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  1. Learning Goal-Reaching Quasimetric Geometry From Finite-Time Reachability

    Sep 30, 2026Daisuke Yamada, Travis Pence, Vikas SinghGoal-Conditioned Reinforcement LearningReachability

    Department of Computer Science University of Wisconsin–Madison · Department of Biostatistics and Medical Informatics University of Wisconsin–Madison

  2. From Semantic Decisions to Feasible Trajectories: Self-Evolving LLM-Guided Optimal Control for Narrow-Space Parking

    Sep 21, 2026Zhengbao Yao, Yuanfu Luo, Kehan XueRobust TrajectoryVehicle Dynamics

    xLean Robotics Co., Ltd.

  3. Target-Language Generation in Multilingual Models: Activation Steering and Optimal Control

    Sep 15, 2026James A. Michaelov, Carmen Amo Alonso, Tyler A. Chang +1Multilingual Language ModelsMotion-Language Alignment

    Massachusetts Institute of Technology · Stanford University · University of California San Diego

  4. Fed-Equilibrium Framework for Topological Pareto Control in Robust and Fair Clinical Federated Learning

    Sep 14, 2026Ting Xu, Henry LeungFederated LearningEquilibrium

    Department of Biomedical Engineering University of Calgary Calgary, Canada

  5. Privacy Preserving Gossip Learning

    Sep 13, 2026Erkan Bayram, Mohamed-Ali Belabbas, Tamer BaşarGossipDecentralized Learning

    University of Illinois Urbana Champaign, IL, USA

  6. Optimal control of a swimming robot based on Purcell's microswimmer model

    Aug 18, 2026Noam Berkovich Lahav, Oren Wiezel, Yizhar OrKinematic ChainOptimal Control

  7. Distribution Steering via Sliced Optimal Transport Control

    Aug 13, 2026Kaito Ito, Anqi DongOptimal Transport ApproachOptimal Control

    Department of Information Physics and Computing The University of Tokyo, Tokyo 113-8654, Japan · Department of Mathematics and Digital Futures KTH Royal Institute of Technology, 100 44 Stockholm, Sweden

  8. A Mean-Field Framework for Inference-Time Distributional Control of Diffusion Models

    Aug 9, 2026Samuel Howard, Nikolas NüskenDiffusion SamplingInference-Time Steering

    Department of Statistics, University of Oxford · Department of Mathematics, King’s College London

  9. Knowledge-Distilled End-to-End Reinforcement Learning for Smooth 6-DOF Thrust Control and Rapid Adaptation to Ocean Currents in Remotely Operated Vehicles

    Aug 9, 2026Tiankuang Wen, Huiping Li, Gang Liu +1Reinforcement Learning ControlBidirectional Thrust

    Northwestern Polytechnical University, Xi’an 710129, China · Wuhan Second Ship Design and Research Institute, Wuhan 430205, China

  10. Event-Time Hybrid Optimal Control for Robotic Table Tennis Serves

    Aug 8, 2026Thomas Gossard, Till Köpff, Andreas ZieglerTable Tennis RobotOptimal Control

  11. Rake-Compress Riccati Recursions for Parallel Scenario-Tree Model Predictive Control

    Aug 2, 2026João Sousa-PintoModel Predictive ControlLinear Quadratic Regulator

    independent researcher

  12. Generalization Bounds on Optimal Control for Transformer Training and Wasserstein Distributional Robustness

    Jul 30, 2026Kağan Akman, Naci Saldi, Serdar YükselDistributionally-Robust OptimizationGeneralization Bounds

    Department of Mathematics, Bilkent University, 06800, Ankara, Turkey · Department of Mathematics and Statistics, Queen’s University, Kingston, K7L 3N8, Ontario, Canada

  13. Self-Adaptive Learning and Model Predictive Control for Tracking Unknown Dynamics with No Regret

    Jul 29, 2026Atharva Navsalkar, Hongyu Zhou, Vasileios TzoumasModel Predictive ControlOptimal Control

    Department of Aerospace Engineering, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI 48109 USA

  14. Bridging Reinforcement Learning and Optimal Control via Feasible Action Mapping

    Jul 27, 2026Stefan Richter, Alberto Giammarino, Guillem Torrente +2Optimal ControlReinforcement Learning Control

