2 papers
cs.LG2025
BOND: License to Train with Black-Box Functions
Andrew Clark, Jack Moursounidis, Osmaan Rasouli +3
We introduce Bounded Numerical Differentiation (BOND), a perturbative method for estimating the gradients of black-box functions. BOND is distinguished by its formulation, which ad…
math.OC2023
Almost-Sure Safety Guarantees of Stochastic Zero-Control Barrier Functions Do Not Hold
Oswin So, Andrew Clark, Chuchu Fan
The 2021 paper "Control barrier functions for stochastic systems" provides theorems that give almost sure safety guarantees given stochastic zero control barrier function (ZCBF). U…