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Applications to support pedestrian mobility in urban areas require a complete, and routable graph representation of the built environment. Globally available information, including aerial imagery provides a scalable source for constructing…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-07-25 Yuxiang Zhang , Bill Howe , Sachin Mehta , Nicholas-J Bolten , Anat Caspi

We present a framework for learning to guide geometric task and motion planning (GTAMP). GTAMP is a subclass of task and motion planning in which the goal is to move multiple objects to target regions among movable obstacles. A standard…

Robotics · Computer Science 2022-03-10 Beomjoon Kim , Luke Shimanuki , Leslie Pack Kaelbling , Tomás Lozano-Pérez

We propose RoBiRank, a ranking algorithm that is motivated by observing a close connection between evaluation metrics for learning to rank and loss functions for robust classification. The algorithm shows a very competitive performance on…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2014-08-22 Hyokun Yun , Parameswaran Raman , S. V. N. Vishwanathan

Reasoning paths are reliable information in knowledge graph completion (KGC) in which algorithms can find strong clues of the actual relation between entities. However, in real-world applications, it is difficult to guarantee that…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2025-10-08 Yanning Hou , Sihang Zhou , Ke Liang , Lingyuan Meng , Xiaoshu Chen , Ke Xu , Siwei Wang , Xinwang Liu , Jian Huang

This paper explores learned-context neural networks. It is a multi-task learning architecture based on a fully shared neural network and an augmented input vector containing trainable task parameters. The architecture is interesting due to…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-08-07 Anders T. Sandnes , Bjarne Grimstad , Odd Kolbjørnsen

We introduce Loop Ranking, a new ranking measure based on the detection of closed paths, which can be computed in an efficient way. We analyze it with respect to several ranking measures which have been proposed in the past, and are widely…

Disordered Systems and Neural Networks · Physics 2013-05-29 Valery Van Kerrebroeck , Enzo Marinari

We consider the problem of learning to choose from a given set of objects, where each object is represented by a feature vector. Traditional approaches in choice modelling are mainly based on learning a latent, real-valued utility function,…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-07-15 Karlson Pfannschmidt , Eyke Hüllermeier

We introduce a method to provide vectorial representations of visual classification tasks which can be used to reason about the nature of those tasks and their relations. Given a dataset with ground-truth labels and a loss function defined…

Sampling-based algorithms for robot path planning offer probabilistic completeness and strong empirical convergence properties across environments with diverse obstacle configurations. However, in practice, these methods often require many…

Robotics · Computer Science 2026-05-26 Hichem Cheriet , Badra Khellat Kihel , Samira Chouraqui , Bara J. Emran

In the last years decision-focused learning framework, also known as predict-and-optimize, have received increasing attention. In this setting, the predictions of a machine learning model are used as estimated cost coefficients in the…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-06-20 Jayanta Mandi , Víctor Bucarey , Maxime Mulamba , Tias Guns

Recent developments in engineering techniques for spatial data collection such as geographic information systems have resulted in an increasing need for methods to analyze large spatial data sets. These sorts of data sets can be found in…

Methodology · Statistics 2020-08-14 Toshihiro Hirano

Many latent (factorized) models have been proposed for recommendation tasks like collaborative filtering and for ranking tasks like document or image retrieval and annotation. Common to all those methods is that during inference the items…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2012-10-19 Jason Weston , John Blitzer

Next-location prediction, consisting of forecasting a user's location given their historical trajectories, has important implications in several fields, such as urban planning, geo-marketing, and disease spreading. Several predictors have…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2022-03-08 Massimiliano Luca , Luca Pappalardo , Bruno Lepri , Gianni Barlacchi

Link directions are essential to the functionality of networks and their prediction is helpful towards a better knowledge of directed networks from incomplete real-world data. We study the problem of predicting the directions of some links…

Physics and Society · Physics 2013-07-16 Fangjian Guo , Zimo Yang , Tao Zhou

For artificial general intelligence (AGI) it would be efficient if multiple users trained the same giant neural network, permitting parameter reuse, without catastrophic forgetting. PathNet is a first step in this direction. It is a neural…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2017-01-31 Chrisantha Fernando , Dylan Banarse , Charles Blundell , Yori Zwols , David Ha , Andrei A. Rusu , Alexander Pritzel , Daan Wierstra

This paper concerns a deep learning approach to relevance ranking in information retrieval (IR). Existing deep IR models such as DSSM and CDSSM directly apply neural networks to generate ranking scores, without explicit understandings of…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2019-07-23 Liang Pang , Yanyan Lan , Jiafeng Guo , Jun Xu , Jingfang Xu , Xueqi Cheng

Radio propagation modeling is essential in telecommunication research, as radio channels result from complex interactions with environmental objects. Recently, Machine Learning has been attracting attention as a potential alternative to…

This paper proposes an effective and novel multiagent deep reinforcement learning (MADRL)-based method for solving the joint virtual network function (VNF) placement and routing (P&R), where multiple service requests with differentiated…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2022-06-27 Shaoyang Wang , Chau Yuen , Wei Ni , Guan Yong Liang , Tiejun Lv

We study algorithms for matching user tracks, consisting of time-ordered location points, to paths in the road network. Previous work has focused on the scenario where the location data is linearly ordered and consists of fairly dense and…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2012-09-14 Adel Javanmard , Maya Haridasan , Li Zhang

The objective of the knowledge base completion problem is to infer missing information from existing facts in a knowledge base. Prior work has demonstrated the effectiveness of path-ranking based methods, which solve the problem by…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2019-11-27 Weiyu Liu , Angel Daruna , Zsolt Kira , Sonia Chernova