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Publications (25)

cs.AI2025

Is AI currently capable of identifying wild oysters? A comparison of human annotators against the AI model, ODYSSEE

Brendan Campbell, Alan Williams, Kleio Baxevani +11

Oysters are ecologically and commercially important species that require frequent monitoring to track population demographics (e.g. abundance, growth, mortality). Current methods o…

math.OC2026

MPC and System Identification with Differentiable Physics: Fluid System and Particle Beam Control

Alan Williams, Alp Sunol

We consider the problem of simultaneous control and parameter estimation when the model is available only as a differentiable physics simulator. We propose a receding-horizon contr…

math.OC2026

Nested Extremum Seeking Converges to Stackelberg Equilibrium

Brad Ratto, Alan Williams, Miroslav Krstić +2

The nested Extremum Seeking (nES) algorithm is a model-free optimization method that has been shown to converge to a neighborhood of a Nash equilibrium. In this work, we demonstrat…

q-bio.NC2003

Random Walks for Spike-Timing Dependent Plasticity

Alan Williams, Todd K. Leen, Patrick D. Roberts

Random walk methods are used to calculate the moments of negative image equilibrium distributions in synaptic weight dynamics governed by spike-timing dependent plasticity (STDP).…

physics.acc-ph2025

Adaptive conditional latent diffusion maps beam loss to 2D phase space projections

Alexander Scheinker, Alan Williams

Beam loss (BLM) and beam current monitors (BCM) are ubiquitous at particle accelerator around the world. These simple devices provide non-invasive high level beam measurements, but…

math.CO2020

-detachable pairs in 3-connected matroids I: unveiling

Nick Brettell, Geoff Whittle, Alan Williams

Let be a 3-connected matroid, and let be a 3-connected minor of . We say that a pair is -detachable if one of the matroids or…