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Skilled robot task learning is best implemented by predictive action policies due to the inherent latency of sensorimotor processes. However, training such predictive policies is challenging as it involves finding a trajectory of motor…

Robotics · Computer Science 2017-03-03 Ali Ghadirzadeh , Atsuto Maki , Danica Kragic , Mårten Björkman

Normalization techniques have become a basic component in modern convolutional neural networks (ConvNets). In particular, many recent works demonstrate that promoting the orthogonality of the weights helps train deep models and improve…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-01-05 Sheng Liu , Xiao Li , Yuexiang Zhai , Chong You , Zhihui Zhu , Carlos Fernandez-Granda , Qing Qu

The approximation and convergence properties of implicit neural representations (INRs) are known to be highly sensitive to parameter initialization strategies. While several data-driven initialization methods demonstrate significant…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-04-01 Kushal Vyas , Alper Kayabasi , Daniel Kim , Vishwanath Saragadam , Ashok Veeraraghavan , Guha Balakrishnan

Deep neural networks have achieved remarkable results across many language processing tasks, however these methods are highly sensitive to noise and adversarial attacks. We present a regularization based method for limiting network…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2016-09-21 Yitong Li , Trevor Cohn , Timothy Baldwin

We introduce PPOPT - Proximal Policy Optimization using Pretraining, a novel, model-free deep-reinforcement-learning algorithm that leverages pretraining to achieve high training efficiency and stability on very small training samples in…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-11-25 Ruoxing Yang

Policy-gradient methods are widely used in reinforcement learning, yet training often becomes unstable or slows down as learning progresses. We study this phenomenon through the noise-to-signal ratio (NSR) of a policy-gradient estimator,…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2026-02-10 Haoyu Han , Heng Yang

We propose a mask pretraining method for Graph Neural Networks (GNNs) to improve their performance on fitting potential energy surfaces, particularly in water systems. GNNs are pretrained by recovering spatial information related to…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-06-21 Zehua Zhang , Zijie Li , Amir Barati Farimani

While traditional statistical signal processing model-based methods can derive the optimal estimators relying on specific statistical assumptions, current learning-based methods further promote the performance upper bound via deep neural…

Sound · Computer Science 2022-03-17 Andong Li , Chengshi Zheng , Ziyang Zhang , Xiaodong Li

Deep neural networks have shown impressive performance in supervised learning, enabled by their ability to fit well to the provided training data. However, their performance is largely dependent on the quality of the training data and often…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-11-11 Abhishek Kumar , Ehsan Amid

While diffusion models have achieved great success in generating continuous signals such as images and audio, it remains elusive for diffusion models in learning discrete sequence data like natural languages. Although recent advances…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-05-02 Jiasheng Ye , Zaixiang Zheng , Yu Bao , Lihua Qian , Mingxuan Wang

In recent years, deep learning models have become the standard for agricultural computer vision. Such models are typically fine-tuned to agricultural tasks using model weights that were originally fit to more general, non-agricultural…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-08-05 Amogh Joshi , Dario Guevara , Mason Earles

Denoising diffusion probabilistic models have been recently proposed to generate high-quality samples by estimating the gradient of the data density. The framework defines the prior noise as a standard Gaussian distribution, whereas the…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2022-02-22 Sang-gil Lee , Heeseung Kim , Chaehun Shin , Xu Tan , Chang Liu , Qi Meng , Tao Qin , Wei Chen , Sungroh Yoon , Tie-Yan Liu

Supervised speech enhancement methods have been very successful. However, in practical scenarios, there is a lack of clean speech, and self-supervised learning-based (SSL) speech enhancement methods that offer comparable enhancement…

Sound · Computer Science 2026-02-03 Rajalaxmi Rajagopalan , Ritwik Giri , Zhiqiang Tang , Kyu Han

Deep neural network models owe their representational power to the high number of learnable parameters. It is often infeasible to run these largely parametrized deep models in limited resource environments, like mobile phones. Network…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-07-27 Ufuk Can Biçici , Cem Keskin , Lale Akarun

Most uses of machine learning today involve training a model from scratch for a particular task, or sometimes starting with a model pretrained on a related task and then fine-tuning on a downstream task. Both approaches offer limited…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-05-26 Andrea Gesmundo , Jeff Dean

Eliminating the negative effect of non-stationary environmental noise is a long-standing research topic for automatic speech recognition that stills remains an important challenge. Data-driven supervised approaches, including ones based on…

Imaging is a standard example of an inverse problem, where the task of reconstructing a ground truth from a noisy measurement is ill-posed. Recent state-of-the-art approaches for imaging use deep learning, spearheaded by unrolled and…

Robustness of deep neural networks to input noise remains a critical challenge, as naive noise injection often degrades accuracy on clean (uncorrupted) data. We propose a novel training framework that addresses this trade-off through two…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2026-01-06 Hai-Vy Nguyen , Fabrice Gamboa , Sixin Zhang , Reda Chhaibi , Serge Gratton , Thierry Giaccone

Deep neural networks have demonstrated remarkable performance in various vision tasks, but their success heavily depends on the quality of the training data. Noisy labels are a critical issue in medical datasets and can significantly…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-12-03 Yeonguk Yu , Minhwan Ko , Sungho Shin , Kangmin Kim , Kyoobin Lee

Data augmentation is conventionally used to inject robustness in Speaker Verification systems. Several recently organized challenges focus on handling novel acoustic environments. Deep learning based speech enhancement is a modern solution…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-04-29 Saurabh Kataria , Phani Sankar Nidadavolu , Jesús Villalba , Najim Dehak