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We present algorithms for efficiently learning regularizers that improve generalization. Our approach is based on the insight that regularizers can be viewed as upper bounds on the generalization gap, and that reducing the slack in the…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2019-02-25 Matthew Streeter

We present a multi-agent algorithm for multi-objective optimization problems, which extends the class of consensus-based optimization methods and relies on a scalarization strategy. The optimization is achieved by a set of interacting…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2022-03-31 Giacomo Borghi , Michael Herty , Lorenzo Pareschi

We describe an algorithm to solve Bellman optimization that replaces a sum over paths determining the optimal cost-to-go by an analytic method localized in state space. Our approach follows from the established relation between stochastic…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2022-12-02 Michael D. Schneider , Caleb Miller , George F. Chapline , Jane Pratt , Dan Merl

Learning-based techniques are increasingly effective at controlling complex systems using data-driven models. However, most work done so far has focused on learning individual tasks or control laws. Hence, it is still a largely unaddressed…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-05-08 Alexandre Capone , Armin Lederer , Jonas Umlauft , Sandra Hirche

We propose an optimal control framework for persistent monitoring problems where the objective is to control the movement of mobile agents to minimize an uncertainty metric in a given mission space. For a single agent in a one-dimensional…

Systems and Control · Computer Science 2011-10-07 Christos G. Cassandras , Xu Chu Ding , Xuchao Lin

An iterative learning algorithm is presented for continuous-time linear-quadratic optimal control problems where the system is externally symmetric with unknown dynamics. Both finite-horizon and infinite-horizon problems are considered. It…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2025-10-10 Hamed Taghavian , Florian Dorfler , Mikael Johansson

Quantum control is a ubiquitous research field that has enabled physicists to delve into the dynamics and features of quantum systems, delivering powerful applications for various atomic, optical, mechanical, and solid-state systems. In…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2023-12-11 Ariel Norambuena , Marios Mattheakis , Francisco J. González , Raúl Coto

We analyze a problem of optimal control of the Fokker-Planck equation with state constraints in the Wasserstein space of probability measures. Our main result is to derive optimality conditions in the form of a Mean Field Game system of…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2023-05-16 Samuel Daudin

This paper proposes an algorithmic technique for a class of optimal control problems where it is easy to compute a pointwise minimizer of the Hamiltonian associated with every applied control. The algorithm operates in the space of relaxed…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2016-03-10 M. T. Hale , Y. Wardi , H. Jaleel , M. Egerstedt

We analyze the mean-field limit of a stochastic Schr{\"o}dinger equation arising in quantum optimal control and mean-field games, where N interacting particles undergo continuous indirect measurement. For the open quantum system described…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2025-07-28 Anne de Bouard , Gaoyue Guo , Théo Hérouard

We propose a PDE-based accelerated gradient algorithm for optimal feedback controls of McKean-Vlasov dynamics that involve mean-field interactions both in the state and action. The method exploits a forward-backward splitting approach and…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2024-05-03 Christoph Reisinger , Wolfgang Stockinger , Yufei Zhang

We propose an optimal control framework for persistent monitoring problems where the objective is to control the movement of mobile nodes to minimize an uncertainty metric in a given mission space. For multi agent in a one-dimensional…

Systems and Control · Computer Science 2012-02-29 Christos. G. Cassandras , Xuchao Lin , Xu Chu Ding

The growing amount of applications that generate vast amount of data in short time scales render the problem of partial monitoring, coupled with prediction, a rather fundamental one. We study the aforementioned canonical problem under the…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2016-08-02 Michalis Kallitsis , Stilian Stoev , George Michailidis

This paper focuses on the role of a government of a large population of interacting agents as a mean field optimal control problem derived from deterministic finite agent dynamics. The control problems are constrained by a PDE of…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2020-11-17 Massimo Fornasier , Stefano Lisini , Carlo Orrieri , Giuseppe Savaré

Feedback optimization is an increasingly popular control paradigm to optimize dynamical systems, accounting for control objectives that concern the system operation at steady-state. Existing feedback optimization techniques heavily rely on…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2025-04-08 Amir Mehrnoosh , Gianluca Bianchin

This paper deals with a class of optimal control problems which arises in advertising models with Volterra Ornstein-Uhlenbeck process representing the product goodwill. Such choice of the model can be regarded as a stochastic modification…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2022-12-20 Michele Giordano , Anton Yurchenko-Tytarenko

The mean field algorithm is a widely used approximate inference algorithm for graphical models whose exact inference is intractable. In each iteration of mean field, the approximate marginals for each variable are updated by getting…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2014-10-23 Yujia Li , Richard Zemel

Algorithms for continuous optimization problems have a rich history of design and innovation over the past several decades, in which mathematical analysis of their convergence and complexity properties plays a central role. Besides their…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2025-12-03 Stephen J. Wright

We propose nearly-optimal control strategies for changing states of a quantum system. We argue that quantum control optimization can be studied analytically within some protocol families that depend on a small set of parameters for…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2017-09-13 Chen Sun , Avadh Saxena , Nikolai A. Sinitsyn

The mean-field game system is treated as an Euler Lagrange system corresponding to an optimal control problem governed by Fokker-Planck equation.

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2024-11-18 Viorel Barbu