arXiv Machine Learning
Oct 22

A Decade of Learning-Based Control: From Theoretic Foundations to Practical Deployment

This tutorial paper reviews a decade of advances at the intersection of machine learning and control, focusing on methods that blend machine learning flexibility with control theory’s structure to create capable, reliable, and safe autonomous systems. It covers core concepts for stability and safety, learning dynamics models to handle uncertainty, and data‑driven policy synthesis techniques such as reinforcement learning, imitation learning, and Bayesian optimization. Representative applications and open challenges are discussed, and the authors provide implementations, examples, and additional resources on their website.

By Angela P. Schoellig, Matthias A. M\"uller, Sebastian Trimpe, Melanie N. Zeilinger, Mahathi Anand, Andrea Carron, Oliver Hausd\"orfer, Victor G. Lopez, Friedrich Solowjow, Haocheng Zhao, Siqi Zhou
arXiv Machine Learning
Sep 18

Demystifying Linear Operator Learning for Control Systems

The paper introduces a structured method for learning linear operators in control systems using data. It leverages the framework of (semi)groups for evolution equations to establish structural assumptions and applies inverse‑problems theory to analyze learning algorithms, revealing error decompositions, convergence guarantees, and optimal regularization. Focusing on bounded operators on Hilbert spaces, the authors derive a convergent estimator for time‑varying systems, illustrating the practical power of their approach.

By Max Beier, Nicolas Hoischen, Sandra Hirche, Petar Bevanda
arXiv Machine Learning
Jun 29

PAC-Bayesian Certificates for Quadratic Closed-Loop Control

arXiv:2606. 28281v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: PAC-Bayesian bounds provide finite-sample guarantees for data-dependent randomized predictors, but applying them to learning-based control is difficult because the natural objective is a quadratic trajectory cost.

By Domagoj Herceg