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In addition to relevance, diversity is an important yet less studied performance metric of cross-modal image retrieval systems, which is critical to user experience. Existing solutions for diversity-aware image retrieval either explicitly…

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In this work, we present Curled-Dreamer, a novel reinforcement learning algorithm that integrates contrastive learning into the DreamerV3 framework to enhance performance in visual reinforcement learning tasks. By incorporating the…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-09-04 Victor Augusto Kich , Jair Augusto Bottega , Raul Steinmetz , Ricardo Bedin Grando , Ayano Yorozu , Akihisa Ohya

Inverse Reinforcement Learning (IRL) seeks to infer reward functions from expert demonstrations. When demonstrations originate from multiple experts with different intentions, the problem is known as Multi-Intention IRL (MI-IRL). Recent…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-02-10 Antonio Mone , Frans A. Oliehoek , Luciano Cavalcante Siebert

Unsupervised image translation using adversarial learning has been attracting attention to improve the image quality of medical images. However, adversarial training based on the global evaluation values of discriminators does not provide…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-10-25 Takumi Hase , Megumi Nakao , Mitsuhiro Nakamura , Tetsuya Matsuda

This paper presents a pioneering exploration of reinforcement learning (RL) via group relative policy optimization for unified multimodal large language models (ULMs), aimed at simultaneously reinforcing generation and understanding…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-11-21 Jingjing Jiang , Chongjie Si , Jun Luo , Hanwang Zhang , Chao Ma

Interest in reinforcement learning (RL) for large-scale systems, comprising extensive populations of intelligent agents interacting with heterogeneous environments, has surged significantly across diverse scientific domains in recent years.…

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This paper proposes a self-supervised learning approach for video features that results in significantly improved performance on downstream tasks (such as video classification, captioning and segmentation) compared to existing methods. Our…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2019-10-01 Chen Sun , Fabien Baradel , Kevin Murphy , Cordelia Schmid

Self-supervised representation learning (SSRL) methods have shown great success in computer vision. In recent studies, augmentation-based contrastive learning methods have been proposed for learning representations that are invariant or…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-07-20 Xia Xu , Jochen Triesch

This paper introduces Adversarial Resilience Learning (ARL), a concept to model, train, and analyze artificial neural networks as representations of competitive agents in highly complex systems. In our examples, the agents normally take the…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2018-11-16 Lars Fischer , Jan-Menno Memmen , Eric MSP Veith , Martin Tröschel

Several multi-modality representation learning approaches such as LXMERT and ViLBERT have been proposed recently. Such approaches can achieve superior performance due to the high-level semantic information captured during large-scale…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-07-28 Lei Shi , Kai Shuang , Shijie Geng , Peng Su , Zhengkai Jiang , Peng Gao , Zuohui Fu , Gerard de Melo , Sen Su

Adversarial representation learning aims to learn data representations for a target task while removing unwanted sensitive information at the same time. Existing methods learn model parameters iteratively through stochastic gradient…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-09-14 Bashir Sadeghi , Lan Wang , Vishnu Naresh Boddeti

Large Language Models (LLMs) adapted via contrastive learning excel in general representation learning but struggle in vertical domains like chemistry and law, primarily due to a lack of domain-specific knowledge. This work identifies a…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2026-01-19 Xiaoyu Liang , Yuchen Peng , Jiale Luo , Wenhao Wang , Haoji Hu , Xincheng Zhou

Adversarial contrastive learning (ACL) does not require expensive data annotations but outputs a robust representation that withstands adversarial attacks and also generalizes to a wide range of downstream tasks. However, ACL needs…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-10-27 Xilie Xu , Jingfeng Zhang , Feng Liu , Masashi Sugiyama , Mohan Kankanhalli

Identifying related entities and events within and across documents is fundamental to natural language understanding. We present an approach to entity and event coreference resolution utilizing contrastive representation learning. Earlier…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2022-05-24 Benjamin Hsu , Graham Horwood

End-to-end autonomous driving models trained solely with imitation learning (IL) often suffer from poor generalization. In contrast, reinforcement learning (RL) promotes exploration through reward maximization but faces challenges such as…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-10-15 Xiaoji Zheng , Ziyuan Yang , Yanhao Chen , Yuhang Peng , Yuanrong Tang , Gengyuan Liu , Bokui Chen , Jiangtao Gong

Developing an agent in reinforcement learning (RL) that is capable of performing complex control tasks directly from high-dimensional observation such as raw pixels is yet a challenge as efforts are made towards improving sample efficiency…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-01-13 Thanh Nguyen , Tung M. Luu , Thang Vu , Chang D. Yoo

The target of a coreference resolution system is to cluster all mentions that refer to the same entity in a given context. All coreference resolution systems need to solve two subtasks; one task is to detect all of the potential mentions,…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2022-12-20 Yu Wang , Hongxia Jin

Contrastive instance discrimination methods outperform supervised learning in downstream tasks such as image classification and object detection. However, these methods rely heavily on data augmentation during representation learning, which…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-04-21 Mohammad Alkhalefi , Georgios Leontidis , Mingjun Zhong

Reinforcement learning provides a powerful and general framework for decision making and control, but its application in practice is often hindered by the need for extensive feature and reward engineering. Deep reinforcement learning…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2018-08-15 Justin Fu , Katie Luo , Sergey Levine

The deployment of intelligent reinforcement learning (RL) agents on resource-constrained edge devices remains a fundamental challenge due to the substantial memory, computational, and energy requirements of modern deep learning systems.…