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Linear Hamilton Jacobi Bellman Equations in High Dimensions
The Hamilton Jacobi Bellman Equation (HJB) provides the globally optimal
solution to large classes of control problems. Unfortunately, this generality
comes at a price, the calculation of such solutions is typically intractible
for systems with more than moderate state space size due to the curse of
dimensionality. This work combines recent results in the structure of the HJB,
and its reduction to a linear Partial Differential Equation (PDE), with methods
based on low rank tensor representations, known as a separated representations,
to address the curse of dimensionality. The result is an algorithm to solve
optimal control problems which scales linearly with the number of states in a
system, and is applicable to systems that are nonlinear with stochastic forcing
in finite-horizon, average cost, and first-exit settings. The method is
demonstrated on inverted pendulum, VTOL aircraft, and quadcopter models, with
system dimension two, six, and twelve respectively.Comment: 8 pages. Accepted to CDC 201
Parametric t-Distributed Stochastic Exemplar-centered Embedding
Parametric embedding methods such as parametric t-SNE (pt-SNE) have been
widely adopted for data visualization and out-of-sample data embedding without
further computationally expensive optimization or approximation. However, the
performance of pt-SNE is highly sensitive to the hyper-parameter batch size due
to conflicting optimization goals, and often produces dramatically different
embeddings with different choices of user-defined perplexities. To effectively
solve these issues, we present parametric t-distributed stochastic
exemplar-centered embedding methods. Our strategy learns embedding parameters
by comparing given data only with precomputed exemplars, resulting in a cost
function with linear computational and memory complexity, which is further
reduced by noise contrastive samples. Moreover, we propose a shallow embedding
network with high-order feature interactions for data visualization, which is
much easier to tune but produces comparable performance in contrast to a deep
neural network employed by pt-SNE. We empirically demonstrate, using several
benchmark datasets, that our proposed methods significantly outperform pt-SNE
in terms of robustness, visual effects, and quantitative evaluations.Comment: fixed typo
Multidimensional approximation of nonlinear dynamical systems
A key task in the field of modeling and analyzing nonlinear dynamical systems is the recovery of unknown governing equations from measurement data only. There is a wide range of application areas for this important instance of system identification, ranging from industrial engineering and acoustic signal processing to stock market models. In order to find appropriate representations of underlying dynamical systems, various data-driven methods have been proposed by different communities. However, if the given data sets are high-dimensional, then these methods typically suffer from the curse of dimensionality. To significantly reduce the computational costs and storage consumption, we propose the method multidimensional approximation of nonlinear dynamical systems (MANDy) which combines data-driven methods with tensor network decompositions. The efficiency of the introduced approach will be illustrated with the aid of several high-dimensional nonlinear dynamical systems
On the mathematical Structure of Quantum Measurement Theory
We show that the key problems of quantum measurement theory, namely the
reduction of the wave packet of a microsystem and the specification of its
quantum state by a macroscopic measuring instrument, may be rigorously resolved
within the traditional framework of the quantum mechanics of finite
conservative systems. The argument is centred on the generic model of a
microsystem, S, coupled to a finite macroscopic measuring instrument, I, which
itself is an N-particle quantum system. The pointer positions of I correspond
to the macrostates of this instrument, as represented by orthogonal subspaces
of the Hilbert space of its pure states. These subspaces, or 'phase cells', are
the simultaneous eigenspaces of a set of coarse grained intercommuting
macroscopic observables, M, and, crucially, are of astronomically large
dimensionalities, which incease exponentially with N. We formulate conditions
on the conservative dynamics of the composite (S+I) under which it yields both
a reduction of the wave packet describing the state of S and a one-to-one
correspondence, following a measurement, between the pointer position of I and
the resultant state of S; and we show that these conditions are fulfilled by
the finite version of the Coleman-Hepp model.Comment: 20 pages, minor correstions installed, to appear in Rep. Math. Phy
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