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The intersection of machine learning and dynamical systems has generated considerable interest recently. Neural Ordinary Differential Equations (NODEs) represent a rich overlap between these fields. In this paper, we develop a continuous…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2023-06-16 Maria Oprea , Mark Walth , Robert Stephany , Gabriella Torres Nothaft , Arnaldo Rodriguez-Gonzalez , William Clark

In this paper, we study a distributed optimization problem for a class of high-order multi-agent systems with unknown dynamics. In comparison with existing results for integrators or linear agents, we need to overcome the difficulties…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2019-02-05 Yutao Tang

Distributed ensemble learning (DEL) involves training multiple models at distributed learners, and then combining their predictions to improve performance. Existing related studies focus on DEL algorithm design and optimization but ignore…

Computer Science and Game Theory · Computer Science 2023-10-16 Chao Huang , Pengchao Han , Jianwei Huang

This work is focussed on the inversion task of inferring the distribution over parameters of interest leading to multiple sets of observations. The potential to solve such distributional inversion problems is driven by increasing…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2026-05-06 Arnaud Vadeboncoeur , Mark Girolami , Andrew M. Stuart

The quest for optimal operation in environments with unknowns and uncertainties is highly desirable but critically challenging across numerous fields. This paper develops a dual control framework for exploration and exploitation (DCEE) to…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-03-13 Zhongguo Li , Wen-Hua Chen , Jun Yang , Yunda Yan

We present a novel deep learning method for estimating time-dependent parameters in Markov processes through discrete sampling. Departing from conventional machine learning, our approach reframes parameter approximation as an optimization…

In many practical applications such as direction-of-arrival (DOA) estimation and line spectral estimation, the sparsifying dictionary is usually characterized by a set of unknown parameters in a continuous domain. To apply the conventional…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2015-06-18 Jun Fang , Jing Li , Yanning Shen , Hongbin Li , Shaoqian Li

A deep equilibrium model (DEQ) is implicitly defined through an equilibrium point of an infinite-depth weight-tied model with an input-injection. Instead of infinite computations, it solves an equilibrium point directly with root-finding…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-03-30 Zenan Ling , Xingyu Xie , Qiuhao Wang , Zongpeng Zhang , Zhouchen Lin

Solving parametric Partial Differential Equations (PDEs) for a broad range of parameters is a critical challenge in scientific computing. To this end, neural operators, which \textcolor{black}{predicts the PDE solution with variable PDE…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2024-11-14 Weiheng Zhong , Hadi Meidani

Most inverse problems from physical sciences are formulated as PDE-constrained optimization problems. This involves identifying unknown parameters in equations by optimizing the model to generate PDE solutions that closely match measured…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2024-03-12 Qin Li , Li Wang , Yunan Yang

Non-autonomous differential equations are crucial for modeling systems influenced by external signals, yet fitting these models to data becomes particularly challenging when the signals change abruptly. To address this problem, we propose a…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-07-10 Hyeontae Jo , Krešimir Josić , Jae Kyoung Kim

Learning in neural networks is often framed as a problem in which targeted error signals are directly propagated to parameters and used to produce updates that induce more optimal network behaviour. Backpropagation of error (BP) is an…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2023-01-30 Nasir Ahmad , Ellen Schrader , Marcel van Gerven

In this paper, we introduce PDE-LEARN, a novel deep learning algorithm that can identify governing partial differential equations (PDEs) directly from noisy, limited measurements of a physical system of interest. PDE-LEARN uses a Rational…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-02-13 Robert Stephany , Christopher Earls

Evidential deep learning (EDL) has shown remarkable success in uncertainty estimation. However, there is still room for improvement, particularly in out-of-distribution (OOD) detection and classification tasks. The limited OOD detection…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-10-15 Taeseong Yoon , Heeyoung Kim

Federated learning has attracted significant recent attention due to its applicability across a wide range of settings where data is collected and analyzed across disparate locations. In this paper, we study federated nonparametric…

Statistics Theory · Mathematics 2024-06-12 T. Tony Cai , Abhinav Chakraborty , Lasse Vuursteen

We present a distributed optimization algorithm for solving online personalized optimization problems over a network of computing and communicating nodes, each of which linked to a specific user. The local objective functions are assumed to…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-04-15 Ivano Notarnicola , Andrea Simonetto , Francesco Farina , Giuseppe Notarstefano

In this paper, we introduce a novel concept for learning of the parameters in a neural network. Our idea is grounded on modeling a learning problem that addresses a trade-off between (i) satisfying local objectives at each node and (ii)…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2019-02-04 Dimche Kostadinov , Behrooz Razdehi , Slava Voloshynovskiy

We propose a novel iterative algorithm for estimating a deterministic but unknown parameter vector in the presence of model uncertainties. This iterative algorithm is based on a system model where an overall noise term describes both, the…

Statistics Theory · Mathematics 2017-11-27 Oliver Lang , Michael Lunglmayr , Mario Huemer

Federated learning, where algorithms are trained across multiple decentralized devices without sharing local data, is increasingly popular in distributed machine learning practice. Typically, a graph structure $G$ exists behind local…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2022-09-20 Huiyuan Wang , Xuyang Zhao , Wei Lin

We investigate the problem of classification in the presence of unknown class-conditional label noise in which the labels observed by the learner have been corrupted with some unknown class dependent probability. In order to obtain finite…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2019-06-11 Henry W J Reeve , Ata Kaban