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We introduce a deep reinforcement learning (DRL) approach for solving management problems including inventory management, dynamic pricing, and recommendation. This DRL approach has the potential to lead to a large management model based on…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2024-03-04 Jinyang Jiang , Xiaotian Liu , Tao Ren , Qinghao Wang , Yi Zheng , Yufu Du , Yijie Peng , Cheng Zhang

Learned representations in deep reinforcement learning (DRL) have to extract task-relevant information from complex observations, balancing between robustness to distraction and informativeness to the policy. Such stable and rich…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-10-28 Mete Kemertas , Tristan Aumentado-Armstrong

Distributional Reinforcement Learning (DistRL) improves upon expectation-based methods by modeling full return distributions, but standard approaches often remain far from parsimonious. Categorical methods (e.g., C51) rely on fixed supports…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2026-05-06 Simo Alami C. , Rim Kaddah , Jesse Read , Marie-Paule Cani

Deep learning (DL) applied to a device's radio-frequency fingerprint~(RFF) has attracted significant attention in physical-layer authentication due to its extraordinary classification performance. Conventional DL-RFF techniques are trained…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-10-18 Renjie Xie , Wei Xu , Jiabao Yu , Aiqun Hu , Derrick Wing Kwan Ng , A. Lee Swindlehurst

Practitioners often face the challenge of deploying prediction models in new environments with shifted distributions of covariates and responses. With observational data, such shifts are often driven by unobserved confounding, and can in…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-04-02 Kulunu Dharmakeerthi , YoonHaeng Hur , Tengyuan Liang

Estimating causal effects from observational data is challenging due to selection bias, which leads to imbalanced covariate distributions across treatment groups. Propensity score-based weighting methods are widely used to address this…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-08-08 Ahmad Saeed Khan , Erik Schaffernicht , Johannes Andreas Stork

Recently, generative graph models have shown promising results in learning graph representations through self-supervised methods. However, most existing generative graph representation learning (GRL) approaches rely on random masking across…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-05-08 Xinyue Hu , Zhibin Duan , Xinyang Liu , Yuxin Li , Bo Chen , Chaojie Wang , Yilin He , Hongwei Liu , Mingyuan Zhou

Similarity metrics such as representational similarity analysis (RSA) and centered kernel alignment (CKA) have been used to compare layer-wise representations between neural networks. However, these metrics are confounded by the population…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2022-02-02 Tianyu Cui , Yogesh Kumar , Pekka Marttinen , Samuel Kaski

Deep learning models are known to be vulnerable to adversarial examples that are elaborately designed for malicious purposes and are imperceptible to the human perceptual system. Autoencoder, when trained solely over benign examples, has…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-08-30 Zhaoxi Zhang , Leo Yu Zhang , Xufei Zheng , Jinyu Tian , Jiantao Zhou

Contrastive learning has been effectively utilized to enhance the training of sequential recommendation models by leveraging informative self-supervised signals. Most existing approaches generate augmented views of the same user sequence…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2025-02-06 Ziqiang Cui , Haolun Wu , Bowei He , Ji Cheng , Chen Ma

Graph representation learning (GRL) has emerged as a powerful technique for solving graph analytics tasks. It can effectively convert discrete graph data into a low-dimensional space where the graph structural information and graph…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2023-09-21 Chunyu Miao , Chenxuan Xie , Jiajun Zhou , Shanqing Yu , Lina Chen , Qi Xuan

Determining causal effects of interventions onto outcomes from real-world, observational (non-randomized) data, e.g., treatment repurposing using electronic health records, is challenging due to underlying bias. Causal deep learning has…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-10-23 Shantanu Ghosh , Zheng Feng , Jiang Bian , Kevin Butler , Mattia Prosperi

Deep reinforcement learning (DRL) has recently shown its success in tackling complex combinatorial optimization problems. When these problems are extended to multiobjective ones, it becomes difficult for the existing DRL approaches to…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2022-02-15 Zizhen Zhang , Zhiyuan Wu , Hang Zhang , Jiahai Wang

Molecular property prediction constitutes a cornerstone of drug discovery and materials science, necessitating models capable of disentangling complex structure-property relationships across diverse molecular modalities. Existing approaches…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-03-24 Long Xu , Junping Guo , Jianbo Zhao , Jianbo Lu , Yuzhong Peng

Relational Deep Learning (RDL) is an emerging paradigm that leverages Graph Neural Network principles to learn directly from relational databases by representing them as heterogeneous graphs. However, existing RDL models typically rely on…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-07-01 Jakub Peleška , Gustav Šír

Estimation and inference of treatment effects under unconfounded treatment assignments often suffer from bias and the `curse of dimensionality' due to the nonparametric estimation of nuisance parameters for high-dimensional confounders.…

Methodology · Statistics 2025-07-08 Zeqi Wu , Meilin Wang , Wei Huang , Zheng Zhang

In this paper, we address the challenge of performing counterfactual inference with observational data via Bayesian nonparametric regression adjustment, with a focus on high-dimensional settings featuring multiple actions and multiple…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-11-22 Alberto Caron , Gianluca Baio , Ioanna Manolopoulou

Counterfactual fairness is an approach to AI fairness that tries to make decisions based on the outcomes that an individual with some kind of sensitive status would have had without this status. This paper proposes Double Machine Learning…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-03-22 Patrick Rehill

Cross-resolution face recognition (CRFR), which is important in intelligent surveillance and biometric forensics, refers to the problem of matching a low-resolution (LR) probe face image against high-resolution (HR) gallery face images.…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-03-26 Guangwei Gao , Yi Yu , Jian Yang , Guo-Jun Qi , Meng Yang

In this paper, dynamic non-cooperative coexistence between a cognitive pulsed radar and a nearby communications system is addressed by applying nonlinear value function approximation via deep reinforcement learning (Deep RL) to develop a…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-08-28 Charles E. Thornton , Mark A. Kozy , R. Michael Buehrer , Anthony F. Martone , Kelly D. Sherbondy