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Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2019-07-11 Shulin Qin , Gengsheng Wang , Huaiqiang Yu

The well-known replicator equation in evolutionary game theory describes how population-level behaviors change over time when individuals make decisions using simple imitation learning rules. In this paper, we study evolutionary dynamics…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-02-18 Rory Gavin , Ming Cao , Keith Paarporn

This paper discusses the in-domain feedback stabilization of reaction-diffusion PDEs with Robin boundary conditions in the presence of an uncertain time- and spatially-varying delay in the distributed actuation. The proposed control design…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2021-08-18 Hugo Lhachemi , Christophe Prieur , Robert Shorten

In this paper, we consider stochastic master equations describing the evolution of quantum spin-1/2 systems interacting with electromagnetic fields undergoing continuous-time measurements. We suppose that the initial states and the exact…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2020-04-14 Weichao Liang , Nina H. Amini , Paolo Mason

This work is devoted to the stabilization of parabolic systems with a finite-dimensional control subjected to a constant delay. Our main result shows that the Fattorini-Hautus criterion yields the existence of such a feedback control, as in…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2020-04-20 Imene Aicha Djebour , Takéo Takahashi , Julie Valein

Feedback asymptotic stabilization of control systems is an important topic of control theory and applications. Broadly speaking, if the system $\dot{x} = f(x,u)$ is locally asymptotically stabilizable, then there exists a feedback control…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2021-09-21 Bryce A. Christopherson , Boris S. Mordukhovich , Farhad Jafari

The conceptually new approach based on the logarithmic norm to design of robust adaptive state-feedback controller for linear time-varying (LTV) systems under system's modeling uncertainty and nonlinear external disturbance is proposed.…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2020-12-18 Robert Vrabel

The paper addresses the exact linearization of flat nonlinear discrete-time systems by generalized static or dynamic feedbacks which may also depend on forward-shifts of the new input. We first investigate the question which forward-shifts…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2022-12-29 Bernd Kolar , Johannes Diwold , Conrad Gstöttner , Markus Schöberl

We propose a framework for studying the stability of discrete-event systems modelled as switching max-plus linear systems. In this framework, we propose a set of notions of stability for generic discrete-event systems in the max-plus…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-07-07 Abhimanyu Gupta , Ton van den Boom , Jacob van der Woude , Bart De Schutter

We study the stability properties of a control system composed of a dynamical plant and a feedback controller, the latter generating control signals that can be compromised by a malicious attacker. We consider two classes of feedback…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2023-12-19 Felipe Galarza-Jimenez , Gianluca Bianchin , Jorge I. Poveda , Emiliano Dall'Anese

Stabilization of linear control systems with parameter-dependent system matrices is investigated. A Riccati based feedback mechanism is proposed and analyzed. It is constructed by means of an ensemble of parameters from a training set. This…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2023-06-05 Philipp A. Guth , Karl Kunisch , Sergio S. Rodrigues

Classical sufficient conditions for ensuring the robust stability of a dynamical system in feedback with a nonlinearity include passivity, small gain, circle, and conicity theorems. We present a generalized version of these results for…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2022-11-15 Saman Cyrus , Laurent Lessard

Motivated by questions in biology, we investigate the stability of equilibria of the dynamical system $\mathbf{x}^{\prime}=P(t)\nabla f(x)$ which arise as critical points of $f$, under the assumption that $P(t)$ is positive semi-definite.…

Dynamical Systems · Mathematics 2016-08-17 Benjamin J. Ridenhour , Jerry R. Ridenhour

This paper introduces a novel method for the stability analysis of positive feedback systems with a class of fully connected feedforward neural networks (FFNN) controllers. By establishing sector bounds for fully connected FFNNs without…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-06-19 Hamidreza Montazeri Hedesh , Milad Siami

This paper studies the data-driven control of unknown linear-threshold network dynamics to stabilize the state to a reference value. We consider two types of controllers: (i) a state feedback controller with feed-forward reference input and…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-10-03 Xuan Wang , Duy Duong-Tran , Jorge Cortés

Recent developments in data-driven control have revived interest in the behavioral approach to systems theory, where systems are defined as sets of trajectories rather than being described by a specific model or representation. However,…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2026-04-08 L. P. Wieringa , A. Padoan , F. Dorfler , J. Eising

This work studies the design problem of feedback stabilizers for discrete-time systems with input delays. A backstepping procedure is proposed for disturbance-free discrete-time systems. The feedback law designed by using backstepping…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2012-12-05 Iasson Karafyllis , Miroslav Krstic

The softmax function is crucial in Transformer attention, which normalizes each row of the attention scores with summation to one, achieving superior performances over other alternative functions. However, the softmax function can face a…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-02-26 Chuanyang Zheng , Yihang Gao , Guoxuan Chen , Han Shi , Jing Xiong , Xiaozhe Ren , Chao Huang , Xin Jiang , Zhenguo Li , Yu Li

Recent neural network and language models rely on softmax distributions with an extremely large number of categories. Since calculating the softmax normalizing constant in this context is prohibitively expensive, there is a growing…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2018-03-26 Francois Fagan , Garud Iyengar

Learning systems are typically optimized by minimizing loss or maximizing reward, assuming that improvements in these signals reflect progress toward the true objective. However, when feedback reliability is unobservable, this assumption…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-03-24 Zhipeng Zhang , Zhenjie Yao , Kai Li , Lei Yang