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Designing and developing web-enabled remote laboratories for pedagogical purposes is not an easy task. Often, developers (generally, educators who know the subjects they teach but lack of the technical and programming skills required to…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-02-12 Jesús Chacón , Hector Vargas , Gonzalo Farias , Jose Sánchez , Sebastián Dormido

In principle, meta-reinforcement learning algorithms leverage experience across many tasks to learn fast reinforcement learning (RL) strategies that transfer to similar tasks. However, current meta-RL approaches rely on manually-defined…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2019-12-10 Allan Jabri , Kyle Hsu , Ben Eysenbach , Abhishek Gupta , Sergey Levine , Chelsea Finn

We propose Automatic Curricula via Expert Demonstrations (ACED), a reinforcement learning (RL) approach that combines the ideas of imitation learning and curriculum learning in order to solve challenging robotic manipulation tasks with…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-02-08 Siyu Dai , Andreas Hofmann , Brian Williams

Black-box unsupervised domain adaptation (UDA) learns with source predictions of target data without accessing either source data or source models during training, and it has clear superiority in data privacy and flexibility in target…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-08-28 Jingyi Zhang , Jiaxing Huang , Xueying Jiang , Shijian Lu

Training and deploying large-scale machine learning models is time-consuming, requires significant distributed computing infrastructures, and incurs high operational costs. Our analysis, grounded in real-world large model training on…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2024-06-12 Samuel Hsia , Alicia Golden , Bilge Acun , Newsha Ardalani , Zachary DeVito , Gu-Yeon Wei , David Brooks , Carole-Jean Wu

Inspired by natural evolutionary processes, Evolutionary Computation (EC) has established itself as a cornerstone of Artificial Intelligence. Recently, with the surge in data-intensive applications and large-scale complex systems, the…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2024-04-16 Beichen Huang , Ran Cheng , Zhuozhao Li , Yaochu Jin , Kay Chen Tan

Approximate computing is an emerging paradigm for developing highly energy-efficient computing systems such as various accelerators. In the literature, many libraries of elementary approximate circuits have already been proposed to simplify…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2019-06-13 Vojtech Mrazek , Muhammad Abdullah Hanif , Zdenek Vasicek , Lukas Sekanina , Muhammad Shafique

We present DrJAX, a JAX-based library designed to support large-scale distributed and parallel machine learning algorithms that use MapReduce-style operations. DrJAX leverages JAX's sharding mechanisms to enable native targeting of TPUs and…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2024-07-19 Keith Rush , Zachary Charles , Zachary Garrett , Sean Augenstein , Nicole Mitchell

We propose Pgx, a suite of board game reinforcement learning (RL) environments written in JAX and optimized for GPU/TPU accelerators. By leveraging JAX's auto-vectorization and parallelization over accelerators, Pgx can efficiently scale to…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2024-01-17 Sotetsu Koyamada , Shinri Okano , Soichiro Nishimori , Yu Murata , Keigo Habara , Haruka Kita , Shin Ishii

In this work, we take a deeper look into the diverse factors that influence the efficacy of modern unsupervised domain adaptation (UDA) methods using a large-scale, controlled empirical study. To facilitate our analysis, we first develop…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-09-24 Tarun Kalluri , Sreyas Ravichandran , Manmohan Chandraker

By leveraging data from a fully labeled source domain, unsupervised domain adaptation (UDA) improves classification performance on an unlabeled target domain through explicit discrepancy minimization of data distribution or adversarial…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-12-06 Shengjia Zhang , Tiancheng Lin , Yi Xu

Open-source reinforcement learning (RL) environments have played a crucial role in driving progress in the development of AI algorithms. In modern RL research, there is a need for simulated environments that are performant, scalable, and…

We introduce Optimistix: a nonlinear optimisation library built in JAX and Equinox. Optimistix introduces a novel, modular approach for its minimisers and least-squares solvers. This modularity relies on new practical abstractions for…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2024-02-16 Jason Rader , Terry Lyons , Patrick Kidger

CLAX is a JAX-based library that implements classic click models using modern gradient-based optimization. While neural click models have emerged over the past decade, complex click models based on probabilistic graphical models (PGMs) have…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2025-11-06 Philipp Hager , Onno Zoeter , Maarten de Rijke

At the most basic level, pixels are the source of the visual information through which we perceive the world. Pixels contain information at all levels, ranging from low-level attributes to high-level concepts. Autoencoders represent a…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-12-18 Lihe Yang , Shang-Wen Li , Yang Li , Xinjie Lei , Dong Wang , Abdelrahman Mohamed , Hengshuang Zhao , Hu Xu

Unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) have been widely used in military warfare. In this paper, we formulate the autonomous motion control (AMC) problem as a Markov decision process (MDP) and propose an advanced deep reinforcement learning (DRL)…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2022-07-05 Zijian Hu , Xiaoguang Gao , Kaifang Wan , Qianglong Wang , Yiwei Zhai

Reinforcement learning (RL) is a powerful tool for optimal control that has found great success in Atari games, the game of Go, robotic control, and building optimization. RL is also very brittle; agents often overfit to their training…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-12-19 Doseok Jang , Larry Yan , Lucas Spangher , Costas Spanos

We present GURLS, a least squares, modular, easy-to-extend software library for efficient supervised learning. GURLS is targeted to machine learning practitioners, as well as non-specialists. It offers a number state-of-the-art training…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2013-03-06 Andrea Tacchetti , Pavan K Mallapragada , Matteo Santoro , Lorenzo Rosasco

Accurate economic simulations often require many experimental runs, particularly when combined with reinforcement learning. Unfortunately, training reinforcement learning agents in multi-agent economic environments can be slow. This paper…

Multiagent Systems · Computer Science 2025-05-20 Koen Ponse , Aske Plaat , Niki van Stein , Thomas M. Moerland

Recent approaches leveraging multi-modal pre-trained models like CLIP for Unsupervised Domain Adaptation (UDA) have shown significant promise in bridging domain gaps and improving generalization by utilizing rich semantic knowledge and…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-06-16 Tung-Long Vuong , Hoang Phan , Vy Vo , Anh Bui , Thanh-Toan Do , Trung Le , Dinh Phung