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Model-based reinforcement learning refers to a set of approaches capable of sample-efficient decision making, which create an explicit model of the environment. This model can subsequently be used for learning optimal policies. In this…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-11-19 Théophile Champion , Marek Grześ , Howard Bowman

Compositional structures between parts and objects are inherent in natural scenes. Modeling such compositional hierarchies via unsupervised learning can bring various benefits such as interpretability and transferability, which are…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2019-10-22 Fei Deng , Zhuo Zhi , Sungjin Ahn

Skills are effective temporal abstractions established for sequential decision making, which enable efficient hierarchical learning for long-horizon tasks and facilitate multi-task learning through their transferability. Despite extensive…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-05-01 Jiayu Chen , Tian Lan , Vaneet Aggarwal

We establish a recursive representation that fully decouples jumps from a large class of multivariate inhomogeneous stochastic differential equations with jumps of general time-state dependent unbounded intensity, not of L\'evy-driven type…

Probability · Mathematics 2024-09-04 Qinjing Qiu , Reiichiro Kawai

This paper presents our approach for the VA (Valence-Arousal) estimation task in the ABAW6 competition. We devised a comprehensive model by preprocessing video frames and audio segments to extract visual and audio features. Through the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-03-21 Jun Yu , Gongpeng Zhao , Yongqi Wang , Zhihong Wei , Yang Zheng , Zerui Zhang , Zhongpeng Cai , Guochen Xie , Jichao Zhu , Wangyuan Zhu

Document editing has become a pervasive component of the production of information, with version control systems enabling edits to be efficiently stored and applied. In light of this, the task of learning distributed representations of…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2021-01-05 Edison Marrese-Taylor , Machel Reid , Yutaka Matsuo

Syntactic information contains structures and rules about how text sentences are arranged. Incorporating syntax into text modeling methods can potentially benefit both representation learning and generation. Variational autoencoders (VAEs)…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2019-08-28 Yijun Xiao , William Yang Wang

Online Passive-Aggressive (PA) learning is a class of online margin-based algorithms suitable for a wide range of real-time prediction tasks, including classification and regression. PA algorithms are formulated in terms of deterministic…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2015-09-09 Arnold Salas , Stephen J. Roberts , Michael A. Osborne

Sequential decision-making in high-dimensional continuous action spaces, particularly in stochastic environments, faces significant computational challenges. We explore this challenge in the traditional offline RL setting, where an agent…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-03-04 Baiting Luo , Ava Pettet , Aron Laszka , Abhishek Dubey , Ayan Mukhopadhyay

Reinforcement learning agents often forget details of the past, especially after delays or distractor tasks. Agents with common memory architectures struggle to recall and integrate across multiple timesteps of a past event, or even to…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-12-09 Andrew Kyle Lampinen , Stephanie C. Y. Chan , Andrea Banino , Felix Hill

Recent research tries to extend image restoration capabilities from human perception to machine perception, thereby enhancing the performance of high-level vision tasks in degraded environments. These methods, primarily based on supervised…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-12-12 Jiawei Wu , Zhi Jin

AI models have garnered significant research attention towards predictive task automation. However, a stationary training environment is an underlying assumption for most models and such models simply do not work on non-stationary data…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-04-29 Hassan Wasswa , Aziida Nanyonga , Timothy Lynar

In an unfamiliar setting, a model-based reinforcement learning agent can be limited by the accuracy of its world model. In this work, we present a novel, training-free approach to improving the performance of such agents separately from…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-02-26 Martin Benfeghoul , Umais Zahid , Qinghai Guo , Zafeirios Fountas

Learning in the latent variable model is challenging in the presence of the complex data structure or the intractable latent variable. Previous variational autoencoders can be low effective due to the straightforward encoder-decoder…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2018-04-13 Jiangchao Yao , Ivor Tsang , Ya Zhang

Emergence, a global property of complex adaptive systems (CASs) constituted by interactive agents, is prevalent in real-world dynamic systems, e.g., network-level traffic congestions. Detecting its formation and evaporation helps to monitor…

Multiagent Systems · Computer Science 2024-10-29 Siyuan Chen , Xin Du , Jiahai Wang

Video-based representations have gained prominence in planning and decision-making due to their ability to encode rich spatiotemporal dynamics and geometric relationships. These representations enable flexible and generalizable solutions…

Robotics · Computer Science 2026-02-11 Po-Chen Ko , Jiayuan Mao , Yu-Hsiang Fu , Hsien-Jeng Yeh , Chu-Rong Chen , Wei-Chiu Ma , Yilun Du , Shao-Hua Sun

There is significant progress in recognizing traditional human activities from videos focusing on highly distinctive actions involving discriminative body movements, body-object and/or human-human interactions. Driver's activities are…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-01-19 Zachary Wharton , Ardhendu Behera , Yonghuai Liu , Nik Bessis

Unsupervised object-centric learning from videos is a promising approach towards learning compositional representations that can be applied to various downstream tasks, such as prediction and reasoning. Recently, it was shown that…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-10-22 Cristian Meo , Akihiro Nakano , Mircea Lică , Aniket Didolkar , Masahiro Suzuki , Anirudh Goyal , Mengmi Zhang , Justin Dauwels , Yutaka Matsuo , Yoshua Bengio

Many economic variables feature changes in their conditional mean and volatility, and Time Varying Vector Autoregressive Models are often used to handle such complexity in the data. Unfortunately, when the number of series grows, they…

Econometrics · Economics 2022-01-19 G. Cubadda , S. Grassi , B. Guardabascio

For recurrent neural networks trained on time series with target and exogenous variables, in addition to accurate prediction, it is also desired to provide interpretable insights into the data. In this paper, we explore the structure of…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2019-05-30 Tian Guo , Tao Lin , Nino Antulov-Fantulin