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Learning-based control policies are widely used in various tasks in the field of robotics and control. However, formal (Lyapunov) stability guarantees for learning-based controllers with nonlinear dynamical systems are difficult to obtain.…

Robotics · Computer Science 2026-01-27 Quan Quan , Kai-Yuan Cai , Chenyu Wang

In this work, we develop a novel neural network (NN) approach to solve the discrete inverse conductivity problem of recovering the conductivity profile on network edges from the discrete Dirichlet-to-Neumann map on a square lattice. The…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2025-01-03 Elena Beretta , Maolin Deng , Alberto Gandolfi , Bangti Jin

We present a computationally tractable framework for real-time predictive control of multi-chiller plants that involve both discrete and continuous control decisions coupled through nonlinear dynamics, resulting in a mixed-integer optimal…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2026-03-31 Ján Boldocký , Cary Faulkner , Elad Michael , Martin Gulan , Aaron Tuor , Ján Drgoňa

Descriptor systems arise naturally in real-world applications governed by algebraic constraints, such as power networks, robotics and chemical processes. When a descriptor model contains a nontrivial nilpotent block, the discrete-time…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2026-05-26 Yunxiang Ma , Yibo Wang , Zhongmei Li , Chao Shang

Modern neural networks of the transformer family require the practitioner to decide, before training begins, how many attention heads to use, how deep the network should be, and how wide each component should be. These decisions are made…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-04-03 Giansalvo Cirrincione

The problem of synthesizing stochastic explicit model predictive control policies is known to be quickly intractable even for systems of modest complexity when using classical control-theoretic methods. To address this challenge, we present…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-05-24 Ján Drgoňa , Sayak Mukherjee , Aaron Tuor , Mahantesh Halappanavar , Draguna Vrabie

We present the \textbf{Variational Phasor Circuit (VPC)}, a deterministic classical learning architecture operating on the continuous $S^1$ unit circle manifold. Inspired by variational quantum circuits, VPC replaces dense real-valued…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-03-20 Dibakar Sigdel

Queuing network control is essential for managing congestion in job-processing systems such as service systems, communication networks, and manufacturing processes. Despite growing interest in applying reinforcement learning (RL)…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-09-06 Ethan Che , Jing Dong , Hongseok Namkoong

Many physical AI tasks are governed by implicit equilibrium: an agent actuates a subset of degrees of freedom (boundary DoFs), while the remaining free DoFs settle by minimizing a total potential energy. Even seemingly basic tasks such as…

Robotics · Computer Science 2026-05-06 Dezhong Tong , Jiawen Wang , Hengyi Zhou , Yinglong Shen , Xiaonan Huang , M. Khalid Jawed

Partial Differential Equations are infinite dimensional encoded representations of physical processes. However, imbibing multiple observation data towards a coupled representation presents significant challenges. We present a fully…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-03-09 Gurpreet Singh , Soumyajit Gupta , Matt Lease , Clint N. Dawson

This paper presents an analysis and experimental validation of dispatchable virtual oscillator control (dVOC) for inverter-dominated power systems. dVOC is a promising decentralized control strategy that requires only local measurements to…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2018-11-22 Gab-Su Seo , Marcello Colombino , Irina Subotić , Brian Johnson , Dominic Groß , Florian Dörfler

In this paper we present an online wide-area oscillation damping control (WAC) design for uncertain models of power systems using ideas from reinforcement learning. We assume that the exact small-signal model of the power system at the…

Systems and Control · Computer Science 2018-10-02 Amirhassan Fallah Dizche , Aranya Chakrabortty , Alexandra Duel-Hallen

We introduce a differentiable framework for zero-shot adaptive control over parametric families of nonlinear dynamical systems. Our approach integrates a function encoder-based neural ODE (FE-NODE) for modeling system dynamics with a…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2026-04-16 Hassan Iqbal , Xingjian Li , Tyler Ingebrand , Adam Thorpe , Krishna Kumar , Ufuk Topcu , Ján Drgoňa

Aiming at monitoring a time series to detect stationarity as soon as possible, we introduce monitoring procedures based on kernel-weighted sequential Dickey-Fuller (DF) processes, and related stopping times, which may be called weighted…

Probability · Mathematics 2018-05-01 Ansgar Steland

Wireless control systems replace traditional wired communication with wireless networks to exchange information between actuators, plants and sensors in a control system. The noise in wireless channels renders ideal control policies…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-04-05 Vinicius Lima , Mark Eisen , Konstantinos Gatsis , Alejandro Ribeiro

Neural networks excel at pattern recognition but struggle with constraint reasoning -- determining whether configurations satisfy logical or physical constraints. We introduce Differentiable Symbolic Planning (DSP), a neural architecture…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-04-06 Venkatakrishna Reddy Oruganti

Learning efficient and interpretable policies has been a challenging task in reinforcement learning (RL), particularly in the visual RL setting with complex scenes. While neural networks have achieved competitive performance, the resulting…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-01-02 Wenqing Zheng , S P Sharan , Zhiwen Fan , Kevin Wang , Yihan Xi , Zhangyang Wang

This paper aims to accelerate decentralized optimization by strategically designing the edge weights used in the agent-to-agent message exchanges. We propose a Dynamic Directed Decentralized Gradient (D3GD) framework and show that the…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2026-01-30 Rongxing Du , Hoi-To Wai

Neural image codecs achieve higher compression ratios than traditional hand-crafted methods such as PNG or JPEG-XL, but often incur substantial computational overhead, limiting their deployment on energy-constrained devices such as…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-01-21 Till Aczel , David F. Jenny , Simon Bührer , Andreas Plesner , Antonio Di Maio , Roger Wattenhofer

A novel power consensus algorithm for DC microgrids is proposed and analyzed. DC microgrids are networks composed of DC sources, loads, and interconnecting lines. They are represented by differential-algebraic equations connected over an…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2026-01-13 Claudio De Persis , Erieke Weitenberg , Florian Dorfler