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Diffusion learning is a framework that endows edge devices with advanced intelligence. By processing and analyzing data locally and allowing each agent to communicate with its immediate neighbors, diffusion effectively protects the privacy…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-05-19 Elsa Rizk , Kun Yuan , Ali H. Sayed

Diffusion models achieve great success in generating diverse and high-fidelity images, yet their widespread application, especially in real-time scenarios, is hampered by their inherently slow generation speed. The slow generation stems…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-08-19 Shengkun Tang , Yaqing Wang , Caiwen Ding , Yi Liang , Yao Li , Dongkuan Xu

Recent advances in offline Reinforcement Learning (RL) have proven that effective policy learning can benefit from imposing conservative constraints on pre-collected datasets. However, such static datasets often exhibit distribution bias,…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-05-15 Yunpeng Qing , Yixiao Chi , Shuo Chen , Shunyu Liu , Kexuan Zhou , Sixu Lin , Litao Liu , Changqing Zou

Generative diffusion priors have recently achieved state-of-the-art performance in natural image super-resolution, demonstrating a powerful capability to synthesize photorealistic details. However, their direct application to remote sensing…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-04-16 Enzhuo Zhang , Sijie Zhao , Dilxat Muhtar , Zhenshi Li , Xueliang Zhang , Pengfeng Xiao

Agent-Based Models (ABMs) are powerful tools for studying emergent properties in complex systems. In ABMs, agent behaviors are governed by local interactions and stochastic rules. However, these rules are, in general, non-differentiable,…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2025-11-27 Francesco Cozzi , Marco Pangallo , Alan Perotti , André Panisson , Corrado Monti

We propose MADP, a novel diffusion-model-based approach for collaboration in decentralized robot swarms. MADP leverages diffusion models to generate samples from complex and high-dimensional action distributions that capture the…

Robotics · Computer Science 2026-05-07 Frederic Vatnsdal , Romina Garcia Camargo , Saurav Agarwal , Alejandro Ribeiro

Multi-Agent reinforcement learning has received lot of attention in recent years and have applications in many different areas. Existing methods involving Centralized Training and Decentralized execution, attempts to train the agents…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-09-15 Satheesh K. Perepu , Kaushik Dey

We present PoseDiff, a conditional diffusion model that unifies robot state estimation and control within a single framework. At its core, PoseDiff maps raw visual observations into structured robot states-such as 3D keypoints or joint…

Robotics · Computer Science 2025-11-03 Haozhuo Zhang , Michele Caprio , Jing Shao , Qiang Zhang , Jian Tang , Shanghang Zhang , Wei Pan

The agent-environment co-design paradigm jointly optimises agent policies and environment configurations in search of improved system performance. With application domains ranging from warehouse logistics to windfarm management, co-design…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-11-06 Hao Xiang Li , Michael Amir , Amanda Prorok

Generative models, particularly diffusion models, have made significant success in data synthesis across various modalities, including images, videos, and 3D assets. However, current diffusion models are computationally intensive, often…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-12-10 Yuanzhi Zhu , Hanshu Yan , Huan Yang , Kai Zhang , Junnan Li

For the past few years, deep generative models have increasingly been used in biological research for a variety of tasks. Recently, they have proven to be valuable for uncovering subtle cell phenotypic differences that are not directly…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2026-01-28 Anis Bourou , Thomas Boyer , Kévin Daupin , Véronique Dubreuil , Aurélie De Thonel , Valérie Mezger , Auguste Genovesio

Learning from previously collected datasets of expert data offers the promise of acquiring robotic policies without unsafe and costly online explorations. However, a major challenge is a distributional shift between the states in the…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-07-19 Alfredo Reichlin , Giovanni Luca Marchetti , Hang Yin , Ali Ghadirzadeh , Danica Kragic

Learning continually and online from a continuous stream of data is challenging, especially for a reinforcement learning agent with sequential data. When the environment only provides observations giving partial information about the state…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-01-03 Amir Samani , Richard S. Sutton

With the recent success of world-model agents, which extend the core idea of model-based reinforcement learning by learning a differentiable model for sample-efficient control across diverse tasks, active inference (AIF) offers a…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-05-27 Yavar Taheri Yeganeh , Mohsen Jafari , Andrea Matta

Diffusion models have demonstrated strong potential for robotic trajectory planning. However, generating coherent trajectories from high-level instructions remains challenging, especially for long-range composition tasks requiring multiple…

Robotics · Computer Science 2024-03-29 Zhixuan Liang , Yao Mu , Hengbo Ma , Masayoshi Tomizuka , Mingyu Ding , Ping Luo

Multi-agent path finding (MAPF) is an essential component of many large-scale, real-world robot deployments, from aerial swarms to warehouse automation. However, despite the community's continued efforts, most state-of-the-art MAPF planners…

In wireless communication systems, efficient and adaptive resource allocation plays a crucial role in enhancing overall Quality of Service (QoS). Compared to the conventional Model-Free Reinforcement Learning (MFRL) scheme, Model-Based RL…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2025-12-02 Kechen Meng , Sinuo Zhang , Rongpeng Li , Xiangming Meng , Yansha Deng , Chan Wang , Ming Lei , Zhifeng Zhao

Although Reinforcement Learning (RL) agents are effective in well-defined environments, they often struggle to generalize their learned policies to dynamic settings due to their reliance on trial-and-error interactions. Recent work has…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-08-26 Zhihao Dou , Dongfei Cui , Jun Yan , Weida Wang , Benteng Chen , Haoming Wang , Zeke Xie , Shufei Zhang

In many, if not every realistic sequential decision-making task, the decision-making agent is not able to model the full complexity of the world. The environment is often much larger and more complex than the agent, a setting also known as…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-05-09 Ruo Yu Tao , Adam White , Marlos C. Machado

Prototype-based meta-learning has emerged as a powerful technique for addressing few-shot learning challenges. However, estimating a deterministic prototype using a simple average function from a limited number of examples remains a fragile…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-11-08 Yingjun Du , Zehao Xiao , Shengcai Liao , Cees Snoek