniques to improve the reduction of…

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This paper proposes an approach, Spectral Dynamics Embedding Control (SDEC), to optimal control for nonlinear stochastic systems. This method reveals an infinite-dimensional feature representation induced by the system's nonlinear…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-08-27 Zhaolin Ren , Tongzheng Ren , Haitong Ma , Na Li , Bo Dai

Stochastic optimization of continuous objectives is at the heart of modern machine learning. However, many important problems are of discrete nature and often involve submodular objectives. We seek to unleash the power of stochastic…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2017-11-07 Mohammad Reza Karimi , Mario Lucic , Hamed Hassani , Andreas Krause

Neural dynamics underlie behaviors from memory to sleep, yet identifying mechanisms for higher-order phenomena (e.g., social interaction) is experimentally challenging. Existing whole-brain models often fail to scale to single-neuron…

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Learning-enabled control systems must maintain safety when system dynamics and sensing conditions change abruptly. Although stochastic latent-state models enable uncertainty-aware control, most existing approaches rely on fixed internal…

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In this paper, we present a scalable deep learning approach to solve opinion dynamics stochastic optimal control problems with mean field term coupling in the dynamics and cost function. Our approach relies on the probabilistic…

Multiagent Systems · Computer Science 2022-04-19 Tianrong Chen , Ziyi Wang , Evangelos A. Theodorou

Data-driven inference of the generative dynamics underlying a set of observed time series is of growing interest in machine learning and the natural sciences. In neuroscience, such methods promise to alleviate the need to handcraft models…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-11-06 Eric Volkmann , Alena Brändle , Daniel Durstewitz , Georgia Koppe

State-space models (SSMs) offer a powerful framework for dynamical system analysis, wherein the temporal dynamics of the system are assumed to be captured through the evolution of the latent states, which govern the values of the…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2024-12-17 Jiahe Lin , George Michailidis

Stochastic Optimal Control models represent the state-of-the-art in modeling goal-directed human movements. The linear-quadratic sensorimotor (LQS) model based on signal-dependent noise processes in state and output equation is the current…

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This technical note introduces parametric dynamic causal modelling, a method for inferring slow changes in biophysical parameters that control fluctuations of fast neuronal states. The application domain we have in mind is inferring slow…

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Foundation models are emerging as a powerful paradigm for fMRI analysis, but current approaches face a dual bottleneck of data- and training-efficiency. Atlas-based methods aggregate voxel signals into fixed regions of interest, reducing…

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We propose a novel belief space planning technique for continuous dynamics by viewing the belief system as a hybrid dynamical system with time-driven switching. Our approach is based on the perturbation theory of differential equations and…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2021-07-14 Haruki Nishimura , Mac Schwager

Modeling complex dynamical systems under varying conditions is computationally intensive, often rendering high-fidelity simulations intractable. Although reduced-order models (ROMs) offer a promising solution, current methods often struggle…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-01-16 Andrew F. Ilersich , Kevin Course , Prasanth B. Nair

In this paper we propose a new methodology for decision-making under uncertainty using recent advancements in the areas of nonlinear stochastic optimal control theory, applied mathematics, and machine learning. Grounded on the fundamental…

Robotics · Computer Science 2021-07-12 Marcus Pereira , Ziyi Wang , Ioannis Exarchos , Evangelos A. Theodorou

This work develops a stochastic model predictive controller~(SMPC) for uncertain linear systems with additive Gaussian noise subject to state and control constraints. The proposed approach is based on the recently developed finite-horizon…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2019-11-26 Kazuhide Okamoto , Panagiotis Tsiotras

In this paper, we consider stable stochastic linear systems modeling whole-brain resting-state dynamics. We parametrize the state matrix of the system (effective connectivity) in terms of its steady-state covariance matrix (functional…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-10-12 Umberto Casti , Giacomo Baggio , Danilo Benozzo , Sandro Zampieri , Alessandra Bertoldo , Alessandro Chiuso