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Recent studies on Click-Through Rate (CTR) prediction has reached new levels by modeling longer user behavior sequences. Among others, the two-stage methods stand out as the state-of-the-art (SOTA) solution for industrial applications. The…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2022-09-27 Qiwei Chen , Yue Xu , Changhua Pei , Shanshan Lv , Tao Zhuang , Junfeng Ge

Social navigation has been gaining attentions with the growth in machine intelligence. Since reinforcement learning can select an action in the prediction phase at a low computational cost, it has been formulated in a social navigation…

Robotics · Computer Science 2021-04-15 Takato Okudo , Seiji Yamada

Episodic self-imitation learning, a novel self-imitation algorithm with a trajectory selection module and an adaptive loss function, is proposed to speed up reinforcement learning. Compared to the original self-imitation learning algorithm,…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2020-11-30 Tianhong Dai , Hengyan Liu , Anil Anthony Bharath

Navigating and understanding complex and unknown environments autonomously demands more than just basic perception and movement from embodied agents. Truly effective exploration requires agents to possess higher-level cognitive abilities,…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2025-09-12 Abdel Hakim Drid , Vincenzo Suriani , Daniele Nardi , Abderrezzak Debilou

Task allocation is a key combinatorial optimization problem, crucial for modern applications such as multi-robot cooperation and resource scheduling. Decision makers must allocate entities to tasks reasonably across different scenarios.…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-07-02 Aicheng Gong , Kai Yang , Jiafei Lyu , Xiu Li

Autonomous multi-agent systems such as hospital robots and package delivery drones often operate in highly uncertain environments and are expected to achieve complex temporal task objectives while ensuring safety. While learning-based…

Multiagent Systems · Computer Science 2024-11-19 Sheryl Paul , Anand Balakrishnan , Xin Qin , Jyotirmoy V. Deshmukh

An approach of mobile multi-agent pursuit based on application of self-organizing feature map (SOFM) and along with that reinforcement learning based on agent group role membership function (AGRMF) model is proposed. This method promotes…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2020-06-30 Muhammad Zuhair Qadir , Songhao Piao , Haiyang Jiang , Mohammed El Habib Souidi

Long-term temporal credit assignment is an important challenge in deep reinforcement learning (RL). It refers to the ability of the agent to attribute actions to consequences that may occur after a long time interval. Existing…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-10-27 Tanmay Gangwani , Yuan Zhou , Jian Peng

Image-goal navigation steers an agent to a target location specified by an image in unseen environments. Existing methods primarily handle this task by learning an end-to-end navigation policy, which compares the similarities of target and…

Robotics · Computer Science 2026-04-21 Pengna Li , Kangyi Wu , Shaoqing Xu , Fang Li , Lin Zhao , Long Chen , Zhi-Xin Yang , Nanning Zheng

Recognition of surgical gesture is crucial for surgical skill assessment and efficient surgery training. Prior works on this task are based on either variant graphical models such as HMMs and CRFs, or deep learning models such as Recurrent…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-06-22 Daochang Liu , Tingting Jiang

Decision-making is challenging in robotics environments with continuous object-centric states, continuous actions, long horizons, and sparse feedback. Hierarchical approaches, such as task and motion planning (TAMP), address these…

Robotics · Computer Science 2022-10-14 Tom Silver , Ashay Athalye , Joshua B. Tenenbaum , Tomas Lozano-Perez , Leslie Pack Kaelbling

In this paper, we propose a reinforcement learning-based algorithm for trajectory optimization for constrained dynamical systems. This problem is motivated by the fact that for most robotic systems, the dynamics may not always be known.…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2020-03-05 Kei Ota , Devesh K. Jha , Tomoaki Oiki , Mamoru Miura , Takashi Nammoto , Daniel Nikovski , Toshisada Mariyama

Hierarchical Reinforcement Learning (HRL) agents often struggle with long-horizon visual planning due to their reliance on error-prone distance metrics. We propose Discrete Hierarchical Planning (DHP), a method that replaces continuous…

Robotics · Computer Science 2025-12-22 Shashank Sharma , Janina Hoffmann , Vinay Namboodiri

Navigating safely and efficiently in dense and heterogeneous traffic scenarios is challenging for autonomous vehicles (AVs) due to their inability to infer the behaviors or intentions of nearby drivers. In this work, we introduce a…

Multiagent Systems · Computer Science 2023-08-22 Xiyang Wu , Rohan Chandra , Tianrui Guan , Amrit Singh Bedi , Dinesh Manocha

Deep reinforcement learning methods traditionally struggle with tasks where environment rewards are particularly sparse. One successful method of guiding exploration in these domains is to imitate trajectories provided by a human…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2018-12-03 Yusuf Aytar , Tobias Pfaff , David Budden , Tom Le Paine , Ziyu Wang , Nando de Freitas

In this work, we propose a multi-stage training strategy for the development of deep learning algorithms applied to problems with multiscale features. Each stage of the pro-posed strategy shares an (almost) identical network structure and…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2020-09-25 Eric Chung , Wing Tat Leung , Sai-Mang Pun , Zecheng Zhang

The goal of person search is to localize and match query persons from scene images. For high efficiency, one-step methods have been developed to jointly handle the pedestrian detection and identification sub-tasks using a single network.…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-02-23 Chuchu Han , Zhedong Zheng , Changxin Gao , Nong Sang , Yi Yang

This paper offers a methodological contribution at the intersection of machine learning and operations research. Namely, we propose a methodology to quickly predict expected tactical descriptions of operational solutions (TDOSs). The…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-06-10 Eric Larsen , Sébastien Lachapelle , Yoshua Bengio , Emma Frejinger , Simon Lacoste-Julien , Andrea Lodi

Vision-Language Models (VLMs) have been increasingly integrated into object navigation tasks for their rich prior knowledge and strong reasoning abilities. However, applying VLMs to navigation poses two key challenges: effectively…

Robotics · Computer Science 2025-09-17 Haokun Zhu , Zongtai Li , Zhixuan Liu , Wenshan Wang , Ji Zhang , Jonathan Francis , Jean Oh

The aim of this work is to develop an approach that enables Unmanned Aerial System (UAS) to efficiently learn to navigate in large-scale urban environments and transfer their acquired expertise to novel environments. To achieve this, we…

Robotics · Computer Science 2025-03-21 Yuci Han , Charles Toth , Alper Yilmaz