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The problem of searching for an unknown object occurs in important applications ranging from security, medicine and defense. Sensors with the capability to process information rapidly require adaptive algorithms to control their search in…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2015-08-18 Huanyu Ding , David A. Castañón

Autonomous systems can be used to search for sparse signals in a large space; e.g., aerial robots can be deployed to localize threats, detect gas leaks, or respond to distress calls. Intuitively, search algorithms may increase efficiency by…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2016-12-05 Yifei Ma , Roman Garnett , Jeff Schneider

Deep Reinforcement Learning (DRL) has emerged as a promising approach for solving Combinatorial Optimization (CO) problems, such as the 3D Bin Packing Problem (3D-BPP), Traveling Salesman Problem (TSP), or Vehicle Routing Problem (VRP), but…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-01-30 Han Fang , Paul Weng , Yutong Ban

In research paper "Accurate estimation of the target location of object with energy constraint & Adaptive Update Algorithms to Save Data" one of the central issues in sensor networks is track the location, of moving object which have…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2011-08-08 Vijay Bhaskar Semwal , K Susheel Kumar , Vinay S Bhaskar , Meenakshi Sati

Deep reinforcement learning (DRL) faces significant challenges in addressing the hard-exploration problems in tasks with sparse or deceptive rewards and large state spaces. These challenges severely limit the practical application of DRL.…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-01-03 Guojian Wang , Faguo Wu , Xiao Zhang , Ning Guo , Zhiming Zheng

For compressive sensing of dynamic sparse signals, we develop an iterative pursuit algorithm. A dynamic sparse signal process is characterized by varying sparsity patterns over time/space. For such signals, the developed algorithm is able…

Statistics Theory · Mathematics 2012-10-15 Dave Zachariah , Saikat Chatterjee , Magnus Jansson

We introduce Random Reward Perturbation (RRP), a novel exploration strategy for reinforcement learning (RL). Our theoretical analyses demonstrate that adding zero-mean noise to environmental rewards effectively enhances policy diversity…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-06-11 Haozhe Ma , Guoji Fu , Zhengding Luo , Jiele Wu , Tze-Yun Leong

Accurate, high-resolution, and real-time DOA estimation is a cornerstone of environmental perception in automotive radar systems. While sparse signal recovery techniques offer super-resolution and high-precision estimation, their…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2026-02-19 Longxin Bai , Jingchao Zhang , Liyan Qiao

The D-band offering an untapped wide bandwidth is promising for high data rate communication and high-resolution wireless sensing. However, these potentials are hindered by the low performance and energy efficiency of the D-band circuits…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-12-15 Subbarao Korlapati , Reza Nikandish

This paper considers multiple binary hypothesis tests with adaptive allocation of sensing resources from a shared budget over a small number of stages. A Bayesian formulation is provided for the multistage allocation problem of minimizing…

Methodology · Statistics 2014-11-05 Dennis Wei

Cognitive radar is developed to utilize the feedback of its operating environment obtained from a beam to make resource allocation decisions by solving optimization problems. Previous works focused on target tracking accuracy by designing…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-11-27 JiYe Lee , J. H Park

Deep reinforcement learning (DRL) agents are trained through trial-and-error interactions with the environment. This leads to a long training time for dense neural networks to achieve good performance. Hence, prohibitive computation and…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-05-09 Ghada Sokar , Elena Mocanu , Decebal Constantin Mocanu , Mykola Pechenizkiy , Peter Stone

Goal-conditioned dynamic manipulation is inherently challenging due to complex system dynamics and stringent task constraints, particularly in deformable object scenarios characterized by high degrees of freedom and underactuation. Prior…

Robotics · Computer Science 2025-05-26 Guanzhou Lan , Yuqi Yang , Anup Teejo Mathew , Feiping Nie , Rong Wang , Xuelong Li , Federico Renda , Bin Zhao

Many signal processing applications such as acoustic echo cancellation and wireless channel estimation require identifying systems where only a small fraction of coefficients are actually active, i.e. sparse systems. Zero-attracting…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2026-03-17 Mohammad Salman , Hadi Zayyani , Felipe A. P. de Figueiredo , Hasan Abu Hilal , Mostafa Rashdan

Recently, more and more personalized speech enhancement systems (PSE) with excellent performance have been proposed. However, two critical issues still limit the performance and generalization ability of the model: 1) Acoustic environment…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-11-23 Xiaofeng Ge , Jiangyu Han , Haixin Guan , Yanhua Long

We study an adaptive source seeking problem, in which a mobile robot must identify the strongest emitter(s) of a signal in an environment with background emissions. Background signals may be highly heterogeneous and can mislead algorithms…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-06-25 Esther Rolf , David Fridovich-Keil , Max Simchowitz , Benjamin Recht , Claire Tomlin

This paper presents a novel approach to range-based cooperative localization for robot swarms in GPS-denied environments, addressing the limitations of current methods in noisy and sparse settings. We propose a robust multi-layered…

Robotics · Computer Science 2024-12-20 Atharva Sagale , Tohid Kargar Tasooji , Ramviyas Parasuraman

Developing an agent capable of adapting to unseen environments remains a difficult challenge in imitation learning. This work presents Adaptive Return-conditioned Policy (ARP), an efficient framework designed to enhance the agent's…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-10-26 Changyeon Kim , Younggyo Seo , Hao Liu , Lisa Lee , Jinwoo Shin , Honglak Lee , Kimin Lee

We study compressive sensing in the spatial domain to achieve target localization, specifically direction of arrival (DOA), using multiple-input multiple-output (MIMO) radar. A sparse localization framework is proposed for a MIMO array in…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2014-07-03 Marco Rossi , Alexander M. Haimovich , Yonina C. Eldar

This paper addresses tracking of a moving target in a multi-agent network. The target follows a linear dynamics corrupted by an adversarial noise, i.e., the noise is not generated from a statistical distribution. The location of the target…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2017-02-22 Shahin Shahrampour , Ali Jadbabaie