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math.OC2026

Sparsity in control problems: Recent trends and open challenges

Luca Ballotta, Geethu Joseph, Geethu Josephb +7

As in all fields of engineering, control engineers constantly face a dichotomy between achieving high performance and the limited availability of resources for sensing, actuation,…

cs.MA2026

Submodular Policy Learning for Distributed Task Allocation in Open Multi-Agent Systems

Jing Liu, Luca Ballotta, Yangyang Yang +3

This paper studies policy learning for distributed task allocation in open multi-agent systems, where agents may join and leave in a time-varying fashion, with submodular stage tea…

math.OC2026

Adaptive Stepsizes With Certified Convergence in Distributed Gradient Tracking With Quadratic Costs

Yifan Wang, Luca Ballotta, Ruggero Carli +3

In this work, we propose an adaptive stepsize rule with guaranteed convergence for Distributed Gradient Tracking applied to scalar quadratic problems with heterogeneous curvatures.…

math.OC2026

Pursuing Optimal Stepsize in Adaptive Gradient-Based Quadratic Optimization

Yifan Wang, Luca Ballotta, Ruggero Carli +2

In this paper, we address the problem of achieving fast convergence in gradient descent for quadratic functions without relying on a priori knowledge of global function parameters.…

eess.SY2026

Submodular Multi-Agent Policy Learning for Online Distributed Task Allocation in Open Multi-Agent Systems

Jing Liu, Yangyang Yang, Luca Ballotta +3

This paper studies multi-agent reinforcement learning with submodular team utilities for online distributed task allocation. In this setting, each agent selects one action from a l…