% Bibtex file of Laurent Lessard's publications % To ensure the links work properly, add the following to your preamble: % \usepackage[hidelinks]{hyperref} % Automatically generated on June 1, 2023. % PREPRINTS/SUBMITTED MANUSCRIPTS @article{sips, author = {Saman Cyrus and Laurent Lessard}, journal = {arXiv e-print}, title = {{Generalized necessary and sufficient robust boundedness results for feedback systems}}, year = 2023, note = {{\url{http://arxiv.org/abs/2101.01900}}} } @article{rdlqr, author = {Mruganka Kashyap and Laurent Lessard}, journal = {arXiv e-print}, title = {{Guaranteed Stability Margins for Decentralized Linear Quadratic Regulators}}, year = 2023, note = {{\url{http://arxiv.org/abs/2304.07576}}} } @article{dyndj, author = {Mruganka Kashyap and Laurent Lessard}, journal = {arXiv e-print}, title = {{Optimal control of multi-agent systems with processing delays}}, year = 2022, note = {{\url{http://arxiv.org/abs/2207.10294}}} } @article{leuk, author = {Margaret P. Chapman and Emily Jensen and Steven M. Chan and Laurent Lessard}, journal = {arXiv e-print}, title = {{Information-theoretic multi-time-scale partially observable systems with relevance to leukemia treatment}}, year = 2022, note = {{\url{http://arxiv.org/abs/2204.12604}}} } @article{optalg, author = {Bryan Van Scoy and Laurent Lessard}, journal = {arXiv e-print}, title = {{The speed-robustness trade-off for first-order methods with additive gradient noise}}, year = 2021, note = {{\url{http://arxiv.org/abs/2109.05059}}} } @article{eqalg, author = {Shipu Zhao and Laurent Lessard and Madeleine Udell}, journal = {arXiv e-print}, title = {{An automatic system to detect equivalence between algorithms}}, year = 2021, note = {{\url{http://arxiv.org/abs/2105.04684}}} } @article{eiqcb, author = {Ross Boczar and Laurent Lessard and Andrew Packard and Benjamin Recht}, journal = {arXiv e-print}, title = {{Exponential stability analysis via integral quadratic constraints}}, year = 2017, note = {{\url{http://arxiv.org/abs/1706.01337}}} } @article{npof1, author = {Ashutosh Nayyar and Laurent Lessard}, journal = {arXiv e-print}, title = {{Optimal control for LQG systems on graphs---Part I: structural results}}, year = 2015, note = {{\url{http://arxiv.org/abs/1408.2551}}} } % PUBLISHED JOURNAL ARTICLES @article{sunshine, author = {Melissa A. Schoenlein and Johnny Campos and Kevin J. Lande and Laurent Lessard and Karen B. Schloss}, journal = {IEEE Transactions on Visualization and Computer Graphics}, title = {{Unifying effects of direct and relational associations for visual communication}}, year = 2023, month = jan, day = 1, volume = 29, number = 1, pages = {385-395}, doi = {10.1109/TVCG.2022.3209443} } @article{optcon, author = {Bryan Van Scoy and Laurent Lessard}, journal = {IEEE Control Systems Letters}, title = {{A universal decomposition for distributed optimization algorithms}}, year = 2022, month = jun, day = 13, volume = 6, number = , pages = {3044-3049}, doi = {10.1109/LCSYS.2022.3182640} } @article{dissalg, author = {Laurent Lessard}, journal = {IEEE Control Systems Magazine}, title = {{The analysis of optimization algorithms: A dissipativity approach}}, year = 2022, month = jun, day = 1, volume = 42, number = 3, pages = {58-72}, doi = {10.1109/MCS.2022.3157115} } @article{sdthry, author = {Kushin Mukherjee and Brian Yin and Brianne E. Sherman and Laurent Lessard and Karen B. Schloss}, journal = {IEEE Transactions on Visualization and Computer Graphics}, title = {{Context matters: A theory of semantic discriminability for perceptual encoding systems}}, year = 2022, month = jan, day = 1, volume = 28, number = 1, pages = {697-706}, doi = {10.1109/TVCG.2021.3114780} } @article{giqc, author = {Guodong