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  1. Progressive Optimal Path Sampling for Closed-Loop Optimal Control Design with Deep Neural Networks

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    Closed-loop optimal control design for high-dimensional nonlinear systems has been a long-standing challenge. Traditional methods, such as solving the associated Hamilton-Jacobi-Bellman equation, suffer …
  2. DISCO: learning to DISCover an evolution Operator for multi-physics-agnostic prediction

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    We address the problem of predicting the next states of a dynamical system governed by unknown temporal partial differential equations (PDEs) using only a short trajectory. While standard …
  3. Learning Free Terminal Time Optimal Closed-loop Control of Manipulators

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    This paper presents a novel approach to learning free terminal time closed-loop control for robotic manipulation tasks, enabling dynamic adjustment of task duration and control inputs to …
  4. Neural operator-based super-fidelity: A warm-start approach for accelerating steady-state simulations

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    … presents a promising strategy for accelerated solving of steady-state PDEs using neural operators, ensuring high accuracy in applications where precision is of utmost importance.
  5. Solving optimal control problems of rigid-body dynamics with collisions using the hybrid minimum principle

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    Collisions are common in many dynamical systems with real applications. They can be formulated as hybrid dynamical systems with discontinuities automatically triggered when states transverse certain manifolds. We …
  6. Provable Posterior Sampling with Denoising Oracles via Tilted Transport

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    Score-based diffusion models have significantly advanced high-dimensional data generation across various domains, by learning a denoising oracle (or score) from datasets. From a Bayesian perspective, they …
  7. Offline supervised learning vs online direct policy optimization: A comparative study and a unified training paradigm for neural network-based optimal feedback control

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    This work is concerned with solving neural network-based feedback controllers efficiently for optimal control problems. We first conduct a comparative study of two prevalent approaches: offline supervised …
  8. Escaping saddle points efficiently with occupation-time-adapted perturbation

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    Motivated by the super-diffusivity of self-repelling random walk, which has roots in statistical physics, this paper develops a new perturbation mechanism for optimization algorithms. In this …
  9. Deep reinforcement learning in finite-horizon to explore the most probable transition pathway

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    In many scientific and engineering problems, noise and nonlinearity are unavoidable, which could induce interesting mathematical problem such as transition phenomena. This paper focuses on efficiently discovering the …
  10. Stochastic Optimal Control Matching

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    Stochastic optimal control, which has the goal of driving the behavior of noisy systems, is broadly applicable in science, engineering and artificial intelligence. Our work introduces Stochastic Optimal …
  11. Learning High-Dimensional McKean–Vlasov Forward-Backward Stochastic Differential Equations with General Distribution Dependence

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    One of the core problems in mean-field control and mean-field games is to solve the corresponding McKean–Vlasov forward-backward stochastic differential equations (MV-FBSDEs). Most …
  12. A class of dimensionality-free metrics for the convergence of empirical measures

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    This paper concerns the convergence of empirical measures in high dimensions. We propose a new class of probability metrics and show that under such metrics, the convergence is …
  13. A Neural Network Warm-Start Approach for the Inverse Acoustic Obstacle Scattering Problem

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    In this paper, we consider the inverse acoustic obstacle problem for sound-soft star-shaped obstacles in two dimensions wherein the boundary of the obstacle is determined from …
  14. Reinforcement learning with function approximation: From linear to nonlinear

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    Function approximation has been an indispensable component in modern reinforcement learning algorithms designed to tackle problems with large state spaces in high dimensions. This paper reviews recent results …
  15. An equivariant neural operator for developing nonlocal tensorial constitutive models

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    Developing robust constitutive models is a fundamental and longstanding problem for accelerating the simulation of complicated physics. Machine learning provides promising tools to construct constitutive models based on …
  16. DeePMD-kit v2: A software package for deep potential models

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    DeePMD-kit is a powerful open-source software package that facilitates molecular dynamics simulations using machine learning potentials known as Deep Potential (DP) models. This package, which was …
  17. Improving Gradient Computation for Differentiable Physics Simulation with Contacts

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    Differentiable simulation enables gradients to be back-propagated through physics simulations. In this way, one can learn the dynamics and properties of a physics system by gradient-based …
  18. A PDE-free, neural network-based eddy viscosity model coupled with RANS equations

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    In fluid dynamics, constitutive models are often used to describe the unresolved turbulence and to close the Reynolds averaged Navier–Stokes (RANS) equations. Traditional PDE-based constitutive models …
  19. Frame invariance and scalability of neural operators for partial differential equations

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    Partial differential equations (PDEs) play a dominant role in the mathematical modeling of many complex dynamical processes. Solving these PDEs often requires prohibitively high computational costs, especially when …
  20. Neural-Network Quantum States for Periodic Systems in Continuous Space

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    We introduce a family of neural quantum states for the simulation of strongly interacting systems in the presence of spatial periodicity. Our variational state is parametrized in terms …
  21. Pandemic Control, Game Theory, and Machine Learning

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    Game theory has been an effective tool in the control of disease spread and in suggesting optimal policies at both individual and area levels. In this AMS Notices …
  22. Perturbational Complexity by Distribution Mismatch: A Systematic Analysis of Reinforcement Learning in Reproducing Kernel Hilbert Space

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    Most existing theoretical analysis of reinforcement learning (RL) is limited to the tabular setting or linear models due to the difficulty in dealing with function approximation in high …
  23. DeepHAM: A Global Solution Method for Heterogeneous Agent Models with Aggregate Shocks

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    An efficient, reliable, and interpretable global solution method, the Deep learning-based algorithm for Heterogeneous Agent Models (DeepHAM), is proposed for solving high dimensional heterogeneous agent models with …
  24. Algorithms for solving high dimensional PDEs: from nonlinear Monte Carlo to machine learning

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    In recent years, tremendous progress has been made on numerical algorithms for solving partial differential equations (PDEs) in a very high dimension, using ideas from either nonlinear (multilevel …

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