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Inference-time controllable generation is essential for real-world applications of unconditional diffusion models. However, most existing techniques focus on individual samples, struggling in applications that require the sample population…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-05-11 Hao Luan , See-Kiong Ng , Chun Kai Ling

This paper deals with an inverse source problem for the $1$D time-fractional diffusion equation by using boundary measurement. The conditional stability in identification of the unknown source term is proved on the basis of the Fourier…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2016-08-25 Zhiyuan Li

Classifier-guided diffusion models generate conditional samples by augmenting the reverse-time score with the gradient of the log-probability predicted by a probabilistic classifier. In practice, this classifier is usually obtained by…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2026-02-06 Sharan Sahu , Arisina Banerjee , Yuchen Wu

We propose distribution-free runs-based control charts for detecting location shifts. Using the fact that given the number of total successes, the outcomes of a sequence of Bernoulli trials are random permutations, we are able to control…

Methodology · Statistics 2025-11-19 Tung-Lung Wu

An inverse problem of finding an obstacle and the boundary condition on its surface from the fixed-energy scattering data is studied. A new method is developed for a proof of the uniqueness results. The method does not use the discreteness…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 A. G. Ramm

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

Inverse problems aim to determine parameters from observations, a crucial task in engineering and science. Lately, generative models, especially diffusion models, have gained popularity in this area for their ability to produce realistic…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-03-24 Gabriel della Maggiora , Luis Alberto Croquevielle , Nikita Deshpande , Harry Horsley , Thomas Heinis , Artur Yakimovich

Conformal risk control (CRC) provides distribution-free guarantees for controlling the expected loss at a user-specified level. Existing theory typically assumes that the loss decreases monotonically with a tuning parameter that governs the…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2026-04-21 Tareq Aldirawi , Yun Li , Wenge Guo

We consider a controlled-diffusion process pertaining to a chain of distributed systems with random perturbations that satisfies a weak H\"ormander type condition. In particular, we consider a stochastic control problem with the following…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2015-09-29 Getachew K. Befekadu , Eduardo L. Pasiliao

This paper provides a full characterization of the value function and solution(s) of an optimal stopping problem for a one-dimensional diffusion with an integral criterion. The results hold under very weak assumptions, namely, the diffusion…

Probability · Mathematics 2017-03-21 Manuel Guerra , Cláudia Nunes , Carlos Oliveira

We present discrete-time approximation of optimal control policies for infinite horizon discounted/ergodic control problems for controlled diffusions in $\Rd$\,. In particular, our objective is to show near optimality of optimal policies…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2025-02-11 Somnath Pradhan , Serdar Yuksel

Consider the classic infinite-horizon problem of stopping a one-dimensional diffusion to optimise between running and terminal rewards and suppose we are given a parametrised family of such problems. We provide a general theory of parameter…

Probability · Mathematics 2013-02-13 Martin Klimmek

We study the inverse problem of recovering a spatially dependent variable order in a time-fractional diffusion model from the boundary flux measurement generated by a single boundary excitation. It arises in the identification of…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2026-02-27 Jiho Hong , Bangti Jin , Yavar Kian

We study the controllability of a Partial Differential Equation of transport type, that arises in crowd models. We are interested in controlling it with a control being a vector field, representing a perturbation of the velocity, localized…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2020-04-02 Michel Duprez , Morgan Morancey , Francesco Rossi

We investigate a mean field optimal control problem obtained in the limit of the optimal control of large particle systems with forcing and terminal data which are not assumed to be convex. We prove that the value function, which is known…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2022-04-05 Pierre Cardaliaguet , Panagiotis Souganidis

We investigate conditions of optimality for an infinite horizon control problem and consider their correspondence with the value function. Assuming Lipschitz continuity of the value function, we prove that sensitivity relations plus the…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2016-07-20 Dmitry Khlopin

This paper investigates the near optimal control for a kind of linear stochastic control systems governed by the forward backward stochastic differential equations, where both the drift and diffusion terms are allowed to depend on controls…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2015-01-23 Liangquan Zhang , Jianhui Huang , Xun Li

Safety-critical control of piecewise affine (PWA) systems under bounded additive disturbances requires guarantees not for individual states but for entire state sets simultaneously: a single control action must steer every state in the set…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2026-04-02 Yanliang Huang , Peng Xie , Zhen Zhang , Wenyuan Wu , Zhuoqi Zeng , Amr Alanwar

Model mismatch often poses challenges in model-based controller design. This paper investigates model predictive control (MPC) of uncertain linear systems with input constraints, focusing on stability and closed-loop infinite-horizon…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2025-03-06 Changrui Liu , Shengling Shi , Bart De Schutter

This paper considers the problem of controlled invariance of involutive regular distribution, both for smooth and real analytic cases. After a review of some existing work, a precise formulation of the problem of local and global controlled…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2021-11-18 Qianqian Xia