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The Scaled Relative Graph (SRG) is a generalization of the Nyquist diagram that may be plotted for nonlinear operators, and allows nonlinear robustness margins to be defined graphically. This abstract explores techniques for shaping the SRG…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-08-10 Thomas Chaffey , Fulvio Forni , Rodolphe Sepulchre

Optimizing communication topology is fundamental to the efficiency and effectiveness of Large Language Model (LLM)-based Multi-Agent Systems (MAS). While recent approaches utilize reinforcement learning to dynamically construct…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2026-03-04 Yueyang Cang , Xiaoteng Zhang , Erlu Zhao , Zehua Ji , Yuhang Liu , Yuchen He , Zhiyuan Ning , Chen Yijun , Wenge Que , Li Shi

Scaled relative graphs have been originally introduced in the context of convex optimization and have recently gained attention in the control systems community for the graphical analysis of nonlinear systems. Of particular interest in…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2025-07-14 Timo de Groot , Maurice heemels , Sebastiaan van den Eijnden

Linear parameter-varying (LPV) systems with uncertainty in time-varying delays are subject to performance degradation and instability. In this line, we investigate the stability of such systems invoking an input-output stability approach.…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-04-10 Shahin Tasoujian , Saeed Salavati , Karolos Grigoriadis , Matthew Franchek

It is known that the stability of a feedback interconnection of two linear time-invariant systems implies that the graphs of the open-loop systems are quadratically separated. This separation is defined by an object known as the multiplier.…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2025-07-16 Axel Ringh , Xin Mao , Wei Chen , Li Qiu , Sei Zhen Khong

State-space models (SSMs) are a common tool for modeling multi-variate discrete-time signals. The linear-Gaussian (LG) SSM is widely applied as it allows for a closed-form solution at inference, if the model parameters are known. However,…

Computational Engineering, Finance, and Science · Computer Science 2023-03-23 Emilie Chouzenoux , Victor Elvira

We provide a new global small-gain theorem for feedback interconnections of monotone input-output systems with multi-valued input-state characteristics. This extends a recent small-gain theorem of Angeli and Sontag for monotone systems with…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2007-05-23 Michael Malisoff , Patrick de Leenheer

We develop a Lyapunov-based small-gain theorem for establishing fixed-time input-to-state stability (FxT-ISS) guarantees in interconnected nonlinear dynamical systems. The proposed framework considers interconnections in which each…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-12-25 Michael Tang , Miroslav Krstic , Jorge Poveda

This work provides a comprehensive scaling law and performance analysis for multi-user massive MIMO relay networks, where the relay is equipped with massive antennas and uses MRC/MRT for low-complexity processing. CSI error is considered.…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2016-06-27 Qian Wang , Yindi Jing

The fundamental mechanism driving MIMO beamforming is the relative phases of signals departing the transmit array and arriving at the receive array. If a propagation channel affects all transmitted signals equally, the relative phases are a…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2026-01-21 Oliver Kirkpatrick , Santiago Ozafrain , Christopher Gilliam , Beth Jelfs

Rate-Splitting (RS) has recently been shown to provide significant performance benefits in various multi-user transmission scenarios. In parallel, the huge degrees-of-freedom provided by the appealing massive Multiple-Input Multiple-Output…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2017-04-24 Anastasios Papazafeiropoulos , Bruno Clerckx , Tharmalingam Ratnarajah

Bilevel optimization has gained considerable attention due to its broad applicability across various fields. While several studies have investigated the convergence rates in the strongly-convex-strongly-convex (SC-SC) setting, no prior work…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2024-12-03 Jianhui Li , Shi Pu , Jianqi Chen , Junfeng Wu

The stability of inverter-dominated power grids remains an active area of research. This paper presents novel sufficient conditions for ensuring small-signal stability in lossless and constant $R/X$ grids with highly heterogeneous mixes of…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2025-07-03 Jakob Niehues , Robin Delabays , Anna Büttner , Frank Hellmann

Input-to-state stability (ISS) unifies global asymptotic stability with respect to variations of initial conditions with robustness with respect to external disturbances. First, we present Lyapunov characterizations for input-to-state…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2024-06-27 Andrii Mironchenko

This paper is concerned with the robustness of discrete-time Markov jump linear systems (MJLSs) with the Markov chain on a Borel space. For this general class of MJLSs, a small gain theorem is first established and subsequently applied to…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2025-02-21 Chunjie Xiao , Ting Hou , Weihai Zhang , Feiqi Deng

This paper considers sequential adaptive estimation of sparse signals under a constraint on the total sensing effort. The advantage of adaptivity in this context is the ability to focus more resources on regions of space where signal…

Methodology · Statistics 2013-04-03 Dennis Wei , Alfred O. Hero

This study is concerned with the problem of partial state estimation for linear time-invariant (LTI) distributed state-space systems. A necessary and sufficient condition is established in terms of a simple rank criterion involving the…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2026-04-02 Juhi Jaiswal , Thomas Berger , Nutan Kumar Tomar

The development of decentralized stability conditions has gained considerable attention due to the need to analyze multi-agent network systems, such as heterogeneous multi-converter power systems. A recent advance is the application of the…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-11-27 Linbin Huang , Liangxiao Luo , Ruohan Leng , Huanhai Xin , Dan Wang , Florian Dörfler

In this paper we present a method for designing a linear time invariant (LTI) state-feedback controller to monotonically track a constant step reference at any desired rate of convergence for any arbitrarily assigned initial condition.…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2014-02-24 Lorenzo Ntogramatzidis , Jean-Francois Tregouet , Robert Schmid

This paper extends the nonlinear ISS small-gain theorem to a large-scale time delay system composed of three or more subsystems. En route to proving this small-gain theorem for systems of differential equations with delays, a small-gain…

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