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This paper deals with a new accelerated path integral method, which iteratively searches optimal controls with a small number of iterations. This study is based on the recent observations that a path integral method for reinforcement…

Systems and Control · Computer Science 2019-10-08 Masashi Okada , Tadahiro Taniguchi

We present multiplexed gradient descent (MGD), a gradient descent framework designed to easily train analog or digital neural networks in hardware. MGD utilizes zero-order optimization techniques for online training of hardware neural…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-08-17 Adam N. McCaughan , Bakhrom G. Oripov , Natesh Ganesh , Sae Woo Nam , Andrew Dienstfrey , Sonia M. Buckley

Deep multitask networks, in which one neural network produces multiple predictive outputs, can offer better speed and performance than their single-task counterparts but are challenging to train properly. We present a gradient normalization…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-07-16 Zhao Chen , Vijay Badrinarayanan , Chen-Yu Lee , Andrew Rabinovich

In recent years, neural networks have demonstrated outstanding effectiveness in a large amount of applications.However, recent works have shown that neural networks are susceptible to adversarial examples, indicating possible flaws…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2018-06-08 Fuxun Yu , Zirui Xu , Yanzhi Wang , Chenchen Liu , Xiang Chen

Multi-Objective Reinforcement Learning (MORL) is a generalization of traditional Reinforcement Learning (RL) that aims to optimize multiple, often conflicting objectives simultaneously rather than focusing on a single reward. This approach…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-08-15 Davide Guidobene , Lorenzo Benedetti , Diego Arapovic

Training generative adversarial networks (GAN) in a distributed fashion is a promising technology since it is contributed to training GAN on a massive of data efficiently in real-world applications. However, GAN is known to be difficult to…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-10-27 Xiaojun Chen , Shu Yang , Li Shen , Xuanrong Pang

We present a new accelerated gradient-based method for solving smooth unconstrained optimization problems. The goal is to embed a heavy-ball type of momentum into the Fast Gradient Method (FGM). For this purpose, we devise a generalization…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2021-11-02 Endrit Dosti , Sergiy A. Vorobyov , Themistoklis Charalambous

Large language models (LLMs) have revolutionized lots of fields of research. Although it is well-known that fine-tuning is essential for enhancing the capabilities of LLMs, existing research suggests that there is potential redundancy in…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2025-02-14 Haoling Li , Xin Zhang , Xiao Liu , Yeyun Gong , Yifan Wang , Qi Chen , Peng Cheng

Dynamic neural networks can greatly reduce computation redundancy without compromising accuracy by adapting their structures based on the input. In this paper, we explore the robustness of dynamic neural networks against energy-oriented…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2023-04-17 Jianhong Pan , Lin Geng Foo , Qichen Zheng , Zhipeng Fan , Hossein Rahmani , Qiuhong Ke , Jun Liu

Gradient-based Meta-RL (GMRL) refers to methods that maintain two-level optimisation procedures wherein the outer-loop meta-learner guides the inner-loop gradient-based reinforcement learner to achieve fast adaptations. In this paper, we…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-03-26 Xidong Feng , Bo Liu , Jie Ren , Luo Mai , Rui Zhu , Haifeng Zhang , Jun Wang , Yaodong Yang

In this paper, we introduce proximal gradient temporal difference learning, which provides a principled way of designing and analyzing true stochastic gradient temporal difference learning algorithms. We show how gradient TD (GTD)…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-06-09 Bo Liu , Ian Gemp , Mohammad Ghavamzadeh , Ji Liu , Sridhar Mahadevan , Marek Petrik

Measuring learning progress is essential for curiosity-driven exploration in reinforcement learning, but widely used signals such as prediction error often fail to distinguish meaningful, learnable patterns from random noise. This paper…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-05-08 Samuel Blad , Martin Längkvist , Amy Loutfi

Improving performance of deep learning models and reducing their training times are ongoing challenges in deep neural networks. There are several approaches proposed to address these challenges one of which is to increase the depth of the…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-06-20 Sunitha Basodi , Chunyan Ji , Haiping Zhang , Yi Pan

Stochastic gradient descent (SGD), which updates the model parameters by adding a local gradient times a learning rate at each step, is widely used in model training of machine learning algorithms such as neural networks. It is observed…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2017-06-01 Chang Xu , Tao Qin , Gang Wang , Tie-Yan Liu

We propose a novel policy gradient method for multi-agent reinforcement learning, which leverages two different variance-reduction techniques and does not require large batches over iterations. Specifically, we propose a momentum-based…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-12-07 Zhanhong Jiang , Xian Yeow Lee , Sin Yong Tan , Kai Liang Tan , Aditya Balu , Young M. Lee , Chinmay Hegde , Soumik Sarkar

Large Language Models (LLMs) exhibit impressive capabilities but require careful alignment with human preferences. Traditional training-time methods finetune LLMs using human preference datasets but incur significant training costs and…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-07-16 Yuancheng Xu , Udari Madhushani Sehwag , Alec Koppel , Sicheng Zhu , Bang An , Furong Huang , Sumitra Ganesh

Optimization algorithms with momentum, e.g., (ADAM), have been widely used for building deep learning models due to the faster convergence rates compared with stochastic gradient descent (SGD). Momentum helps accelerate SGD in the relevant…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-01-24 Jiyang Bai , Yuxiang Ren , Jiawei Zhang

Stochastic gradient algorithms are the main focus of large-scale optimization problems and led to important successes in the recent advancement of the deep learning algorithms. The convergence of SGD depends on the careful choice of…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2017-03-03 Caglar Gulcehre , Jose Sotelo , Marcin Moczulski , Yoshua Bengio

In this paper, we propose a novel normalization method called gradient normalization (GN) to tackle the training instability of Generative Adversarial Networks (GANs) caused by the sharp gradient space. Unlike existing work such as gradient…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-10-12 Yi-Lun Wu , Hong-Han Shuai , Zhi-Rui Tam , Hong-Yu Chiu

The recently introduced Gradient Methods with Memory use a subset of the past oracle information to create an accurate model of the objective function that enables them to surpass the Gradient Method in practical performance. The model…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2024-01-30 Mihai I. Florea