Questions tagged [optimal-control]
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What kind of algorithm is this: water foraging
I am pondering if a machine learning problem might be better formulated as a reinforcement or control problem. I have no experience with the latter, so bear with me.
Let's say I am organising a tour ...
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In a binary logistic regression context, how to introduce a constraint to model the dependency between consecutive samples
Imagine we are running a logistic regression to identify opportunities for car sale promotion, using previous promotion campaign's result. Each $y$ is the increase of car sale after the promotion.
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Control variables and cofounding effects in stochastic programming/,model predictive control/reinforcement learning
How can we be sure that confounding variables/control variables don’t pickup the effect our decisions w.r.t decision variables had on the actual control variable?
Since the term control variable ...
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How to establish the optimal value functions and optimal control policy for a controlled random walk problem?
Question: How to establish an explicit characterization of both the optimal value functions and the optimal control policy for a controlled random walk?
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Assume our system is a perfectly-...
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Simple inventory control with stochastic demand
There is a factory that produces one unit of stock uniformly so that $q$ units of stock are produced during a day. The warehouse near a factory has the maximal capacity of $q$ items, i.e. a daily ...
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Resource allocation problem - RL or stochastic optimization?
I am currently working on a resource allocation problem and I am uncertain about which field of stochastic optimization and reinforcement learning encompasses this particular problem.
The objective is ...
