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Deep reinforcement learning (DRL) is a booming area of artificial intelligence. Many practical applications of DRL naturally involve more than one collaborative learners, making it important to study DRL in a multi-agent context. Previous…

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The integration of Reinforcement Learning (RL) into robotic-assisted surgery (RAS) holds significant promise for advancing surgical precision, adaptability, and autonomous decision-making. However, the development of robust RL models in…

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Federated learning (FL) is a machine learning paradigm in which distributed local nodes collaboratively train a central model without sharing individually held private data. Existing FL methods either iteratively share local model…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-12-25 Xuan Gong , Shanglin Li , Yuxiang Bao , Barry Yao , Yawen Huang , Ziyan Wu , Baochang Zhang , Yefeng Zheng , David Doermann

Federated learning (FL) operates in heterogeneous environments, where variations in data distributions and asymmetric model design often result in negative transfer. While federated knowledge distillation (FKD) avoids direct model parameter…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-05-08 Quang-Huy Nguyen , Jiaqi Wang , Wei-shinn Ku

Reinforcement learning (RL) struggles to scale to large, combinatorial action spaces common in many real-world problems. This paper introduces a novel framework for training discrete diffusion models as highly effective policies in these…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-05-21 Haitong Ma , Ofir Nabati , Aviv Rosenberg , Bo Dai , Oran Lang , Craig Boutilier , Na Li , Shie Mannor , Lior Shani , Guy Tenneholtz

Federated reinforcement learning (FRL) methods usually share the encrypted local state or policy information and help each client to learn from others while preserving everyone's privacy. In this work, we propose that sharing the…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-05-16 Zengxia Guo , Bohui An , Zhongqi Lu

Federated Learning (FL) is a distributed framework for collaborative model training over large-scale distributed data, enabling higher performance while maintaining client data privacy. However, the nature of model aggregation at the…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-06-10 Ali Murad , Bo Hui , Wei-Shinn Ku

This paper investigates the feasibility of federated representation learning under the constraints of communication cost and privacy protection. Existing works either conduct annotation-guided local training which requires frequent…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-01-19 Haizhou Shi , Youcai Zhang , Zijin Shen , Siliang Tang , Yaqian Li , Yandong Guo , Yueting Zhuang

In recent years, federated learning (FL) has emerged as a prominent paradigm in distributed machine learning. Despite the partial safeguarding of agents' information within FL systems, a malicious adversary can potentially infer sensitive…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2024-04-17 Zhenwei Huang , Wen Huang , Pratik Jawanpuria , Bamdev Mishra

The robustness of federated learning (FL) is vital for the distributed training of an accurate global model that is shared among large number of clients. The collaborative learning framework by typically aggregating model updates is…

We introduce Federated Learning for Relational Data (Fed-RD), a novel privacy-preserving federated learning algorithm specifically developed for financial transaction datasets partitioned vertically and horizontally across parties. Fed-RD…

Computational Engineering, Finance, and Science · Computer Science 2024-08-06 Md. Saikat Islam Khan , Aparna Gupta , Oshani Seneviratne , Stacy Patterson

Multi-Agent Reinforcement Learning currently focuses on implementations where all data and training can be centralized to one machine. But what if local agents are split across multiple tasks, and need to keep data private between each? We…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-10-21 Doseok Jang , Larry Yan , Lucas Spangher , Costas J. Spanos

Diffusion and flow models achieve State-Of-The-Art (SOTA) generative performance, yet many practically important behaviors such as fine-grained prompt fidelity, compositional correctness, and text rendering are weakly specified by score or…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-03-17 Yuanzhi Zhu , Xi Wang , Stéphane Lathuilière , Vicky Kalogeiton

Deep Reinforcement Learning (DRL) sometimes needs a large amount of data to converge in the training procedure and in some cases, each action of the agent may produce regret. This barrier naturally motivates different data sets or…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-10-01 Yimin Shi

Federated reinforcement learning (FedRL) enables collaborative learning while preserving data privacy by preventing direct data exchange between agents. However, many existing FedRL algorithms assume that all agents operate in identical…

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Personalization in federated learning (FL) functions as a coordinator for clients with high variance in data or behavior. Ensuring the convergence of these clients' models relies on how closely users collaborate with those with similar…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-02-24 Eunjeong Jeong , Marios Kountouris

Using privileged information during training can improve the sample efficiency and performance of machine learning systems. This paradigm has been applied to reinforcement learning (RL), primarily in the form of distillation or auxiliary…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-05-20 Pierre-Alexandre Kamienny , Kai Arulkumaran , Feryal Behbahani , Wendelin Boehmer , Shimon Whiteson

Aligning generative diffusion models with human preferences via reinforcement learning (RL) is critical yet challenging. Most existing algorithms are often vulnerable to reward hacking, such as quality degradation, over-stylization, or…

We propose Algorithm Distillation (AD), a method for distilling reinforcement learning (RL) algorithms into neural networks by modeling their training histories with a causal sequence model. Algorithm Distillation treats learning to…