Second-Order Actor-Critic Methods for Discounted MDPs via Policy Hessian Decomposition
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arXiv:2606. 23827v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: A data-driven method is developed for approximating value functions in deterministic optimal control problems with nonlinear control-affine dynamics.
arXiv:2605. 14982v2 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: We address the discounted reward setting in reinforcement learning (RL).
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arXiv:2508. 01718v2 Announce Type: replace Abstract: We develop a physics-informed policy-iteration method for stationary second-order Hamilton--Jacobi--Bellman equations arising in continuous-time stochastic control.
arXiv:2607. 16177v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Reinforcement learning (RL) has recently emerged as a promising feedback control strategy for nonlinear and complex dynamical systems.
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arXiv:2606. 05045v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: We present in this paper a framework for the identification of control-affine reduced-order models (ROMs).
The limited-memory BFGS (L-BFGS) algorithm is a cornerstone of large-scale optimization due to its linear memory and computational costs. However, in ill-conditioned or non-convex landscapes, the implicit inverse Hessian approximation can suffer from an exploding condition number, leading to numerical instability and degraded convergence.
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We present in this paper a framework for the identification of control-affine reduced-order models (ROMs). The proposed method utilizes autoencoders (AEs) to transform the high-dimensional states, and potentially the high-dimensional inputs, into reduced latent ones suitable for control-affine state-space dynamics.