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Seamlessly interacting with humans or robots is hard because these agents are non-stationary. They update their policy in response to the ego agent's behavior, and the ego agent must anticipate these changes to co-adapt. Inspired by humans,…

Robotics · Computer Science 2020-11-16 Annie Xie , Dylan P. Losey , Ryan Tolsma , Chelsea Finn , Dorsa Sadigh

Deep reinforcement learning algorithms have recently been used to train multiple interacting agents in a centralised manner whilst keeping their execution decentralised. When the agents can only acquire partial observations and are faced…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-01-27 Emanuele Pesce , Giovanni Montana

The low-level sensory and motor signals in deep reinforcement learning, which exist in high-dimensional spaces such as image observations or motor torques, are inherently challenging to understand or utilize directly for downstream tasks.…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2023-03-07 Pu Hua , Yubei Chen , Huazhe Xu

We propose and demonstrate a representation learning approach by maximizing the mutual information between local features of images and text. The goal of this approach is to learn useful image representations by taking advantage of the rich…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-12-16 Ruizhi Liao , Daniel Moyer , Miriam Cha , Keegan Quigley , Seth Berkowitz , Steven Horng , Polina Golland , William M. Wells

Deep reinforcement learning (DRL) breaks through the bottlenecks of traditional reinforcement learning (RL) with the help of the perception capability of deep learning and has been widely applied in real-world problems.While model-free RL,…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-11-28 Tingting Zhao , Ying Wang , Wei Sun , Yarui Chen , Gang Niub , Masashi Sugiyama

Integrating multiple functionalities into a system poses a fascinating challenge to the field of deep learning. While the precise mechanisms by which the brain encodes and decodes information, and learns diverse skills, remain elusive,…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2024-12-16 Siwei Luo

The benefit of multi-task learning over single-task learning relies on the ability to use relations across tasks to improve performance on any single task. While sharing representations is an important mechanism to share information across…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-06-14 Shagun Sodhani , Amy Zhang , Joelle Pineau

Diffusion probabilistic models (DPMs) have achieved remarkable quality in image generation that rivals GANs'. But unlike GANs, DPMs use a set of latent variables that lack semantic meaning and cannot serve as a useful representation for…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-03-14 Konpat Preechakul , Nattanat Chatthee , Suttisak Wizadwongsa , Supasorn Suwajanakorn

Encoder transformer models compress information from all tokens in a sequence into a single [CLS] token to represent global context. This approach risks diluting fine-grained or hierarchical features, leading to information loss in…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-09-23 Asif Shahriar , Rifat Shahriyar , M Saifur Rahman

Reinforcement learning in heterogeneous multi-agent scenarios is important for real-world applications but presents challenges beyond those seen in homogeneous settings and simple benchmarks. In this work, we present an actor-critic…

Multiagent Systems · Computer Science 2020-10-07 Ceyer Wakilpoor , Patrick J. Martin , Carrie Rebhuhn , Amanda Vu

Deep neural networks usually benefit from unsupervised pre-training, e.g. auto-encoders. However, the classifier further needs supervised fine-tuning methods for good discrimination. Besides, due to the limits of full-connection, the…

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Visual robotic manipulation research and applications often use multiple cameras, or views, to better perceive the world. How else can we utilize the richness of multi-view data? In this paper, we investigate how to learn good…

Robotics · Computer Science 2023-06-01 Younggyo Seo , Junsu Kim , Stephen James , Kimin Lee , Jinwoo Shin , Pieter Abbeel

Option discovery and skill acquisition frameworks are integral to the functioning of a Hierarchically organized Reinforcement learning agent. However, such techniques often yield a large number of options or skills, which can potentially be…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-07-06 Arjun Manoharan , Rahul Ramesh , Balaraman Ravindran

Agent modeling is a critical component in developing effective policies within multi-agent systems, as it enables agents to form beliefs about the behaviors, intentions, and competencies of others. Many existing approaches assume access to…

Multiagent Systems · Computer Science 2025-08-06 Conor Wallace , Umer Siddique , Yongcan Cao

A central challenge in high-energy nuclear physics is to extract informative features from the high-dimensional final-state data of heavy-ion collisions (HIC) in order to enable reliable downstream analyses. Traditional approaches often…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2025-10-09 Jing-Zong Zhang , Shuang Guo , Li-Lin Zhu , Lingxiao Wang , Guo-Liang Ma

Dense retrieval models usually adopt vectors from the last hidden layer of the document encoder to represent a document, which is in contrast to the fact that representations in different layers of a pre-trained language model usually…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2025-09-30 Zhongbin Xie , Thomas Lukasiewicz

Representation learning is important for solving sequence-to-sequence problems in natural language processing. Representation learning transforms raw data into vector-form representations while preserving their features. However, data with…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2023-01-12 Yunhao Yang , Zhaokun Xue , Andrew Whinston

Variational autoencoders (VAEs) learn representations of data by jointly training a probabilistic encoder and decoder network. Typically these models encode all features of the data into a single variable. Here we are interested in learning…

Many deep neural networks are susceptible to minute perturbations of images that have been carefully crafted to cause misclassification. Ideally, a robust classifier would be immune to small variations in input images, and a number of…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-02-08 Eashan Adhikarla , Dan Luo , Brian D. Davison

We present a control approach for autonomous vehicles based on deep reinforcement learning. A neural network agent is trained to map its estimated state to acceleration and steering commands given the objective of reaching a specific target…

Robotics · Computer Science 2020-03-16 Andreas Folkers , Matthias Rick , Christof Büskens