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Users of recommender systems often behave in a non-stationary fashion, due to their evolving preferences and tastes over time. In this work, we propose a practical approach for fast personalization to non-stationary users. The key idea is…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-12-02 Joey Hong , Branislav Kveton , Manzil Zaheer , Yinlam Chow , Amr Ahmed , Mohammad Ghavamzadeh , Craig Boutilier

We consider the problem of adaptive stabilization for discrete-time, multi-dimensional linear systems with bounded control input constraints and unbounded stochastic disturbances, where the parameters of the true system are unknown. To…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-04-04 Seth Siriya , Jingge Zhu , Dragan Nešić , Ye Pu

We present a method for providing statistical guarantees on runtime safety and goal reachability for integrated planning and control of a class of systems with unknown nonlinear stochastic underactuated dynamics. Specifically, given a…

Robotics · Computer Science 2022-12-15 Craig Knuth , Glen Chou , Jamie Reese , Joe Moore

We consider the problem of forecasting complex, nonlinear space-time processes when observations provide only partial information of on the system's state. We propose a natural data-driven framework, where the system's dynamics are modelled…

Systems and Control · Computer Science 2019-03-01 Ibrahim Ayed , Emmanuel de Bézenac , Arthur Pajot , Julien Brajard , Patrick Gallinari

This paper presents a two-stage online algorithm for recovery of low-rank parameter matrix in non-stationary stochastic systems. The first stage applies the recursive least squares (RLS) estimator combined with its singular value…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-06-25 Yanxin Fu , Junbao Zhou , Yu Hu , Wenxiao Zhao

Specification synthesis is the process of deriving a model from the input-output traces of a system. It is used extensively in test design, reverse engineering, and system identification. One type of the resulting artifact of this process…

Formal Languages and Automata Theory · Computer Science 2021-01-19 Iman Saberi , Fathiyeh Faghih , Farzad Sobhi Bavil

A concurrent learning (CL)-based parameter estimator is developed to identify the unknown parameters in a linearly parameterized uncertain control-affine nonlinear system. Unlike state-of-the-art CL techniques that assume knowledge of the…

Systems and Control · Computer Science 2017-07-25 Rushikesh Kamalapurkar , Ben Reish , Girish Chowdhary , Warren E. Dixon

Learning for control of dynamical systems with formal guarantees remains a challenging task. This paper proposes a learning framework to simultaneously stabilize an unknown nonlinear system with a neural controller and learn a neural…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-10-18 Ruikun Zhou , Thanin Quartz , Hans De Sterck , Jun Liu

Stochastic models of biochemical reaction networks are widely used to capture intrinsic noise in cellular systems. The typical formulation of these models are based on Markov processes for which there is extensive research on efficient…

Molecular Networks · Quantitative Biology 2025-12-03 Thomas P. Steele , David J. Warne

A large variety of dynamical systems, such as chemical and biomolecular systems, can be seen as networks of nonlinear entities. Prediction, control, and identification of such nonlinear networks require knowledge of the state of the system.…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2018-06-27 Aleksandar Haber , Ferenc Molnar , Adilson E. Motter

Deep networks are commonly used to model dynamical systems, predicting how the state of a system will evolve over time (either autonomously or in response to control inputs). Despite the predictive power of these systems, it has been…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-01-20 Gaurav Manek , J. Zico Kolter

System identification is a key step for model-based control, estimator design, and output prediction. This work considers the offline identification of partially observed nonlinear systems. We empirically show that the certainty-equivalent…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-06-23 Kunal Menda , Jean de Becdelièvre , Jayesh K. Gupta , Ilan Kroo , Mykel J. Kochenderfer , Zachary Manchester

We study supervisory switching control for partially-observed linear dynamical systems. The objective is to identify and deploy the best controller for the unknown system by periodically selecting among a collection of $N$ candidate…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2026-03-19 Haoyuan Sun , Ali Jadbabaie

We consider the setting of vector valued non-linear dynamical systems $X_{t+1} = \phi(A^* X_t) + \eta_t$, where $\eta_t$ is unbiased noise and $\phi : \mathbb{R} \to \mathbb{R}$ is a known link function that satisfies certain {\em…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-12-03 Prateek Jain , Suhas S Kowshik , Dheeraj Nagaraj , Praneeth Netrapalli

We study in this paper the problem of adaptive trajectory tracking control for a class of nonlinear systems with parametric uncertainties. We propose to use a modular approach, where we first design a robust nonlinear state feedback which…

Systems and Control · Computer Science 2015-09-28 Mouhacine Benosman , Amir-massoud Farahmand , Meng Xia

Estimating the Region of Attraction (RoA) for nonlinear dynamical systems is a fundamental problem in control theory, with direct implications for stability analysis and safe controller design. Traditional approaches rely on analytically…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-11-17 Adel Bechihi , Aristotelis Kapnopoulos

We propose a learning-based robust predictive control algorithm that compensates for significant uncertainty in the dynamics for a class of discrete-time systems that are nominally linear with an additive nonlinear component. Such systems…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-12-05 Rohan Sinha , James Harrison , Spencer M. Richards , Marco Pavone

Deep learning models are considered to be state-of-the-art in many offline machine learning tasks. However, many of the techniques developed are not suitable for online learning tasks. The problem of using deep learning models with…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2019-05-28 Guy Uziel

We introduce ImitationFlow, a novel Deep generative model that allows learning complex globally stable, stochastic, nonlinear dynamics. Our approach extends the Normalizing Flows framework to learn stable Stochastic Differential Equations.…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-10-27 Julen Urain , Michelle Ginesi , Davide Tateo , Jan Peters

In practical applications, the efficacy of a control algorithm relies critically on the accurate knowledge of the parameters and states of the underlying system. However, obtaining these quantities in practice is often challenging. Adaptive…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-11-18 Anchita Dey , Soutrik Bandyopadhyay , Shubhendu Bhasin