Learning as Energy Dissipation: Handling Inexact Surrogate Gradients in Decision-Focused Training

Keywords

decision-focused learning, end-to-end optimization, energy dissipation, surrogate gradients

Status: Submitted (IEEE/CAA Journal of Automatica Sinica, 2025)

This manuscript studies inexact surrogate gradients through an energy-dissipation perspective and develops more stable end-to-end decision-focused training dynamics.