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Statistical learning additions to physically derived mathematical models are gaining traction in the literature. A recent approach has been to augment the underlying physics of the governing equations with data driven Bayesian statistical…

Methodology · Statistics 2022-05-25 Connor Duffin , Edward Cripps , Thomas Stemler , Mark Girolami

A classical problem in matrix computations is the efficient and reliable approximation of a given matrix by a matrix of lower rank. The truncated singular value decomposition (SVD) is known to provide the best such approximation for any…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2014-08-12 Ming Gu

We consider the question of learning $Q$-function in a sample efficient manner for reinforcement learning with continuous state and action spaces under a generative model. If $Q$-function is Lipschitz continuous, then the minimal sample…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-06-12 Devavrat Shah , Dogyoon Song , Zhi Xu , Yuzhe Yang

We study the problem of learning optimal policies in finite-horizon Markov Decision Processes (MDPs) using low-rank reinforcement learning (RL) methods. In finite-horizon MDPs, the policies, and therefore the value functions (VFs) are not…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-05-14 Sergio Rozada , Jose Luis Orejuela , Antonio G. Marques

In this paper, we propose a low rank approximation method for efficiently solving stochastic partial differential equations. Specifically, our method utilizes a novel low rank approximation of the stiffness matrices, which can significantly…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2023-10-20 Yujun Zhu , Ju Ming , Jie Zhu , Zhongming Wang

We propose a method for designing policies for convex stochastic control problems characterized by random linear dynamics and convex stage cost. We consider policies that employ quadratic approximate value functions as a substitute for the…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2023-11-10 Alan Yang , Stephen Boyd

Value factorization is a popular and promising approach to scaling up multi-agent reinforcement learning in cooperative settings, which balances the learning scalability and the representational capacity of value functions. However, the…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-11-02 Jianhao Wang , Zhizhou Ren , Beining Han , Jianing Ye , Chongjie Zhang

Value function factorization has achieved great success in multi-agent reinforcement learning by optimizing joint action-value functions through the maximization of factorized per-agent utilities. To ensure Individual-Global-Maximum…

Multiagent Systems · Computer Science 2023-12-27 Huiqun Li , Hanhan Zhou , Yifei Zou , Dongxiao Yu , Tian Lan

Low-rank modeling has a lot of important applications in machine learning, computer vision and social network analysis. While the matrix rank is often approximated by the convex nuclear norm, the use of nonconvex low-rank regularizers has…

Numerical Analysis · Computer Science 2016-05-02 Quanming Yao , James T. Kwok , Wenliang Zhong

Low-rank approximation of a matrix by means of random sampling has been consistently efficient in its empirical studies by many scientists who applied it with various sparse and structured multipliers, but adequate formal support for this…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2016-06-07 Victor Y. Pan , Liang Zhao

The most common approaches for solving stochastic resource allocation problems in the research literature is to either use value functions ("dynamic programming") or scenario trees ("stochastic programming") to approximate the impact of a…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2020-01-06 Saeed Ghadimi , Raymond T. Perkins , Warren B. Powell

Low-rank training methods reduce the number of trainable parameters by re-parameterizing the weights with matrix decompositions (e.g., singular value decomposition). However, enforcing a fixed low-rank structure caps the rank of the weight…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-10-16 Hyuntak Shin , Aecheon Jung , Sungeun Hong , Sunwoo Lee

In pursuit of reinforcement learning systems that could train in physical environments, we investigate multi-task approaches as a means to alleviate the need for massive data acquisition. In a tabular scenario where the Q-functions are…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-01-22 Sergio Rozada , Santiago Paternain , Juan Andres Bazerque , Antonio G. Marques

Parameter-dependent models arise in many contexts such as uncertainty quantification, sensitivity analysis, inverse problems or optimization. Parametric or uncertainty analyses usually require the evaluation of an output of a model for many…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2018-10-22 Anthony Nouy

The development of randomized algorithms for numerical linear algebra, e.g. for computing approximate QR and SVD factorizations, has recently become an intense area of research. This paper studies one of the most frequently discussed…

Numerical Analysis · Computer Science 2013-08-28 Rafi Witten , Emmanuel Candes

Recently, Factorization Machines (FM) has become more and more popular for recommendation systems, due to its effectiveness in finding informative interactions between features. Usually, the weights for the interactions is learnt as a low…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2018-04-18 Longfei Li , Peilin Zhao , Jun Zhou , Xiaolong Li

This article is an extended version of previous work of the authors [40, 41] on low-rank matrix estimation in the presence of constraints on the factors into which the matrix is factorized. Low-rank matrix factorization is one of the basic…

Statistics Theory · Mathematics 2017-08-28 Thibault Lesieur , Florent Krzakala , Lenka Zdeborová

Inference and simulation in the context of high-dimensional dynamical systems remain computationally challenging problems. Some form of dimensionality reduction is required to make the problem tractable in general. In this paper, we propose…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2024-01-04 Jonathan Schmidt , Philipp Hennig , Jörg Nick , Filip Tronarp

We consider the problem of approximating an affinely structured matrix, for example a Hankel matrix, by a low-rank matrix with the same structure. This problem occurs in system identification, signal processing and computer algebra, among…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2014-06-25 Mariya Ishteva , Konstantin Usevich , Ivan Markovsky

Traditional off-policy actor-critic Reinforcement Learning (RL) algorithms learn value functions of a single target policy. However, when value functions are updated to track the learned policy, they forget potentially useful information…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-08-16 Francesco Faccio , Louis Kirsch , Jürgen Schmidhuber