Abstract: The promise of model-predictive control (MPC) in robotics has led to extensive development of efficient numerical optimal control solvers in line with differential dynamic programming ...

can be solved by solving an equivalent linear complementarity problem when H is positive semidefinite. The approach is outlined in the discussion of the LCP subroutine in Chapter 17, "Language ...

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We consider the optimal scheduling of hydropower plants in a hydrothermal interconnected system. This problem, of outmost importance for large-scale power systems with a high proportion of hydraulic ...

Abstract: Motivated by modern applications such as computerized adaptive testing, sequential rank aggregation, and heterogeneous data source selection, we study the problem of active sequential ...

QIHD (Quantum-Inspired Hamiltonian Descent) is a quantum-inspired, GPU-enabled algorithmic framework for solving mixed-integer quadratic programming (MIQP) problems. MIQP is a classic optimization ...