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Reinforcement learning (RL) using foundation models for policy approximations in multi-turn tasks remains challenging. We identify two main limitations related to sparse reward settings and policy gradient updates, based on which we…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-11-14 Georgios Papoudakis , Thomas Coste , Jianye Hao , Jun Wang , Kun Shao

Deep reinforcement learning (RL) can acquire complex behaviors from low-level inputs, such as images. However, real-world applications of such methods require generalizing to the vast variability of the real world. Deep networks are known…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2017-03-13 Chelsea Finn , Tianhe Yu , Justin Fu , Pieter Abbeel , Sergey Levine

Domain generalization (DG) aims to adapt a model using one or multiple source domains to ensure robust performance in unseen target domains. Recently, Parameter-Efficient Fine-Tuning (PEFT) of foundation models has shown promising results…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-03-24 Seokju Yun , Seunghye Chae , Dongheon Lee , Youngmin Ro

While data augmentation is an important trick to boost the accuracy of deep learning methods in computer vision tasks, its study in natural language tasks is still very limited. In this paper, we present a novel data augmentation method for…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2019-05-28 Jinhua Zhu , Fei Gao , Lijun Wu , Yingce Xia , Tao Qin , Wengang Zhou , Xueqi Cheng , Tie-Yan Liu

Deep neural networks are vulnerable to adversarial examples. Adversarial training (AT) is an effective defense against adversarial examples. However, AT is prone to overfitting which degrades robustness substantially. Recently, data…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-08-15 Lin Li , Jianing Qiu , Michael Spratling

Simulation is a useful tool in situations where training data for machine learning models is costly to annotate or even hard to acquire. In this work, we propose a reinforcement learning-based method for automatically adjusting the…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2019-05-15 Nataniel Ruiz , Samuel Schulter , Manmohan Chandraker

Policy constraint methods to offline reinforcement learning (RL) typically utilize parameterization or regularization that constrains the policy to perform actions within the support set of the behavior policy. The elaborative designs of…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-10-13 Jialong Wu , Haixu Wu , Zihan Qiu , Jianmin Wang , Mingsheng Long

Existing domain generalization aims to learn a generalizable model to perform well even on unseen domains. For many real-world machine learning applications, the data distribution often shifts gradually along domain indices. For example, a…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-03-09 Qiuhao Zeng , Wei Wang , Fan Zhou , Charles Ling , Boyu Wang

Supervised fine-tuning (SFT) has emerged as one of the most effective ways to improve the performance of large language models (LLMs) in downstream tasks. However, SFT can have difficulty generalizing when the underlying data distribution…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-12-15 Mrinal Rawat , Arkajyoti Chakraborty , Neha Gupta , Roberto Pieraccini

Recent breakthroughs both in reinforcement learning and trajectory optimization have made significant advances towards real world robotic system deployment. Reinforcement learning (RL) can be applied to many problems without needing any…

Robotics · Computer Science 2019-10-23 Guillaume Bellegarda , Katie Byl

Single domain generalization (SDG) aims to train a robust model against unknown target domain shifts using data from a single source domain. Data augmentation has been proven an effective approach to SDG. However, the utility of standard…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-02-15 Guangtao Zheng , Mengdi Huai , Aidong Zhang

Dynamic data selection aims to accelerate training with lossless performance. However, reducing training data inherently limits data diversity, potentially hindering generalization. While data augmentation is widely used to enhance…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-05-13 Suorong Yang , Peng Ye , Furao Shen , Dongzhan Zhou

A recurring problem faced when training neural networks is that there is typically not enough data to maximize the generalization capability of deep neural networks(DNN). There are many techniques to address this, including data…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2017-04-26 Joseph Lemley , Shabab Bazrafkan , Peter Corcoran

Imitation learning has proven effective for training robots to perform complex tasks from expert human demonstrations. However, it remains limited by its reliance on high-quality, task-specific data, restricting adaptability to the diverse…

In the face of the deep learning model's vulnerability to domain shift, source-free domain adaptation (SFDA) methods have been proposed to adapt models to new, unseen target domains without requiring access to source domain data. Although…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-03-19 Uiwon Hwang , Jonghyun Lee , Juhyeon Shin , Sungroh Yoon

Data augmentation is a popular pre-processing trick to improve generalization accuracy. It is believed that by processing augmented inputs in tandem with the original ones, the model learns a more robust set of features which are shared…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-07-10 Vihari Piratla , Shiv Shankar

Specifying a Reinforcement Learning (RL) task involves choosing a suitable planning horizon, which is typically modeled by a discount factor. It is known that applying RL algorithms with a lower discount factor can act as a regularizer,…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-07-07 Ron Amit , Ron Meir , Kamil Ciosek

Deep learning algorithms have shown promising results in visual question answering (VQA) tasks, but a more careful look reveals that they often do not understand the rich signal they are being fed with. To understand and better measure the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-09-20 Daniel Rosenberg , Itai Gat , Amir Feder , Roi Reichart

Data augmentation helps neural networks generalize better by enlarging the training set, but it remains an open question how to effectively augment graph data to enhance the performance of GNNs (Graph Neural Networks). While most existing…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-03-30 Kezhi Kong , Guohao Li , Mucong Ding , Zuxuan Wu , Chen Zhu , Bernard Ghanem , Gavin Taylor , Tom Goldstein

This work focuses on enhancing the generalization performance of deep reinforcement learning-based robot navigation in unseen environments. We present a novel data augmentation approach called scenario augmentation, which enables robots to…

Robotics · Computer Science 2025-03-04 Shanze Wang , Mingao Tan , Zhibo Yang , Xianghui Wang , Xiaoyu Shen , Hailong Huang , Wei Zhang