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The potential benefits of model-free reinforcement learning to real robotics systems are limited by its uninformed exploration that leads to slow convergence, lack of data-efficiency, and unnecessary interactions with the environment. To…

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In scientific machine learning, regression networks have been recently applied to approximate solution maps (e.g., potential-ground state map of Schr\"odinger equation). In this paper, we aim to reduce the generalization error without…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2021-02-16 Zhihan Li , Yuwei Fan , Lexing Ying

To overcome the absence of training data for unseen classes, conventional zero-shot learning approaches mainly train their model on seen datapoints and leverage the semantic descriptions for both seen and unseen classes. Beyond exploiting…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2019-10-22 Hyeonwoo Yu , Beomhee Lee

In feedback generation for logical errors in programming assignments, large language model (LLM)-based methods have shown great promise. These methods ask the LLM to generate feedback given the problem statement and a student's (buggy)…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-05-10 Hasnain Heickal , Andrew Lan

Generative Adversarial Networks (GANs) enjoy great success at image generation, but have proven difficult to train in the domain of natural language. Challenges with gradient estimation, optimization instability, and mode collapse have lead…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2020-02-28 Cyprien de Masson d'Autume , Mihaela Rosca , Jack Rae , Shakir Mohamed

Scaling issues are mundane yet irritating for practitioners of reinforcement learning. Error scales vary across domains, tasks, and stages of learning; sometimes by many orders of magnitude. This can be detrimental to learning speed and…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-05-13 Tom Schaul , Georg Ostrovski , Iurii Kemaev , Diana Borsa

Generative Adversarial Networks (GANs) have shown im-pressive results for image generation. However, GANs facechallenges in generating contents with certain types of con-straints, such as game levels. Specifically, it is difficult…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2019-10-04 Ruben Rodriguez Torrado , Ahmed Khalifa , Michael Cerny Green , Niels Justesen , Sebastian Risi , Julian Togelius

Large transformer-based language models (LMs) trained on huge text corpora have shown unparalleled generation capabilities. However, controlling attributes of the generated language (e.g. switching topic or sentiment) is difficult without…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2020-03-04 Sumanth Dathathri , Andrea Madotto , Janice Lan , Jane Hung , Eric Frank , Piero Molino , Jason Yosinski , Rosanne Liu

Interaction between learner and feedback-giver has come into focus recently for post-training of Large Language Models (LLMs), through the use of reward models that judge the appropriateness of a model's response. In this paper, we…

Generative Adversarial Networks (GANs) are unsupervised models designed to learn and replicate a target distribution. The vanilla versions of these models can be extended to more controllable models. Conditional Generative Adversarial…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-10-31 Mahsa Bazzaz , Seth Cooper

Analyzing massive complex networks yields promising insights about our everyday lives. Building scalable algorithms to do so is a challenging task that requires a careful analysis and an extensive evaluation. However, engineering such…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2019-03-19 Daniel Funke , Sebastian Lamm , Ulrich Meyer , Peter Sanders , Manuel Penschuck , Christian Schulz , Darren Strash , Moritz von Looz

Loops--short audio segments designed for seamless repetition--are central to many music genres, particularly those rooted in dance and electronic styles. However, current generative music models struggle to produce truly loopable audio, as…

The development of high-dimensional generative models has recently gained a great surge of interest with the introduction of variational auto-encoders and generative adversarial neural networks. Different variants have been proposed where…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-04-18 Mickaël Chen , Ludovic Denoyer , Thierry Artières

To provide a foundation for the research of deep learning models, the construction of model pool is an essential step. This paper proposes a Training-Free and Efficient Model Generation and Enhancement Scheme (MGE). This scheme primarily…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-02-28 Xuan Wang , Zeshan Pang , Yuliang Lu , Xuehu Yan

Learning from feedback is an instrumental process for advancing the capabilities and safety of frontier models, yet its effectiveness is often constrained by cost and scalability. We present a pilot study that explores scaling reward models…

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Enabling image generation models to be spatially controlled is an important area of research, empowering users to better generate images according to their own fine-grained specifications via e.g. edge maps, poses. Although this task has…

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Due to the vast design space of molecules, generating molecules conditioned on a specific sub-structure relevant to a particular function or therapeutic target is a crucial task in computer-aided drug design. Existing works mainly focus on…

Biomolecules · Quantitative Biology 2024-12-24 Qi Zhengyang , Liu Zijing , Zhang Jiying , Cao He , Li Yu

Sequence generation applications require satisfying semantic constraints, such as ensuring that programs are correct, using certain keywords, or avoiding undesirable content. Language models, whether fine-tuned or prompted with few-shot…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2022-11-02 Sean Welleck , Ximing Lu , Peter West , Faeze Brahman , Tianxiao Shen , Daniel Khashabi , Yejin Choi

Simulation is increasingly being used for generating large labelled datasets in many machine learning problems. Recent methods have focused on adjusting simulator parameters with the goal of maximising accuracy on a validation task, usually…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-08-20 Harkirat Singh Behl , Atılım Güneş Baydin , Ran Gal , Philip H. S. Torr , Vibhav Vineet

Engineering complex systems (aircraft, buildings, vehicles) requires coordinating geometric and performance couplings across subsystems. As generative models proliferate for specialized domains, a key research gap is how to coordinate…

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