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Data augmentation is an important technique to reduce overfitting and improve learning performance, but existing works on data augmentation for 3D point cloud data are based on heuristics. In this work, we instead propose to automatically…

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Selecting appropriate training data is crucial for effective instruction fine-tuning of large language models (LLMs), which aims to (1) elicit strong capabilities, and (2) achieve balanced performance across a diverse range of tasks.…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-01-22 Qirun Dai , Dylan Zhang , Jiaqi W. Ma , Hao Peng

Although deep neural networks have made remarkable achievements in the field of automatic modulation recognition (AMR), these models often require a large amount of labeled data for training. However, in many practical scenarios, the…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-07-17 Yao Lu , Hongyu Gao , Zhuangzhi Chen , Dongwei Xu , Yun Lin , Qi Xuan , Guan Gui

Connections between Deep Neural Networks (DNNs) training and optimal control theory has attracted considerable attention as a principled tool of algorithmic design. Differential Dynamic Programming (DDP) neural optimizer is a recently…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-07-20 Guan-Horng Liu , Tianrong Chen , Evangelos A. Theodorou

Recent work shows that post-training datasets for LLMs can be substantially downsampled without noticeably deteriorating performance. However, data selection often incurs high computational costs or is limited to narrow domains. In this…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-09-25 Paramita Mirza , Lucas Weber , Fabian Küch

We draw upon a previously largely untapped literature on human collective intelligence as a source of inspiration for improving deep learning. Implicit in many algorithms that attempt to solve Deep Reinforcement Learning (DRL) tasks is the…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2019-02-18 Dhaval Adjodah , Dan Calacci , Yan Leng , Peter Krafft , Esteban Moro , Alex Pentland

In this paper, we investigate a new form of automated curriculum learning based on adaptive selection of accuracy requirements, called accuracy-based curriculum learning. Using a reinforcement learning agent based on the Deep Deterministic…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2018-09-24 Pierre Fournier , Olivier Sigaud , Mohamed Chetouani , Pierre-Yves Oudeyer

Instruction tuning has unlocked powerful capabilities in large language models (LLMs), effectively using combined datasets to develop generalpurpose chatbots. However, real-world applications often require a specialized suite of skills…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-06-14 Mengzhou Xia , Sadhika Malladi , Suchin Gururangan , Sanjeev Arora , Danqi Chen

With the increasing amount of available data and advances in computing capabilities, deep neural networks (DNNs) have been successfully employed to solve challenging tasks in various areas, including healthcare, climate, and finance.…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-01-12 Marcele O. K. Mendonça , Javier Maroto , Pascal Frossard , Paulo S. R. Diniz

Reward functions are central in reinforcement learning (RL), guiding agents towards optimal decision-making. The complexity of RL tasks requires meticulously designed reward functions that effectively drive learning while avoiding…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-03-31 Rati Devidze

Creating impact in real-world settings requires artificial intelligence techniques to span the full pipeline from data, to predictive models, to decisions. These components are typically approached separately: a machine learning model is…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2018-11-22 Bryan Wilder , Bistra Dilkina , Milind Tambe

We present a differentiable, decision-oriented learning framework for cost prediction in a class of multi-robot decision-making problems, in which the robots need to trade off the task performance with the costs of taking actions when they…

Robotics · Computer Science 2024-03-27 Guangyao Shi , Chak Lam Shek , Nare Karapetyan , Pratap Tokekar

Sequential recommender systems have recently achieved significant performance improvements with the exploitation of deep learning (DL) based methods. However, although various DL-based methods have been introduced, most of them only focus…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2022-03-29 Joo-yeong Song , Bongwon Suh

Selectivity estimation aims at estimating the number of database objects that satisfy a selection criterion. Answering this problem accurately and efficiently is essential to many applications, such as density estimation, outlier detection,…

Databases · Computer Science 2021-05-28 Yaoshu Wang , Chuan Xiao , Jianbin Qin , Rui Mao , Onizuka Makoto , Wei Wang , Rui Zhang , Yoshiharu Ishikawa

Decentralized optimization enables multiple devices to learn a global machine learning model while each individual device only has access to its local dataset. By avoiding the need for training data to leave individual users' devices, it…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-04-22 Ziqin Chen , Zuang Wang , Yongqiang Wang

Recent advancements in instruction tuning for large language models (LLMs) suggest that a small, high-quality dataset can significantly equip LLMs with instruction-following capabilities, outperforming large datasets often burdened by…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-05-20 Jia Zhang , Chen-Xi Zhang , Yao Liu , Yi-Xuan Jin , Xiao-Wen Yang , Bo Zheng , Yi Liu , Lan-Zhe Guo

Differentiable programming is the combination of classical neural networks modules with algorithmic ones in an end-to-end differentiable model. These new models, that use automatic differentiation to calculate gradients, have new learning…

Dynamical Systems · Mathematics 2020-05-05 Adrián Hernández , José M. Amigó

Hierarchical methods in reinforcement learning have the potential to reduce the amount of decisions that the agent needs to perform when learning new tasks. However, finding reusable useful temporal abstractions that facilitate fast…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-04-05 David Kuric , Herke van Hoof

Knowledge Distillation (KD) trains a smaller student model using a large, pre-trained teacher model, with temperature as a key hyperparameter controlling the softness of output probabilities. Traditional methods use a fixed temperature…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-11-19 Sibgat Ul Islam , Jawad Ibn Ahad , Fuad Rahman , Mohammad Ruhul Amin , Nabeel Mohammed , Shafin Rahman

While humans and animals learn incrementally during their lifetimes and exploit their experience to solve new tasks, standard deep reinforcement learning methods specialize to solve only one task at a time. As a result, the information they…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2022-02-23 Diego Gomez , Nicanor Quijano , Luis Felipe Giraldo