    Richter Optimization GmbH, Vienna, Austria · Sony AI, Tokyo, Japan · Sony AI, Zurich, Switzerland

  15. Real-time optimal control with shallow recurrent decoder networks

    Jul 21, 2026Matteo Tomasetto, Francesco Braghin, J. Nathan Kutz +1Reduced-Order ModelsOptimal Control

    Department of Mechanical Engineering, Politecnico di Milano, Milano, Italy · Autodesk Research, London, UK · MOX - Department of Mathematics, Politecnico di Milano, Milano, Italy

  16. Integrity-Gated Eco-CACC: Epistemic Admissibility for Cooperative Driving at Signalized Intersections

    Jul 20, 2026Lyes Saad Saoud, Moussa AyyashTraffic Signal ControlOptimal Control

    Chicago State University, Chicago, IL 60628, USA

  17. Physics-enhanced reinforcement learning for real-time optimal control of dynamical systems

    Jul 17, 2026Matteo Tomasetto, Nicolò Botteghi, Gabriele Bruni +1Reinforcement Learning ControlOffline Reinforcement Learning

    Department of Mechanical Engineering, Politecnico di Milano, Milano, Italy · MOX - Department of Mathematics, Politecnico di Milano, Milano, Italy

  18. Steering Robustness into World Action Models via Mechanistic Interpretability and Optimal Control

    Jul 16, 2026Jihoon Hong, Julian Skifstad, Qiyue Dai +2World ModelsSteering

    Georgia Institute of Technology

  19. Information-Theoretic Adaptive Cooling for Deterministic MPPI via Entropy Feedback

    Jul 15, 2026Shuqi Wang, Wenrong Sun, Tao Han +2Model Predictive Path IntegralOptimal Control

    School of Automation & Intelligent Sensing, Shanghai Jiao Tong University, Shanghai 200240, China · Department of Physics, The Hong Kong University of Science and Technology, Hong Kong S.A.R., China

  20. Control Laguerre Tessellation: Semi-discrete Optimal Transport Over Control Systems

    Jul 10, 2026Ripon C. Sarker, Abhishek HalderOptimal ControlRobust Control

    Department of Aerospace Engineering, Iowa State University, Ames, IA 50011, USA

  21. An optimal control approach for neural network architecture adaptation with a posteriori error estimation

    Jul 8, 2026C G Krishnanunni, Thomas Scott, Tan Bui-ThanhNeural ApproximationsNeural Network Optimization

    Department of Aerospace Engineering & Engineering Mechanics, UT Austin · Oden Institute for Computational Engineering and Sciences, UT Austin.

  22. Federated Physics-Grounded Reinforcement Learning for Distributed Stability Control in Smart Grids

    Jul 6, 2026Omar Al-Refai, Ibrahim Shahbaz, Adam Ali Husseinat +1Optimal ControlMulti-Agent Reinforcement Learning

    iSTAR Lab, Texas A&M University College Station, TX, USA

  23. Optimality-Informed Neural Networks for Lunar Landing Trajectory Optimization

    Jul 2, 2026Zhenbo WangIntent-Aligned Autonomous Spacecraft GuidanceOptimal Control

    Department of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering The University of Tennessee 1512 Middle Drive, Knoxville, TN 37996

  24. Histogram-constrained Image Generation

    Jun 30, 2026Haoming Liu, Yuanhe Guo, Yijia Cao +2Multi-Reference Image GenerationGenerative Models

    Center for Data Science, New York University Shanghai, Shanghai, China · New York University, New York, USA

  25. Entropy Regularized Reinforcement Learning for Zero-Sum Stochastic Differential Games in a Regime-Switching Jump-Diffusion Process

    Jun 27, 2026Congde Hu, Zhuo Jin, Danping Li +1Observable Stochastic GameEntropy Regularized Reinforcement Learning

    School of Mathematics and Statistics, Anhui Normal University, Wuhu, 241002, Anhui, China. · Department of Actuarial Studies and Business Analytics, Macquarie University, Sydney, 2109, NSW, Australia. · School of Statistics, KLATASDS-MOE, China Inclusive Ageing Finance Research Center, East China Normal University, Shanghai, 200062, Shanghai, China.