Zhang and Xuchan Bao and Laurent Lessard and Roger Grosse}, journal = {Journal of Machine Learning Research}, title = {{A unified analysis of first-order methods for smooth games via integral quadratic constraints}}, year = 2021, month = jun, day = 21, volume = 22, number = 103, pages = {1-39}, doi = {http://jmlr.org/papers/v22/20-1068.html} } @article{cvarb, author = {Margaret P. Chapman and Laurent Lessard}, journal = {IEEE Control Systems Letters}, title = {{Toward a scalable upper bound for a CVaR-LQ problem}}, year = 2021, month = jun, day = 7, volume = 6, number = , pages = {920-925}, doi = {10.1109/LCSYS.2021.3086842} } @article{sgdn, author = {Bin Hu and Peter Seiler and Laurent Lessard}, journal = {Mathematical Programming}, title = {{Analysis of biased stochastic gradient descent using sequential semidefinite programs}}, year = 2021, month = may, day = 1, volume = 187, number = 1, pages = {384-408}, doi = {10.1007/s10107-020-01486-1} } @article{semdisc, author = {Karen B. Schloss and Zachary Leggon and Laurent Lessard}, journal = {IEEE Transactions on Visualization and Computer Graphics}, title = {{Semantic discriminability for visual communication}}, year = 2021, month = feb, day = 1, volume = 27, number = 2, pages = {1022-1031}, doi = {10.1109/TVCG.2020.3030434} } @article{distralg, author = {Akhil Sundararajan and Bryan Van Scoy and Laurent Lessard}, journal = {IEEE Transactions on Control of Network Systems}, title = {{Analysis and design of first-order distributed optimization algorithms over time-varying graphs}}, year = 2020, month = dec, day = 1, volume = 7, number = 4, pages = {1597-1608}, doi = {10.1109/TCNS.2020.2988009} } @article{cmap, author = {Shannon C. Sibrel and Ragini Rathore and Laurent Lessard and Karen B. Schloss}, journal = {Journal of Vision}, title = {{The relation between color and spatial structure for interpreting colormap data visualizations}}, year = 2020, month = nov, day = 1, volume = 20, number = 12, pages = {7}, doi = {10.1167/jov.20.12.7} } @article{colconest, author = {Ragini Rathore and Zachary Leggon and Laurent Lessard and Karen B. Schloss}, journal = {IEEE Transactions on Visualization and Computer Graphics}, title = {{Estimating color-concept associations from image statistics}}, year = 2020, month = jan, day = 1, volume = 26, number = 1, pages = {1226-1235}, doi = {10.1109/TVCG.2019.2934536} } @article{binoc, author = {Bradley S. Gundlach and Michel Frising and Alireza Shahsafi and Gregory Vershbow and Chenghao Wan and Jad Salman}, journal = {Nature Scientific Reports}, title = {{Design considerations for the enhancement of human color vision by breaking binocular redundancy}}, year = 2018, month = aug, day = 10, volume = 8, number = , pages = {11971}, doi = {10.1038/s41598-018-30403-y} } @article{recyc, author = {Karen B. Schloss and Laurent Lessard and Charlotte S. Walmsley and Kathleen Foley}, journal = {Cognitive Research: Principles and Implications}, title = {{Color inference in visual communication: the meaning of colors in recycling}}, year = 2018, month = feb, day = 21, volume = 3, number = 5, pages = {1-17}, doi = {10.1186/s41235-018-0090-y} } @article{colpref, author = {Karen B. Schloss and Laurent Lessard and Chris Racey and Anya C. Hurlbert}, journal = {Vision Research}, title = {{Modeling color preference using color space metrics}}, year = 2017, month = jul, day = 28, volume = 151, number = , pages = {99-116}, doi = {10.1016/j.visres.2017.07.001} } @article{qico, author = {Laurent Lessard and Sanjay Lall}, journal = {IEEE Transactions on Automatic Control}, title = {{Convexity of decentralized controller synthesis}}, year = 2016, month = oct, day = 1, volume = 61, number = 10, pages = {3122-3127}, doi = {10.1109/TAC.2015.2504179} } @article{iqcopt, author = {Laurent Lessard and Benjamin Recht and Andrew Packard}, journal = {SIAM Journal on Optimization}, title = {{Analysis and design of optimization algorithms via integral quadratic constraints}}, year = 2016, month = jan, day = 1, volume = 26, number = 1, pages = {57-95}, doi = {10.1137/15M1009597} } @article{ccis, author = {Chris Meissen and Laurent Lessard and Murat Arcak and Andrew Packard}, journal = {Automatica}, title = {{Compositional performance certification of interconnected systems using ADMM}}, year = 2015, month = nov, day = 1, volume = 61, number = , pages = {55-63}, doi = {10.1016/j.automatica.2015.07.027} } @article{spdel, author = {Andrew Lamperski and Laurent Lessard}, journal = {Automatica}, title = {{Optimal decentralized state-feedback control with sparsity and delays}}, year = 2015, month = aug, day = 1, volume = 58, number = , pages = {143-151}, doi = {10.1016/j.automatica.2015.05.010} } @article{tpof, author = {Laurent Lessard and Sanjay Lall}, journal = {IEEE Transactions on Automatic Control}, title = {{Optimal control of two-player systems with output feedback}}, year = 2015, month = aug, day = 1, volume = 60, number = 8, pages = {2129-2144}, doi = {10.1109/TAC.2015.2400658} } @article{alqi, author = {Laurent Lessard and Sanjay Lall}, journal = {IEEE Transactions on Control of Network Systems}, title = {{An algebraic approach to the control of decentralized systems}}, year = 2014, month = dec, day = 1, volume = 1, number = 4, pages = {308-317}, doi = {10.1109/TCNS.2014.2357501} } @article{palomar, author = {Laurent Lessard and Douglas G. MacMynowski and Matthew West and Antonin H. Bouchez and Sanjay Lall}, journal = {Optics Letters}, title = {{Experimental validation of single-iteration multigrid wavefront reconstruction at the Palomar Observatory}}, year = 2008, month = sep, day = 1, volume = 33, number = 18, pages = {2047-2049}, doi = {10.1364/OL.33.002047} } @article{warm, author = {Laurent Lessard and Matthew West and Douglas G. MacMynowski and Sanjay Lall}, journal = {Journal of the Optical Society of America A}, title = {{Warm-started wavefront reconstruction for adaptive optics}}, year = 2008, month = may, day = 1, volume = 25, number = 5, pages = {1147-1155}, doi = {10.1364/JOSAA.25.001147} } % PEER-REVIEWED CONFERENCE PROCEEDINGS @inproceedings{cairs_AIAA SciTech Forum, author = {Daniel C. Berkenstock and Juan J. Alonso and Laurent Lessard}, booktitle = {AIAA SciTech Forum}, title = {{Convex optimization of thin airfoils using cubic splines}}, year = 2023, month = jan, pages = {1-15}, doi = {10.2514/6.2023-0651} } @inproceedings{alift_CDC, author = {Bryan Van Scoy and Laurent Lessard}, booktitle = {IEEE Conference on Decision and Control}, title = {{Absolute stability via lifting and interpolation}}, year = 2022, month = dec, pages = {6217-6223}, doi = {} } @inproceedings{pdekf_NecSys, author = {Juncal Arbelaiz and Emily Jensen and Bassam Bamieh and Anette E. Hosoi and Ali Jadbabaie and Laurent Lessard}, booktitle = {IFAC Workshop on Distributed Estimation and Control in Networked Systems}, title = {{Information structures of the Kalman filter for the elastic wave equation}}, year = 2022, month = jul, pages = {1-6}, doi = {10.1016/j.ifacol.2022.07.226} } @inproceedings{cairf_AIAA Aviation Forum, author = {Daniel C. Berkenstock and Juan J. Alonso and Laurent Lessard}, booktitle = {AIAA Aviation Forum}, title = {{A convex optimization approach to thin airfoil design}}, year = 2022, month = jun, pages = {1-15}, doi = {10.2514/6.2022-3356} } @inproceedings{agda_AISTATS, author = {Guodong Zhang and Yuanhao Wang and Laurent Lessard and Roger Grosse}, booktitle = {International Conference on Artificial Intelligence and Statistics}, title = {{Near-optimal local convergence of alternating gradient descent-ascent for minimax optimization}}, year = 2022, month = mar, pages = {7659-7679}, doi = {https://proceedings.mlr.press/v151/zhang22e.html} } @inproceedings{bcon_CDC, author = {Bryan Van Scoy and Laurent Lessard}, booktitle = {IEEE Conference on Decision and Control}, title = {{Systematic analysis of distributed optimization algorithms over jointly-connected networks}}, year = 2020, month = dec, pages = {3096-3101}, doi = {10.1109/CDC42340.2020.9303998} } @inproceedings{dyndd_CDC, author = {Mruganka Kashyap and Laurent Lessard}, booktitle = {IEEE Conference on Decision and Control}, title = {{Agent-level optimal LQG control of dynamically decoupled systems with processing delays}}, year = 2020, month = dec, pages = {5980-5985}, doi = {10.1109/CDC42340.2020.9303979} } @inproceedings{algosyn_ACC, author = {Laurent Lessard and Peter Seiler}, booktitle = {American Control Conference}, title = {{Direct synthesis of iterative algorithms with bounds on achievable worst-case convergence rate}}, year = 2020, month = jul, pages = {119-125}, doi = {10.23919/ACC45564.2020.9147401} } @inproceedings{poison_L4DC, author = {Xuezhou Zhang and Xiaojin Zhu and Laurent Lessard}, booktitle = {Conference on Learning for Dynamics and Control}, title = {{Online data poisoning attacks}}, year = 2020, month = jun, pages = {201-210}, doi = {http://proceedings.mlr.press/v120/zhang20b.html} } @inproceedings{circ_CDC, author = {Saman Cyrus and Laurent Lessard}, booktitle = {IEEE Conference on Decision and Control}, title = {{Unified necessary and sufficient conditions for the robust stability of interconnected sector-bounded systems}}, year = 2019, month = dec, pages = {7690-7695}, doi = {10.1109/CDC40024.2019.9029605} } @inproceedings{counter-iqc_CDC, author = {Bryan Van Scoy and Laurent Lessard}, booktitle = {IEEE Conference on Decision and Control}, title = {{Integral quadratic constraints: Exact convergence rates and worst-case trajectories}}, year = 2019, month = dec, pages = {7677-7682}, doi = {10.1109/CDC40024.2019.9029588} } @inproceedings{dynd_CDC, author = {Mruganka Kashyap and Laurent Lessard}, booktitle = {IEEE Conference on Decision and Control}, title = {{Explicit agent-level optimal cooperative controllers for dynamically decoupled systems with output feedback}}, year = 2019, month = dec, pages = {8254-8259}, doi = {10.1109/CDC40024.2019.9029822} } @inproceedings{repcom_NecSys, author = {Bryan Van Scoy and Laurent Lessard}, booktitle = {IFAC Workshop on Distributed Estimation and Control in Networked Systems}, title = {{A distributed optimization algorithm over time-varying graphs with efficient gradient evaluations}}, year = 2019, month = sep, pages = {357-362}, doi = {10.1016/j.ifacol.2019.12.181} } @inproceedings{canform_ACC, author = {Akhil Sundararajan and Bryan Van Scoy and Laurent Lessard}, booktitle = {American Control Conference}, title = {{A canonical form for first-order distributed optimization algorithms}}, year = 2019, month = jul, pages = {4075-4080}, doi = {10.23919/ACC.2019.8814838} } @inproceedings{lsteach_AISTATS, author = {Laurent Lessard and Xuezhou Zhang and Xiaojin Zhu}, booktitle = {International Conference on Artificial Intelligence and Statistics}, title = {{An optimal control approach to sequential machine teaching}}, year = 2019, month = apr, pages = {2495-2503}, doi = {http://proceedings.mlr.press/v89/lessard19a.html} } @inproceedings{disstoch_ICML, author = {Bin Hu and Stephen Wright and Laurent Lessard}, booktitle = {International Conference on Machine Learning}, title = {{Dissipativity theory for accelerating