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In recent times, reinforcement learning has produced baffling results when it comes to performing control tasks with highly non-linear systems. The impressive results always outweigh the potential vulnerabilities or uncertainties associated…

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We develop a game-theoretic framework for adversarially robust optimal safe predefined-time stabilization of parameter-dependent nonlinear dynamical systems with nonquadratic cost functionals. Our approach ensures that all system…

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This paper investigates the convergence properties of the upwind difference scheme for the Hamilton--Jacobi--Bellman (HJB) equation, a central partial differential equation in optimal control theory. First, assuming the existence of a…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2026-02-05 Daisuke Inoue , Yuji Ito , Takahito Kashiwabara , Norikazu Saito , Hiroaki Yoshida

This paper studies the time-inconsistent MV optimal stopping problem via a game-theoretic approach to find equilibrium strategies. To overcome the mathematical intractability of direct equilibrium analysis, we propose a vanishing…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2025-10-29 Yuchao Dong , Harry Zheng

This paper investigates the stability properties of neural operators through the structured representation offered by the Hybrid B-spline Deep Neural Operator (HBDNO). While existing stability-aware architectures typically enforce…

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In this paper we propose a new computational method for designing optimal regulators for high-dimensional nonlinear systems. The proposed approach leverages physics-informed machine learning to solve high-dimensional Hamilton-Jacobi-Bellman…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2021-04-09 Tenavi Nakamura-Zimmerer , Qi Gong , Wei Kang

We propose HIN-LRI, a hybrid framework that augments a classical numerical solver with a neural operator trained to correct the solver's structured truncation error. A base low-regularity integrator provides a consistent first-order…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-05-07 Zhangyong Liang

This paper proposes an actor-critic algorithm for controlling the temperature of a battery pack using a cooling fluid. This is modeled by a coupled 1D partial differential equation (PDE) with a controlled advection term that determines the…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-05-19 Amartya Mukherjee , Jun Liu

Neural network approaches that parameterize value functions have succeeded in approximating high-dimensional optimal feedback controllers when the Hamiltonian admits explicit formulas. However, many practical problems, such as the space…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2025-10-08 Eric Gelphman , Deepanshu Verma , Nicole Tianjiao Yang , Stanley Osher , Samy Wu Fung

In order to obviate the requirement of drift dynamics in adaptive dynamic programming (ADP), integral reinforcement learning (IRL) has been proposed as an alternate formulation of Bellman equation.However control coupling dynamics is still…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-05-11 Amardeep Mishra , Satadal Ghosh

In this note, we study a class of indefinite stochastic McKean-Vlasov linear-quadratic (LQ in short) control problem under the control taking nonnegative values. In contrast to the conventional issue, both the classical dynamic programming…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2023-10-05 Xun Li , Liangquan Zhang

We address finding the semi-global solutions to optimal feedback control and the Hamilton--Jacobi--Bellman (HJB) equation. Using the solution of an HJB equation, a feedback optimal control law can be implemented in real-time with minimum…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2016-06-17 Wei Kang , Lucas C. Wilcox

Hard constraints in reinforcement learning (RL) often degrade policy performance. Lagrangian methods offer a way to blend objectives with constraints, but require intricate reward engineering and parameter tuning. In this work, we extend…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2025-12-05 William Sharpless , Dylan Hirsch , Sander Tonkens , Nikhil Shinde , Sylvia Herbert

There have been attempts in reinforcement learning to exploit a priori knowledge about the structure of the system. This paper proposes a hybrid reinforcement learning controller which dynamically interpolates a model-based linear…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-12-10 Nicholas Capel , Naifu Zhang

In this paper, we present Deep-MacroFin, a comprehensive framework designed to solve partial differential equations, with a particular focus on models in continuous time economics. This framework leverages deep learning methodologies,…

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Model-reference adaptive systems refer to a consortium of techniques that guide plants to track desired reference trajectories. Approaches based on theories like Lyapunov, sliding surfaces, and backstepping are typically employed to advise…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-03-20 Mohammed Abouheaf , Wail Gueaieb , Davide Spinello , Salah Al-Sharhan

Dynamical systems can be used to model a broad class of physical processes, and conservation laws give rise to system properties like passivity or port-Hamiltonian structure. An important problem in practical applications is to steer…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2025-10-29 Tobias Breiten , Attila Karsai

We consider mean field social optimization in nonlinear diffusion models. By dynamic programming with a representative agent employing cooperative optimizer selection, we derive a new Hamilton--Jacobi--Bellman (HJB) equation to be called…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2026-05-19 Minyi Huang , Shuenn-Jyi Sheu , Li-Hsien Sun

Reinforcement learning is a powerful paradigm for learning optimal policies from experimental data. However, to find optimal policies, most reinforcement learning algorithms explore all possible actions, which may be harmful for real-world…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2017-11-15 Felix Berkenkamp , Matteo Turchetta , Angela P. Schoellig , Andreas Krause

Deep learning-based hybrid iterative methods (DL-HIMs) integrate classical numerical solvers with neural operators, utilizing their complementary spectral biases to accelerate convergence. Despite this promise, many DL-HIMs stagnate at…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2026-02-09 Yuhan Wu , Jan Willem van Beek , Victorita Dolean , Alexander Heinlein