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Motion planning is an essential component in most of today's robotic applications. In this work, we consider the learning setting, where a set of solved motion planning problems is used to improve the efficiency of motion planning on…

Robotics · Computer Science 2019-06-04 Tom Jurgenson , Aviv Tamar

In some game scenarios, due to the uncertainty of the number of enemy units and the priority of various attributes, the evaluation of the threat level of enemy units as well as the screening has been a challenging research topic, and the…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-04-28 Wuzhou Sun , Siyi Li , Qingxiang Zou , Zixing Liao

Deep Reinforcement Learning is a promising paradigm for robotic control which has been shown to be capable of learning policies for high-dimensional, continuous control of unmodeled systems. However, RoboticReinforcement Learning currently…

Robotics · Computer Science 2019-09-23 W. Cannon Lewis , Mark Moll , Lydia E. Kavraki

For many evaluation metrics commonly used as benchmarks for unconditional image generation, trivially memorizing the training set attains a better score than models which are considered state-of-the-art; we consider this problematic. We…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-01-14 Ishaan Gulrajani , Colin Raffel , Luke Metz

This research delves deeply into Meta Reinforcement Learning (Meta RL) through a exploration focusing on defining generalization limits and ensuring convergence. By employing a approach this article introduces an innovative theoretical…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-05-24 Cangqing Wang , Mingxiu Sui , Dan Sun , Zecheng Zhang , Yan Zhou

Deep reinforcement learning algorithms have shown an impressive ability to learn complex control policies in high-dimensional tasks. However, despite the ever-increasing performance on popular benchmarks, policies learned by deep…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-01-22 Jesse Farebrother , Marlos C. Machado , Michael Bowling

Deep reinforcement learning (RL) agents trained in a limited set of environments tend to suffer overfitting and fail to generalize to unseen testing environments. To improve their generalizability, data augmentation approaches (e.g. cutout…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-10-22 Kaixin Wang , Bingyi Kang , Jie Shao , Jiashi Feng

Reward models have become a staple in modern NLP, serving as not only a scalable text evaluator, but also an indispensable component in many alignment recipes and inference-time algorithms. However, while recent reward models increase…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-09-22 Zhaofeng Wu , Michihiro Yasunaga , Andrew Cohen , Yoon Kim , Asli Celikyilmaz , Marjan Ghazvininejad

Visual robustness and neural alignment remain critical challenges in developing artificial agents that can match biological vision systems. We present the winning approaches from Team HCMUS_TheFangs for both tracks of the NeurIPS 2025 Mouse…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-02-03 Phu-Hoa Pham , Chi-Nguyen Tran , Dao Sy Duy Minh , Nguyen Lam Phu Quy , Huynh Trung Kiet

In this paper, we propose Rogue-Gym, a simple and classic style roguelike game built for evaluating generalization in reinforcement learning (RL). Combined with the recent progress of deep neural networks, RL has successfully trained…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2019-06-04 Yuji Kanagawa , Tomoyuki Kaneko

Deep reinforcement learning enables algorithms to learn complex behavior, deal with continuous action spaces and find good strategies in environments with high dimensional state spaces. With deep reinforcement learning being an active area…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2018-10-17 Winfried Lötzsch

We propose \emph{MaxUp}, an embarrassingly simple, highly effective technique for improving the generalization performance of machine learning models, especially deep neural networks. The idea is to generate a set of augmented data with…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-02-24 Chengyue Gong , Tongzheng Ren , Mao Ye , Qiang Liu

In this paper, for the first time, we propose an evaluation method for deep learning models that assesses the performance of a model not only in an unseen test scenario, but also in extreme cases of noise, outliers and ambiguous input data.…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-04-03 Magdalini Paschali , Sailesh Conjeti , Fernando Navarro , Nassir Navab

Robust machine learning is an increasingly important topic that focuses on developing models resilient to various forms of imperfect data. Due to the pervasiveness of recommender systems in online technologies, researchers have carried out…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2022-01-13 Zohreh Ovaisi , Shelby Heinecke , Jia Li , Yongfeng Zhang , Elena Zheleva , Caiming Xiong

As a paradigm for sequential decision making in unknown environments, reinforcement learning (RL) has received a flurry of attention in recent years. However, the explosion of model complexity in emerging applications and the presence of…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2025-07-22 Yuejie Chi , Yuxin Chen , Yuting Wei

Deep Reinforcement Learning (RL) has emerged as a powerful paradigm to solve a range of complex yet specific control tasks. Yet training generalist agents that can quickly adapt to new tasks remains an outstanding challenge. Recent advances…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-10-29 Michael Laskin , Denis Yarats , Hao Liu , Kimin Lee , Albert Zhan , Kevin Lu , Catherine Cang , Lerrel Pinto , Pieter Abbeel

Memory is an important aspect of intelligence and plays a role in many deep reinforcement learning models. However, little progress has been made in understanding when specific memory systems help more than others and how well they…

Achieving faster execution with shorter compilation time can enable further diversity and innovation in neural networks. However, the current paradigm of executing neural networks either relies on hand-optimized libraries, traditional…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2019-05-31 Byung Hoon Ahn , Prannoy Pilligundla , Hadi Esmaeilzadeh

Performance optimization of deep learning models is conducted either manually or through automatic architecture search, or a combination of both. On the other hand, their performance strongly depends on the target hardware and how…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-09-23 Vahid Partovi Nia , Alireza Ghaffari , Mahdi Zolnouri , Yvon Savaria

Despite the recent successes of reinforcement learning in games and robotics, it is yet to become broadly practical. Sample efficiency and unreliable performance in rare but challenging scenarios are two of the major obstacles. Drawing…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-01-08 Elmira Amirloo Abolfathi , Jun Luo , Peyman Yadmellat , Kasra Rezaee