English
Related papers

Related papers: First Experiments with PowerPlay

200 papers

Experience replay is a key component in reinforcement learning for stabilizing learning and improving sample efficiency. Its typical implementation samples transitions with replacement from a replay buffer. In contrast, in supervised…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-12-05 Yasuhiro Fujita

Deep reinforcement learning (deep RL) has been successful in learning sophisticated behaviors automatically; however, the learning process requires a huge number of trials. In contrast, animals can learn new tasks in just a few trials,…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2016-11-11 Yan Duan , John Schulman , Xi Chen , Peter L. Bartlett , Ilya Sutskever , Pieter Abbeel

The Recurrent Neural Networks and their variants have shown promising performances in sequence modeling tasks such as Natural Language Processing. These models, however, turn out to be impractical and difficult to train when exposed to very…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2017-07-07 Yinchong Yang , Denis Krompass , Volker Tresp

Transformers with linearised attention (''linear Transformers'') have demonstrated the practical scalability and effectiveness of outer product-based Fast Weight Programmers (FWPs) from the '90s. However, the original FWP formulation is…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-10-28 Kazuki Irie , Imanol Schlag , Róbert Csordás , Jürgen Schmidhuber

With the capacity of continual learning, humans can continuously acquire knowledge throughout their lifespan. However, computational systems are not, in general, capable of learning tasks sequentially. This long-standing challenge for deep…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-08-05 Qihan Yang , Fan Feng , Rosa Chan

The problem of retrosynthetic planning can be framed as one player game, in which the chemist (or a computer program) works backwards from a molecular target to simpler starting materials though a series of choices regarding which reactions…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2019-01-23 John S. Schreck , Connor W. Coley , Kyle J. M. Bishop

Infants are experts at playing, with an amazing ability to generate novel structured behaviors in unstructured environments that lack clear extrinsic reward signals. We seek to mathematically formalize these abilities using a neural network…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2018-11-01 Nick Haber , Damian Mrowca , Li Fei-Fei , Daniel L. K. Yamins

Learning a set of tasks over time, also known as continual learning (CL), is one of the most challenging problems in artificial intelligence. While recent approaches achieve some degree of CL in deep neural networks, they either (1) grow…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2019-07-15 Blake Camp , Jaya Krishna Mandivarapu , Rolando Estrada

The simulation of power system dynamics poses a computationally expensive task. Considering the growing uncertainty of generation and demand patterns, thousands of scenarios need to be continuously assessed to ensure the safety of power…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-11-13 Jochen Stiasny , Spyros Chatzivasileiadis

Continual Learning requires the model to learn from a stream of dynamic, non-stationary data without forgetting previous knowledge. Several approaches have been developed in the literature to tackle the Continual Learning challenge. Among…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-11-30 Gabriele Merlin , Vincenzo Lomonaco , Andrea Cossu , Antonio Carta , Davide Bacciu

Biological neural networks are characterized by their high degree of plasticity, a core property that enables the remarkable adaptability of natural organisms. Importantly, this ability affects both the synaptic strength and the topology of…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2024-06-17 Erwan Plantec , Joachin W. Pedersen , Milton L. Montero , Eleni Nisioti , Sebastian Risi

Deep neural networks (DNNs) struggle to learn in dynamic environments since they rely on fixed datasets or stationary environments. Continual learning (CL) aims to address this limitation and enable DNNs to accumulate knowledge…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-05-31 Mustafa Burak Gurbuz , Jean Michael Moorman , Constantine Dovrolis

Neural networks (NNs) struggle to efficiently solve certain problems, such as learning parities, even when there are simple learning algorithms for those problems. Can NNs discover learning algorithms on their own? We exhibit a NN…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-01-18 Surbhi Goel , Sham Kakade , Adam Tauman Kalai , Cyril Zhang

Today, it is more important than ever before for users to have trust in the models they use. As Machine Learning models fall under increased regulatory scrutiny and begin to see more applications in high-stakes situations, it becomes…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-12-03 William Knauth

Power control in decentralized wireless networks poses a complex stochastic optimization problem when formulated as the maximization of the average sum rate for arbitrary interference graphs. Recent work has introduced data-driven design…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2021-05-04 Ivana Nikoloska , Osvaldo Simeone

In an ever expanding set of research and application areas, deep neural networks (DNNs) set the bar for algorithm performance. However, depending upon additional constraints such as processing power and execution time limits, or…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-06-22 Nathan Dahlin , Krishna Chaitanya Kalagarla , Nikhil Naik , Rahul Jain , Pierluigi Nuzzo

Deep Reinforcement Learning (DRL) has become a popular method for solving control problems in power systems. Conventional DRL encourages the agent to explore various policies encoded in a neural network (NN) with the goal of maximizing the…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-10-28 Tong Wu , Anna Scaglione , Daniel Arnold

The energy-efficient and brain-like information processing abilities of Spiking Neural Networks (SNNs) have attracted considerable attention, establishing them as a crucial element of brain-inspired computing. One prevalent challenge…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2025-10-27 Zhichao Zhu , Yang Qi , Wenlian Lu , Zhigang Wang , Lu Cao , Jianfeng Feng

Deep neural networks (DNNs) have been successfully applied in various fields. A major challenge of deploying DNNs, especially on edge devices, is power consumption, due to the large number of multiply-and-accumulate (MAC) operations. To…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2023-11-28 Richard Petri , Grace Li Zhang , Yiran Chen , Ulf Schlichtmann , Bing Li

Recent large language models (LLMs) have demonstrated great potential toward intelligent agents and next-gen automation, but there currently lacks a systematic benchmark for evaluating LLMs' abilities as agents. We introduce SmartPlay: both…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-03-19 Yue Wu , Xuan Tang , Tom M. Mitchell , Yuanzhi Li