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This article addresses control problems for semilinear impulsive neutral integro-differential equations with memory in a Banach space. It investigates the approximate controllability of linear and semilinear systems and proves the…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2025-07-23 Garima Gupta , Jaydev Dabas

Few-shot learning aims to classify unseen classes with a few training examples. While recent works have shown that standard mini-batch training with a carefully designed training strategy can improve generalization ability for unseen…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-03-02 Jin-Woo Seo , Hong-Gyu Jung , Seong-Whan Lee

The coupled problems of selecting control nodes and designing control actions for nonlinear network dynamics are fundamental scientific problems with applications in many diverse fields. These problems are thoroughly studied for linear…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-08-25 Aleksandar Haber , Sebastian A. Nugroho , Patricio Torres , Ahmad F. Taha

Few-Shot Learning refers to the problem of learning the underlying pattern in the data just from a few training samples. Requiring a large number of data samples, many deep learning solutions suffer from data hunger and extensively high…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-03-10 Archit Parnami , Minwoo Lee

This paper presents a novel convex optimization-based method for finding the globally optimal solutions of a class of mixed-integer non-convex optimal control problems. We consider problems with non-convex constraints that restrict the…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2019-11-21 Danylo Malyuta , Behcet Acikmese

Semi-supervised few-shot learning consists in training a classifier to adapt to new tasks with limited labeled data and a fixed quantity of unlabeled data. Many sophisticated methods have been developed to address the challenges this…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-09-29 Xiu-Shen Wei , He-Yang Xu , Faen Zhang , Yuxin Peng , Wei Zhou

This work presents a technique for learning systems, where the learning process is guided by knowledge of the physics of the system. In particular, we solve the problem of the two-point boundary optimal control problem of linear…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-05-03 Vasanth Reddy , Hoda Eldardiry , Almuatazbellah Boker

Few-shot learning is an important research field of machine learning in which a classifier must be trained in such a way that it can adapt to new classes which are not included in the training set. However, only small amounts of examples of…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-06-11 Andrei Boiarov , Oleg Granichin , Olga Granichina

Few-shot classification is a challenging task which aims to formulate the ability of humans to learn concepts from limited prior data and has drawn considerable attention in machine learning. Recent progress in few-shot classification has…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-04-14 Meiyu Huang , Xueshuang Xiang , Yao Xu

We introduce SubGD, a novel few-shot learning method which is based on the recent finding that stochastic gradient descent updates tend to live in a low-dimensional parameter subspace. In experimental and theoretical analyses, we show that…

We present an approach for solving optimal Dirichlet boundary control problems of nonlinear optics by using deep learning. For computing high resolution approximations of the solution to the nonlinear wave model, we propose higher order…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2023-12-27 Nils Margenberg , Franz X. Kärtner , Markus Bause

In this work, we will investigate the question of optimal control for bilinear systems with constrained endpoint. The optimal control will be characterized through a set of unconstrained minimization problems that approximate the former.…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2021-07-28 Soufiane Yahyaoui , Lahoussine Lafhim , Mohamed Ouzahra

The paper focuses on mean-field type multi-agent control problems with finite state and action spaces where the dynamics and cost structures are symmetric and homogeneous, and are affected by the distribution of the agents. A standard…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2025-07-03 Erhan Bayraktar , Ali D. Kara

We survey some representative results on fuzzy fractional differential equations, controllability, approximate controllability, optimal control, and optimal feedback control for several different kinds of fractional evolution equations.…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2018-04-20 Ravi P. Agarwal , Dumitru Baleanu , Juan J. Nieto , Delfim F. M. Torres , Yong Zhou

The ability to learn from a small number of examples has been a difficult problem in machine learning since its inception. While methods have succeeded with large amounts of training data, research has been underway in how to accomplish…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2017-08-24 Nathan Hilliard , Nathan O. Hodas , Courtney D. Corley

Few-shot learning refers to understanding new concepts from only a few examples. We propose an information retrieval-inspired approach for this problem that is motivated by the increased importance of maximally leveraging all the available…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2017-11-15 Eleni Triantafillou , Richard Zemel , Raquel Urtasun

We present an optimization-based approach to stochastic control problems with nonclassical information structures. We cast these problems equivalently as optimization prob- lems on joint distributions. The resulting problems are necessarily…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2013-09-17 Ankur A. Kulkarni , Todd P. Coleman

A Linear-quadratic optimal control problem is considered for mean-field stochastic differential equations with deterministic coefficients. By a variational method, the optimality system is derived, which turns out to be a linear mean-field…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2011-10-10 Jiongmin Yong

In this paper, we propose a Transformer-based framework for approximating solutions to infinite-dimensional optimization problems: calculus of variations problems and optimal control problems. Our approach leverages offline training on data…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2025-11-20 Gage MacLin , Venanzio Cichella , Andrew Patterson , Irene Gregory

In this paper we present a novel sampling-based numerical scheme designed to solve a certain class of stochastic optimal control problems, utilizing forward and backward stochastic differential equations (FBSDEs). By means of a nonlinear…

Systems and Control · Computer Science 2020-06-18 Ioannis Exarchos , Evangelos A. Theodorou