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Although deep learning has produced dazzling successes for applications of image, speech, and video processing in the past few years, most trainings are with suboptimal hyper-parameters, requiring unnecessarily long training times. Setting…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2018-04-25 Leslie N. Smith

In recent years, object detection has shown impressive results using supervised deep learning, but it remains challenging in a cross-domain environment. The variations of illumination, style, scale, and appearance in different domains can…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-08-12 Rongchang Xie , Fei Yu , Jiachao Wang , Yizhou Wang , Li Zhang

Transformer-based architectures have been the subject of research aimed at understanding their overparameterization and the non-uniform importance of their layers. Applying these approaches to Automatic Speech Recognition, we demonstrate…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-02-07 Lillian Zhou , Dhruv Guliani , Andreas Kabel , Giovanni Motta , Françoise Beaufays

Gradient-based meta-learning has proven to be highly effective at learning model initializations, representations, and update rules that allow fast adaptation from a few samples. The core idea behind these approaches is to use fast…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2019-10-07 Khurram Javed , Hengshuai Yao , Martha White

Parameter efficient adaptation methods have become a key mechanism to train large pre-trained models for downstream tasks. However, their per-task parameter overhead is considered still high when the number of downstream tasks to adapt for…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-04-01 Tsendsuren Munkhdalai , Youzheng Chen , Khe Chai Sim , Fadi Biadsy , Tara Sainath , Pedro Moreno Mengibar

We investigate efficient learning from higher-order graph convolution and learning directly from adjacency matrices for node classification. We revisit the scaled graph residual network and remove ReLU activation from residual layers and…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-09-13 Kishan Wimalawarne , Taiji Suzuki

Optimization of hyper-parameters in reinforcement learning (RL) algorithms is a key task, because they determine how the agent will learn its policy by interacting with its environment, and thus what data is gathered. In this work, an…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2019-09-19 Juan Cruz Barsce , Jorge A. Palombarini , Ernesto Martínez

Adaptive gradient methods are the method of choice for optimization in machine learning and used to train the largest deep models. In this paper we study the problem of learning a local preconditioner, that can change as the data is…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-01-27 Zhou Lu , Wenhan Xia , Sanjeev Arora , Elad Hazan

Over the past decade, Deep Convolutional Neural Networks (DCNNs) have shown remarkable performance in most computer vision tasks. These tasks traditionally use a fixed dataset, and the model, once trained, is deployed as is. Adding new…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-09-10 Deboleena Roy , Priyadarshini Panda , Kaushik Roy

Recently, motion generation by machine learning has been actively researched to automate various tasks. Imitation learning is one such method that learns motions from data collected in advance. However, executing long-term tasks remains…

Robotics · Computer Science 2022-03-17 Kazuki Hayashi , Sho Sakaino , Toshiaki Tsuji

Deep learning approaches, known for their ability to model complex relationships and fast execution, are increasingly being applied to solve large optimization problems. However, existing methods often face challenges in simultaneously…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2025-12-16 Zisheng Zhou , Dengyu Zheng , Zirui Chen , Shixiang Chen

In this work, we propose an optimization algorithm which we call norm-adapted gradient descent. This algorithm is similar to other gradient-based optimization algorithms like Adam or Adagrad in that it adapts the learning rate of stochastic…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-10-14 David Sprunger

This paper studies fast adaptive beamforming optimization for the signal-to-interference-plus-noise ratio balancing problem in a multiuser multiple-input single-output downlink system. Existing deep learning based approaches to predict…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2020-11-03 Yi Yuan , Gan Zheng , Kai-Kit Wong , Björn Ottersten , Zhi-Quan Luo

We address the tracking problem for a class of uncertain non-affine nonlinear systems with high relative degrees, performing non-repetitive tasks. We propose a rigorously proven, robust adaptive learning control scheme that relies on a…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2026-02-03 Shuai Gao , Dong Shen , Abdelhamid Tayebi

Continual learning aims to learn a series of tasks sequentially without forgetting the knowledge acquired from the previous ones. In this work, we propose the Hessian Aware Low-Rank Perturbation algorithm for continual learning. By modeling…

Gradient-based meta-learning techniques are both widely applicable and proficient at solving challenging few-shot learning and fast adaptation problems. However, they have practical difficulties when operating on high-dimensional parameter…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2019-03-27 Andrei A. Rusu , Dushyant Rao , Jakub Sygnowski , Oriol Vinyals , Razvan Pascanu , Simon Osindero , Raia Hadsell

Federated Learning (FL) has emerged as a new paradigm for training machine learning models distributively without sacrificing data security and privacy. Learning models on edge devices such as mobile phones is one of the most common use…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-02-10 Sixing Yu , Phuong Nguyen , Ali Anwar , Ali Jannesari

Budget planning and maintenance optimization are crucial for infrastructure asset management, ensuring cost-effectiveness and sustainability. However, the complexity arising from combinatorial action spaces, diverse asset deterioration,…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2025-07-28 Amir Fard , Arnold X. -X. Yuan

A novel multi-level method for partial differential equations with uncertain parameters is proposed. The principle behind the method is that the error between grid levels in multi-level methods has a spatial structure that is by good…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2020-04-29 Yous van Halder , Benjamin Sanderse , Barry Koren

Optimization methodologies for training large-scale neural architectures often rely on uniform gradient propagation mechanisms that fail to align with hierarchical linguistic structures, limiting their capacity to generalize across diverse…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-03-26 Daphne Quillington , Kingsley Fairbrother , Xavier Tattershall , Irin Kabakum