Instruct: Identify the main and secondary category of Arxiv papers based on the titles and abstracts
Query: Deterministic Annealing Optimization for Witsenhausen's and Related
  Decentralized Stochastic Control Problems   This note studies the global optimization of controller mappings in
discrete-time stochastic control problems including Witsenhausen's celebrated
1968 counter-example. We propose a generally applicable non-convex numerical
optimization method based on the concept of deterministic annealing-which is
derived from information-theoretic principles and was successfully employed in
several problems including vector quantization, classification, and regression.
We present comparative numerical results for two test problems that show the
strict superiority of the proposed method over prior approaches in the
literature.

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The categories of this paper are: mtrl-th
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The categories of this paper are: hep-th
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The categories of this paper are: hep-ex