Preprints
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C.-F. Pai, Y. Watanabe, Y. Tang, and Y. Zheng, “Policy Optimization for Mixed H2/H-infinity Control: Benign Nonconvexity and Global Optimality”, submitted to Automatica.
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Y. Watanabe, F.-Y. Liao, and Y. Zheng, “Policy Optimization in Robust Control: Weak Convexity and Subgradient Methods”, submitted to ACC2026. [arXiv] [Slides]
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Y. Watanabe and Y. Zheng, “Revisiting strong duality, hidden convexity, and gradient dominance in the linear quadratic regulator”, submitted to SIAM Journal on Control and Optimization (under review). [arXiv]
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Y. Watanabe, S. Fushimi, and K. Sakurama, “Convex Reformulation of LMI-Based Distributed Controller Design with a Class of Non-Block-Diagonal Lyapunov Functions,” submitted to IEEE Transactions on Automatic Control (under review). [arXiv]
Peer-reviewed journal papers
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Y. Watanabe and K. Sakurama, “Distributed Optimization of Clique-Wise Coupled Problems via Three-Operator Splitting.” IEEE Transactions on Automatic Control, 2026 (accepted). [arXiv]
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S. Fushimi, Y. Watanabe, and K. Sakurama, “Distributed Controller Design for Discrete-Time Systems Via the Integration of Extended LMI and Clique-Wise Decomposition”, IEEE Control Systems Letters (ACC), 2024 (accepted). [arxiv]
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Y. Watanabe, K. Sakurama, H.-S. Ahn, “Gradient-Based Distributed Controller Design Over Directed Networks,” IEEE Transactions on Control of Network Systems, 2024. [url] [arXiv]
Peer-reviewed conference papers
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Y. Watanabe, C.-F. Pai, and Y. Zheng, “Semidefinite programming duality in infinite-horizon linear quadratic games,” in the 64th IEEE Conference on Decision and Control (CDC), Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, 2025. [arXiv]
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Y. Watanabe and K. Sakurama, “Distributed optimization of clique-wise coupled problems,” in the 62nd IEEE Conference on Decision and Control (CDC), Singapore, 2023. [arXiv]
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Y. Watanabe and K. Sakurama, “Accelerated distributed projected gradient descent for convex optimization with clique-wise coupled constraints,” in the 22nd IFAC World Congress, Yokohama, Japan, 2023. [arXiv] [slide]
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Y. Watanabe and K. Sakurama, “Distributed dynamic matching of two groups of agents with different sensing ranges,” in the 61st IEEE Conference on Decision and Control (CDC), Cancun, Mexico, 2022, pp. 5916–5921. [url] [slide]