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This paper investigates the accuracy of generative models and the impact of knowledge transfer on their generation precision. Specifically, we examine a generative model for a target task, fine-tuned using a pre-trained model from a source…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2025-06-03 Xinyu Tian , Xiaotong Shen

Graph Convolutional Networks (GCNs), particularly for large-scale graphs, are crucial across numerous domains. However, training distributed full-batch GCNs on large-scale graphs suffers from inefficient memory access patterns and high…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2025-05-27 Chen Zhuang , Lingqi Zhang , Du Wu , Peng Chen , Jiajun Huang , Xin Liu , Rio Yokota , Nikoli Dryden , Toshio Endo , Satoshi Matsuoka , Mohamed Wahib

Hierarchical reinforcement learning (HRL) learns to make decisions on multiple levels of temporal abstraction. A key challenge in HRL is that the low-level policy changes over time, making it difficult for the high-level policy to generate…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-05-29 Vivienne Huiling Wang , Tinghuai Wang , Joni Pajarinen

The ability to plan with temporal abstractions is central to intelligent decision-making. Rather than reasoning over primitive actions, we study agents that compose pre-trained policies as temporally extended actions, enabling solutions to…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-02-24 Jesse Farebrother , Matteo Pirotta , Andrea Tirinzoni , Marc G. Bellemare , Alessandro Lazaric , Ahmed Touati

Lifelong learning can be viewed as a continuous transfer learning procedure over consecutive tasks, where learning a given task depends on accumulated knowledge --- the so-called knowledge base. Most published work on lifelong learning…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2018-10-30 Changjian Shui , Ihsen Hedhli , Christian Gagné

Large pretrained diffusion models have demonstrated impressive generation capabilities and have been adapted to various downstream tasks. However, unlike Large Language Models (LLMs) that can learn multiple tasks in a single model based on…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-12-10 Ming Tao , Bing-Kun Bao , Yaowei Wang , Changsheng Xu

Learning and inference movement is a very challenging problem due to its high dimensionality and dependency to varied environments or tasks. In this paper, we propose an effective probabilistic method for learning and inference of basic…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2018-10-30 Mingxuan Jing , Xiaojian Ma , Fuchun Sun , Huaping Liu

Model-based reinforcement learning methods often use learning only for the purpose of estimating an approximate dynamics model, offloading the rest of the decision-making work to classical trajectory optimizers. While conceptually simple,…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-12-22 Michael Janner , Yilun Du , Joshua B. Tenenbaum , Sergey Levine

Computational Grids are a new trend in distributed computing systems. They allow the sharing of geographically distributed resources in an efficient way, extending the boundaries of what we perceive as distributed computing. Various…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2014-08-24 D. Thilagavathi , Antony Selvadoss Thanamani

Generative diffusion models, famous for their performance in image generation, are popular in various cross-domain applications. However, their use in the communication community has been mostly limited to auxiliary tasks like data modeling…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2025-03-11 Ruihuai Liang , Bo Yang , Zhiwen Yu , Bin Guo , Xuelin Cao , Mérouane Debbah , H. Vincent Poor , Chau Yuen

Diffusion-based planners have gained significant recent attention for their robustness and performance in long-horizon tasks. However, most existing planners rely on a fixed, pre-specified horizon during both training and inference. This…

Robotics · Computer Science 2025-09-16 Ruijia Liu , Ancheng Hou , Shaoyuan Li , Xiang Yin

The graph convolutional network (GCN) is a go-to solution for machine learning on graphs, but its training is notoriously difficult to scale both in terms of graph size and the number of model parameters. Although some work has explored…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-03-15 Cameron R. Wolfe , Jingkang Yang , Arindam Chowdhury , Chen Dun , Artun Bayer , Santiago Segarra , Anastasios Kyrillidis

Continual Learning models aim to learn a set of tasks under the constraint that the tasks arrive sequentially with no way to access data from previous tasks. The Online Continual Learning framework poses a further challenge where the tasks…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-12-24 Kevin Luong , Michael Thielscher

The rapid growth of graph data creates significant scalability challenges as most graph algorithms scale quadratically with size. To mitigate these issues, Graph Condensation (GC) methods have been proposed to learn a small graph from a…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-08-06 Shengbo Gong , Mohammad Hashemi , Juntong Ni , Carl Yang , Wei Jin

Generative models have fundamentally reshaped the landscape of decision-making, reframing the problem from pure scalar reward maximization to high-fidelity trajectory generation and distribution matching. This paradigm shift addresses…

Modern clustering approaches often trade interpretability for performance, particularly in deep learning-based methods. We present Generative Kernel Spectral Clustering (GenKSC), a novel model combining kernel spectral clustering with…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-04-25 David Winant , Sonny Achten , Johan A. K. Suykens

Temporal abstraction and efficient planning pose significant challenges in offline reinforcement learning, mainly when dealing with domains that involve temporally extended tasks and delayed sparse rewards. Existing methods typically plan…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-10-03 Wenhao Li

In complex missions such as search and rescue,robots must make intelligent decisions in unknown environments, relying on their ability to perceive and understand their surroundings. High-quality and real-time reconstruction enhances…

Robotics · Computer Science 2024-10-10 Zijun Xu , Rui Jin , Ke Wu , Yi Zhao , Zhiwei Zhang , Jieru Zhao , Fei Gao , Zhongxue Gan , Wenchao Ding

Long-horizon planning for robot manipulation is a challenging problem that requires reasoning about the effects of a sequence of actions on a physical 3D scene. While traditional task planning methods are shown to be effective for…

Robotics · Computer Science 2025-09-08 Kallol Saha , Amber Li , Angela Rodriguez-Izquierdo , Lifan Yu , Ben Eisner , Maxim Likhachev , David Held

Generative flow networks (GFlowNets) are a family of algorithms that learn a generative policy to sample discrete objects $x$ with non-negative reward $R(x)$. Learning objectives guarantee the GFlowNet samples $x$ from the target…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-05-15 Max W. Shen , Emmanuel Bengio , Ehsan Hajiramezanali , Andreas Loukas , Kyunghyun Cho , Tommaso Biancalani