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Modeling observations as random distributions embedded within Wasserstein spaces is becoming increasingly popular across scientific fields, as it captures the variability and geometric structure of the data more effectively. However, the…

Statistics Theory · Mathematics 2026-04-08 François Bachoc , Alberto González-Sanz , Jean-Michel Loubes , Yisha Yao

This paper proposes a class of neural ordinary differential equations parametrized by provably input-to-state stable continuous-time recurrent neural networks. The model dynamics are defined by construction to be input-to-state stable (ISS)…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-02-15 Alan Yang , Jie Xiong , Maxim Raginsky , Elyse Rosenbaum

This paper addresses characterizations of integral input-to-state stability (iISS) for hybrid systems. In particular, we give a Lyapunov characterization of iISS unifying and generalizing the existing theory for pure continuous-time and…

Dynamical Systems · Mathematics 2017-12-15 Navid Noroozi , Alireza Khayatian , Roman Geiselhart

Precise control under uncertainty requires a good understanding and characterization of the noise affecting the system. This paper studies the problem of steering state distributions of dynamical systems subject to partially known…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2024-03-20 Joshua Pilipovsky , Panagiotis Tsiotras

This paper deals with the establishment of Input-to-State Stability (ISS) estimates for infinite dimensional systems with respect to both boundary and distributed disturbances. First, a new approach is developed for the establishment of ISS…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2019-08-07 Hugo Lhachemi , Robert Shorten

Distributionally robust supervised learning (DRSL) is emerging as a key paradigm for building reliable machine learning systems for real-world applications -- reflecting the need for classifiers and predictive models that are robust to the…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-01-26 Yaodong Yu , Tianyi Lin , Eric Mazumdar , Michael I. Jordan

Wasserstein barycenters provide a principled approach for aggregating probability measures, while preserving the geometry of their ambient space. Existing discrete methods are not scalable as they assume access to the complete set of…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2026-03-10 Eduardo Fernandes Montesuma , Yassir Bendou , Mike Gartrell

We propose a mathematically principled PDE gradient flow framework for distributionally robust optimization (DRO). Exploiting the recent advances in the intersection of Markov Chain Monte Carlo sampling and gradient flow theory, we show…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2026-05-27 Zusen Xu , Jia-Jie Zhu

In finite dimension, the long-time and metastable behavior of a gradient flow perturbated by a small Brownian noise is well understood. A similar situation arises when a Wasserstein gradient flow over a space of probability measure is…

Probability · Mathematics 2025-10-21 Pierre Monmarché

When the state of a system may remain bounded even if both the input amplitude and energy are unbounded, then the state bounds given by the standard input-to-state stability (ISS) and integral-ISS (iISS) properties may provide no useful…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-06-02 Hernan Haimovich , Shenyu Liu , Antonio Russo , Jose L. Mancilla-Aguilar

This paper studies distributed adaptive estimation over sensor networks with partially unknown source dynamics. We present parallel continuous-time and discrete-time designs in which each node runs a local adaptive observer and exchanges…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2026-05-18 Moh Kamalul Wafi , Hamidreza Montazeri Hedesh , Milad Siami

Generative modeling aims to produce new random examples from an unknown target distribution, given access to a finite collection of examples. Among the leading approaches, denoising diffusion probabilistic models (DDPMs) construct such…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2025-06-12 Vahan Arsenyan , Elen Vardanyan , Arnak Dalalyan

In this paper, we study input-to-state (ISS) issues for damped wave equations with Dirichlet boundary conditions on a bounded domain of dimension two. The damping term is assumed to be non-linear and localized to an open subset of the…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2020-11-17 Meryem Kafnemer , Benmiloud Mebkhout , Yacine Chitour

This paper addresses input-to-state stability (ISS) properties with respect to boundary and in-domain disturbances for a class of semi-linear partial differential equations (PDEs) subject to Dirichlet boundary conditions. The developed…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2024-10-30 Jun Zheng , Guchuan Zhu

The study proposes new results on the set input-to-state stability (ISS) subject to a small input time delay for compact, invariant sets that contains the origin. First, using the nonlinear small-gain theory, we prove a Razumikhin-type…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-11-24 Pallavi Sinha , Irinel-Constantin Morărescu , Sukumar Srikant

Inverse problems in physical or biological sciences often involve recovering an unknown parameter that is random. The sought-after quantity is a probability distribution of the unknown parameter, that produces data that aligns with…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2024-10-02 Qin Li , Maria Oprea , Li Wang , Yunan Yang

This paper studies the input-to-state stability (ISS) properties based on the method of Lyapunov functionals for a class of semi-linear parabolic partial differential equations (PDEs) with respect to boundary disturbances. In order to avoid…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2017-11-01 Jun Zheng , Guchuan Zhu

We study feedback stabilization of continuous-time linear systems under finite data-rate constraints in the presence of unknown disturbances. A communication and control strategy based on sampled and quantized state measurements is…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2026-03-31 Mahmoud Zamani , Guosong Yang

Input-to-state stability (ISS) unifies the stability and robustness in one notion, and serves as a basis for broad areas of nonlinear control theory. In this contribution, we covered the most fundamental facts in the infinite-dimensional…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-06-05 Andrii Mironchenko , Christophe Prieur

Digital controller design for nonlinear systems may be complicated by the fact that an exact discrete-time plant model is not known. One existing approach employs approximate discrete-time models for stability analysis and control design,…

Systems and Control · Computer Science 2018-03-28 A. J. Vallarella , H. Haimovich