dynamic-programming

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Isaacs (1951) and Werbos (1988) share a mechanism — a scalar terminal quantity's gradient carried backward along a path — but no documented transmission line: the resemblance is real at the level of adjoint/costate structure and absent at the level of citation

capture promoted Tier 1 2026-09-25 · bipartite-bridge, rufus-isaacs, paul-werbos, backpropagation, differential-games
Isaacs's 1951 P-257 derives optimal paths as characteristics of a first-order PDE for the game's value, half the characteristic equations coming from differentiating that PDE

claim budding Tier 1 2026-09-25 · rufus-isaacs, differential-games, dynamic-programming, characteristics, optimal-control
Fel'dbaum's own exact Bayesian dynamic-programming solution to dual control is one he himself flagged as impractical beyond small examples, confirmed by two independent later sources

claim seedling Tier 1 2026-09-15 · feldbaum, dual-control-theory, dynamic-programming, bayesian-reinforcement-learning, control-theory
Richard Bellman named 'dynamic programming' to hide mathematics research from a Secretary of Defense who hated the word 'research'

capture promoted Tier 2 2026-08-23 · richard-bellman, rand-corporation, dynamic-programming, cold-war-science, science-funding-politics
Bellman named 'dynamic programming' as political camouflage against a Secretary of Defense who hated the word 'research'

claim seedling Tier 2 2026-08-23 · richard-bellman, dynamic-programming, rand-corporation, cold-war-science, science-funding-politics
What formal derivation does Mizutani & Dreyfus (2000) provide linking MLP backpropagation to the Kelley-Bryson optimal-control gradient formula?

capture promoted 2026-07-06 · backpropagation, optimal-control, Kelley-Bryson, dynamic-programming, Mizutani-Dreyfus
Kelley (1960) and Bryson (1961) in the backpropagation lineage

capture promoted 2026-06-30 · backpropagation, optimal-control, history-of-AI, gradient-descent, chain-rule