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Publications (6)

eess.SY2025

Facilitating Reinforcement Learning for Process Control Using Transfer Learning: Overview and Perspectives

Runze Lin, Junghui Chen, Lei Xie +1

In the context of Industry 4.0 and smart manufacturing, the field of process industry optimization and control is also undergoing a digital transformation. With the rise of Deep Re…

eess.SY2025

Multi-Mode Process Control Using Multi-Task Inverse Reinforcement Learning

Runze Lin, Junghui Chen, Biao Huang +2

In the era of Industry 4.0 and smart manufacturing, process systems engineering must adapt to digital transformation. While reinforcement learning offers a model-free approach to p…

math.DG2026

Quantitative Stability for Minimizing Yamabe Metrics with minimal boundary

Runze Lin, Bao Yu

In this paper, we investigate the stability of minimizing Yamabe metrics on compact manifolds with boundary, in the sense introduced by Escobar. We show that if a function nearly m…

eess.SY2026

Iterative Learning Control-Informed Reinforcement Learning for Batch Process Control

Runze Lin, Ziqi Zhuo, Junghui Chen +2

A significant limitation of Deep Reinforcement Learning (DRL) is the stochastic uncertainty in actions generated during exploration-exploitation, which poses substantial safety ris…

eess.SY2023

Surrogate Empowered Sim2Real Transfer of Deep Reinforcement Learning for ORC Superheat Control

Runze Lin, Yangyang Luo, Xialai Wu +4

The Organic Rankine Cycle (ORC) is widely used in industrial waste heat recovery due to its simple structure and easy maintenance. However, in the context of smart manufacturing in…

eess.SY2025

Reinforcement Learning-Driven Plant-Wide Refinery Planning Using Model Decomposition

Zhouchang Li, Runze Lin, Hongye Su +1

In the era of smart manufacturing and Industry 4.0, the refining industry is evolving towards large-scale integration and flexible production systems. In response to these new dema…