stochastic variance reduction: A unified analysis of SVRG and Katyusha using semidefinite programs}}, year = 2018, month = jul, pages = {2038-2047}, doi = {http://proceedings.mlr.press/v80/hu18b.html} } @inproceedings{lyapfun_ICML, author = {Adrien Taylor and Bryan Van Scoy and Laurent Lessard}, booktitle = {International Conference on Machine Learning}, title = {{Lyapunov functions for first-order methods: Tight automated convergence guarantees}}, year = 2018, month = jul, pages = {4897-4906}, doi = {http://proceedings.mlr.press/v80/taylor18a.html} } @inproceedings{ralg_ACC, author = {Saman Cyrus and Bin Hu and Bryan Van Scoy and Laurent Lessard}, booktitle = {American Control Conference}, title = {{A robust accelerated optimization algorithm for strongly convex functions}}, year = 2018, month = jun, pages = {1376-1381}, doi = {10.23919/ACC.2018.8430824} } @inproceedings{distrop_Allerton, author = {Akhil Sundararajan and Bin Hu and Laurent Lessard}, booktitle = {Allerton Conference on Communication, Control, and Computing}, title = {{Robust convergence analysis of distributed optimization algorithms}}, year = 2017, month = oct, pages = {1206-1212}, doi = {10.1109/Allerton.2017.8262874} } @inproceedings{diss_ICML, author = {Bin Hu and Laurent Lessard}, booktitle = {International Conference on Machine Learning}, title = {{Dissipativity theory for Nesterov’s accelerated method}}, year = 2017, month = aug, pages = {1549-1557}, doi = {http://proceedings.mlr.press/v70/hu17a.html} } @inproceedings{cint_ACC, author = {Bin Hu and Laurent Lessard}, booktitle = {American Control Conference}, title = {{Control interpretations for first-order optimization methods}}, year = 2017, month = may, pages = {3114-3119}, doi = {10.23919/ACC.2017.7963426} } @inproceedings{eiqc_CDC, author = {Ross Boczar and Laurent Lessard and Benjamin Recht}, booktitle = {IEEE Conference on Decision and Control}, title = {{Exponential convergence bounds using integral quadratic constraints}}, year = 2015, month = dec, pages = {7516-7521}, doi = {10.1109/CDC.2015.7403406} } @inproceedings{iqcadmm_ICML, author = {Robert Nishihara and Laurent Lessard and Benjamin Recht and Andrew Packard and Michael I. Jordan}, booktitle = {International Conference on Machine Learning}, title = {{A general analysis of the convergence of ADMM}}, year = 2015, month = jul, pages = {343-352}, doi = {http://proceedings.mlr.press/v37/nishihara15.html} } @inproceedings{npofa_ACC, author = {Ashutosh Nayyar and Laurent Lessard}, booktitle = {American Control Conference}, title = {{Structural results for partially nested LQG systems over graphs}}, year = 2015, month = jul, pages = {5457-5464}, doi = {10.1109/ACC.2015.7172193} } @inproceedings{cinl_CDC, author = {Chris Meissen and Laurent Lessard and Murat Arcak and Andrew Packard}, booktitle = {IEEE Conference on Decision and Control}, title = {{Performance certification of interconnected nonlinear systems using ADMM}}, year = 2014, month = dec, pages = {5131-5136}, doi = {10.1109/CDC.2014.7040191} } @inproceedings{metp_CDC, author = {Laurent Lessard}, booktitle = {IEEE Conference on Decision and Control}, title = {{State-space solution to a minimum-entropy H-infinity optimal control problem with a nested information constraint}}, year = 2014, month = dec, pages = {4026-4031}, doi = {10.1109/CDC.2014.7040015} } @inproceedings{cisd_ACC, author = {Chris Meissen and Laurent Lessard and Andrew Packard}, booktitle = {American Control Conference}, title = {{Performance certification of interconnected systems using decomposition techniques}}, year = 2014, month = jun, pages = {5030-5036}, doi = {10.1109/ACC.2014.6859323} } @inproceedings{tpof_finite_CDC, author = {Laurent Lessard and