  26. Adaptive Utility driven Resource Orchestration for Resilient AI (AURORA-AI)

    Jun 25, 2026Rahul Umesh Mhapsekar, Ilias Cherkaoui, Lizy Abraham +1Artificial Intelligence DeploymentOrchestration

    Walton Institute, South East Technological University, Waterford, Ireland

  27. Parallel Dynamic Programming for Conic Linear Quadratic Control

    Jun 23, 2026Luyao Zhang, Gabriel Bravo-Palacios, Brian Plancher +1Linear Quadratic RegulatorOptimal Control

    Delft Center for Systems and Control, TU Delft, The Netherlands · Barnard College, Columbia University, New York, NY 10027 USA · & Dartmouth College, Hanover, NH 03755, USA

  28. Hessian-augmented Supervised Learning for Hamilton-Jacobi-Bellman PDEs

    Jun 22, 2026Matías Gómez-Aedo, Behzad Azmi, Yuyang Huang +2Optimal ControlHamilton-Jacobi Reachability

    Department of Mathematics, Imperial College London, South Kensington Campus, SW7 2AZ London, UK · Department of Mathematics and Statistics, University of Konstanz, Germany · RICAM and Institute of Mathematics and Scientific Computing, University of Graz, Austria

  29. A Relaxed Quadratic-Program-based Framework for Trajectory Tracking of Unicycle Robots with Singularity Avoidance

    Jun 22, 2026Hamza Tariq, Usman Ali, Adeel AkhtarRobust TrajectoryQuadratic Programs

    Department of Mechanical & Industrial Engineering at the New Jersey Institute of Technology, Newark, NJ 07102, USA · School of Engineering and Sustainable Development at the De Montfort University, Leicester, LE1 9BH, UK

  30. Horizon-Uniform Sensitivity Certificates for Finite-Horizon Pontryagin Systems

    Jun 16, 2026Pyuyi Chufeng Huang, Zikang Song, Xingshu ChenLyapunov FunctionOptimal Control

    School of Cyber Science and Engineering, Sichuan University, Chengdu, Sichuan, China · School of Mathematics, Sichuan University, Chengdu, Sichuan, China

  31. Elastic ODYN: Differentiable Optimization for Infeasible Control and Learning in Robotics

    Jun 15, 2026Aristotelis Papatheodorou, Jose Rojas, Ioannis Havoutis +1Quadratic ProgramsOptimal Control

    Department of Engineering Science, University of Oxford, Oxford, UK · Robot Motor Intelligence (RoMI) Lab, Heriot-Watt University, Edinburgh, UK

  32. Dual-Network PINNs for Optimal Control: A Reproducible Benchmark on the Mass-Spring-Damper System

    Jun 13, 2026Abdeladhim Tahimi, Rinaldo Vieira da Silva JuniorParametric Physics-Informed Neural NetworkOptimal Control

    Centro de Engenharias e Ciˆencias Agr´arias, Universidade Federal de Alagoas, Brazil

  33. An integrated interpretable control effectiveness learning and nonlinear control allocation methodology for overactuated aircrafts

    Jun 11, 2026Umut Demir, Aamir Ahmad, Walter FichterNonlinear DynamicsOptimal Control

    University of Stuttgart, Faculty of Aerospace Engineering and Geodesy, Institute of Flight Mechanics and Control (iFR), Germany.

  34. Neural Architectures as Functional Priors in Physics-Informed Control Problems

    Jun 11, 2026Sonia Rubio Herranz, Fernando Carlos López Hernández, Antonio López MontesLearning-Based ControlParametric Physics-Informed Neural Network

    Department of Statistics and Operations Research (EIO), Universidad Complutense de Madrid, 28040 Madrid, Spain · Department of Software Engineering and Artificial Intelligence, Universidad Complutense de Madrid, 28040 Madrid, Spain · Department of Analysis and Applied Mathematics, Universidad Complutense de Madrid, 28040 Madrid, Spain

  35. Deterministic Policy Gradient for Learning Equilibrium in Time-Inconsistent Control Problems

    Jun 10, 2026Xin Guo, Yijie Huang, Xiang YuOptimal ControlPortfolio Optimization

    Department of Industrial Engineering and Operations Research, University of California, Berkeley, USA. · Department of Applied Mathematics, The Hong Kong Polytechnic University, Kowloon, Hong Kong.

