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Policy Optimization with Differentiable MPC: Convergence Analysis under Uncertainty

Riccardo Zuliani , Efe C. Balta , John Lygeros This is my paper

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Combining gradient-based policy optimization with recursive system identification ensures convergence to an optimal controller design under uncertainty.

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The paper shows that embedding explicit dynamical models inside MPC policies and optimizing them with gradients while simultaneously performing recursive system identification leads to convergence on the optimal controller. This matters because the performance of such controllers depends critically on model accuracy, which is rarely perfect in real applications. The joint process mitigates initial uncertainties by refining the model during optimization. Several control examples are used to illustrate that the approach reaches the claimed optimum.

Core claim

Gradient-based policy optimization combined with recursive system identification ensures convergence to an optimal controller design for differentiable MPC policies, even when the initial dynamical model is uncertain, as demonstrated across multiple control examples.

What carries the argument

Differentiable MPC policies that embed explicit dynamical models and update them through recursive system identification during gradient-based policy optimization.

If this is right

  • The resulting MPC controllers achieve optimal performance despite starting with inaccurate models.
  • Convergence of the policy parameters occurs reliably as identification improves the embedded dynamics.
  • The framework applies across a wide range of control applications where models contain uncertainty.
  • Gradient-based updates on the policy remain stable when identification runs concurrently.

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  • The method could support adaptive control when system dynamics slowly change over time.
  • Hardware tests with sensor noise would reveal the practical limits of real-time identification accuracy.
  • Viewing the identification step as part of the policy gradient might link the approach to certain reinforcement learning algorithms.

Load-bearing premise

Recursive system identification can be performed accurately and in real time under the uncertainty levels of the target applications so that the joint optimization reaches the true optimum.

What would settle it

An experiment or simulation in which recursive identification error stays persistently high due to noise or unmodeled dynamics, causing the policy parameters to diverge or converge to a clearly suboptimal controller, would disprove the convergence claim.

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Model-based policy optimization is a well-established framework for designing reliable and high-performance controllers across a wide range of control applications. Recently, this approach has been extended to model predictive control policies, where explicit dynamical models are embedded within the control law. However, the performance of the resulting controllers, and the convergence of the associated optimization algorithms, critically depends on the accuracy of the models. In this paper, we demonstrate that combining gradient-based policy optimization with recursive system identification ensures convergence to an optimal controller design and showcase our finding in several control examples.

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Referee Report

2 major / 2 minor

Summary. The paper claims that combining gradient-based policy optimization with recursive system identification in differentiable MPC policies ensures convergence to an optimal controller design under uncertainty. This is asserted via theoretical analysis (with main theorems on convergence) and demonstrated in several control examples.

Significance. If the central convergence result can be established with explicit error bounds that propagate through the differentiable MPC layer, the work would advance model-based control by providing guarantees for adaptive policies in uncertain environments, building on established frameworks with a joint optimization approach.

major comments (2)
  1. [§3, Theorem 1] §3 (Convergence Analysis), Theorem 1: the derivation treats the recursively identified model as sufficiently accurate for policy gradients to remain valid and reach the true optimum, but supplies no explicit bound on residual identification error or its propagation through the MPC layer; this assumption is load-bearing for the claim under persistent noise or poor excitation.
  2. [§4.2] §4.2 (Recursive Identification): the scheme is analyzed only in expectation without conditions on persistent excitation or uncertainty levels that would ensure the identified model tracks the true plant closely enough to avoid convergence to a model-dependent local optimum rather than the claimed global one.
minor comments (2)
  1. [Abstract] The abstract asserts convergence without a proof sketch or list of assumptions; adding a one-sentence statement of the key technical conditions would improve clarity.
  2. [§2] Notation for the policy gradient through the differentiable MPC (e.g., the chain-rule term) is introduced without an explicit equation reference in the main text, making the exposition harder to follow.

Simulated Author's Rebuttal

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We thank the referee for the constructive comments, which help clarify the scope and assumptions of our convergence analysis. We address each major comment below and indicate planned revisions to the manuscript.

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  1. Referee: [§3, Theorem 1] §3 (Convergence Analysis), Theorem 1: the derivation treats the recursively identified model as sufficiently accurate for policy gradients to remain valid and reach the true optimum, but supplies no explicit bound on residual identification error or its propagation through the MPC layer; this assumption is load-bearing for the claim under persistent noise or poor excitation.

    Authors: Theorem 1 establishes asymptotic convergence of the policy parameters to the optimum under the assumption that the recursive identification error converges to zero in expectation. The proof proceeds by showing that the composite gradient (policy optimization through the differentiable MPC layer) becomes unbiased as identification error vanishes. We agree that the current manuscript does not supply explicit finite-time bounds on residual error propagation; deriving such bounds for general nonlinear systems with differentiable MPC is technically involved and beyond the scope of the present theoretical development. We will add a remark in the revised §3 discussing the role of identification error propagation and citing relevant sensitivity results for MPC layers. revision: partial

  2. Referee: [§4.2] §4.2 (Recursive Identification): the scheme is analyzed only in expectation without conditions on persistent excitation or uncertainty levels that would ensure the identified model tracks the true plant closely enough to avoid convergence to a model-dependent local optimum rather than the claimed global one.

    Authors: The analysis in §4.2 follows the standard stochastic approximation framework for recursive least-squares identification and establishes convergence in expectation. Persistent excitation is a standard prerequisite for parameter convergence in this literature; we implicitly rely on it in both the theoretical development and the numerical examples. To address the concern about possible convergence to model-dependent local optima, we will insert an explicit statement of the persistent-excitation assumption together with a brief discussion of how it guarantees that the identified model tracks the true plant sufficiently closely for the overall policy to reach the claimed optimum. revision: yes

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The provided abstract asserts that gradient-based policy optimization combined with recursive system identification ensures convergence to an optimal controller, but contains no equations, theorems, or derivation steps that could be inspected for self-definition, fitted inputs renamed as predictions, or load-bearing self-citations. No specific reduction (e.g., Eq. X equivalent to input by construction) is present or quotable. Per hard rules, absence of inspectable load-bearing steps that collapse to inputs yields score 0; the reader's indeterminate 5.0 reflects the same lack of visible chain rather than any detected circularity.

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Abstract supplies no explicit free parameters, axioms, or invented entities; the central claim is stated at a high level without mathematical detail.

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