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In recent years, deep learning methods have been extensively developed for inverse imaging problems (IIPs), encompassing supervised, self-supervised, and generative approaches. Most of these methods require large amounts of labeled or…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-12-04 Ismail Alkhouri , Evan Bell , Avrajit Ghosh , Shijun Liang , Rongrong Wang , Saiprasad Ravishankar

Pretrained models are ubiquitous in the current deep learning landscape, offering strong results on a broad range of tasks. Recent works have shown that models differing in various design choices exhibit categorically diverse generalization…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-10-28 Siddharth Jain , Shyamgopal Karthik , Vineet Gandhi

We study the problem of sample efficient reinforcement learning, where prior data such as demonstrations are provided for initialization in lieu of a dense reward signal. A natural approach is to incorporate an imitation learning objective,…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-06-10 Perry Dong , Alec M. Lessing , Annie S. Chen , Chelsea Finn

With the rapid progress of large language models (LLMs), reliably evaluating the capabilities of pre-trained LLMs has become increasingly important. The challenge is that base pre-trained models are optimized for next-token prediction and…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2026-05-28 Shaobo Wang , Guo Chen , Ziyue Wang , Zhengyang Tang , Qingyang Liu , Xingzhang Ren , Dayiheng Liu , Linfeng Zhang

Adapting pretrained large language models (LLMs) to code domains via supervised fine-tuning (FT) has been commonly used for code generation. However, we identify a previously underappreciated failure mode, the memorization barrier, where…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-10-21 Changsheng Wang , Xin Chen , Sijia Liu , Ke Ding

This paper studies the potential of distilling knowledge from pre-trained models, especially Masked Autoencoders. Our approach is simple: in addition to optimizing the pixel reconstruction loss on masked inputs, we minimize the distance…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-11-11 Yutong Bai , Zeyu Wang , Junfei Xiao , Chen Wei , Huiyu Wang , Alan Yuille , Yuyin Zhou , Cihang Xie

In the last decade, exponential data growth supplied machine learning-based algorithms' capacity and enabled their usage in daily-life activities. Additionally, such an improvement is partially explained due to the advent of deep learning…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-12-01 Mateus Roder , Jurandy Almeida , Gustavo H. de Rosa , Leandro A. Passos , André L. D. Rossi , João P. Papa

Supervised deep convolutional neural networks (DCNNs) are currently one of the best computational models that can explain how the primate ventral visual stream solves object recognition. However, embodied cognition has not been considered…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-06-21 Maytus Piriyajitakonkij , Sirawaj Itthipuripat , Theerawit Wilaiprasitporn , Nat Dilokthanakul

Learning with hidden variables is a central challenge in probabilistic graphical models that has important implications for many real-life problems. The classical approach is using the Expectation Maximization (EM) algorithm. This…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2012-12-12 Gal Elidan , Nir Friedman

Standard imitation learning can fail when the expert demonstrators have different sensory inputs than the imitating agent. This is because partial observability gives rise to hidden confounders in the causal graph. In previous work, to work…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-08-27 Risto Vuorio , Pim de Haan , Johann Brehmer , Hanno Ackermann , Daniel Dijkman , Taco Cohen

Imitation Learning from observation describes policy learning in a similar way to human learning. An agent's policy is trained by observing an expert performing a task. While many state-only imitation learning approaches are based on…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-10-02 Damian Boborzi , Christoph-Nikolas Straehle , Jens S. Buchner , Lars Mikelsons

Knowledge editing methods for large language models are commonly evaluated using predefined benchmarks that assess edited facts together with a limited set of related or neighboring knowledge. While effective, such evaluations remain…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2026-05-12 Shuainan Liu , Xuanang Chen , Ben He , Le Sun

This article introduces an imitation learning method for learning maximum entropy policies that comply with constraints demonstrated by expert trajectories executing a task. The formulation of the method takes advantage of results…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-07-10 George Papadopoulos , George A. Vouros

The past year has witnessed a rapid development of masked image modeling (MIM). MIM is mostly built upon the vision transformers, which suggests that self-supervised visual representations can be done by masking input image parts while…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-03-29 Yunjie Tian , Lingxi Xie , Jiemin Fang , Mengnan Shi , Junran Peng , Xiaopeng Zhang , Jianbin Jiao , Qi Tian , Qixiang Ye

We investigate solving discrete optimisation problems using the estimation of distribution (EDA) approach via a novel combination of deep belief networks(DBN) and inductive logic programming (ILP).While DBNs are used to learn the structure…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2017-01-01 Sarmimala Saikia , Lovekesh Vig , Ashwin Srinivasan , Gautam Shroff , Puneet Agarwal , Richa Rawat

Imitation learning (IL) aims to learn a policy from expert demonstrations and has been applied to various applications. By learning from the expert policy, IL methods do not require environmental interactions or reward signals. However,…

Robotics · Computer Science 2025-10-17 Shang-Fu Chen , Co Yong , Shao-Hua Sun

Programming robots to perform complex tasks is often difficult and time consuming, requiring expert knowledge and skills in robot software and sometimes hardware. Imitation learning is a method for training robots to perform tasks by…

Robotics · Computer Science 2026-03-30 John Bateman , Andy M. Tyrrell , Jihong Zhu

Imitation learning seeks to learn an expert policy from sampled demonstrations. However, in the real world, it is often difficult to find a perfect expert and avoiding dangerous behaviors becomes relevant for safety reasons. We present the…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2019-09-26 David Venuto , Leonard Boussioux , Junhao Wang , Rola Dali , Jhelum Chakravorty , Yoshua Bengio , Doina Precup

While imitation learning methods have seen a resurgent interest for robotic manipulation, the well-known problem of compounding errors continues to afflict behavioral cloning (BC). Waypoints can help address this problem by reducing the…

Robotics · Computer Science 2023-07-27 Lucy Xiaoyang Shi , Archit Sharma , Tony Z. Zhao , Chelsea Finn

Despite its great success, deep learning severely suffers from robustness; that is, deep neural networks are very vulnerable to adversarial attacks, even the simplest ones. Inspired by recent advances in brain science, we propose the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-03-07 Kaiyuan Liu , Xingyu Li , Yurui Lai , Ge Zhang , Hang Su , Jiachen Wang , Chunxu Guo , Jisong Guan , Yi Zhou