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Deep reinforcement Learning (DRL) offers a powerful framework for training AI agents to coordinate with human partners. However, DRL faces two critical challenges in human-AI coordination (HAIC): sparse rewards and unpredictable human…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2025-08-04 Xin Hao , Bahareh Nakisa , Mohmmad Naim Rastgoo , Gaoyang Pang

This dissertation explores block decomposable methods for large-scale optimization problems. It focuses on alternating direction method of multipliers (ADMM) schemes and block coordinate descent (BCD) methods. Specifically, it introduces a…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2026-01-15 Leandro Farias Maia

Diffusion models are vastly used in generative AI, leveraging their capability to capture complex data distributions. However, their potential remains largely unexplored in the field of resource allocation in wireless networks. This paper…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-07-23 Amirhassan Babazadeh Darabi , Sinem Coleri

In this paper we present a novel randomized block coordinate descent method for the minimization of a convex composite objective function. The method uses (approximate) partial second-order (curvature) information, so that the algorithm…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2015-05-11 Kimon Fountoulakis , Rachael Tappenden

Owing to the openness of wireless channels, wireless communication systems are highly susceptible to malicious jamming. Most existing anti-jamming methods rely on the assumption of accurate sensing and optimize parameters on a single…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2025-11-06 Haoqin Zhao , Zan Li , Jiangbo Si , Rui Huang , Hang Hu , Tony Q. S. Quek , Naofal Al-Dhahir

This paper presents a distributed beamforming framework for a constellation of airborne platform stations (APSs) in a massive Multiple-Input and Multiple-Output (MIMO) non-terrestrial network (NTN) that targets the downlink sum-rate…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2026-01-01 Hesam Khoshkbari , Georges Kaddoum , Omid Abbasi , Bassant Selim , Halim Yanikomeroglu

Wireless sensor networks consist of randomly distributed sensor nodes for monitoring targets or areas of interest. Maintaining the network for continuous surveillance is a challenge due to the limited battery capacity in each sensor.…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-10-03 Ngoc Bui , Phi Le Nguyen , Viet Anh Nguyen , Phan Thuan Do

In recent years, Reinforcement Learning (RL) has been applied to real-world problems with increasing success. Such applications often require to put constraints on the agent's behavior. Existing algorithms for constrained RL (CRL) rely on…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-03-07 Ted Moskovitz , Brendan O'Donoghue , Vivek Veeriah , Sebastian Flennerhag , Satinder Singh , Tom Zahavy

This paper investigates reconfigurable intelligent surface (RIS)-assisted full-duplex multiple-input single-output wireless system, where the beamforming and RIS phase shifts are optimized to maximize the sum-rate for both single and…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-08-17 Alice Faisal , Ibrahim Al-Nahhal , Octavia A. Dobre , Telex M. N. Ngatched

Next generation wireless networks are expected to be extremely complex due to their massive heterogeneity in terms of the types of network architectures they incorporate, the types and numbers of smart IoT devices they serve, and the types…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-03-14 Abdulmalik Alwarafy , Mohamed Abdallah , Bekir Sait Ciftler , Ala Al-Fuqaha , Mounir Hamdi

Inter-Cell Interference Coordination (ICIC) is a promising way to improve energy efficiency in wireless networks, especially where small base stations are densely deployed. However, traditional optimization based ICIC schemes suffer from…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2019-02-22 Yujiao Lu , Hancheng Lu , Liangliang Cao , Feng Wu , Daren Zhu

Wireless networked control system (WNCS) connecting sensors, controllers, and actuators via wireless communications is a key enabling technology for highly scalable and low-cost deployment of control systems in the Industry 4.0 era. Despite…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-10-28 Zihuai Zhao , Wanchun Liu , Daniel E. Quevedo , Yonghui Li , Branka Vucetic

Weight decay is often used to ensure good generalization in the training practice of deep neural networks with batch normalization (BN-DNNs), where some convolution layers are invariant to weight rescaling due to the normalization. In this…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-06-22 Ziquan Liu , Yufei Cui , Jia Wan , Yu Mao , Antoni B. Chan

Resource allocation in integrated sensing and communication (ISAC) systems needs to be optimized to balance the requirements of the communication and sensing modules considering complicated cross-layer data traffic and queue status in…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2026-04-28 Xiyu Wang , Gilberto Berardinelli , Hei Victor Cheng , Petar Popovski , Ramoni Adeogun

The optimal dispatch of energy storage systems (ESSs) presents formidable challenges due to the uncertainty introduced by fluctuations in dynamic prices, demand consumption, and renewable-based energy generation. By exploiting the…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-07-27 Shengren Hou , Edgar Mauricio Salazar Duque , Peter Palensky , Pedro P. Vergara

This paper aims to investigate the effectiveness of the recently proposed Boosted Difference of Convex functions Algorithm (BDCA) when applied to clustering with constraints and set clustering with constraints problems. This is the first…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2023-10-24 Tuyen Tran , Kate Figenschou , Phan Tu Vuong

The block coordinate descent (BCD) method is widely used for minimizing a continuous function f of several block variables. At each iteration of this method, a single block of variables is optimized, while the remaining variables are held…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2012-09-12 Meisam Razaviyayn , Mingyi Hong , Zhi-Quan Luo

Load shedding has been one of the most widely used and effective emergency control approaches against voltage instability. With increased uncertainties and rapidly changing operational conditions in power systems, existing methods have…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-12-08 Renke Huang , Yujiao Chen , Tianzhixi Yin , Xinya Li , Ang Li , Jie Tan , Wenhao Yu , Yuan Liu , Qiuhua Huang

This paper considers the joint transceiver design in a wireless sensor network where multiple sensors observe the same physical event and transmit their contaminated observations to a fusion center, with all nodes equipped with multiple…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2015-06-22 Yang Liu , Jing Li , Xuanxuan Lu , Chau Yuen

Seeking to improve model generalization, we consider a new approach based on distributionally robust learning (DRL) that applies stochastic gradient descent to the outer minimization problem. Our algorithm efficiently estimates the gradient…

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