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When dealing with continuous numeric features, we usually adopt feature discretization. In this work, to find the best way to conduct feature discretization, we present some theoretical analysis, in which we focus on analyzing correctness…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-04-28 Qiang Liu , Zhaocheng Liu , Haoli Zhang

As the operations of autonomous systems generally affect simultaneously several users, it is crucial that their designs account for fairness considerations. In contrast to standard (deep) reinforcement learning (RL), we investigate the…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2020-08-19 Umer Siddique , Paul Weng , Matthieu Zimmer

The offline reinforcement learning (RL) problem aims to learn an optimal policy from historical data collected by one or more behavioural policies (experts) by interacting with an environment. However, the individual experts may be…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2025-11-25 Navodita Sharma , Vishnu Vinod , Abhradeep Thakurta , Alekh Agarwal , Borja Balle , Christoph Dann , Aravindan Raghuveer

We propose a generalization of modern representation learning objectives by reframing them as recursive divergence alignment processes over localized conditional distributions While recent frameworks like Information Contrastive Learning…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-05-02 Anthony D Martin

This paper develops the first policy gradient method with global optimality guarantee and complexity analysis for robust reinforcement learning under model mismatch. Robust reinforcement learning is to learn a policy robust to model…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-05-17 Yue Wang , Shaofeng Zou

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

Outstanding claim liabilities are revised repeatedly as claims develop, yet most modern reserving models are trained as one-shot predictors and typically learn only from settled claims. We formulate individual claims reserving as a…

Risk Management · Quantitative Finance 2026-01-13 Benjamin Avanzi , Ronald Richman , Bernard Wong , Mario Wüthrich , Yagebu Xie

This article aims to combine factor investing and reinforcement learning (RL). The agent learns through sequential random allocations which rely on firms' characteristics. Using Dirichlet distributions as the driving policy, we derive…

Portfolio Management · Quantitative Finance 2021-06-28 Eric André , Guillaume Coqueret

Distributional reinforcement learning (RL) is a powerful framework increasingly adopted in safety-critical domains for its ability to optimize risk-sensitive objectives. However, the role of the discount factor is often overlooked, as it is…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-02-05 Mehrdad Moghimi , Anthony Coache , Hyejin Ku

Reinforcement Learning (RL) has shown exceptional performance across various applications, enabling autonomous agents to learn optimal policies through interaction with their environments. However, traditional RL frameworks often face…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-09-03 Rui Liu , Anish Gupta , Erfaun Noorani , Pratap Tokekar

Aiming at improving performance of visual classification in a cost-effective manner, this paper proposes an incremental semi-supervised learning paradigm called Deep Co-Space (DCS). Unlike many conventional semi-supervised learning methods…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2017-08-01 Ziliang Chen , Keze Wang , Xiao Wang , Pai Peng , Ebroul Izquierdo , Liang Lin

We propose an attentive local feature descriptor suitable for large-scale image retrieval, referred to as DELF (DEep Local Feature). The new feature is based on convolutional neural networks, which are trained only with image-level…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-02-06 Hyeonwoo Noh , Andre Araujo , Jack Sim , Tobias Weyand , Bohyung Han

We study offline Reinforcement Learning in large infinite-horizon discounted Markov Decision Processes (MDPs) when the reward and transition models are linearly realizable under a known feature map. Starting from the classic linear-program…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-05-24 Gergely Neu , Nneka Okolo

Even though most interfaces in the real world are discrete, no efficient way exists to train neural networks to make use of them, yet. We enhance an Interaction Network (a Reinforcement Learning architecture) with discrete interfaces and…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-10-28 Florian Dietz , Dietrich Klakow

Accurate and stable feature matching is critical for computer vision tasks, particularly in applications such as Simultaneous Localization and Mapping (SLAM). While recent learning-based feature matching methods have demonstrated promising…

Robotics · Computer Science 2025-04-08 Yuqing Wang , Yan Wang , Hailiang Tang , Xiaoji Niu

Recently, deep reinforcement learning (RL) has proven its feasibility in solving combinatorial optimization problems (COPs). The learning-to-rank techniques have been studied in the field of information retrieval. While several COPs can be…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2022-01-04 Honguk Woo , Hyunsung Lee , Sangwoo Cho

The problem of how to take the right actions to make profits in sequential process continues to be difficult due to the quick dynamics and a significant amount of uncertainty in many application scenarios. In such complicated environments,…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-10-03 Zhendong Shi , Xiaoli Wei , Ercan E. Kuruoglu

In a regression setting we propose algorithms that reduce the dimensionality of the features while simultaneously maximizing a statistical measure of dependence known as distance correlation between the low-dimensional features and a…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2017-02-20 Praneeth Vepakomma , Ahmed Elgammal

Motivated by the wide adoption of reinforcement learning (RL) in real-world personalized services, where users' sensitive and private information needs to be protected, we study regret minimization in finite-horizon Markov decision…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-03-22 Xingyu Zhou

Over the recent years, Reinforcement Learning combined with Deep Learning techniques has successfully proven to solve complex problems in various domains, including robotics, self-driving cars, and finance. In this paper, we are introducing…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-09-19 Petr Bobák , Ladislav Čmolík , Martin Čadík