Distributed Control of Network Systems in the Space of Stabilizing Graph Neural Network Policies

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Autori principali: Cao, John, Furieri, Luca
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author Cao, John
Furieri, Luca
author_facet Cao, John
Furieri, Luca
contents We study distributed control of networked systems through reinforcement learning, where neural policies must be simultaneously scalable, expressive and stabilizing. We introduce a policy parameterization that embeds Graph Neural Networks (GNNs) into a Youla-like magnitude-direction parameterization, yielding distributed stochastic controllers that guarantee network-level closed-loop stability by design. The magnitude is implemented as a stable operator consisting of a GNN acting on disturbance feedback, while the direction is a GNN acting on local observations. We prove robustness of the policy to perturbations in both the graph topology and model parameters. Numerical experiments validate the effectiveness of the proposed approach.
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spellingShingle Distributed Control of Network Systems in the Space of Stabilizing Graph Neural Network Policies
Cao, John
Furieri, Luca
Systems and Control
Machine Learning
Optimization and Control
We study distributed control of networked systems through reinforcement learning, where neural policies must be simultaneously scalable, expressive and stabilizing. We introduce a policy parameterization that embeds Graph Neural Networks (GNNs) into a Youla-like magnitude-direction parameterization, yielding distributed stochastic controllers that guarantee network-level closed-loop stability by design. The magnitude is implemented as a stable operator consisting of a GNN acting on disturbance feedback, while the direction is a GNN acting on local observations. We prove robustness of the policy to perturbations in both the graph topology and model parameters. Numerical experiments validate the effectiveness of the proposed approach.
title Distributed Control of Network Systems in the Space of Stabilizing Graph Neural Network Policies
topic Systems and Control
Machine Learning
Optimization and Control
url https://arxiv.org/abs/2512.18540