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We propose a framework for adaptive data-centric collaborative machine learning among self-interested agents, coordinated by an arbiter. Designed to handle the incremental nature of real-world data, the framework operates in an online…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-02-07 Nithia Vijayan , Bryan Kian Hsiang Low

Recent significant advances in integrating multiple Large Language Model (LLM) systems have enabled Agentic Frameworks capable of performing complex tasks autonomously, including novel scientific research. We develop and demonstrate such a…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2025-07-16 Darui Lu , Jordan M. Malof , Willie J. Padilla

In many reinforcement learning tasks, the goal is to learn a policy to manipulate an agent, whose design is fixed, to maximize some notion of cumulative reward. The design of the agent's physical structure is rarely optimized for the task…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2019-12-03 David Ha

Many recent efforts have been devoted to designing sophisticated deep learning structures, obtaining revolutionary results on benchmark datasets. The success of these deep learning methods mostly relies on an enormous volume of labeled…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2015-10-20 Jiaji Huang , Qiang Qiu , Robert Calderbank , Guillermo Sapiro

We present an end-to-end, model-based deep reinforcement learning agent which dynamically attends to relevant parts of its state during planning. The agent uses a bottleneck mechanism over a set-based representation to force the number of…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2021-11-05 Mingde Zhao , Zhen Liu , Sitao Luan , Shuyuan Zhang , Doina Precup , Yoshua Bengio

As AI technology advances, research in playing text-based games with agents has becomeprogressively popular. In this paper, a novel approach to agent design and agent learning ispresented with the context of reinforcement learning. A model…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-09-04 Haonan Wang , Mingjia Zhao , Junfeng Sun , Wei Liu

Collaborative multi-agent exploration of unknown environments is crucial for search and rescue operations. Effective real-world deployment must address challenges such as limited inter-agent communication and static and dynamic obstacles.…

Robotics · Computer Science 2024-12-31 Gabriele Calzolari , Vidya Sumathy , Christoforos Kanellakis , George Nikolakopoulos

Sequential decision making problems, such as structured prediction, robotic control, and game playing, require a combination of planning policies and generalisation of those plans. In this paper, we present Expert Iteration (ExIt), a novel…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2024-10-25 Thomas Anthony , Zheng Tian , David Barber

This paper introduces a framework for Planning while Learning where an agent is given a goal to achieve in an environment whose behavior is only partially known to the agent. We discuss the tractability of various plan-design processes. We…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2014-11-17 S. Safra , M. Tennenholtz

The search for neural architecture is producing many of the most exciting results in artificial intelligence. It has increasingly become apparent that task-specific neural architecture plays a crucial role for effectively solving problems.…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2021-03-30 Samuel Schmidgall

Learning a diverse set of skills by interacting with an environment without any external supervision is an important challenge. In particular, obtaining a goal-conditioned agent that can reach any given state is useful in many applications.…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-06-24 Lina Mezghani , Sainbayar Sukhbaatar , Piotr Bojanowski , Karteek Alahari

When developing deep learning models, we usually decide what task we want to solve then search for a model that generalizes well on the task. An intriguing question would be: what if, instead of fixing the task and searching in the model…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-12-02 Andrei Atanov , Andrei Filatov , Teresa Yeo , Ajay Sohmshetty , Amir Zamir

Self-supervised goal proposal and reaching is a key component for exploration and efficient policy learning algorithms. Such a self-supervised approach without access to any oracle goal sampling distribution requires deep exploration and…

Robotics · Computer Science 2021-04-28 Homanga Bharadhwaj , Animesh Garg , Florian Shkurti

Deep learning (DL) has proven to be a highly effective approach for developing models in diverse contexts, including visual perception, speech recognition, and machine translation. However, the end-to-end process for applying DL is not…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-05-18 Xuanyi Dong , David Jacob Kedziora , Katarzyna Musial , Bogdan Gabrys

Deep reinforcement learning suffers from catastrophic forgetting and sample inefficiency making it less applicable to the ever-changing real world. However, the ability to use previously learned knowledge is essential for AI agents to…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2023-11-27 Ekaterina Nikonova , Cheng Xue , Jochen Renz

In many real-world decision making problems, reaching an optimal decision requires taking into account a variable number of objects around the agent. Autonomous driving is a domain in which this is especially relevant, since the number of…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-08-13 Maria Hügle , Gabriel Kalweit , Branka Mirchevska , Moritz Werling , Joschka Boedecker

Training a model-free reinforcement learning agent requires allowing the agent to sufficiently explore the environment to search for an optimal policy. In safety-constrained environments, utilizing unsupervised exploration or a non-optimal…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2024-08-05 Erfan Entezami , Mahsa Sahebdel , Dhawal Gupta

Robot learning methods have the potential for widespread generalization across tasks, environments, and objects. However, these methods require large diverse datasets that are expensive to collect in real-world robotics settings. For robot…

Robotics · Computer Science 2023-02-24 Zoey Chen , Sho Kiami , Abhishek Gupta , Vikash Kumar

Recent work has proven that training large language models with self-supervised tasks and fine-tuning these models to complete new tasks in a transfer learning setting is a powerful idea, enabling the creation of models with many…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-11-25 Matthew Spellings , Maya Martirossyan , Julia Dshemuchadse

While unsupervised domain adaptation methods based on deep architectures have achieved remarkable success in many computer vision tasks, they rely on a strong assumption, i.e. labeled source data must be available. In this work we overcome…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-08-12 Willi Menapace , Stéphane Lathuilière , Elisa Ricci