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In this paper, we study a time-inconsistent stochastic optimal control problem with a recursive cost functional by a multi-person hierarchical differential game approach. An equilibrium strategy of this problem is constructed and a…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2016-06-13 Qingmeng Wei , Jiongmin Yong , Zhiyong Yu

End-to-end models for goal-orientated dialogue are challenging to train, because linguistic and strategic aspects are entangled in latent state vectors. We introduce an approach to learning representations of messages in dialogues by…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2018-06-06 Denis Yarats , Mike Lewis

Reaction-diffusion systems offer a powerful framework for understanding self-organized patterns in biological systems, yet controlling these patterns remains a significant challenge. As a consequence, we present a rigorous framework of…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2026-04-13 Mohamed Amine Ouchdiri , Hamza Faquir , Saad Benjelloun , Mohamed Adlene Maghenem , Irene Otero-Muras , Adnane Saoud

Conversational agents based on Large Language Models (LLMs) have recently emerged as powerful tools for human-computer interaction. Nevertheless, their black-box nature implies challenges in predictability and a lack of personalization,…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2026-04-07 Barbara Gendron , Gaël Guibon , Mathieu d'Aquin

Continuous-time generative models have achieved remarkable success in image restoration and synthesis. However, controlling the composition of multiple pre-trained models remains an open challenge. Current approaches largely treat…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-05-20 Riccardo Barbano , Alexander Denker , Zeljko Kereta , Runchang Li , Francisco Vargas

The standard practice in modeling dynamics and optimal control of a large population, ensemble, multi-agent system represented by it's continuum density, is to model individual decision making using local feedback information. In comparison…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2020-09-29 Kaivlaya Bakshi , Evangelos A. Theodorou

We present a method to control a text-to-image generative model to produce training data useful for supervised learning. Unlike previous works that employ an open-loop approach and pre-define prompts to generate new data using either a…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-05-20 Teresa Yeo , Andrei Atanov , Harold Benoit , Aleksandr Alekseev , Ruchira Ray , Pooya Esmaeil Akhoondi , Amir Zamir

Large language models perform well in short text generation but still struggle with long text generation, particularly under complex constraints. Such tasks involve multiple tightly coupled objectives, including global structural…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2026-03-06 Yifan Zhu , Guanting Chen , Bing Wei , Haoran Luo

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

As generative models become ubiquitous, there is a critical need for fine-grained control over the generation process. Yet, while controlled generation methods from prompting to fine-tuning proliferate, a fundamental question remains…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2026-01-12 Emily Cheng , Carmen Amo Alonso , Federico Danieli , Arno Blaas , Luca Zappella , Pau Rodriguez , Xavier Suau

This paper investigates the optimal control problems for the finite-horizon continuous-time Markov decision processes with delay-dependent control policies. We develop compactification methods in decision processes, and show that the…

Probability · Mathematics 2023-07-06 Zhong-Wei Liao , Jinghai Shao

We study the problem of optimal portfolio selection under stochastic volatility within a continuous time reinforcement learning framework with portfolio constraints. Exploration is modeled through entropy-regularized relaxed controls, where…

Mathematical Finance · Quantitative Finance 2026-04-27 Thai Nguyen , Pertiny Nkuize

Controllable layout generation aims at synthesizing plausible arrangement of element bounding boxes with optional constraints, such as type or position of a specific element. In this work, we try to solve a broad range of layout generation…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-03-15 Naoto Inoue , Kotaro Kikuchi , Edgar Simo-Serra , Mayu Otani , Kota Yamaguchi

The Hamilton Jacobi Bellman Equation (HJB) provides the globally optimal solution to large classes of control problems. Unfortunately, this generality comes at a price, the calculation of such solutions is typically intractible for systems…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2014-09-23 Matanya B. Horowitz , Anil Damle , Joel W. Burdick

Although autoregressive models have dominated language modeling in recent years, there has been a growing interest in exploring alternative paradigms to the conventional next-token prediction framework. Diffusion-based language models have…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-10-23 Chihan Huang , Hao Tang

We consider a class of closed loop stochastic optimal control problems in finite time horizon, in which the cost is an expectation conditional on the event that the process has not exited a given bounded domain. An important difficulty is…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2019-12-19 Yves Achdou , Mathieu Laurière , Pierre-Louis Lions

A new method for controlling harmonic generation, in the framework of quantum optimal control theory (QOCT), is developed. The problem is formulated in the frequency domain using a new maximization functional. The relaxation method is used…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2012-08-28 Ido Schaefer

A control theoretic approach is presented in this paper for both batch and instantaneous updates of weights in feed-forward neural networks. The popular Hamilton-Jacobi-Bellman (HJB) equation has been used to generate an optimal weight…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2015-04-29 Vipul Arora , Laxmidhar Behera , Ajay Pratap Yadav

Latent diffusion models offer an attractive alternative to discrete diffusion for non-autoregressive text generation by operating on continuous text representations and denoising entire sequences in parallel. The major challenge in latent…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2026-05-11 Viacheslav Meshchaninov , Alexander Shabalin , Egor Chimbulatov , Nikita Gushchin , Ilya Koziev , Alexander Korotin , Dmitry Vetrov

In this article, we provide a numerical method based on fitted finite volume method to approximate the Hamilton-Jacobi-Bellman (HJB) equation coming from stochastic optimal control problems. The computational challenge is due to the nature…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2020-02-21 Christelle Dleuna Nyoumbi , Antoine Tambue