3 papers
math.OC2025
Beyond Smoothness and Convexity: Optimization via sampling
Nahom Seyoum, Haoxiang You
This work explores a novel perspective on solving nonconvex and nonsmooth optimization problems by leveraging sampling based methods. Instead of treating the objective function pur…
cs.LG2025
Accelerating Visual-Policy Learning through Parallel Differentiable Simulation
Haoxiang You, Yilang Liu, Ian Abraham
In this work, we propose a computationally efficient algorithm for visual policy learning that leverages differentiable simulation and first-order analytical policy gradients. Our…
cs.LG2025
Is Bellman Equation Enough for Learning Control?
Haoxiang You, Lekan Molu, Ian Abraham
The Bellman equation and its continuous-time counterpart, the Hamilton-Jacobi-Bellman (HJB) equation, serve as necessary conditions for optimality in reinforcement learning and opt…