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9 papers

eess.SY2026

Fundamental Limitations of Data-Driven Control: A Statistical Decision Perspective

Jiabao He, Feiran Zhao, Yushan Li +3

Substantial research efforts have been devoted to the design of data-driven controllers; however, comparatively less is known about their statistical performance and fundamental li…

math.OC2026

Adaptive Linear Quadratic Control of Unknown Linear Time-Varying Systems via Policy Gradient Methods

Feiran Zhao, Florian Dörfler

Unknown linear time-varying (LTV) systems require the control policy to adapt from online closed-loop data as dynamics evolve. Existing methods usually update the policy by solving…

eess.SY2026

A Data-Enabled Primal-Dual Approach for Policy Learning with SDP Formulations

Han Wang, Feiran Zhao, Florian Dorfler

This paper develops a data-enabled primal-dual framework for learning optimal control policies for unknown linear discrete-time systems from online data. The proposed approach view…

eess.SY2026

On the Effect of Quadratic Regularization in Direct Data-Driven LQR

Manuel Klädtke, Feiran Zhao, Florian Dörfler +1

This paper proposes an explainability concept for direct data-driven linear quadratic regulation (LQR) with quadratic regularization. Our perspective follows the parametric effect…

math.OC2026

A Bayesian Perspective on the Data-Driven LQR

Thierry Schwaller, Feiran Zhao, Florian Dörfler

The data-driven linear quadratic regulator (ddLQR) is a widely studied control method for unknown dynamical systems with disturbance. Existing approaches, both indirect, i.e., thos…

math.OC2026

Adaptive Control of Unknown Linear Switched Systems via Policy Gradient Methods

Felix Laurent, Feiran Zhao, Jaap Eising +1

We consider the policy gradient adaptive control (PGAC) framework, which adaptively updates a control policy in real time, by performing data-based gradient descent steps on the li…