  36. Gradient based Bilevel for Inverse Optimal Control, a Riemannian approach

    Jun 9, 2026Ahmed-Manaf Dahmani, Vincent Bonnet, David Daney +1Optimal ControlShape Optimization

    INRIA Bordeaux, Universit´e de Bordeaux, Talence, France · INRIA Nancy, Universit´e de Lorraine, Villers-l`es-Nancy, France · LAAS-CNRS, Universit´e de Toulouse, CNRS, Toulouse, France

  37. Families of Control-Cost-Parametrized Inverse-Optimal Universal Stabilizers

    Jun 8, 2026Miroslav Krstic, Luke BhanOptimal ControlLyapunov Function

    Department of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering, University of California San Diego, La Jolla, CA 92093-0411, USA · Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, University of California San Diego, La Jolla, CA 92093-0411, USA

  38. Activation Steering of Video Generation Models via Reduced-Order Linear Optimal Control

    Jun 3, 2026Jihoon Hong, Alice Chan, Qiyue Dai +2Linear Activation SteeringVideo Generation

    Georgia Institute of Technology Atlanta, GA 30308

  39. Global Convergence of a Line-Search Filter Differential Dynamic Programming Method

    May 31, 2026Ming Xu, Iman ShamesOptimal ControlInequality Constraints

    School of Computer and Communication Sciences EPFL 1015 Lasanne, Switzerland · Department of Electrical and Electronic Engineering University of Melbourne Parkville, VIC, 3010, Australia

  40. Time-Optimal Collision Avoidance Via a Greedy Polynomial Backward Sweep

    May 31, 2026Zeno Pavanello, Frank De Veld, Roberto ArmellinCollision AvoidanceIntent-Aligned Autonomous Spacecraft Guidance

    Department of Aerospace Science and Technology (DAER), Politecnico di Milano, via Privata Giuseppe La Masa 34, Milano, 20156, Italy · Netherlands Aerospace Centre (NLR), Anthony Fokkerweg 2, Amsterdam, 1059 CM, The Netherlands · Te Pūnaha ¯Atea Auckland - Space Institute (TPA-SI), The University of Auckland, 20 Symonds Street, Auckland, 1010, New Zealand

  41. OptiWorld: Optimal Control for Video World Generation under Physical Constraints

    May 30, 2026Yu Yuan, Jianhao Yuan, Xijun Wang +4Playable Video World GenerationVideo Generation

    Purdue University · University of Oxford · SixteenMiles Labs

  42. Trajectory Planning for Non-Communicating Mobile Robots using Inverse Optimal Control

    May 29, 2026Nina Majer, Yannick Epple, Xin Ye +2Collision AvoidanceMobile Robots

    FZI Research Center for Information Technology, Haid-und-Neu-Str.10-14, 76131 Karlsruhe, Germany · Institute of Control Systems, Karlsruhe Institute of Technology, Kaiserstraße 12, 76131 Karlsruhe, Germany

  43. WINDQuant: Weight-Informed Neural Decision-Making for Global Mixed-Precision LLM Quantization

    May 26, 2026Phong Nam Huu Nguyen, Khoi M. Le, Cong-Duy T Nguyen +3Large Language Model QuantizationCredit Assignment

    CAIR, VinUniversity, Vietnam

  44. CurveRL: Principled Distribution-Aware Context Reweighting for LLM Reasoning

    May 23, 2026Ke Sun, Yizhou Zhao, Jiayi Xin +2Reinforcement Learning With Verifiable RewardReweighting

    University of Pennsylvania

  45. Real-Time Auto-Optimization in Unknown Environments via Structure-Exploiting Dual Control for Exploration and Exploitation

    May 21, 2026Shiying Dong, Haoyang Yang, Qiwei Liu +1Optimal ControlOptimization Modeling

    Department of Aeronautical and Aviation Engineering and Research Centre for Low Altitude Economy (RCLAE), the Hong Kong Polytechnic University, Hong Kong, China

  46. Noise Schedule Design for Diffusion Models: An Optimal Control Perspective

    May 21, 2026Seo Taek Kong, Weina Wang, R. SrikantDiffusion ModelsOptimal Control

    ECE & CSL University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign · Computer Science Department Carnegie Mellon University · ECE, CSL & NCSA University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign

  47. Take It or Leave It: Intent-Controlled Partial Optimal Transport

    May 19, 2026Salil Parth Tripathi, Bertrand Chapron, Fabrice Collard +2RejectionOptimal Control

    OceanDataLab · Ifremer · Université Bretagne Sud +1

  48. Transformer-like Inference from Optimal Control

    May 15, 2026Aditya Kudre, Heng-Sheng Chang, Prashant G. MehtaTransformer EncoderTransformer Architectures

    Coordinated Science Laboratory · Electrical and Computer Engineering · University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign +1

  49. Universal Approximation of Nonlinear Operators and Their Derivatives

    May 14, 2026Filippo de FeoNonlinear OperatorsNeural Approximations

    Institut für Mathematik, Technische Universität Berlin.

