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Deep learning models such as the Transformer are often constructed by heuristics and experience. To provide a complementary foundation, in this work we study the following problem: Is it possible to find an energy function underlying the…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-02-28 Yongyi Yang , Zengfeng Huang , David Wipf

We consider small-data, large-scale decision problems in which a firm must make many operational decisions simultaneously (e.g., across a large product portfolio) while observing only a few, potentially noisy, data points per instance.…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-02-04 Zishi Zhang , Jinhui Han , Ming Hu , Yijie Peng

Recently, Transformer based end-to-end models have achieved great success in many areas including speech recognition. However, compared to LSTM models, the heavy computational cost of the Transformer during inference is a key issue to…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2021-03-02 Xie Chen , Yu Wu , Zhenghao Wang , Shujie Liu , Jinyu Li

A drone trajectory planner should be able to dynamically adjust the safety-efficiency trade-off according to varying mission requirements in unknown environments. Although traditional polynomial-based planners offer computational efficiency…

Robotics · Computer Science 2025-07-31 Chang-Hun Ji , SiWoon Song , Youn-Hee Han , SungTae Moon

Transformer has emerged as a powerful deep-learning technique for two-dimensional (2D) seismic data interpolation, owing to its global modeling ability. However, its core operation introduces heavy computational burden due to the quadratic…

Geophysics · Physics 2026-01-22 Changxin Wei , Xintong Dong , Xinyang Wang

Model-Based Reinforcement Learning involves learning a \textit{dynamics model} from data, and then using this model to optimise behaviour, most often with an online \textit{planner}. Much of the recent research along these lines presents a…

In recent times, Large Language Models (LLMs) have captured a global spotlight and revolutionized the field of Natural Language Processing. One of the factors attributed to the effectiveness of LLMs is the model architecture used for…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-08-31 Oluwaseyi Ogunfowora , Homayoun Najjaran

A Transformer-based deep direct sampling method is proposed for electrical impedance tomography, a well-known severely ill-posed nonlinear boundary value inverse problem. A real-time reconstruction is achieved by evaluating the learned…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-03-07 Ruchi Guo , Shuhao Cao , Long Chen

We present a novel probabilistic deep learning approach, the 'Stochastic Latent Transformer' (SLT), designed for the efficient reduced-order modelling of stochastic partial differential equations. Stochastically driven flow models are…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-06-21 Ira J. S. Shokar , Rich R. Kerswell , Peter H. Haynes

The Transformer, a breakthrough architecture in artificial intelligence, owes its success to the attention mechanism, which utilizes long-range interactions in sequential data, enabling the emergent coherence between large language models…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2026-04-23 Zihan Zhou , Bo-Wei Qin , Kai Du , Wei Lin

Adept traffic models are critical to both planning and closed-loop simulation for autonomous vehicles (AV), and key design objectives include accuracy, diverse multimodal behaviors, interpretability, and downstream compatibility. Recently,…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-12-01 Yuxiao Chen , Sander Tonkens , Marco Pavone

We use model-free reinforcement learning, extensive simulation, and transfer learning to develop a continuous control algorithm that has good zero-shot performance in a real physical environment. We train a simulated agent to act optimally…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2018-03-09 M Ferguson , K. H. Law

Accurately predicting the dynamics of robotic systems is crucial for model-based control and reinforcement learning. The most common way to estimate dynamics is by fitting a one-step ahead prediction model and using it to recursively…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-09-02 Nathan O. Lambert , Albert Wilcox , Howard Zhang , Kristofer S. J. Pister , Roberto Calandra

Transformers are arguably the main workhorse in recent Natural Language Processing research. By definition a Transformer is invariant with respect to reordering of the input. However, language is inherently sequential and word order is…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2021-09-10 Philipp Dufter , Martin Schmitt , Hinrich Schütze

The task of predicting future actions from a video is crucial for a real-world agent interacting with others. When anticipating actions in the distant future, we humans typically consider long-term relations over the whole sequence of…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-05-30 Dayoung Gong , Joonseok Lee , Manjin Kim , Seong Jong Ha , Minsu Cho

Transformer architectures are designed by trial and error: the number of attention heads, the depth, and the head size are fixed before training begins, with no mathematical principle to guide the choice. The result is systematic structural…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-04-14 Giansalvo Cirrincione

Transformer has achieved great successes in learning vision and language representation, which is general across various downstream tasks. In visual control, learning transferable state representation that can transfer between different…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-06-20 Yao Mu , Shoufa Chen , Mingyu Ding , Jianyu Chen , Runjian Chen , Ping Luo

Transformers have emerged as a compelling architecture for sequential decision-making by modeling trajectories via self-attention. In reinforcement learning (RL), they enable return-conditioned control without relying on value function…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-09-22 Zahra Aref , Narayan B. Mandayam

Transformers have achieved state-of-the-art performance in numerous tasks. In this paper, we propose a continuous-time formulation of transformers. Specifically, we consider a dynamical system whose governing equation is parametrized by…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-02-03 Kelvin Kan , Xingjian Li , Stanley Osher

We consider the problem of spatial path planning. In contrast to the classical solutions which optimize a new plan from scratch and assume access to the full map with ground truth obstacle locations, we learn a planner from the data in a…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-12-03 Devendra Singh Chaplot , Deepak Pathak , Jitendra Malik