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This paper discusses a system that accelerates reinforcement learning by using transfer from related tasks. Without such transfer, even if two tasks are very similar at some abstract level, an extensive re-learning effort is required. The…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2011-06-10 C. Drummond

Pseudo-Hamiltonian neural networks (PHNN) were recently introduced for learning dynamical systems that can be modelled by ordinary differential equations. In this paper, we extend the method to partial differential equations. The resulting…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-01-03 Sølve Eidnes , Kjetil Olsen Lye

Building agents that can perform new skills by composing existing skills is a long-standing goal of AI agent research. Towards this end, we investigate how to efficiently acquire a sequence of skills, formalized as hierarchical neural…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-05-13 Wasu Top Piriyakulkij , Wolfgang Lehrach , Kevin Ellis , Kevin Murphy

Foundation models are transforming machine learning across many modalities, with in-context learning replacing classical model training. Recent work on tabular data hints at a similar opportunity to build foundation models for…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-05-12 Andreas Müller , Carlo Curino , Raghu Ramakrishnan

Humans can leverage hierarchical structures to split a task into sub-tasks and solve problems efficiently. Both imitation and reinforcement learning or a combination of them with hierarchical structures have been proven to be an efficient…

Robotics · Computer Science 2020-12-15 Yaru Niu , Yijun Gu

We present pseudo-differential enhanced physics-informed neural networks (PINNs), an extension of gradient enhancement but in Fourier space. Gradient enhancement of PINNs dictates that the PDE residual is taken to a higher differential…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-05-06 Andrew Gracyk

To achieve scenario intelligence, humans must transfer knowledge to robots by developing goal-oriented algorithms, which are sometimes insensitive to dynamically changing environments. While deep reinforcement learning achieves significant…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2018-07-31 Tingguang Li , Jin Pan , Delong Zhu , Max Q. -H. Meng

In this paper, we aim at developing scalable neural network-type learning systems. Motivated by the idea of "constructive neural networks" in approximation theory, we focus on "constructing" rather than "training" feed-forward neural…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2016-05-03 Shaobo Lin , Jinshan Zeng , Xiaoqin Zhang

Recurrent neural networks (RNNs) for reinforcement learning (RL) have shown distinct advantages, e.g., solving memory-dependent tasks and meta-learning. However, little effort has been spent on improving RNN architectures and on…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2019-11-27 Dongqi Han , Kenji Doya , Jun Tani

Federated learning is a distributed machine learning framework which enables different parties to collaboratively train a model while protecting data privacy and security. Due to model complexity, network unreliability and connection…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-04-08 Anbu Huang , Yuanyuan Chen , Yang Liu , Tianjian Chen , Qiang Yang

Deep neural network (DNN) models are effective solutions for industry 4.0 applications (\eg oil spill detection, fire detection, anomaly detection). However, training a DNN network model needs a considerable amount of data collected from…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2024-09-25 Razin Farhan Hussain , Mohsen Amini Salehi

Deep reinforcement learning for high dimensional, hierarchical control tasks usually requires the use of complex neural networks as functional approximators, which can lead to inefficiency, instability and even divergence in the training…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2019-11-26 Yuguang Yang

We study how to effectively leverage expert feedback to learn sequential decision-making policies. We focus on problems with sparse rewards and long time horizons, which typically pose significant challenges in reinforcement learning. We…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2018-06-12 Hoang M. Le , Nan Jiang , Alekh Agarwal , Miroslav Dudík , Yisong Yue , Hal Daumé

Federated continual learning (FCL) offers an emerging pattern to facilitate the applicability of federated learning (FL) in real-world scenarios, where tasks evolve dynamically and asynchronously across clients, especially in medical…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-03-28 Xiaoming Qi , Jingyang Zhang , Huazhu Fu , Guanyu Yang , Shuo Li , Yueming Jin

Thanks to their universal approximation properties and new efficient training strategies, Deep Neural Networks are becoming a valuable tool for the approximation of mathematical operators. In the present work, we introduce Mesh-Informed…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2023-05-08 Nicola Rares Franco , Andrea Manzoni , Paolo Zunino

Recent successes in image analysis with deep neural networks are achieved almost exclusively with Convolutional Neural Networks (CNNs), typically trained using the backpropagation (BP) algorithm. In a 2022 preprint, Geoffrey Hinton proposed…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-11-05 Riccardo Scodellaro , Ajinkya Kulkarni , Frauke Alves , Matthias Schröter

Conventional deep reinforcement learning methods are sample-inefficient and usually require a large number of training trials before convergence. Since such methods operate on an unconstrained action set, they can lead to useless actions. A…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2021-03-04 Daiki Kimura , Subhajit Chaudhury , Akifumi Wachi , Ryosuke Kohita , Asim Munawar , Michiaki Tatsubori , Alexander Gray

In this paper we combine one method for hierarchical reinforcement learning - the options framework - with deep Q-networks (DQNs) through the use of different "option heads" on the policy network, and a supervisory network for choosing…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2017-06-20 Kai Arulkumaran , Nat Dilokthanakul , Murray Shanahan , Anil Anthony Bharath

Non-terrestrial networks (NTNs) are emerging as a core component of future 6G communication systems, providing global connectivity and supporting data-intensive applications. In this paper, we propose a distributed hierarchical federated…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-03-11 Amin Farajzadeh , Animesh Yadav , Halim Yanikomeroglu

At present, designing convolutional neural network (CNN) architectures requires both human expertise and labor. New architectures are handcrafted by careful experimentation or modified from a handful of existing networks. We introduce…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2017-03-24 Bowen Baker , Otkrist Gupta , Nikhil Naik , Ramesh Raskar