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We introduce Recursive Agent Optimization (RAO), a reinforcement learning approach for training recursive agents: agents that can spawn and delegate sub-tasks to new instantiations of themselves recursively. Recursive agents implement an…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-05-08 Apurva Gandhi , Satyaki Chakraborty , Xiangjun Wang , Aviral Kumar , Graham Neubig

Neural networks have changed the way machines interpret the world. At their core, they learn by following gradients, adjusting their parameters step by step until they identify the most discriminant patterns in the data. This process gives…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-11-03 Samarup Bhattacharya , Anubhab Bhattacharya , Abir Chakraborty

This article is concerned with the mathematical analysis of a family of adaptive importance sampling algorithms applied to diffusion processes. These methods, referred to as Adaptive Biasing Potential methods, are designed to efficiently…

Probability · Mathematics 2018-05-10 Michel Benaïm , Charles-Edouard Bréhier

One of the grand enduring goals of AI is to create generalist agents that can learn multiple different tasks from diverse data via multitask learning (MTL). However, in practice, applying gradient descent (GD) on the average loss across all…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-10-31 Bo Liu , Yihao Feng , Peter Stone , Qiang Liu

There is a broad consensus on the importance of deep learning models in tasks involving complex data. Often, an adequate understanding of these models is required when focusing on the transparency of decisions in human-critical…

Adversarial machine learning is a fast growing research area, which considers the scenarios when machine learning systems may face potential adversarial attackers, who intentionally synthesize input data to make a well-trained model to make…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2018-10-24 Guofu Li , Pengjia Zhu , Jin Li , Zhemin Yang , Ning Cao , Zhiyi Chen

Generative Adversarial Network (GAN) and its variants exhibit state-of-the-art performance in the class of generative models. To capture higher-dimensional distributions, the common learning procedure requires high computational complexity…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2018-04-02 Xingwei Cao , Xuyang Zhao , Qibin Zhao

Transfer Learning aims to optimally aggregate samples from a target distribution, with related samples from a so-called source distribution to improve target risk. Multiple procedures have been proposed over the last two decades to address…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2025-04-29 Steve Hanneke , Samory Kpotufe

Adversarial training is a defense method that trains machine learning models on intentionally perturbed attack inputs, so they learn to be robust against adversarial examples. This paper develops a robust voltage control framework for…

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We present a new tool, GPA, that can generate key performance measures for very large systems. Based on solving systems of ordinary differential equations (ODEs), this method of performance analysis is far more scalable than stochastic…

Performance · Computer Science 2010-06-29 Anton Stefanek , Richard Hayden , Jeremy Bradley

Thanks to their remarkable generative capabilities, GANs have gained great popularity, and are used abundantly in state-of-the-art methods and applications. In a GAN based model, a discriminator is trained to learn the real data…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-11-21 Firas Shama , Roey Mechrez , Alon Shoshan , Lihi Zelnik-Manor

Adversarial learning methods are a promising approach to training robust deep networks, and can generate complex samples across diverse domains. They also can improve recognition despite the presence of domain shift or dataset bias: several…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2017-02-20 Eric Tzeng , Judy Hoffman , Kate Saenko , Trevor Darrell

Any autoencoder network can be turned into a generative model by imposing an arbitrary prior distribution on its hidden code vector. Variational Autoencoder (VAE) [2] uses a KL divergence penalty to impose the prior, whereas Adversarial…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2018-07-23 Mahdi Azarafrooz

Parametric adversarial divergences, which are a generalization of the losses used to train generative adversarial networks (GANs), have often been described as being approximations of their nonparametric counterparts, such as the…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-10-22 Gabriel Huang , Hugo Berard , Ahmed Touati , Gauthier Gidel , Pascal Vincent , Simon Lacoste-Julien

Generative adversarial networks (GANs) are successful deep generative models. GANs are based on a two-player minimax game. However, the objective function derived in the original motivation is changed to obtain stronger gradients when…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2016-11-10 Masatoshi Uehara , Issei Sato , Masahiro Suzuki , Kotaro Nakayama , Yutaka Matsuo

In Inverse Optimization (IO), an expert agent solves an optimization problem parametric in an exogenous signal. From a learning perspective, the goal is to learn the expert's cost function given a dataset of signals and corresponding…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2024-01-25 Pedro Zattoni Scroccaro , Bilge Atasoy , Peyman Mohajerin Esfahani

Adversarial attacks can compromise the robustness of real-world detection models. However, evaluating these models under real-world conditions poses challenges due to resource-intensive experiments. Virtual simulations offer an alternative,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-08-08 Wei Jiang , Tianyuan Zhang , Shuangcheng Liu , Weiyu Ji , Zichao Zhang , Gang Xiao

Dual decomposition is widely utilized in distributed optimization of multi-agent systems. In practice, the dual decomposition algorithm is desired to admit an asynchronous implementation due to imperfect communication, such as time delay…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2021-03-05 Yifan Su , Zhaojian Wang , Ming Cao , Mengshuo Jia , Feng Liu

Despite the successes in capturing continuous distributions, the application of generative adversarial networks (GANs) to discrete settings, like natural language tasks, is rather restricted. The fundamental reason is the difficulty of…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2017-02-28 Tong Che , Yanran Li , Ruixiang Zhang , R Devon Hjelm , Wenjie Li , Yangqiu Song , Yoshua Bengio

This paper studies how well generative adversarial networks (GANs) learn probability distributions from finite samples. Our main results establish the convergence rates of GANs under a collection of integral probability metrics defined…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-06-10 Jian Huang , Yuling Jiao , Zhen Li , Shiao Liu , Yang Wang , Yunfei Yang