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Prying Pedestrian Surveillance-Evasion: Minimum-Time Evasion from an Agile Pursuer
Philipp Braun, Timothy L. Molloy, Iman Shames
A new surveillance-evasion differential game is posed and solved in which an agile pursuer (the prying pedestrian) seeks to remain within a given surveillance range of a less agile…
math.OC2024
Minimisation of Polyak-Łojasewicz Functions Using Random Zeroth-Order Oracles
Amir Ali Farzin, Iman Shames
The application of a zeroth-order scheme for minimising Polyak-Łojasewicz (PL) functions is considered. The framework is based on exploiting a random oracle to estimate the functio…