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This study presents a Bayesian learning perspective towards model predictive control algorithms. High-level frameworks have been developed separately in the earlier studies on Bayesian learning and sampling-based model predictive control.…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-03-14 Namhoon Cho , Seokwon Lee , Hyo-Sang Shin , Antonios Tsourdos

The gradient boosting machine is a powerful ensemble-based machine learning method for solving regression problems. However, one of the difficulties of its using is a possible discontinuity of the regression function, which arises when…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-06-22 Andrei V. Konstantinov , Lev V. Utkin

We describe an alternative learning method for neural networks, which we call Blind Descent. By design, Blind Descent does not face problems like exploding or vanishing gradients. In Blind Descent, gradients are not used to guide the…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-08-27 Akshat Gupta , Prasad N R

We introduce a new method for learning Bayesian neural networks, treating them as a stack of multivariate Bayesian linear regression models. The main idea is to infer the layerwise posterior exactly if we know the target outputs of each…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-11-20 Richard Kurle , Alexej Klushyn , Ralf Herbrich

Deep learning's successes are often attributed to its ability to automatically discover new representations of the data, rather than relying on handcrafted features like other learning methods. We show, however, that deep networks learned…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-12-02 Pedro Domingos

We extend the theory of boosting for regression problems to the online learning setting. Generalizing from the batch setting for boosting, the notion of a weak learning algorithm is modeled as an online learning algorithm with linear loss…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2015-11-03 Alina Beygelzimer , Elad Hazan , Satyen Kale , Haipeng Luo

Reverse differentiation is an essential operation for automatic differentiation. Cartesian reverse differential categories axiomatize reverse differentiation in a categorical framework, where one of the primary axioms is the reverse chain…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2025-09-26 Aaron Biggin , Jean-Simon Pacaud Lemay

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

In our work, we propose a novel yet simple approach to obtain an adaptive learning rate for gradient-based descent methods on classification tasks. Instead of the traditional approach of selecting adaptive learning rates via the decayed…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-04-21 Neel Mishra , Pawan Kumar

Neural networks are a general framework for differentiable optimization which includes many other machine learning approaches as special cases. In this paper we build a category-theoretic formalism around a neural network system called…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-09-16 Bruno Gavranović

In multi-label classification, where a single example may be associated with several class labels at the same time, the ability to model dependencies between labels is considered crucial to effectively optimize non-decomposable evaluation…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-06-23 Michael Rapp , Eneldo Loza Mencía , Johannes Fürnkranz , Eyke Hüllermeier

Boolean circuit is a computational graph that consists of the dynamic directed graph structure and static functionality. The commonly used logic optimization and Boolean matching-based transformation can change the behavior of the Boolean…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-11-19 Liwei Ni , Xinquan Li , Biwei Xie , Huawei Li

We propose a Bayesian approach for recursively estimating the classifier weights in online learning of a classifier ensemble. In contrast with past methods, such as stochastic gradient descent or online boosting, our approach estimates the…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2015-07-09 Qinxun Bai , Henry Lam , Stan Sclaroff

The on-chip implementation of learning algorithms would speed-up the training of neural networks in crossbar arrays. The circuit level design and implementation of backpropagation algorithm using gradient descent operation for neural…

Emerging Technologies · Computer Science 2018-09-03 Olga Krestinskaya , Khaled Nabil Salama , Alex Pappachen James

The next generation of force fields for molecular dynamics will be developed using a wealth of data. Training systematically with experimental data remains a challenge, however, especially for machine learning potentials. Differentiable…

Biomolecules · Quantitative Biology 2025-04-16 Joe G Greener

In a variety of problems originating in supervised, unsupervised, and reinforcement learning, the loss function is defined by an expectation over a collection of random variables, which might be part of a probabilistic model or the external…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2016-01-06 John Schulman , Nicolas Heess , Theophane Weber , Pieter Abbeel

This work introduces a novel approach for the joint selection of model structure and parameter learning for nonlinear dynamical systems identification. Focusing on a specific Recurrent Neural Networks (RNNs) family, i.e., Nonlinear…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2026-01-27 Corrado Sgadari , Alessio La Bella , Marcello Farina

Machine learning can greatly benefit from providing learning algorithms with pairs of contrastive training examples -- typically pairs of instances that differ only slightly, yet have different class labels. Intuitively, the difference in…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-06-23 Farnam Mansouri , Hans U. Simon , Adish Singla , Yuxin Chen , Sandra Zilles

One fundamental problem when solving inverse problems is how to find regularization parameters. This article considers solving this problem using data-driven bilevel optimization, i.e. we consider the adaptive learning of the regularization…

Statistics Theory · Mathematics 2021-01-08 Neil K. Chada , Claudia Schillings , Xin T. Tong , Simon Weissmann

In this work we study the inverse quantum scattering via deep learning regression, which is implemented via a Multilayer Perceptron. A step-by-step method is provided in order to obtain the potential parameters. A circular boundary-wall…

Computational Physics · Physics 2023-07-20 A. C. Maioli