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The growing need for high-performance controllers in safety-critical applications like autonomous driving has been motivating the development of formal safety verification techniques. In this paper, we design and implement a predictive…

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The primal-dual algorithm recently proposed by Chambolle & Pock (abbreviated as CPA) for structured convex optimization is very efficient and popular. It was shown by Chambolle & Pock in \cite{CP11} and also by Shefi & Teboulle in…

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Safety remains a central challenge in control of dynamical systems, particularly when the boundaries of unsafe sets are complex (e.g., nonconvex, nonsmooth) or unknown. This paper proposes a learning-enabled framework for safety-critical…

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Structural causal models (SCMs) are a powerful tool for understanding the complex causal relationships that underlie many real-world systems. As these systems grow in size, the number of variables and complexity of interactions between them…

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