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In many daily tasks we make multiple decisions before reaching a goal. In order to learn such sequences of decisions, a mechanism to link earlier actions to later reward is necessary. Reinforcement learning theory suggests two classes of…

Neurons and Cognition · Quantitative Biology 2019-11-13 Marco Lehmann , He Xu , Vasiliki Liakoni , Michael Herzog , Wulfram Gerstner , Kerstin Preuschoff

Self-supervised learning (SSL) has emerged as a powerful technique for learning visual representations. While recent SSL approaches achieve strong results in global image understanding, they are limited in capturing the structured…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-08-28 Oussama Hadjerci , Antoine Letienne , Mohamed Abbas Hedjazi , Adel Hafiane

Continual reinforcement learning aims to sequentially learn a variety of tasks, retaining the ability to perform previously encountered tasks while simultaneously developing new policies for novel tasks. However, current continual RL…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-06-16 Shiqi Liu , Mengdi Xu , Piede Huang , Yongkang Liu , Kentaro Oguchi , Ding Zhao

In the realm of point cloud scene understanding, particularly in indoor scenes, objects are arranged following human habits, resulting in objects of certain semantics being closely positioned and displaying notable inter-object…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-04-12 Yanhao Wu , Tong Zhang , Wei Ke , Congpei Qiu , Sabine Susstrunk , Mathieu Salzmann

Inverse reinforcement learning (IRL) is typically formulated as maximizing entropy subject to matching the distribution of expert trajectories. Classical (dual-ascent) IRL guarantees monotonic performance improvement but requires fully…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-05-13 Anish Diwan , Davide Tateo , Christopher E. Mower , Haitham Bou-Ammar , Jan Peters , Oleg Arenz

Reinforcement learning (RL) is a sub-domain of machine learning, mainly concerned with solving sequential decision-making problems by a learning agent that interacts with the decision environment to improve its behavior through the reward…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-09-23 Hossein Hassani , Ehsan Hallaji , Roozbeh Razavi-Far , Mehrdad Saif , Liang Lin

Driven by the algorithmic advancements in reinforcement learning and the increasing number of implementations of human-AI collaboration, Collaborative Reinforcement Learning (CRL) has been receiving growing attention. Despite this recent…

Human-Computer Interaction · Computer Science 2024-05-17 Zhaoxing Li

Self-paced reinforcement learning (RL) aims to improve the data efficiency of learning by automatically creating sequences, namely curricula, of probability distributions over contexts. However, existing techniques for self-paced RL fail in…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-05-29 Cevahir Koprulu , Ufuk Topcu

To avoid myopic behavior, multi-step lookahead Bayesian optimization (BO) algorithms consider the sequential nature of BO and have demonstrated promising results in recent years. However, owing to the curse of dimensionality, most of these…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-04-24 Mujin Cheon , Jay H. Lee , Dong-Yeun Koh , Calvin Tsay

Proactive Recommender Systems (PRSs) aim to guide user preference shift toward target items by generating paths of intermediate recommendations. Reinforcement learning (RL) provides a principled framework for optimizing such sequential…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-05-29 Hongru Hou , Tiehua Mei , Denghui Geng , Jinhui Huang , Ao Xu , Hengrui Chen , Jiaqing Liang , Deqing Yang

Learning effective representations in image-based environments is crucial for sample efficient Reinforcement Learning (RL). Unfortunately, in RL, representation learning is confounded with the exploratory experience of the agent -- learning…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-07-21 Denis Yarats , Rob Fergus , Alessandro Lazaric , Lerrel Pinto

Object SLAM is considered increasingly significant for robot high-level perception and decision-making. Existing studies fall short in terms of data association, object representation, and semantic mapping and frequently rely on additional…

Robotics · Computer Science 2023-10-09 Yanmin Wu , Yunzhou Zhang , Delong Zhu , Zhiqiang Deng , Wenkai Sun , Xin Chen , Jian Zhang

Object proposals have become an integral preprocessing steps of many vision pipelines including object detection, weakly supervised detection, object discovery, tracking, etc. Compared to the learning-free methods, learning-based proposals…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-08-17 Dahun Kim , Tsung-Yi Lin , Anelia Angelova , In So Kweon , Weicheng Kuo

Multi-objective reinforcement learning (MORL) is used to solve problems involving multiple objectives. An MORL agent must make decisions based on the diverse signals provided by distinct reward functions. Training an MORL agent yields a set…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2024-11-08 Zuzanna Osika , Jazmin Zatarain-Salazar , Frans A. Oliehoek , Pradeep K. Murukannaiah

Developing agents capable of exploring, planning and learning in complex open-ended environments is a grand challenge in artificial intelligence (AI). Hierarchical reinforcement learning (HRL) offers a promising solution to this challenge…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2025-06-18 Martin Klissarov , Akhil Bagaria , Ziyan Luo , George Konidaris , Doina Precup , Marlos C. Machado

In many risk-aware and multi-objective reinforcement learning settings, the utility of the user is derived from the single execution of a policy. In these settings, making decisions based on the average future returns is not suitable. For…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-02-03 Conor F. Hayes , Mathieu Reymond , Diederik M. Roijers , Enda Howley , Patrick Mannion

We consider multi-class classification where the predictor has a hierarchical structure that allows for a very large number of labels both at train and test time. The predictive power of such models can heavily depend on the structure of…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2017-03-06 Yacine Jernite , Anna Choromanska , David Sontag

Food is significant to human daily life. In this paper, we are interested in learning structural representations for lengthy recipes, that can benefit the recipe generation and food cross-modal retrieval tasks. Different from the common…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-08-02 Hao Wang , Guosheng Lin , Steven C. H. Hoi , Chunyan Miao

Tractography algorithms leverage diffusion MRI to reconstruct the fibrous architecture of the brain's white matter. Among machine learning approaches, reinforcement learning (RL) has emerged as a promising framework for tractography,…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-05-27 Jeremi Levesque , Antoine Théberge , Maxime Descoteaux , Pierre-Marc Jodoin

With the ever-growing variety of object detection approaches, this study explores a series of experiments that combine reinforcement learning (RL)-based visual attention methods with saliency ranking techniques to investigate transparent…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-11-06 Matthias Bartolo , Dylan Seychell , Josef Bajada