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This work contributes a novel deep navigation policy that enables collision-free flight of aerial robots based on a modular approach exploiting deep collision encoding and reinforcement learning. The proposed solution builds upon a deep…

Robotics · Computer Science 2024-02-07 Mihir Kulkarni , Kostas Alexis

Dense retrievers encode queries and documents and map them in an embedding space using pre-trained language models. These embeddings need to be high-dimensional to fit training signals and guarantee the retrieval effectiveness of dense…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2022-10-25 Zhenghao Liu , Han Zhang , Chenyan Xiong , Zhiyuan Liu , Yu Gu , Xiaohua Li

Following the rapidly growing digital image usage, automatic image categorization has become preeminent research area. It has broaden and adopted many algorithms from time to time, whereby multi-feature (generally, hand-engineered features)…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2017-05-12 Thangarajah Akilan , Q. M. Jonathan Wu , Wei Jiang

Deep reinforcement learning (RL) has gained widespread adoption in recent years but faces significant challenges, particularly in unknown and complex environments. Among these, high-dimensional action selection stands out as a critical…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2025-07-08 Wenbo Zhang , Hengrui Cai

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

Being able to reason in an environment with a large number of discrete actions is essential to bringing reinforcement learning to a larger class of problems. Recommender systems, industrial plants and language models are only some of the…

Deep learning and reinforcement learning methods have recently been used to solve a variety of problems in continuous control domains. An obvious application of these techniques is dexterous manipulation tasks in robotics which are…

There exist many high-dimensional data in real-world applications such as biology, computer vision, and social networks. Feature selection approaches are devised to confront with high-dimensional data challenges with the aim of efficient…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-06-22 Mohsen Ghassemi Parsa , Hadi Zare , Mehdi Ghatee

This paper addresses the challenge of navigation in large, visually complex environments with sparse rewards. We propose a method that uses object-oriented macro actions grounded in a topological map, allowing a simple Deep Q-Network (DQN)…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-04-28 Simon Hakenes , Tobias Glasmachers

The autoencoder is an unsupervised learning paradigm that aims to create a compact latent representation of data by minimizing the reconstruction loss. However, it tends to overlook the fact that most data (images) are embedded in a…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-10-26 Alokendu Mazumder , Tirthajit Baruah , Bhartendu Kumar , Rishab Sharma , Vishwajeet Pattanaik , Punit Rathore

Many environments contain numerous available niches of variable value, each associated with a different local optimum in the space of behaviors (policy space). In such situations it is often difficult to design a learning process capable of…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2023-02-06 Peter Sunehag , Alexander Sasha Vezhnevets , Edgar Duéñez-Guzmán , Igor Mordach , Joel Z. Leibo

An online resource scheduling framework is proposed for minimizing the sum of weighted task latency for all the Internet of things (IoT) users, by optimizing offloading decision, transmission power and resource allocation in the large-scale…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-04-16 Feibo Jiang , Kezhi Wang , Li Dong , Cunhua Pan , Kun Yang

We investigate a novel approach for image restoration by reinforcement learning. Unlike existing studies that mostly train a single large network for a specialized task, we prepare a toolbox consisting of small-scale convolutional networks…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-04-11 Ke Yu , Chao Dong , Liang Lin , Chen Change Loy

This paper introduces the problem of learning to place logic blocks in Field-Programmable Gate Arrays (FPGAs) and a learning-based method. In contrast to previous search-based placement algorithms, we instead employ Reinforcement Learning…

Hardware Architecture · Computer Science 2024-04-23 Shang Wang , Deepak Ranganatha Sastry Mamillapalli , Tianpei Yang , Matthew E. Taylor

Deep Reinforcement Learning (RL) has emerged as a powerful paradigm for training neural policies to solve complex control tasks. However, these policies tend to be overfit to the exact specifications of the task and environment they were…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2023-09-11 Felix Chalumeau , Raphael Boige , Bryan Lim , Valentin Macé , Maxime Allard , Arthur Flajolet , Antoine Cully , Thomas Pierrot

In this paper we combine one method for hierarchical reinforcement learning - the options framework - with deep Q-networks (DQNs) through the use of different "option heads" on the policy network, and a supervisory network for choosing…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2017-06-20 Kai Arulkumaran , Nat Dilokthanakul , Murray Shanahan , Anil Anthony Bharath

Researchers have demonstrated that Deep Reinforcement Learning (DRL) is a powerful tool for finding policies that perform well on complex robotic systems. However, these policies are often unpredictable and can induce highly variable…

Robotics · Computer Science 2022-03-08 Sean Gillen , Asutay Ozmen , Katie Byl

This paper describes an approach for attractor selection (or multi-stability control) in nonlinear dynamical systems with constrained actuation. Attractor selection is obtained using two different deep reinforcement learning methods: 1) the…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-06-02 Xue-She Wang , James D. Turner , Brian P. Mann

Deep reinforcement learning (RL) algorithms have recently achieved remarkable successes in various sequential decision making tasks, leveraging advances in methods for training large deep networks. However, these methods usually require…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-06-30 Kei Ota , Tomoaki Oiki , Devesh K. Jha , Toshisada Mariyama , Daniel Nikovski

Data in real-world application often exhibit skewed class distribution which poses an intense challenge for machine learning. Conventional classification algorithms are not effective in the case of imbalanced data distribution, and may fail…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2019-01-08 Enlu Lin , Qiong Chen , Xiaoming Qi