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This paper presents a novel framework for automatic learning of complex strategies in human decision making. The task that we are interested in is to better facilitate long term planning for complex, multi-step events. We observe temporal…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-05-15 Tharindu Fernando , Simon Denman , Sridha Sridharan , Clinton Fookes

Partial Differential Equations (PDEs) are the bedrock for modern computational sciences and engineering, and inherently computationally expensive. While PDE foundation models have shown much promise for simulating such complex…

The task of predicting long-term patient outcomes using supervised machine learning is a challenging one, in part because of the high variance of each patient's trajectory, which can result in the model over-fitting to the training data.…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-02-09 Thomas Frost , Kezhi Li , Steve Harris

This paper introduces a novel transfer learning framework for deep multi-agent reinforcement learning. The approach automatically combines goal-conditioned policies with temporal contrastive learning to discover meaningful sub-goals. The…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2024-06-04 Weihao Zeng , Joseph Campbell , Simon Stepputtis , Katia Sycara

We study the finite-time behaviour of the popular temporal difference (TD) learning algorithm when combined with tail-averaging. We derive finite time bounds on the parameter error of the tail-averaged TD iterate under a step-size choice…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-09-20 Gandharv Patil , Prashanth L. A. , Dheeraj Nagaraj , Doina Precup

Predicting the future trajectories of dynamic agents in complex environments is crucial for a variety of applications, including autonomous driving, robotics, and human-computer interaction. It is a challenging task as the behavior of the…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2023-12-12 Amina Ghoul , Itheri Yahiaoui , Fawzi Nashashibi

Neural network models have demonstrated impressive performance in predicting pathologies and outcomes from the 12-lead electrocardiogram (ECG). However, these models often need to be trained with large, labelled datasets, which are not…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-04-12 Aniruddh Raghu , Divya Shanmugam , Eugene Pomerantsev , John Guttag , Collin M. Stultz

Deliberating on large or continuous state spaces have been long standing challenges in reinforcement learning. Temporal Abstraction have somewhat made this possible, but efficiently planing using temporal abstraction still remains an issue.…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2017-03-21 Peeyush Kumar , Doina Precup

Operator learning for time-dependent partial differential equations (PDEs) has seen rapid progress in recent years, enabling efficient approximation of complex spatiotemporal dynamics. However, most existing methods rely on fixed time step…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-10-07 Zhikai Wu , Sifan Wang , Shiyang Zhang , Sizhuang He , Min Zhu , Anran Jiao , Lu Lu , David van Dijk

We study the policy evaluation problem in multi-agent reinforcement learning, modeled by a Markov decision process. In this problem, the agents operate in a common environment under a fixed control policy, working together to discover the…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2020-01-13 Thinh T. Doan , Siva Theja Maguluri , Justin Romberg

Recent works have shown that neural networks are vulnerable to carefully crafted adversarial examples (AE). By adding small perturbations to input images, AEs are able to make the victim model predicts incorrect outputs. Several research…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-05-05 Yilan Li , Senem Velipasalar

TD-MPC is a model-based reinforcement learning (RL) algorithm that performs local trajectory optimization in the latent space of a learned implicit (decoder-free) world model. In this work, we present TD-MPC2: a series of improvements upon…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-03-22 Nicklas Hansen , Hao Su , Xiaolong Wang

Autonomous agents often require multiple strategies to solve complex tasks, but determining when to switch between strategies remains challenging. This research introduces a reinforcement learning technique to learn switching thresholds…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-12-09 Chris Tava

Differential temporal difference (TD) methods are value-based reinforcement learning algorithms that have been proposed for infinite-horizon problems. They rely on reward centering, where each reward is centered by the average reward. This…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-05-07 Kris De Asis , Mohamed Elsayed , Jiamin He

Task planning is an important component of traditional robotics systems enabling robots to compose fine grained skills to perform more complex tasks. Recent work building systems for translating natural language to executable actions for…

Robotics · Computer Science 2023-05-12 Mert İnan , Aishwarya Padmakumar , Spandana Gella , Patrick Lange , Dilek Hakkani-Tur

Continuous time systems are often modeled using discrete time dynamics but this requires a small simulation step to maintain accuracy. In turn, this requires a large planning horizon which leads to computationally demanding planning…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-10-23 Palash Chatterjee , Roni Khardon

The adoption of pre-trained language models in task-oriented dialogue systems has resulted in significant enhancements of their text generation abilities. However, these architectures are slow to use because of the large number of trainable…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2023-02-14 Radostin Cholakov , Todor Kolev

Detecting other agents and forecasting their behavior is an integral part of the modern robotic autonomy stack, especially in safety-critical scenarios entailing human-robot interaction such as autonomous driving. Due to the importance of…

Robotics · Computer Science 2021-10-08 Boris Ivanovic , Marco Pavone

Automated Feature Engineering (AFE) refers to automatically generate and select optimal feature sets for downstream tasks, which has achieved great success in real-world applications. Current AFE methods mainly focus on improving the…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-12-27 Kafeng Wang , Pengyang Wang , Chengzhong xu

It is quite popular nowadays for researchers and data analysts holding different datasets to seek assistance from each other to enhance their modeling performance. We consider a scenario where different learners hold datasets with…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2024-05-15 Jiawei Zhang , Yuhong Yang , Jie Ding