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We study a novel yet practical problem of open-corpus multi-object tracking (OCMOT), which extends the MOT into localizing, associating, and recognizing generic-category objects of both seen (base) and unseen (novel) classes, but without…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-07-22 Zekun Qian , Ruize Han , Wei Feng , Junhui Hou , Linqi Song , Song Wang

Large Language Models (LLMs) demonstrate impressive general capabilities but often struggle with step-by-step procedural reasoning, a critical challenge in complex interactive environments. While retrieval-augmented methods like GraphRAG…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2026-03-13 Jonathan Leung , Yongjie Wang , Zhiqi Shen

The success of deep learning depends on finding an architecture to fit the task. As deep learning has scaled up to more challenging tasks, the architectures have become difficult to design by hand. This paper proposes an automated method,…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2017-03-07 Risto Miikkulainen , Jason Liang , Elliot Meyerson , Aditya Rawal , Dan Fink , Olivier Francon , Bala Raju , Hormoz Shahrzad , Arshak Navruzyan , Nigel Duffy , Babak Hodjat

Collaborative perception in unknown environments is crucial for multi-robot systems. With the emergence of foundation models, robots can now not only perceive geometric information but also achieve open-vocabulary scene understanding.…

Robotics · Computer Science 2025-03-17 Qiuyi Gu , Zhaocheng Ye , Jincheng Yu , Jiahao Tang , Tinghao Yi , Yuhan Dong , Jian Wang , Jinqiang Cui , Xinlei Chen , Yu Wang

Deep learning has been widely used in various applications from different fields such as computer vision, natural language processing, etc. However, the training models are often manually developed via many costly experiments. This manual…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-11-22 Thanh Phuong Pham

Constructing AI models that respond to text instructions is challenging, especially for sequential decision-making tasks. This work introduces a methodology, inspired by unCLIP, for instruction-tuning generative models of behavior without…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2024-02-06 Shalev Lifshitz , Keiran Paster , Harris Chan , Jimmy Ba , Sheila McIlraith

With the emergence of foundation models, deep learning-based object detectors have shown practical usability in closed set scenarios. However, for real-world tasks, object detectors often operate in open environments, where crucial factors…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-04-10 Siyuan Liang , Wei Wang , Ruoyu Chen , Aishan Liu , Boxi Wu , Ee-Chien Chang , Xiaochun Cao , Dacheng Tao

Open-ended learning frames intelligence as emerging from continual interaction with an ever-expanding space of environments. While recent advances have utilized foundation models to programmatically generate diverse environments, these…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-02-10 Konstantinos Mitsides , Maxence Faldor , Antoine Cully

Humans stand alone in terms of their potential to collectively and cumulatively change their culture in an open-ended manner. This open-endedness provides societies with the ability to continually expand their resources and to increase…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2026-01-06 James Winters , Mathieu Charbonneau

Autonomous robots frequently need to detect "interesting" scenes to decide on further exploration, or to decide which data to share for cooperation. These scenarios often require fast deployment with little or no training data. Prior work…

Robotics · Computer Science 2021-12-21 Chen Wang , Yuheng Qiu , Wenshan Wang , Yafei Hu , Seungchan Kim , Sebastian Scherer

Due to the complexity of robotics, the reproducibility of results and experiments is one of the fundamental problems in robotics research. While the problem has been identified by the community, the approaches that address the problem…

Robotics · Computer Science 2018-01-26 Aljoscha Pörtner , Martin Hoffmann , Matthias König

Open-source scientific software is a major driver of scientific progress, yet its development and reuse remain difficult in collaborative settings. Researchers repeatedly face four recurring challenges: discovering and reproducing existing…

Digital Libraries · Computer Science 2026-04-22 Jan Philipp Albrecht , Deborah Schmidt , Lucas Rieckert , Maximilian Otto , Kyle Harrington

Polarization in online discourse erodes social trust and accelerates misinformation, yet technical responses remain largely diagnostic and post-hoc. Current governance approaches suffer from inherent latency and static policies, struggling…

Multiagent Systems · Computer Science 2026-02-10 Ning Lin , Haolun Li , Mingshu Liu , Chengyun Ruan , Kaibo Huang , Yukun Wei , Zhongliang Yang , Linna Zhou

Machine learning models work better when curated features are provided to them. Feature engineering methods have been usually used as a preprocessing step to obtain or build a proper feature set. In late years, autoencoders (a specific type…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2023-01-18 Francisco Charte , Antonio J. Rivera , Francisco Martínez , María J. del Jesus

The effectiveness of the machine learning methods for real-world tasks depends on the proper structure of the modeling pipeline. The proposed approach is aimed to automate the design of composite machine learning pipelines, which is…

The deep learning revolution has greatly been accelerated by the 'hardware lottery': Recent advances in modern hardware accelerators and compilers paved the way for large-scale batch gradient optimization. Evolutionary optimization, on the…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2022-12-09 Robert Tjarko Lange

Modern science clearly demands for a higher level of reproducibility and collaboration. To make research fully reproducible one has to take care of several aspects: research protocol description, data access, environment preservation,…

Computers and Society · Computer Science 2017-12-06 Andrey Ustyuzhanin , Timothy Daniel Head , Igor Babuschkin , Alexander Tiunov

Metaverse platforms are rapidly evolving to provide immersive spaces for user interaction and content creation. However, the generation of dynamic and interactive 3D objects remains challenging due to the need for advanced 3D modeling and…

Human-Computer Interaction · Computer Science 2025-05-01 Ryutaro Kurai , Takefumi Hiraki , Yuichi Hiroi , Yutaro Hirao , Monica Perusquía-Hernández , Hideaki Uchiyama , Kiyoshi Kiyokawa

LLMs have made significant progress in complex but easy-to-verify problems, yet they still struggle with discovering the unknown. In this paper, we present \textbf{AlphaResearch}, an autonomous research agent designed to discover new…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2026-04-02 Zhaojian Yu , Kaiyue Feng , Yilun Zhao , Shilin He , Xiao-Ping Zhang , Arman Cohan

Open-ended learning is a core research field of developmental robotics and AI aiming to build learning machines and robots that can autonomously acquire knowledge and skills incrementally as infants and children. The first contribution of…

Robotics · Computer Science 2022-03-03 Emilio Cartoni , Davide Montella , Jochen Triesch , Gianluca Baldassarre