Ashutosh Nayyar}, booktitle = {IEEE Conference on Decision and Control}, title = {{Structural results and explicit solution for two-player LQG systems on a finite time horizon}}, year = 2013, month = dec, pages = {6542-6549}, doi = {10.1109/CDC.2013.6760924} } @inproceedings{dsep_Allerton, author = {Laurent Lessard}, booktitle = {Allerton Conference on Communication, Control, and Computing}, title = {{A separation principle for decentralized state-feedback optimal control}}, year = 2013, month = oct, pages = {528-534}, doi = {10.1109/Allerton.2013.6736570} } @inproceedings{realizability_ACC, author = {Laurent Lessard and Maxim Kristalny and Ander Rantzer}, booktitle = {American Control Conference}, title = {{On structured realizability and stabilizability of linear systems}}, year = 2013, month = jun, pages = {5694-5700}, doi = {10.1109/ACC.2013.6580744} } @inproceedings{bcof_CDC, author = {Laurent Lessard}, booktitle = {IEEE Conference on Decision and Control}, title = {{Decentralized LQG control of systems with a broadcast architecture}}, year = 2012, month = dec, pages = {6241-6246}, doi = {10.1109/CDC.2012.6426441} } @inproceedings{tpdsf_Allerton, author = {Laurent Lessard}, booktitle = {Allerton Conference on Communication, Control, and Computing}, title = {{Optimal control of a fully decentralized quadratic regulator}}, year = 2012, month = oct, pages = {48-54}, doi = {10.1109/Allerton.2012.6483198} } @inproceedings{sparsedelay_NecSys, author = {Andrew Lamperski and Laurent Lessard}, booktitle = {IFAC Workshop on Distributed Estimation and Control in Networked Systems}, title = {{Optimal state-feedback control under sparsity and delay constraints}}, year = 2012, month = sep, pages = {204-209}, doi = {10.3182/20120914-2-US-4030.00017} } @inproceedings{tpofb_ACC, author = {Laurent Lessard and Sanjay Lall}, booktitle = {American Control Conference}, title = {{Optimal controller synthesis for the decentralized two-player problem with output feedback}}, year = 2012, month = jun, pages = {6314-6321}, doi = {10.1109/ACC.2012.6315405} } @inproceedings{tpofa_Allerton, author = {Laurent Lessard and Sanjay Lall}, booktitle = {Allerton Conference on Communication, Control, and Computing}, title = {{A state-space solution to the two-player decentralized optimal control problem}}, year = 2011, month = sep, pages = {1559-1564}, doi = {10.1109/Allerton.2011.6120353} } @inproceedings{qi_necessity_ACC, author = {Laurent Lessard and Sanjay Lall}, booktitle = {American Control Conference}, title = {{Quadratic invariance is necessary and sufficient for convexity}}, year = 2011, month = jun, pages = {5360-5362}, doi = {10.1109/ACC.2011.5990928} } @inproceedings{qi_algebra_CDC, author = {Laurent Lessard and Sanjay Lall}, booktitle = {IEEE Conference on Decision and Control}, title = {{An algebraic framework for quadratic invariance}}, year = 2010, month = dec, pages = {2698-2703}, doi = {10.1109/CDC.2010.5718172} } @inproceedings{iqi_ACC, author = {Laurent Lessard and Sanjay Lall}, booktitle = {American Control Conference}, title = {{Internal quadratic invariance and decentralized control}}, year = 2010, month = jun, pages = {5596-5601}, doi = {10.1109/ACC.2010.5531024} } @inproceedings{reduction_CDC, author = {Laurent Lessard and Sanjay Lall}, booktitle = {IEEE Conference on Decision and Control}, title = {{Reduction of decentralized control problems to tractable representations}}, year = 2009, month = dec, pages = {1621-1626}, doi = {10.1109/CDC.2009.5400415} } % THESIS @phdthesis{lessard_thesis, author = {Laurent Lessard}, title = {{Tractability of complex control systems}}, school = {Stanford University}, year = 2011, note = {{\url{http://purl.stanford.edu/zb422mz8715}}} }