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Integrated sensing and communication (ISAC) has emerged as a transformative technology for 6G networks, enabling the seamless integration of communication and sensing functionalities. Reconfigurable intelligent surfaces (RIS), with their…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-01-14 Shoushuo Zhang , Rang Liu , Ming Li , Wei Wang , Qian Liu

Reinforcement learning in multi-agent scenarios is important for real-world applications but presents challenges beyond those seen in single-agent settings. We present an actor-critic algorithm that trains decentralized policies in…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2019-05-29 Shariq Iqbal , Fei Sha

In many practical applications, deep neural networks have been typically deployed to operate as a black box predictor. Despite the high amount of work on interpretability and high demand on the reliability of these systems, they typically…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2020-12-07 Martin Stano , Wanda Benesova , Lukas Samuel Martak

Active learning is a branch of machine learning that deals with problems where unlabeled data is abundant yet obtaining labels is expensive. The learning algorithm has the possibility of querying a limited number of samples to obtain the…

Disordered Systems and Neural Networks · Physics 2020-09-04 Hugo Cui , Luca Saglietti , Lenka Zdeborová

We introduce Active Predictive Coding Networks (APCNs), a new class of neural networks that solve a major problem posed by Hinton and others in the fields of artificial intelligence and brain modeling: how can neural networks learn…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-01-24 Dimitrios C. Gklezakos , Rajesh P. N. Rao

Sequential sensor data is generated in a wide variety of practical applications. A fundamental challenge involves learning effective classifiers for such sequential data. While deep learning has led to impressive performance gains in recent…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-10-07 Nauman Ahad , Mark A. Davenport

This paper considers making active learning more sensible from a medical perspective. In practice, a disease manifests itself in different forms across patient cohorts. Existing frameworks have primarily used mathematical constructs to…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-06-28 Yash-yee Logan , Ryan Benkert , Ahmad Mustafa , Gukyeong Kwon , Ghassan AlRegib

This paper presents adaptive conformal selection (ACS), an interactive framework for model-free selection with guaranteed error control. Building on conformal selection (Jin and Cand\`es, 2023b), ACS generalizes the approach to support…

Methodology · Statistics 2025-07-22 Yu Gui , Ying Jin , Yash Nair , Zhimei Ren

Agentic AI increasingly intervenes proactively by inferring users' situations from contextual data yet often fails for lack of principled judgment about when, why, and whether to act. We address this gap by proposing a conceptual model that…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2026-02-27 Soyoung Jung , Daehoo Yoon , Sung Gyu Koh , Young Hwan Kim , Yehan Ahn , Sung Park

This paper introduces Team-Attention-Actor-Critic (TAAC), a reinforcement learning algorithm designed to enhance multi-agent collaboration in cooperative environments. TAAC employs a Centralized Training/Centralized Execution scheme…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2025-12-23 Hugo Garrido-Lestache Belinchon , Jeremy Kedziora

Despite the great promise of machine-learning algorithms to classify and predict astrophysical parameters for the vast numbers of astrophysical sources and transients observed in large-scale surveys, the peculiarities of the training data…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2015-05-28 Joseph W. Richards , Dan L. Starr , Henrik Brink , Adam A. Miller , Joshua S. Bloom , Nathaniel R. Butler , J. Berian James , James P. Long , John Rice

Classification algorithms aim to predict an unknown label (e.g., a quality class) for a new instance (e.g., a product). Therefore, training samples (instances and labels) are used to deduct classification hypotheses. Often, it is relatively…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2019-01-30 Daniel Kottke , Jim Schellinger , Denis Huseljic , Bernhard Sick

Online stores and service providers rely heavily on recommendation softwares to guide users through the vast amount of available products. Consequently, the field of recommender systems has attracted increased attention from the industry…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2022-10-17 Abdullah Alhadlaq , Said Kerrache , Hatim Aboalsamh

Active learning has been utilized as an efficient tool in building anomaly detection models by leveraging expert feedback. In an active learning framework, a model queries samples to be labeled by experts and re-trains the model with the…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-09-19 Minkyung Kim , Junsik Kim , Jongmin Yu , Jun Kyun Choi

Active learning is a unique abstraction of machine learning techniques where the model/algorithm could guide users for annotation of a set of data points that would be beneficial to the model, unlike passive machine learning. The primary…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-01-08 Vishwesh Nath , Dong Yang , Bennett A. Landman , Daguang Xu , Holger R. Roth

Active inference is a theory of perception, learning and decision making, which can be applied to neuroscience, robotics, and machine learning. Recently, reasearch has been taking place to scale up this framework using Monte-Carlo tree…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2023-05-09 Théophile Champion , Marek Grześ , Lisa Bonheme , Howard Bowman

While deep feature learning has revolutionized techniques for static-image understanding, the same does not quite hold for video processing. Architectures and optimization techniques used for video are largely based off those for static…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2017-12-13 Achal Dave , Olga Russakovsky , Deva Ramanan

Acoustic Scene Classification (ASC) aims to classify the environment in which the audio signals are recorded. Recently, Convolutional Neural Networks (CNNs) have been successfully applied to ASC. However, the data distributions of the audio…

Sound · Computer Science 2020-11-19 Zhao Ren , Qiuqiang Kong , Jing Han , Mark D. Plumbley , Björn W. Schuller

We propose Deep Autoencoding Predictive Components (DAPC) -- a self-supervised representation learning method for sequence data, based on the intuition that useful representations of sequence data should exhibit a simple structure in the…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-03-02 Junwen Bai , Weiran Wang , Yingbo Zhou , Caiming Xiong

Active learning approaches in computer vision generally involve querying strong labels for data. However, previous works have shown that weak supervision can be effective in training models for vision tasks while greatly reducing annotation…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-10-16 Sai Vikas Desai , Akshay L Chandra , Wei Guo , Seishi Ninomiya , Vineeth N Balasubramanian