A safety classifier can tell us that a prompt looks harmful. That is useful. But it is perhaps not the question we should stop at. Suppose a classifier sees a prompt and says that it is safe. Now …

The code for this project can be found at: https://github.com/omanshuthapliyal/HRM-adapter. And the paper can be found at: https://arxiv.org/pdf/2606.26290.

In the previous post, I introduced …

In the last post I talked about Hankel operators of simple linear dynamical systems. Such operators, and either eigenvalues, “can be used as a proxy for how much memory a task actually …

I wrote in a previous post how transformers are kind of like system identification methods applied to some sequence in a state space. In this post we try to understand if the other way round is …

Transformer models have captivated a lot of AI research in most of the past decade, and in this post my goal is to make them seem more interesting to controls people, who have much to contribute to …

Recent news of the SpaceX catching its Starship Super Heavy booster¹ is quite discussed and marveled upon in the media, and rightly so. Executing what was done can perhaps be explained as trying to …

This is my attempt to try to motivate and justify why I am studying what I study, and to try to justify the title of my dissertation.

While most emphasis on safety has been provided from a …

I often wonder why the “cutting edge” research that we read about in the foremost scientific journals & conferences in Control Systems are never applied in the industry. Because …