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Decision-focused learning integrates predictive modeling and combinatorial optimization by training models to directly improve decision quality rather than prediction accuracy alone. Differentiating through combinatorial optimization…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-01-30 Victor Spitzer , Francois Sanson

Combinatorial optimization problems are ubiquitous in science and engineering. Still, learning-based approaches to accelerate combinatorial optimization often require solving a large number of difficult instances to collect training data,…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-09-25 Zohair Shafi , Serdar Kadioglu

We study combinatorial problems with real world applications such as machine scheduling, routing, and assignment. We propose a method that combines Reinforcement Learning (RL) and planning. This method can equally be applied to both the…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-05-19 Joel Oren , Chana Ross , Maksym Lefarov , Felix Richter , Ayal Taitler , Zohar Feldman , Christian Daniel , Dotan Di Castro

Cloud computing is a reliable solution to provide distributed computation power. However, real-time response is still challenging regarding the enormous amount of data generated by the IoT devices in 5G and 6G networks. Thus, multi-access…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2022-11-03 Anahita Mazloomi , Hani Sami , Jamal Bentahar , Hadi Otrok , Azzam Mourad

Combinatorial Optimization (CO) problems over graphs appear routinely in many applications such as in optimizing traffic, viral marketing in social networks, and matching for job allocation. Due to their combinatorial nature, these problems…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-01-02 Hao Tian , Sourav Medya , Wei Ye

Multi-Task Learning (MTL) is designed to train multiple correlated tasks simultaneously, thereby enhancing the performance of individual tasks. Typically, a multi-task network structure consists of a shared backbone and task-specific…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-12-15 Yi Xin , Junlong Du , Qiang Wang , Ke Yan , Shouhong Ding

In recent years, numerous tasks have been proposed to encourage model to develop specified capability in understanding audio-visual scene, primarily categorized into temporal localization, spatial localization, spatio-temporal reasoning,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-03-18 Henghui Du , Guangyao Li , Chang Zhou , Chunjie Zhang , Alan Zhao , Di Hu

In recent years, model-free methods that use deep learning have achieved great success in many different reinforcement learning environments. Most successful approaches focus on solving a single task, while multi-task reinforcement learning…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2017-05-25 Asier Mujika

This paper presents a novel learning-based trajectory planning framework for quadrotors that combines model-based optimization techniques with deep learning. Specifically, we formulate the trajectory optimization problem as a quadratic…

Robotics · Computer Science 2023-12-05 Yuwei Wu , Xiatao Sun , Igor Spasojevic , Vijay Kumar

The aim of this paper is to develop a general framework for training neural networks (NNs) in a distributed environment, where training data is partitioned over a set of agents that communicate with each other through a sparse, possibly…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2017-04-21 Simone Scardapane , Paolo Di Lorenzo

The lack of mathematical tractability of Deep Neural Networks (DNNs) has hindered progress towards having a unified convergence analysis of training algorithms, in the general setting. We propose a unified optimization framework for…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2018-05-24 Hadi Ghauch , Hossein Shokri-Ghadikolaei , Carlo Fischione , Mikael Skoglund

Multi-task learning (MTL) encapsulates multiple learned tasks in a single model and often lets those tasks learn better jointly. However, when deploying MTL onto those real-world systems that are often resource-constrained or…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-10-27 Hanxue Liang , Zhiwen Fan , Rishov Sarkar , Ziyu Jiang , Tianlong Chen , Kai Zou , Yu Cheng , Cong Hao , Zhangyang Wang

A traditional and intuitively appealing Multi-Task Multiple Kernel Learning (MT-MKL) method is to optimize the sum (thus, the average) of objective functions with (partially) shared kernel function, which allows information sharing amongst…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2014-04-14 Cong Li , Michael Georgiopoulos , Georgios C. Anagnostopoulos

Many problems in real life can be converted to combinatorial optimization problems (COPs) on graphs, that is to find a best node state configuration or a network structure such that the designed objective function is optimized under some…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2019-09-17 Jing Liu , Fei Gao , Jiang Zhang

The literature has proposed various robust alternatives to empirical risk minimisation to address failure modes such as distribution shift, label noise and finite-sample degeneracies. Examples include distributionally robust optimization,…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-05-28 Jonas Hanselle , Valentin Margraf , Clemens Damke , Eyke Hüllermeier

Multi-task learning promises better model generalization on a target task by jointly optimizing it with an auxiliary task. However, the current practice requires additional labeling efforts for the auxiliary task, while not guaranteeing…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-10-14 Menelaos Kanakis , Thomas E. Huang , David Bruggemann , Fisher Yu , Luc Van Gool

The Traveling Salesman Problem (TSP) is a classic NP-hard combinatorial optimization task with numerous practical applications. Classic heuristic solvers can attain near-optimal performance for small problem instances, but become…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-08-13 Michael Li , Eric Bae , Christopher Haberland , Natasha Jaques

Aiming at the problems of computational inefficiency and insufficient interpretability faced by large models in complex tasks such as multi-round reasoning and multi-modal collaboration, this study proposes a three-layer collaboration…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-09-23 Luyan Zhang

This study examines the problem of hopping robot navigation planning to achieve simultaneous goal-directed and environment exploration tasks. We consider a scenario in which the robot has mandatory goal-directed tasks defined using Linear…

Robotics · Computer Science 2024-07-10 Jesse Jiang , Samuel Coogan , Ye Zhao

We introduce a framework for cooperative manipulation, applied on an underactuated manipulation problem. Two stationary robotic manipulators are required to cooperate in order to reposition an object within their shared work space. Control…

Robotics · Computer Science 2023-02-23 Sander De Witte , Tom Lefebvre , Thijs Van Hauwermeiren , Guillaume Crevecoeur