arXiv Machine Learning

Modeling and Control of Deep Sign-Definite Dynamics with Application to Hybrid Powertrain Control

arXiv:2509. 19869v2 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: Data-driven control increasingly relies on deep models for complex systems whose first-principles models are difficult to obtain.

arXiv Machine Learning
Jun 10

Discovering Interpretable Multi-Parameter Control Policies for Evolutionary Algorithms Using Deep Reinforcement Learning

arXiv:2606. 10129v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: While deep Reinforcement Learning (deep-RL) has been increasingly applied to parameter control in evolutionary algorithms, rigorous theoretical analysis of parameter control remains largely restricted to single-parameter settings, owing to the difficulty of deriving effective, interpretable multi-parameter policies amenable to formal study.

By Tai Nguyen, Phong Le, Carola Doerr, Nguyen Dang
arXiv Machine Learning
Jun 4

Certified Neural Approximations of Nonlinear Dynamics

arXiv:2505. 15497v3 Announce Type: replace Abstract: Neural networks hold great potential to act as approximate models of nonlinear dynamical systems, with the resulting neural approximations enabling verification and control of such systems.

By Frederik Baymler Mathiesen, Nikolaus Vertovec, Francesco Fabiano, Luca Laurenti, Alessandro Abate
arXiv Machine Learning
Jul 7

Optimality-Informed Neural Networks for Lunar Landing Trajectory Optimization

arXiv:2607. 02741v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: This paper develops an Optimality-Informed Neural Network (OINN) approach for the energy-optimal, free-final-time powered descent of a lunar lander from any initial position, velocity, and mass within a bounded operating envelope to a fixed landing site with zero terminal velocity.

By Zhenbo Wang
arXiv AI
Jul 2

GPU-Parallel Linearization Error Bounds for Real-Time Robust Optimal Control of Nonlinear and Neural Network Dynamics

arXiv:2607. 01203v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: This paper studies real-time robust optimal control for uncertain nonlinear systems, where linear time-varying (LTV) approximations make planning tractable but require sound linearization error bounds (LEBs) to guarantee robust constraint satisfaction.

By Jeffrey Fang, Keyi Shen, Anutam Srinivasan, Glen Chou
arXiv Machine Learning
Sep 14

VertexCBF: Improving Neural Control Barrier Functions via Vertex-Restricted Control Search

VertexCBF is a framework that learns neural control barrier functions (CBFs) by approximating the stationary Hamilton–Jacobi value function with a neural network trained through physics‑informed and sparsely supervised learning. It exploits control‑affine dynamics and a convex polytope control set to generate supervision points via GPU‑parallel vertex‑restricted tree search, ensuring the learned CBF never exceeds the specified constraint function. The method was evaluated on 15 systems, outperforming baselines by recovering larger safe sets, and demonstrated on a mobile robot that safely avoids pedestrians using a neural CBF trained with this approach.

By Bojan Deraji\'c, Sebastian Bernhard, Wolfgang H\"onig