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This paper investigates the problem of impact-time-control and proposes a learning-based computational guidance algorithm to solve this problem. The proposed guidance algorithm is developed based on a general prediction-correction concept:…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-05-31 Zichao Liu , Jiang Wang , Shaoming He , Hyo-Sang Shin , Antonios Tsourdos

One of the fundamental challenges in reinforcement learning (RL) is the one of data efficiency: modern algorithms require a very large number of training samples, especially compared to humans, for solving environments with high-dimensional…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-05-10 Hlynur Davíð Hlynsson , Laurenz Wiskott

Machine learning algorithms learn to solve a task, but are unable to improve their ability to learn. Meta-learning methods learn about machine learning algorithms and improve them so that they learn more quickly. However, existing…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-01-28 Calarina Muslimani , Alex Lewandowski , Dale Schuurmans , Matthew E. Taylor , Jun Luo

Image-guided drawing can compensate for the lack of skills but often requires a significant number of repetitive strokes to create textures. Existing automatic stroke synthesis methods are usually limited to predefined styles or require…

Graphics · Computer Science 2021-08-17 Yilan Chen , Kin Chung Kwan , Li-Yi Wei , Hongbo Fu

Images suffer from heavy spatial redundancy because pixels in neighboring regions are spatially correlated. Existing approaches strive to overcome this limitation by reducing less meaningful image regions. However, current leading methods…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-04-26 Yang Luo , Zhineng Chen , Peng Zhou , Zuxuan Wu , Xieping Gao , Yu-Gang Jiang

In this work, we present a learning-based approach to chip placement, one of the most complex and time-consuming stages of the chip design process. Unlike prior methods, our approach has the ability to learn from past experience and improve…

Step-by-step painting tutorials are vital for learning artistic techniques, but existing video resources (e.g., YouTube) lack interactivity and personalization. While recent generative models have advanced artistic image synthesis, they…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-12-01 Markus Pobitzer , Chang Liu , Chenyi Zhuang , Teng Long , Bin Ren , Nicu Sebe

Reinforcement Learning (RL) algorithms suffer from the dependency on accurately engineered reward functions to properly guide the learning agents to do the required tasks. Preference-based reinforcement learning (PbRL) addresses that by…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2024-08-23 Youssef Abdelkareem , Shady Shehata , Fakhri Karray

Accelerating learning processes for complex tasks by leveraging previously learned tasks has been one of the most challenging problems in reinforcement learning, especially when the similarity between source and target tasks is low. This…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-05-27 Yunzhe Tao , Sahika Genc , Jonathan Chung , Tao Sun , Sunil Mallya

This paper tackles unpaired image enhancement, a task of learning a mapping function which transforms input images into enhanced images in the absence of input-output image pairs. Our method is based on generative adversarial networks…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-12-18 Satoshi Kosugi , Toshihiko Yamasaki

Reinforcement learning is a general method for learning in sequential settings, but it can often be difficult to specify a good reward function when the task is complex. In these cases, preference feedback or expert demonstrations can be…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-08-20 Jason R Brown , Carl Henrik Ek , Robert D Mullins

Learning to navigate in a realistic setting where an agent must rely solely on visual inputs is a challenging task, in part because the lack of position information makes it difficult to provide supervision during training. In this paper,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-01-06 Lina Mezghani , Sainbayar Sukhbaatar , Arthur Szlam , Armand Joulin , Piotr Bojanowski

We introduce DIP, a novel unsupervised post-training method designed to enhance dense image representations in large-scale pretrained vision encoders for in-context scene understanding. Unlike prior approaches that rely on complex…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-09-10 Sophia Sirko-Galouchenko , Spyros Gidaris , Antonin Vobecky , Andrei Bursuc , Nicolas Thome

In web data, product images are central to boosting user engagement and advertising efficacy on e-commerce platforms, yet the intrusive elements such as watermarks and promotional text remain major obstacles to delivering clear and…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-10-10 Zipeng Guo , Lichen Ma , Xiaolong Fu , Gaojing Zhou , Lan Yang , Yuchen Zhou , Linkai Liu , Yu He , Ximan Liu , Shiping Dong , Jingling Fu , Zhen Chen , Yu Shi , Junshi Huang , Jason Li , Chao Gou

Learning from human feedback has been shown to improve text-to-image models. These techniques first learn a reward function that captures what humans care about in the task and then improve the models based on the learned reward function.…

Through many recent successes in simulation, model-free reinforcement learning has emerged as a promising approach to solving continuous control robotic tasks. The research community is now able to reproduce, analyze and build quickly on…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2018-09-21 A. Rupam Mahmood , Dmytro Korenkevych , Gautham Vasan , William Ma , James Bergstra

In this paper, we propose to improve the inference speed and visual quality of contemporary baseline of Generative Adversarial Networks (GAN) based unsupervised semantic inpainting. This is made possible with better initialization of the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-08-15 Avisek Lahiri , Arnav Kumar Jain , Divyasri Nadendla , Prabir Kumar Biswas

Reinforcement learning refers to a group of methods from artificial intelligence where an agent performs learning through trial and error. It differs from supervised learning, since reinforcement learning requires no explicit labels;…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2018-10-02 Nicolas Pröllochs , Stefan Feuerriegel

In learning-to-learn the goal is to infer a learning algorithm that works well on a class of tasks sampled from an unknown meta distribution. In contrast to previous work on batch learning-to-learn, we consider a scenario where tasks are…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2018-03-23 Giulia Denevi , Carlo Ciliberto , Dimitris Stamos , Massimiliano Pontil

Improving large language model (LLM) reasoning requires supervision that is both aligned with the model's own test-time states and informative at the token level. Reinforcement learning with verifiable rewards provides on-policy exploration…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-04-30 Zhiquan Tan , Yinrong Hong