  50. Language Generation as Optimal Control: Closed-Loop Diffusion in Latent Control Space

    May 14, 2026ZiYi Dong, Yuliang Huang, Weijian Deng +3Diffusion Language ModelsStochastic Optimal Control

    Sun Yat-sen University, Guangzhou, Guangdong, China · Australian National University, Canberra, ACT, Australia · Tsinghua University, Beijing, China

  51. Motion Planning for Autonomous Vehicles using Optimization over Graphs of Convex Sets

    May 13, 2026Matheus Wagner, Antônio Augusto FröhlichMotion PlanningVehicle Dynamics

    Software/Hardware Integration Lab, Federal University of Santa Catarina, Florian´opolis, Brazil

  52. Mutual Information Optimal Density Control of Linear Systems and Generalized Schrödinger Bridges with Reference Refinement

    May 10, 2026Shoju Enami, Kenji KashimaStochastic Optimal ControlOptimal Control

    Graduate School of Informatics, Kyoto University, Kyoto, Japan

  53. SHIELD: Scalable Optimal Control with Certification using Duality and Convexity

    May 9, 2026Hansung Kim, Siddharth H. Nair, Francesco BorrelliModel Predictive ControlOptimal Control

    Model Predictive Control Laboratory, UC Berkeley · Nextracker Inc.

  54. SNAPO: Smooth Neural Adjoint Policy Optimization for Optimal Control via Differentiable Simulation

    May 7, 2026Dmitri Goloubentsev, Natalija KarpichinaFrictive Policy OptimizationAdjoint Matching

    MatLogica, U.K.

  55. Dynamic Controlled Variables Based Dynamic Self-Optimizing Control

    May 7, 2026Chenchen Zhou, Shaoqi Wang, Hongxin Su +3Optimal ControlPrompt Optimization

    College of Chemical and Biological Engineering, Zhejiang University, Hangzhou, Zhejiang Province, P.R. China · Institute of Zhejiang University-Quzhou, Quzhou, Zhejiang Province, P.R. China

  56. TabCF: Distributional Control Function Estimation with Tabular Foundation Models

    May 7, 2026Geping Chen, Chunlin Li, Tianzhong Yang +2Causal InferencesTabular Foundation Models

    Iowa State University · University of Virginia · University of Minnesota +1

  57. Stabilizing LLM Supervised Fine-Tuning via Explicit Distributional Control

    May 6, 2026Xinyu Wang, Changzhi Sun, Yuanbin Wu +1Model Fine-TuningSparse Spatial Anchors

    School of Computer Science and Technology, East China Normal University, Shanghai, China · TeleAI, Shanghai, China

  58. Layerwise LQR for Geometry-Aware Optimization of Deep Networks

    May 5, 2026Simon Dufort-Labbé, Pierre-Luc Bacon, Razvan Pascanu +2Spectral PreconditioningNeural Network Optimization

    Mila, Université de Montréal · Samsung – SAIL Montreal

  59. Adaptive Estimation and Optimal Control in Offline Contextual MDPs without Stationarity

    May 5, 2026Riddhiman Bhattacharyya, Sayak Chakrabarty, Imon BanerjeeMarkov Decision ProcessesOptimal Control

    Department of Statistics, University of California, Santa Cruz Santa Cruz, California, USA · Department of Computer Science Northwestern University Evanston, IL, USA · Department of Industrial Engineering and Management Sciences Northwestern University Evanston, IL, USA

  60. Optimized and kinematically feasible multi-agent motion planning

    May 3, 2026Anja Hellander, Kristoffer Bergman, Daniel AxehillMotion PlanningRobot Planning

    Division of Automatic Control, Linköping University, Sweden · Saab AB, Linköping, Sweden