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Convolutional neural networks (CNNs) have shown great success in computer vision, approaching human-level performance when trained for specific tasks via application-specific loss functions. In this paper, we propose a method for augmenting…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2017-06-15 Austin Stone , Huayan Wang , Michael Stark , Yi Liu , D. Scott Phoenix , Dileep George

Successful applications of reinforcement learning in real-world problems often require dealing with partially observable states. It is in general very challenging to construct and infer hidden states as they often depend on the agent's…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2015-11-20 Xiujun Li , Lihong Li , Jianfeng Gao , Xiaodong He , Jianshu Chen , Li Deng , Ji He

While reinforcement learning (RL) successfully enhances reasoning in large language models, its role in fostering compositional generalization (the ability to synthesize novel skills from known components) is often conflated with mere…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-12-02 Simon Park , Simran Kaur , Sanjeev Arora

Recently, deep reinforcement learning (DRL) methods have achieved impressive performance on tasks in a variety of domains. However, neural network policies produced with DRL methods are not human-interpretable and often have difficulty…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-02-02 Dweep Trivedi , Jesse Zhang , Shao-Hua Sun , Joseph J. Lim

Compositional zero-shot learning aims to recognize unseen state-object compositions by leveraging known primitives (state and object) during training. However, effectively modeling interactions between primitives and generalizing knowledge…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-08-18 Lin Li , Guikun Chen , Zhen Wang , Jun Xiao , Long Chen

Traditionally, reinforcement learning (RL) agents learn to solve new tasks by updating their neural network parameters through interactions with the task environment. However, recent works demonstrate that some RL agents, after certain…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-02-26 Jiuqi Wang , Ethan Blaser , Hadi Daneshmand , Shangtong Zhang

The ability to generalize to previously unseen tasks with little to no supervision is a key challenge in modern machine learning research. It is also a cornerstone of a future "General AI". Any artificially intelligent agent deployed in a…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-07-26 Xihan Bian , Oscar Mendez , Simon Hadfield

Although the Music Sight Reading process has been studied from the cognitive psychology view points, but the computational learning methods like the Reinforcement Learning have not yet been used to modeling of such processes. In this paper,…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2013-07-16 Keyvan Yahya , Pouyan Rafiei Fard

We tackle continual adaptation of vision-language models to new attributes, objects, and their compositions in Compositional Zero-Shot Learning (CZSL), while preventing forgetting of prior knowledge. Unlike classical continual learning…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-12-18 Sauda Maryam , Sara Nadeem , Faisal Qureshi , Mohsen Ali

We study the composition style in deep image matting, a notion that characterizes a data generation flow on how to exploit limited foregrounds and random backgrounds to form a training dataset. Prior art executes this flow in a completely…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-12-29 Zixuan Ye , Yutong Dai , Chaoyi Hong , Zhiguo Cao , Hao Lu

Domain adaptation is an important open problem in deep reinforcement learning (RL). In many scenarios of interest data is hard to obtain, so agents may learn a source policy in a setting where data is readily available, with the hope that…

Solving a reinforcement learning (RL) problem poses two competing challenges: fitting a potentially discontinuous value function, and generalizing well to new observations. In this paper, we analyze the learning dynamics of temporal…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-06-07 Clare Lyle , Mark Rowland , Will Dabney , Marta Kwiatkowska , Yarin Gal

Visual scenes are extremely rich in diversity, not only because there are infinite combinations of objects and background, but also because the observations of the same scene may vary greatly with the change of viewpoints. When observing a…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-12-14 Jinyang Yuan , Bin Li , Xiangyang Xue

Reinforcement learning (RL) agents typically optimize their policies by performing expensive backward passes to update their network parameters. However, some agents can solve new tasks without updating any parameters by simply conditioning…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-02-13 Amir Moeini , Jiuqi Wang , Jacob Beck , Ethan Blaser , Shimon Whiteson , Rohan Chandra , Shangtong Zhang

Process synthesis in chemical engineering is a complex planning problem due to vast search spaces, continuous parameters and the need for generalization. Deep reinforcement learning agents, trained without prior knowledge, have shown to…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-10-11 Quirin Göttl , Jonathan Pirnay , Jakob Burger , Dominik G. Grimm

Does Reinforcement Learning (RL) merely amplify existing skills, or synthesize novel skills? We investigate this question through the lens of Complementary Reasoning: the critical practical capability of integrating internal knowledge with…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2026-05-28 Sitao Cheng , Xunjian Yin , Ruiwen Zhou , Yuxuan Li , Xinyi Wang , Liangming Pan , William Yang Wang , Victor Zhong

While traditional methods for instruction-following typically assume prior linguistic and perceptual knowledge, many recent works in reinforcement learning (RL) have proposed learning policies end-to-end, typically by training neural…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-01-28 John Kanu , Eadom Dessalene , Xiaomin Lin , Cornelia Fermuller , Yiannis Aloimonos

We propose to directly map raw visual observations and text input to actions for instruction execution. While existing approaches assume access to structured environment representations or use a pipeline of separately trained models, we…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2017-07-25 Dipendra Misra , John Langford , Yoav Artzi

Generalization error defines the discriminability and the representation power of a deep model. In this work, we claim that feature space design using deep compositional function plays a significant role in generalization along with…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2017-07-11 Mrinal Haloi

Reinforcement learning (RL) is a general framework for adaptive control, which has proven to be efficient in many domains, e.g., board games, video games or autonomous vehicles. In such problems, an agent faces a sequential decision-making…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-06-16 Olivier Buffet , Olivier Pietquin , Paul Weng