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Autonomous robot exploration (ARE) is the process of a robot autonomously navigating and mapping an unknown environment. Recent Reinforcement Learning (RL)-based approaches typically formulate ARE as a sequential decision-making problem…

Robotics · Computer Science 2025-09-17 Haozhan Ni , Jingsong Liang , Chenyu He , Yuhong Cao , Guillaume Sartoretti

Deep learning (DL) has significantly transformed cybersecurity, enabling advancements in malware detection, botnet identification, intrusion detection, user authentication, and encrypted traffic analysis. However, the rise of adversarial…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2024-12-18 Li Li

The atomic cluster expansion (ACE) was proposed recently as a new class of data-driven interatomic potentials with a formally complete basis set. Since the development of any interatomic potential requires a careful selection of training…

Materials Science · Physics 2022-12-20 Yury Lysogorskiy , Anton Bochkarev , Matous Mrovec , Ralf Drautz

Active perception approaches select future viewpoints by using some estimate of the information gain. An inaccurate estimate can be detrimental in critical situations, e.g., locating a person in distress. However the true information gained…

Robotics · Computer Science 2026-04-17 Siming He , Yuezhan Tao , Igor Spasojevic , Vijay Kumar , Pratik Chaudhari

Generative Adversarial Networks (GANs) are an emerging form of indirect encoding. The GAN is trained to induce a latent space on training data, and a real-valued evolutionary algorithm can search that latent space. Such Latent Variable…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2020-04-02 Jacob Schrum , Jake Gutierrez , Vanessa Volz , Jialin Liu , Simon Lucas , Sebastian Risi

Active learning provides a framework to adaptively query the most informative experiments towards learning an unknown black-box function. Various approaches of active learning have been proposed in the literature, however, they either focus…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-10-03 Upala Junaida Islam , Kamran Paynabar , George Runger , Ashif Sikandar Iquebal

Meta-Reinforcement learning approaches aim to develop learning procedures that can adapt quickly to a distribution of tasks with the help of a few examples. Developing efficient exploration strategies capable of finding the most useful…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2019-11-12 Swaminathan Gurumurthy , Sumit Kumar , Katia Sycara

Deep learning models are known to be vulnerable to adversarial examples. A practical adversarial attack should require as little as possible knowledge of attacked models. Current substitute attacks need pre-trained models to generate…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2020-04-01 Mingyi Zhou , Jing Wu , Yipeng Liu , Xiaolin Huang , Shuaicheng Liu , Xiang Zhang , Ce Zhu

Deep learning models have achieved state-of-the-art performances in various domains, while they are vulnerable to the inputs with well-crafted but small perturbations, which are named after adversarial examples (AEs). Among many strategies…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-10-11 Huihui Gong

Generative Adversarial Imitation Learning (GAIL) stands as a cornerstone approach in imitation learning. This paper investigates the gradient explosion in two types of GAIL: GAIL with deterministic policy (DE-GAIL) and GAIL with stochastic…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-12-19 Wanying Wang , Yichen Zhu , Yirui Zhou , Chaomin Shen , Jian Tang , Zhiyuan Xu , Yaxin Peng , Yangchun Zhang

This paper proposes an approach that estimates human walking gait quality index using an adversarial auto-encoder (AAE), i.e. a combination of auto-encoder and generative adversarial network (GAN). Since most GAN-based models have been…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-08-20 Trong-Nguyen Nguyen , Jean Meunier

Discrete adversarial attacks are symbolic perturbations to a language input that preserve the output label but lead to a prediction error. While such attacks have been extensively explored for the purpose of evaluating model robustness,…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-11-02 Maor Ivgi , Jonathan Berant

Gradient-based adversarial attacks on neural networks can be crafted in a variety of ways by varying either how the attack algorithm relies on the gradient, the network architecture used for crafting the attack, or both. Most recent work…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-01-28 Rehana Mahfuz , Rajeev Sahay , Aly El Gamal

There are great interests as well as many challenges in applying reinforcement learning (RL) to recommendation systems. In this setting, an online user is the environment; neither the reward function nor the environment dynamics are clearly…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-01-03 Xinshi Chen , Shuang Li , Hui Li , Shaohua Jiang , Yuan Qi , Le Song

Sparse reward is one of the biggest challenges in reinforcement learning (RL). In this paper, we propose a novel method called Generative Exploration and Exploitation (GENE) to overcome sparse reward. GENE automatically generates start…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2019-11-21 Jiechuan Jiang , Zongqing Lu

We propose a new method for event extraction (EE) task based on an imitation learning framework, specifically, inverse reinforcement learning (IRL) via generative adversarial network (GAN). The GAN estimates proper rewards according to the…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2018-04-24 Tongtao Zhang , Heng Ji

This paper considers the general $f$-divergence formulation of bidirectional generative modeling, which includes VAE and BiGAN as special cases. We present a new optimization method for this formulation, where the gradient is computed using…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-07-01 Xinwei Shen , Tong Zhang , Kani Chen

Due to the proliferation of malware, defenders are increasingly turning to automation and machine learning as part of the malware detection tool-chain. However, machine learning models are susceptible to adversarial attacks, requiring the…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2024-01-17 Maria Rigaki , Sebastian Garcia

Generative adversarial networks (GAN) have been effective for learning generative models for real-world data. However, existing GANs (GAN and its variants) tend to suffer from training problems such as instability and mode collapse. In this…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2018-03-05 Chaoyue Wang , Chang Xu , Xin Yao , Dacheng Tao

How can a scientist use a Reinforcement Learning (RL) algorithm to design experiments over a dynamical system's state space? In the case of finite and Markovian systems, an area called Active Exploration (AE) relaxes the optimization…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-07-19 Riccardo De Santi , Federico Arangath Joseph , Noah Liniger , Mirco Mutti , Andreas Krause