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Meta-reinforcement learning algorithms can enable robots to acquire new skills much more quickly, by leveraging prior experience to learn how to learn. However, much of the current research on meta-reinforcement learning focuses on task…

A key question in Reinforcement Learning is which representation an agent can learn to efficiently reuse knowledge between different tasks. Recently the Successor Representation was shown to have empirical benefits for transferring…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2018-07-06 Lucas Lehnert , Michael L. Littman

This work focuses on learning useful and robust deep world models using multiple, possibly unreliable, sensors. We find that current methods do not sufficiently encourage a shared representation between modalities; this can cause poor…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-07-07 Kaiqi Chen , Yong Lee , Harold Soh

Unsupervised domain adaptation aims to transfer knowledge from a labeled source domain to an unlabeled target domain. Previous methods focus on learning domain-invariant features to decrease the discrepancy between the feature distributions…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-06-30 Yuntao Du , Yinghao Chen , Fengli Cui , Xiaowen Zhang , Chongjun Wang

Recommender systems frequently encounter data sparsity issues, particularly when addressing cold-start scenarios involving new users or items. Multi-source cross-domain recommendation (CDR) addresses these challenges by transferring…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2025-10-07 Lili Xie , Yi Zhang , Ruihong Qiu , Jiajun Liu , Sen Wang

Domain adaptation is crucial in many real-world applications where the distribution of the training data differs from the distribution of the test data. Previous Deep Learning-based approaches to domain adaptation need to be trained jointly…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2017-02-08 Sebastian Ruder , Parsa Ghaffari , John G. Breslin

Unsupervised multi-domain adaptation plays a key role in transfer learning by leveraging acquired rich source information from multiple source domains to solve target task from an unlabeled target domain. However, multiple source domains…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-12-18 Keqiuyin Li , Jie Lu , Hua Zuo , Guangquan Zhang

Accelerating learning processes for complex tasks by leveraging previously learned tasks has been one of the most challenging problems in reinforcement learning, especially when the similarity between source and target tasks is low. This…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-05-27 Yunzhe Tao , Sahika Genc , Jonathan Chung , Tao Sun , Sunil Mallya

We present a scalable approach for Detecting Objects by transferring Common-sense Knowledge (DOCK) from source to target categories. In our setting, the training data for the source categories have bounding box annotations, while those for…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-08-01 Krishna Kumar Singh , Santosh Divvala , Ali Farhadi , Yong Jae Lee

Transferring high-level knowledge from a source task to a target task is an effective way to expedite reinforcement learning (RL). For example, propositional logic and first-order logic have been used as representations of such knowledge.…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2019-09-11 Zhe Xu , Ufuk Topcu

Transfer learning (TL) is a promising way to improve the sample efficiency of reinforcement learning. However, how to efficiently transfer knowledge across tasks with different state-action spaces is investigated at an early stage. Most…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-05-11 Yu Chen , Yingfeng Chen , Zhipeng Hu , Tianpei Yang , Changjie Fan , Yang Yu , Jianye Hao

We propose a simple, practical, and intuitive approach for domain adaptation in reinforcement learning. Our approach stems from the idea that the agent's experience in the source domain should look similar to its experience in the target…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-04-16 Benjamin Eysenbach , Swapnil Asawa , Shreyas Chaudhari , Sergey Levine , Ruslan Salakhutdinov

Agents trained with deep reinforcement learning algorithms are capable of performing highly complex tasks including locomotion in continuous environments. We investigate transferring the learning acquired in one task to a set of previously…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-03-06 Suzan Ece Ada , Emre Ugur , H. Levent Akin

Transfer learning leverages knowledge from other domains and has been successful in many applications. Transfer learning methods rely on the overall similarity of the source and target domains. However, in some cases, it is impossible to…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-06-30 Yifu Zhang , Hongru Li , Shimeng Shi , Youqi Li , Jiansong Zhang

Humans excel in analogical learning and knowledge transfer and, more importantly, possess a unique understanding of identifying appropriate sources of knowledge. From a model's perspective, this presents an interesting challenge. If models…

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Unsupervised domain adaption aims to learn a powerful classifier for the target domain given a labeled source data set and an unlabeled target data set. To alleviate the effect of `domain shift', the major challenge in domain adaptation,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-12-03 Yexun Zhang , Ya Zhang , Yanfeng Wang , Qi Tian

We are interested in how to design reinforcement learning agents that provably reduce the sample complexity for learning new tasks by transferring knowledge from previously-solved ones. The availability of solutions to related problems…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-07-03 Andrea Tirinzoni , Riccardo Poiani , Marcello Restelli

We have witnessed rapid evolution of deep neural network architecture design in the past years. These latest progresses greatly facilitate the developments in various areas such as computer vision and natural language processing. However,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2017-12-20 Yuntao Chen , Naiyan Wang , Zhaoxiang Zhang

Transfer learning improves the performance of the target task by leveraging the data of a specific source task: the closer the relationship between the source and the target tasks, the greater the performance improvement by transfer…

Neurons and Cognition · Quantitative Biology 2022-08-31 Youzhi Qu , Xinyao Jian , Wenxin Che , Penghui Du , Kai Fu , Quanying Liu

We present an information-theoretic framework to learn fixed-dimensional embeddings for tasks in reinforcement learning. We leverage the idea that two tasks are similar if observing an agent's performance on one task reduces our uncertainty…

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