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This paper develops a frequentist solution to the functional calibration problem, where the value of a calibration parameter in a computer model is allowed to vary with the value of control variables in the physical system. The need of…
We present a kernel-based linear matrix inequality (LMI) approach for the approximate solution of Hamilton--Jacobi--Bellman (HJB) equations arising in nonlinear optimal control. The method represents the gradient of the value function in a…
This paper addresses the problem of approximating an unknown function from point evaluations. When obtaining these point evaluations is costly, minimising the required sample size becomes crucial, and it is unreasonable to reserve a…
This paper studies convergence rates for some value function approximations that arise in a collection of reproducing kernel Hilbert spaces (RKHS) $H(\Omega)$. By casting an optimal control problem in a specific class of native spaces,…
In this paper, we present a unified approach to function approximation in reproducing kernel Hilbert spaces (RKHS) that establishes a previously unrecognized optimality property for several well-known function approximation techniques, such…
In this paper, we propose a novel image restoration framework that integrates optimal control techniques with the Hamilton-Jacobi-Bellman (HJB) equation. Motivated by models from production planning, our method restores degraded images by…
The reproducing kernel Hilbert space (RKHS) embedding method is a recently introduced estimation approach that seeks to identify the unknown or uncertain function in the governing equations of a nonlinear set of ordinary differential…
This paper presents a novel approach to formulating the actor-critic method for optimal control by casting policy iteration in reproducing kernel Hilbert spaces (RKHSs -- also known as native spaces). By tailoring the reproducing kernel and…
The aim of this study is to present a good modernistic strategy for solving some well-known classes of Lane-Emden type singular differential equations. The proposed approach is based on the reproducing kernel Hilbert space (RKHS) and…
This paper presents a general vector-valued reproducing kernel Hilbert spaces (RKHS) framework for the problem of learning an unknown functional dependency between a structured input space and a structured output space. Our formulation…
This manuscript presents an algorithm for obtaining an approximation of a nonlinear high order control affine dynamical system. Controlled trajectories of the system are leveraged as the central unit of information via embedding them in…
In this article we study a finite horizon optimal control problem with monotone controls. We consider the associated Hamilton-Jacobi-Bellman (HJB) equation which characterizes the value function. We consider the totally discretized problem…
We consider the problem of optimal recovery of an element $u$ of a Hilbert space $\mathcal{H}$ from $m$ measurements obtained through known linear functionals on $\mathcal{H}$. Problems of this type are well studied \cite{MRW} under an…
The level set estimation problem seeks to find all points in a domain ${\cal X}$ where the value of an unknown function $f:{\cal X}\rightarrow \mathbb{R}$ exceeds a threshold $\alpha$. The estimation is based on noisy function evaluations…
In this paper, we present an efficient algorithm for solving a class of chance constrained optimization under non-parametric uncertainty. Our algorithm is built on the possibility of representing arbitrary distributions as functions in…
Kernel methods have been among the most popular techniques in machine learning, where learning tasks are solved using the property of reproducing kernel Hilbert space (RKHS). In this paper, we propose a novel data analysis framework with…
Kernel methods are one of the cornerstones of learning-based control, modern system identification, surrogate modelling, and related fields. A key advantage of this class of learning and function approximation methods is the availability of…
Popular safe Bayesian optimization (BO) algorithms learn control policies for safety-critical systems in unknown environments. However, most algorithms make a smoothness assumption, which is encoded by a known bounded norm in a reproducing…
We study the properties of the value function associated with an optimal control problem with uncertainties, known as average or Riemann-Stieltjes problem. Uncertainties are assumed to belong to a compact metric probability space, and…
The notion of reproducing kernel Hilbert space (RKHS) has emerged in system identification during the past decade. In the resulting framework, the impulse response estimation problem is formulated as a regularized optimization defined on an…