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Interfaces between materials play a crucial role in the performance of most devices. However, predicting the structure of a material interface is computationally demanding due to the vast configuration space, which requires evaluating an…

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We address the problem of visually guided rearrangement planning with many movable objects, i.e., finding a sequence of actions to move a set of objects from an initial arrangement to a desired one, while relying on visual inputs coming…

Structural search and feature extraction are a central subject in modern materials design, the efficiency of which is currently limited, but can be potentially boosted by machine learning (ML). Here, we develop an ML-based…

Materials Science · Physics 2023-02-08 Chuannan Li , Hanpu Liang , Xie Zhang , Zijing Lin , Su-Huai Wei

Understanding structure-property relationships in materials is fundamental in condensed matter physics and materials science. Over the past few years, machine learning (ML) has emerged as a powerful tool for advancing this understanding and…

A focused crawler aims at discovering as many web pages and web sites relevant to a target topic as possible, while avoiding irrelevant ones. Reinforcement Learning (RL) has been a promising direction for optimizing focused crawling,…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2025-05-20 Andreas Kontogiannis , Dimitrios Kelesis , Vasilis Pollatos , George Giannakopoulos , Georgios Paliouras

Existing object proposal algorithms usually search for possible object regions over multiple locations and scales separately, which ignore the interdependency among different objects and deviate from the human perception procedure. To…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2017-03-09 Zequn Jie , Xiaodan Liang , Jiashi Feng , Xiaojie Jin , Wen Feng Lu , Shuicheng Yan

Standard planners for sequential decision making (including Monte Carlo planning, tree search, dynamic programming, etc.) are constrained by an implicit sequential planning assumption: The order in which a plan is constructed is the same in…

For a very long time, computational approaches to the design of new materials have relied on an iterative process of finding a candidate material and modeling its properties. AI has played a crucial role in this regard, helping to…

Recent research works establish deep neural networks as high performing tools for radar target detection, especially on challenging environments (presence of clutter or interferences, multi-target scenarii...). However, the usually large…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-06-30 Noé Lallouet , Tristan Cazenave , Cyrille Enderli , Stéphanie Gourdin

Global climate challenge is demanding urgent actions for decarbonization, while electric power systems take the major roles in clean energy transition. Due to the existence of spatially and temporally dispersed renewable energy resources…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-08-13 Xuan He , Danny H. K. Tsang , Yize Chen

Recent research has shown that non-additive image steganographic frameworks effectively improve security performance through adjusting distortion distribution. However, as far as we know, all of the existing non-additive proposals are based…

Multimedia · Computer Science 2021-08-11 Xianbo Mo , Shunquan Tan , Bin Li , Jiwu Huang

Neural Architecture Search (NAS) achieved many breakthroughs in recent years. In spite of its remarkable progress, many algorithms are restricted to particular search spaces. They also lack efficient mechanisms to reuse knowledge when…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-07-23 Xin Chen , Yawen Duan , Zewei Chen , Hang Xu , Zihao Chen , Xiaodan Liang , Tong Zhang , Zhenguo Li

Determining a process-structure-property relationship is the holy grail of materials science, where both computational prediction in the forward direction and materials design in the inverse direction are essential. Problems in materials…

Computational Engineering, Finance, and Science · Computer Science 2020-04-28 Anh Tran , John A. Mitchell , Laura P. Swiler , Tim Wildey

Truss layout design, namely finding a lightweight truss layout satisfying all the physical constraints, is a fundamental problem in the building industry. Generating the optimal layout is a challenging combinatorial optimization problem,…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2023-06-28 Weihua Du , Jinglun Zhao , Chao Yu , Xingcheng Yao , Zimeng Song , Siyang Wu , Ruifeng Luo , Zhiyuan Liu , Xianzhong Zhao , Yi Wu

Machine learning has revolutionized materials discovery, but data scarcity remains a critical bottleneck for complex functional properties. As emerging systems, two-dimensional (2D) materials possess limited overall data volumes. Evaluating…

Materials Science · Physics 2026-05-26 Huiyang Zhang , Xinyu Chen , Qionghua Zhou , Jinlan Wang

We propose a novel method applicable in many scene understanding problems that adapts the Monte Carlo Tree Search (MCTS) algorithm, originally designed to learn to play games of high-state complexity. From a generated pool of proposals, our…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-07-08 Sinisa Stekovic , Mahdi Rad , Alireza Moradi , Friedrich Fraundorfer , Vincent Lepetit

Monte-Carlo tree search (MCTS) has driven many recent breakthroughs in deep reinforcement learning (RL). However, scaling MCTS to parallel compute has proven challenging in practice which has motivated alternative planners like sequential…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-07-09 Joery A. de Vries , Jinke He , Yaniv Oren , Matthijs T. J. Spaan

Performing object retrieval in real-world workspaces must tackle challenges including \emph{uncertainty} and \emph{clutter}. One option is to apply prehensile operations, which can be time consuming in highly-cluttered scenarios. On the…

Robotics · Computer Science 2024-02-07 Ewerton R. Vieira , Kai Gao , Daniel Nakhimovich , Kostas E. Bekris , Jingjin Yu

Active learning has been increasingly applied to screening functional materials from existing materials databases with desired properties. However, the number of known materials deposited in the popular materials databases such as ICSD and…

Although RLVR has become an essential component for developing advanced reasoning skills in language models, contemporary studies have documented training plateaus after thousands of optimization steps, i.e., notable decreases in…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2026-04-08 Fang Wu , Weihao Xuan , Heli Qi , Ximing Lu , Aaron Tu , Li Erran Li , Yejin Choi