The paper extends Mixed-Integer Differentiable Predictive Control (MI‑DPC) to handle multi‑modal discrete decisions and nonconvex polynomial dynamics in Underground Pumped Hydro Energy Storage Systems (UPHES). It introduces a neural policy that maps problem parameters to continuous setpoints and integer mode selections using a Gumbel‑Softmax layer, trained via self‑supervised differentiation of the finite‑horizon control objective. Key methodological advances include a parallel differentiable simulator, a Transformer encoder for long‑range temporal dependencies, and a Gumbel‑Softmax temperature annealing schedule, enabling the framework to achieve only 1.6% suboptimality compared to a mixed‑integer quadratic programming baseline while providing a five‑order‑of‑magnitude speedup in online scheduling.
arXiv:2610.02528v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: We introduce an autoregressive differentiable method to solve 0-1 integer programs. We fix an arbitrary order of the binary variables and we train a tr...
arXiv:2608. 02343v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Many operational problems are constrained sequential decision processes with large, combinatorial action spaces and interdependent feasibility constraints.
arXiv:2608.28791v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Real-time decision-making for enhanced geothermal systems (EGS) is challenging because long-term production periods involve high-dimensional control sp...
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:2606. 10286v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Open-pit mine scheduling is a critical process for maximizing economic return under complex geotechnical and operational constraints.
arXiv:2608. 00484v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Soft robotic substrates are promising for Physical Reservoir Computing (PRC) because their compliant nonlinear dynamics can provide temporal memory, high-dimensional state transformations, and efficient inference.
arXiv:2602. 18109v3 Announce Type: replace Abstract: Real-time schedulers must reason about tight deadlines under strict compute budgets.
The paper presents a differentiable hybrid modelling framework that combines a JAX finite volume population balance solver with neural network components to learn constitutive laws and initial conditions directly from experimental data. This approach addresses biases from hand‑picked models and the limitations of black‑box surrogates, enabling more accurate transport predictions. The framework’s differentiability also facilitates optimisation of experimental settings for desired process outcomes.
arXiv:2605. 04568v3 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: State-of-the-art model-based Reinforcement Learning (RL) approaches either use gradient-free, population-based methods for planning, learned policy networks, or a combination of policy networks and planning.
The paper presents a differentiable hybrid modelling framework that combines a JAX finite volume population balance solver with learnable neural network components. This approach learns constitutive laws and initial conditions directly from experimental data, improving the fidelity of transport models in chemical engineering. The framework’s differentiability also enables optimisation of experimental settings for desired process outcomes.
arXiv:2601.03679v2 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: Decarbonization of isolated or off-grid energy systems through phase-in of large shares of intermittent solar or wind generation requires co-...
arXiv:2608. 08804v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: With advancements in long-distance wireless power transfer (WPT) and space-based energy technologies, integrating WPT into non-terrestrial networks (NTNs), referred to as NTN-WPT, is emerging as a promising approach for next-generation wireless networks.