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arxivcs.LGeess.SYmath.OC2026-07-22

End-to-End Learning of Safe Optimal Feedback Control in High Dimensions with Control Barrier Function Layers

Xingjian Li, Kelvin Kan, Deepanshu Verma, Krishna Kumar, Stanley Osher, Samy Wu Fung

We consider the problem of learning high-dimensional semi-global feedback controllers under hard safety constraints enforced by control barrier functions (CBFs). Incorporating CBFs into end-to-end policy training requires embedding a quadratic-program-based safety filter as an optimization layer, but computational and differentiation bottlenecks have largely restricted prior approaches to low-dimensional systems, typically with at most 16 state dimensions. We address this limitation by combining operator splitting with the recently developed Jacobian-Free Backpropagation (JFB) method to enable scalable end-to-end training while preserving hard safety guarantees through the CBF safety filter. We justify this training methodology theoretically using nonsmooth analysis techniques and demonstrate its effectiveness on high-dimensional multi-agent nonlinear control problems with state and control dimensions up to 1200 and 400, respectively.

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