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Deep learning is a group of exciting new technologies for neural networks. Through a combination of advanced training techniques and neural network architectural components, it is now possible to create neural networks that can handle…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-05-18 Jeff Heaton

We present a self-improving, Neural Tree Expansion (NTE) method for multi-robot online planning in non-cooperative environments, where each robot attempts to maximize its cumulative reward while interacting with other self-interested…

Robotics · Computer Science 2021-07-12 Benjamin Riviere , Wolfgang Hoenig , Matthew Anderson , Soon-Jo Chung

Recent years have witnessed significant progress in reinforcement learning, especially with Zero-like paradigms, which have greatly boosted the generalization and reasoning abilities of large-scale language models. Nevertheless, existing…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-03-24 Ruitong Li , Aisheng Mo , Guowei Su , Ru Zhang , Binjie Guo , Haohan Jiang , Xurong Lin , Hongyan Wei , Jie Li , Zhiyuan Qian , Zhuhao Zhang , Xiaoyuan Cheng

While backpropagation and automatic differentiation have driven deep learning's success, the physical limits of chip manufacturing and rising environmental costs of deep learning motivate alternative learning paradigms such as physical…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-04-21 Yaqi Guo , Fabian Braun , Bastiaan Ketelaar , Stephanie Tan , Richard Norte , Siddhant Kumar

This paper introduces a new paradigm for minimax game-tree search algo- rithms. MT is a memory-enhanced version of Pearls Test procedure. By changing the way MT is called, a number of best-first game-tree search algorithms can be simply and…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2014-04-08 Aske Plaat , Jonathan Schaeffer , Wim Pijls , Arie de Bruin

This book aims to provide an introduction to the topic of deep learning algorithms. We review essential components of deep learning algorithms in full mathematical detail including different artificial neural network (ANN) architectures…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-07-17 Arnulf Jentzen , Benno Kuckuck , Philippe von Wurstemberger

Natural selection drives species to develop brains, with sizes that increase with the complexity of the tasks to be tackled. Our goal is to investigate the balance between the metabolic costs of larger brains compared to the advantage they…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2021-01-28 Oren Neumann , Claudius Gros

A core novelty of Alpha Zero is the interleaving of tree search and deep learning, which has proven very successful in board games like Chess, Shogi and Go. These games have a discrete action space. However, many real-world reinforcement…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2018-05-25 Thomas M. Moerland , Joost Broekens , Aske Plaat , Catholijn M. Jonker

Neural networks surround us, in the form of large language models, speech transcription systems, molecular discovery algorithms, robotics, and much more. Stripped of anything else, neural networks are compositions of differentiable…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-09-01 Simone Scardapane

In this paper, we explore a new approach for automated chess commentary generation, which aims to generate chess commentary texts in different categories (e.g., description, comparison, planning, etc.). We introduce a neural chess engine…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2019-09-24 Hongyu Zang , Zhiwei Yu , Xiaojun Wan

This paper presents an implementation of multilayer feed forward neural networks (NN) to optimize CMOS analog circuits. For modeling and design recently neural network computational modules have got acceptance as an unorthodox and useful…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2012-12-13 Mriganka Chakraborty

DeepMind's recent spectacular success in using deep convolutional neural nets and machine learning to build superhuman level agents --- e.g. for Atari games via deep Q-learning and for the game of Go via Reinforcement Learning --- raises…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2016-04-27 Kenny Young , Ryan Hayward , Gautham Vasan

AlphaZero-like Monte Carlo Tree Search systems, originally introduced for two-player games, dynamically balance exploration and exploitation using neural network guidance. This combination makes them also suitable for classical search…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-11-06 Alexandros Vazaios , Jannis Brugger , Cedric Derstroff , Kristian Kersting , Mira Mezini

In this chapter we review the main literature related to the recent advancement of deep neural-kernel architecture, an approach that seek the synergy between two powerful class of models, i.e. kernel-based models and artificial neural…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-07-21 Siamak Mehrkanoon

Since DeepMind's AlphaZero, Zero learning quickly became the state-of-the-art method for many board games. It can be improved using a fully convolutional structure (no fully connected layer). Using such an architecture plus global pooling,…

The highly non-linear nature of deep neural networks causes them to be susceptible to adversarial examples and have unstable gradients which hinders interpretability. However, existing methods to solve these issues, such as adversarial…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-01-11 Suraj Srinivas , Kyle Matoba , Himabindu Lakkaraju , Francois Fleuret

The game of Go has a long history in East Asian countries, but the field of Computer Go has yet to catch up to humans until the past couple of years. While the rules of Go are simple, the strategy and combinatorics of the game are immensely…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2019-07-12 Jeffrey Barratt , Chuanbo Pan

Hypernetworks, or hypernets for short, are neural networks that generate weights for another neural network, known as the target network. They have emerged as a powerful deep learning technique that allows for greater flexibility,…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-01-03 Vinod Kumar Chauhan , Jiandong Zhou , Ping Lu , Soheila Molaei , David A. Clifton

In this paper, we advocate for two stages in a neural network's decision making process. The first is the existing feed-forward inference framework where patterns in given data are sensed and associated with previously learned patterns. The…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-09-20 Mohit Prabhushankar , Ghassan AlRegib

We give an overview of recent exciting achievements of deep reinforcement learning (RL). We discuss six core elements, six important mechanisms, and twelve applications. We start with background of machine learning, deep learning and…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2018-11-27 Yuxi Li