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We analyze discrete optimal control problems and their connection with back propagation and deep learning. We consider in particular the symmetric representation of the discrete rigid body equations developed via optimal control analysis…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2024-04-11 Anthony M. Bloch , Peter E. Crouch , Tudor S. Ratiu

End-to-end backpropagation has a few shortcomings: it requires loading the entire model during training, which can be impossible in constrained settings, and suffers from three locking problems (forward locking, update locking and backward…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-06-07 Skander Karkar , Ibrahim Ayed , Emmanuel de Bézenac , Patrick Gallinari

Training of neural networks amounts to nonconvex optimization problems that are typically solved by using backpropagation and (variants of) stochastic gradient descent. In this work we propose an alternative approach by viewing the training…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2022-04-14 Brecht Evens , Puya Latafat , Andreas Themelis , Johan Suykens , Panagiotis Patrinos

This paper introduces an optimal control framework to address the inverse problem using a learned regularizer, with applications in image reconstruction. We build upon the concept of Learnable Optimization Algorithms (LOA), which combine…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2024-09-04 Wanyu Bian

We focus on a particular form of network coding, reverse carpooling, in a wireless network where the potentially coded transmitted messages are to be decoded immediately upon reception. The network is fixed and known, and the system…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2010-01-20 Ali ParandehGheibi , Asuman Ozdaglar , Michelle Effros , Muriel Medard

In recent years, deep learning has been connected with optimal control as a way to define a notion of a continuous underlying learning problem. In this view, neural networks can be interpreted as a discretization of a parametric Ordinary…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2020-07-07 Joubine Aghili , Olga Mula

We present Wideband Back-Projection Diffusion, an end-to-end probabilistic framework for approximating the posterior distribution induced by the inverse scattering map from wideband scattering data. This framework produces highly accurate…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-05-20 Borong Zhang , Martín Guerra , Qin Li , Leonardo Zepeda-Núñez

Backward reachability (also termed controllability) has been extensively studied in control theory, and tools for a wide class of systems have been developed. Nevertheless, assessing a backward reachability analysis or synthesis remains…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2021-09-13 Davide Liuzza , Paolo Falcone , Massimo Tipaldi , Luigi Glielmo

Clusters of wave-scattering oscillators offer the ability to passively control wave energy in elastic continua. However, designing such clusters to achieve a desired wave energy pattern is a highly nontrivial task. While the forward…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-02-29 Joshua R. Tempelman , Tobias Weidemann , Eric B. Flynn , Kathryn H. Matlack , Alexander F. Vakakis

We present one of the first algorithms on model based reinforcement learning and trajectory optimization with free final time horizon. Grounded on the optimal control theory and Dynamic Programming, we derive a set of backward differential…

Systems and Control · Computer Science 2015-09-04 Wei Sun , Evangelos Theodorou , Panagiotis Tsiotras

In this work, we develop machine learning techniques to study nonperturbative scattering amplitudes. We focus on the two-to-two scattering amplitude of identical scalar particles, setting the double discontinuity to zero as a simplifying…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2024-12-13 Mehmet Asim Gumus , Damien Leflot , Piotr Tourkine , Alexander Zhiboedov

In this brief, we consider the constrained optimization problem underpinning model predictive control (MPC). We show that this problem can be decomposed into an unconstrained optimization problem with the same cost function as the original…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2020-08-18 Uroš Kalabić , Ilya Kolmanovsky

Optimization under structural constraints is typically analyzed through projection or penalty methods, obscuring the geometric mechanism by which constraints shape admissible dynamics. We propose an operator-theoretic formulation in which…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2026-03-10 Changkai Li

In this article, we discuss two algorithms tailored to discrete-time deterministic finite-horizon nonlinear optimal control problems or so-called deterministic trajectory optimization problems. Both algorithms can be derived from an…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2024-12-10 Mohammad Mahmoudi Filabadi , Tom Lefebvre , Guillaume Crevecoeur

A new formulation of the particle filter for nonlinear filtering is presented, based on concepts from optimal control, and from the mean-field game theory. The optimal control is chosen so that the posterior distribution of a particle…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2013-02-27 Tao Yang , Prashant G. Mehta , Sean P. Meyn

Existing approaches to diffusion-based inverse problem solvers frame the signal recovery task as a probabilistic sampling episode, where the solution is drawn from the desired posterior distribution. This framework suffers from several…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-12-24 Henry Li , Marcus Pereira

The development of the back-propagation algorithm represents a landmark in neural networks. We provide an approach that conducts the back-propagation again to reverse the traditional back-propagation process to optimize the input loss at…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-02-15 Weiming Xiong , Ruoyu Yang

Standard optimal control methods perform optimization in the time domain. However, many experimental settings demand the expression of the control signal as a superposition of given waveforms, a case that cannot easily be accommodated using…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2015-06-22 Selina Meister , Jürgen T. Stockburger , Rebecca Schmidt , Joachim Ankerhold

Most existing neural network-based approaches for solving stochastic optimal control problems using the associated backward dynamic programming principle rely on the ability to simulate the underlying state variables. However, in some…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2024-01-30 Christian Yeo

We propose a novel backpropagation algorithm for training spiking neural networks (SNNs) that encodes information in the relative multiple spike timing of individual neurons without single-spike restrictions. The proposed algorithm inherits…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2026-05-15 Kakei Yamamoto , Yusuke Sakemi , Kazuyuki Aihara