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In the WWW (World Wide Web), dynamic development and spread of data has resulted a tremendous amount of information available on the Internet, yet user is unable to find relevant information in a short span of time. Consequently, a system…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2020-09-11 Denis Selimi , Krenare Pireva Nuci

The online meta-learning framework has arisen as a powerful tool for the continual lifelong learning setting. The goal for an agent is to quickly learn new tasks by drawing on prior experience, while it faces with tasks one after another.…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-09-30 Parvin Nazari , Esmaile Khorram

This paper introduces the offline meta-reinforcement learning (offline meta-RL) problem setting and proposes an algorithm that performs well in this setting. Offline meta-RL is analogous to the widely successful supervised learning strategy…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-07-22 Eric Mitchell , Rafael Rafailov , Xue Bin Peng , Sergey Levine , Chelsea Finn

In Federated Learning, we aim to train models across multiple computing units (users), while users can only communicate with a common central server, without exchanging their data samples. This mechanism exploits the computational power of…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-10-26 Alireza Fallah , Aryan Mokhtari , Asuman Ozdaglar

Tracking requires building a discriminative model for the target in the inference stage. An effective way to achieve this is online learning, which can comfortably outperform models that are only trained offline. Recent research shows that…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-11-16 Tianyu Zhu , Rongkai Ma , Mehrtash Harandi , Tom Drummond

With the continuous development of machine learning technology, major e-commerce platforms have launched recommendation systems based on it to serve a large number of customers with different needs more efficiently. Compared with…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-12-14 Yang Yu , Zhenhao Gu , Rong Tao , Jingtian Ge , Kenglun Chang

We propose a method to easily modify existing offline Recommender Systems to run online using Transfer Learning. Online Learning for Recommender Systems has two main advantages: quality and scale. Like many Machine Learning algorithms in…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2024-12-03 Alex Egg

Improving user retention with reinforcement learning~(RL) has attracted increasing attention due to its significant importance in boosting user engagement. However, training the RL policy from scratch without hurting users' experience is…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2023-03-14 Kesen Zhao , Lixin Zou , Xiangyu Zhao , Maolin Wang , Dawei yin

Although reinforcement learning methods can achieve impressive results in simulation, the real world presents two major challenges: generating samples is exceedingly expensive, and unexpected perturbations or unseen situations cause…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2019-03-01 Anusha Nagabandi , Ignasi Clavera , Simin Liu , Ronald S. Fearing , Pieter Abbeel , Sergey Levine , Chelsea Finn

Parameter fine tuning is a transfer learning approach whereby learned parameters from pre-trained source network are transferred to the target network followed by fine-tuning. Prior research has shown that this approach is capable of…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-09-20 Tasfia Shermin , Shyh Wei Teng , Manzur Murshed , Guojun Lu , Ferdous Sohel , Manoranjan Paul

Cold-start problems are enormous challenges in practical recommender systems. One promising solution for this problem is cross-domain recommendation (CDR) which leverages rich information from an auxiliary (source) domain to improve the…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2021-05-12 Yongchun Zhu , Kaikai Ge , Fuzhen Zhuang , Ruobing Xie , Dongbo Xi , Xu Zhang , Leyu Lin , Qing He

The optimization of Artificial Neural Networks (ANNs) is an important task to the success of using these models in real-world applications. The solutions adopted to this task are expensive in general, involving trial-and-error procedures or…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2021-09-29 Tarsicio Lucas , Teresa Ludermir , Ricardo Prudencio , Carlos Soares

Majority of the modern meta-learning methods for few-shot classification tasks operate in two phases: a meta-training phase where the meta-learner learns a generic representation by solving multiple few-shot tasks sampled from a large…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-04-23 Qing Liu , Orchid Majumder , Alessandro Achille , Avinash Ravichandran , Rahul Bhotika , Stefano Soatto

Preference optimization is crucial for aligning large language models (LLMs) with human values and intentions. A significant challenge in this process is the distribution mismatch between pre-collected offline preference data and the…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2026-03-02 Junming Yang , Ning Xu , Biao Liu , Shiqi Qiao , Xin Geng

Adapting model parameters to incoming streams of data is a crucial factor to deep learning scalability. Interestingly, prior continual learning strategies in online settings inadvertently anchor their updated parameters to a local parameter…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-09-30 Siddhartha Datta , Nigel Shadbolt

With the global transformation of the fashion industry and a rise in the demand for fashion items worldwide, the need for an effectual fashion recommendation has never been more. Despite various cutting-edge solutions proposed in the past…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-09-14 Dhruv Verma , Kshitij Gulati , Rajiv Ratn Shah

Continual learning aims to alleviate catastrophic forgetting when handling consecutive tasks under non-stationary distributions. Gradient-based meta-learning algorithms have shown the capability to implicitly solve the transfer-interference…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-10-04 Xiaohan Zou , Tong Lin

Multimodal learning has shown promising performance in content-based recommendation due to the auxiliary user and item information of multiple modalities such as text and images. However, the problem of incomplete and missing modality is…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2018-08-31 Cheng Wang , Mathias Niepert , Hui Li

In interactive object segmentation a user collaborates with a computer vision model to segment an object. Recent works employ convolutional neural networks for this task: Given an image and a set of corrections made by the user as input,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-11-10 Theodora Kontogianni , Michael Gygli , Jasper Uijlings , Vittorio Ferrari

Cold-start problem is a fundamental challenge for recommendation tasks. The recent self-supervised learning (SSL) on Graph Neural Networks (GNNs) model, PT-GNN, pre-trains the GNN model to reconstruct the cold-start embeddings and has shown…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2022-05-24 Bowen Hao , Hongzhi Yin , Jing Zhang , Cuiping Li , Hong Chen