Sample Complexity of Linear Quadratic Regulator Without Initial Stability

arXiv:2502.14210 · math.OC, cs.LG, cs.SY, eess.SY · Submitted 2025-02-20 · Read on arXiv

math.OC, cs.LG, cs.SY, eess.SY

Submitted: 2025-02-20

Updated: 2026-09-02

Terminology

• Sample Complexity — 40× in this paper · explained in 15 episodes
• Linear Quadratic Regulator — 25× in this paper
• Convergence Guarantees — 4× in this paper · explained in 3 episodes
• Core — 3× in this paper · explained in 2 episodes
• Reinforcement Learning — 3× in this paper · explained in 4 episodes
• Theoretical Guarantees — 3× in this paper · explained in 2 episodes
• Accuracy — 2× in this paper · explained in 1 episode
• Alignment — 1× in this paper · explained in 1 episode
• BQP — 1× in this paper · explained in 2 episodes
• Benchmark — 1× in this paper · explained in 2 episodes
• Reinforcement Learning (RL) — 1× in this paper · explained in 25 episodes
• Robustness — 1× in this paper · explained in 5 episodes

Sources

• On Riccati contraction in time-varying linear-quadratic control
• Learning Stabilizing Controllers of Linear Systems via Discount Policy Gradient

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