The following list groups publications by topic (* denotes equal contribution). For a comprehensive list of publications and corresponding citations, visit my Google Scholar page. You can find an open source (and sometimes extended) version of all of these papers on the arXiv.

Language to Control:

Interfacing controllers with natural language

For robotics

NARRATE: Versatile Language Architecture for Optimal Control in Robotics [Website] [Code] [Video]
S. Ismail*, A. Arbues*, R. Cotterell, R. Zurbrügg, C. Amo Alonso
International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems (IROS), 2024.

Control for Language:

Using control theory to enhance language algorithms

Controlled language generation

Linearly Controlled Language Generation with Performative Guarantees
E. Cheng, M. Baroni, C. Amo Alonso
Submitted to International Conference on Learning Representations (ICLR), 2025.

Foundation models

Lambda-Skip Connections: the architectural component that prevents Rank Collapse
F. A. Joseph, J. Sieber, M. N. Zeilinger, C. Amo Alonso
Submitted to International Conference on Learning Representations (ICLR), 2025.

Understanding the differences in Foundation Models: Attention, SSMs, and RNNs
J. Sieber*, C. Amo Alonso*, A. Didier, M. N. Zeilinger, A. Orvieto
Accepted to Conference on Neural Information Processing Systems (NeurIPS), 2024.

State Space Models as Foundation Models: A Control Theoretic Overview [Code]
C. Amo Alonso*, J. Sieber*, M. N. Zeilinger
Submitted to the American Control Conference (ACC), 2025.

Distributed Optimal Control

Distributed and Localized Model Predictive Control

Global performance guarantees for localized model predictive control [Code] [Video]
J.S. Li, C. Amo Alonso
IEEE Open Journal of Control Systems, 2023.

Distributed and Localized Model Predictive Control. Part II: Theoretical Guarantees [Code] [Video]
C. Amo Alonso, J.S. Li, J. Anderson, and N. Matni
IEEE Transactions on Control of Network Systems, 2023.
Best Paper Award

Distributed and Localized Model Predictive Control. Part I: Synthesis and Implementation [Code] [Video]
C. Amo Alonso, J.S. Li, J. Anderson, and N. Matni
IEEE Transactions on Control of Network Systems, 2023.

Effective GPU Parallelization of Distributed and Localized Model Predictive Control [Code] [Video]
C. Amo Alonso, and S-H. Tseng
IEEE International Conference on Control & Automation, 2022.
Best Student Paper Award

Data-driven Distributed and Localized Model Predictive Control [Code] [Video]
C. Amo Alonso*, Fengjun Yang*, and N. Matni
IEEE Open Journal of Control Systems, 2022.

Frontiers in Scalable Distributed Control: SLS, MPC, and Beyond
J.S. Li, C. Amo Alonso, and J. C. Doyle
IEEE American Control Conference (ACC), 2021.

Explicit Distributed and Localized Model Predictive Control via System Level Synthesis [Code] [Video]
C. Amo Alonso, J. Anderson, and N. Matni
IEEE Conference on Decision and Control (CDC), 2020.

Distributed and Localized Model Predictive Control via System Level Synthesis [Code] [Video]
C. Amo Alonso, and N. Matni
IEEE Conference on Decision and Control (CDC), 2020.

System Level Synthesis and Applications

System Level Synthesis via Dynamic Programming
S-H. Tseng, C. Amo Alonso, SJ. Han
IEEE Conference on Decision and Control (CDC), 2020.

Distributed Linear Quadratic Regulator Robust to Communication Dropouts [Video]
C. Amo Alonso, D. Ho, and J.M. Maestre
World Congress of the International Federation of Automatic Control, 2020.

Architecture and Trade-offs in the Heat Shock Response System
N. Olsman, C. Amo Alonso, J. C. Doyle
IEEE Conference on Decision and Control (CDC), 2018.