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Unlike their conventional use as estimators of probability density functions in reinforcement learning (RL), this paper introduces a novel function-approximation role for Gaussian mixture models (GMMs) as direct surrogates for Q-function…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-12-23 Minh Vu , Konstantinos Slavakis

This paper introduces a structured and interpretable online policy-iteration framework for reinforcement learning (RL), built around the novel class of sparse Gaussian mixture model Q-functions (S-GMM-QFs). Extending earlier work that…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-02-17 Minh Vu , Konstantinos Slavakis

This work presents a novel algorithm that integrates a data-efficient function approximator with reinforcement learning in continuous state spaces. An online and incremental algorithm capable of learning from a single pass through data,…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-11-03 Rafael Pinto

We propose an Gaussian Mixture Model (GMM) learning algorithm, based on our previous work of GMM expansion idea. The new algorithm brings more robustness and simplicity than classic Expectation Maximization (EM) algorithm. It also improves…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-09-07 Weiguo Lu , Xuan Wu , Deng Ding , Gangnan Yuan

Gaussian Mixture Models are a powerful tool in Data Science and Statistics that are mainly used for clustering and density approximation. The task of estimating the model parameters is in practice often solved by the Expectation…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2022-08-25 Lena Sembach , Jan Pablo Burgard , Volker H. Schulz

We present Gaussian Mixture Replay (GMR), a rehearsal-based approach for continual learning (CL) based on Gaussian Mixture Models (GMM). CL approaches are intended to tackle the problem of catastrophic forgetting (CF), which occurs for Deep…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-04-20 Benedikt Pfülb , Alexander Gepperth

Generalized linear mixed-effects models (GLMMs) are widely used to analyze grouped and hierarchical data. In a GLMM, each response is assumed to follow an exponential-family distribution where the natural parameter is given by a linear…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2026-04-14 Yuli Slavutsky , Sebastian Salazar , David M. Blei

Multimodal content is crucial for click-through rate (CTR) prediction. However, directly incorporating continuous embeddings from pre-trained models into CTR models yields suboptimal results due to misaligned optimization objectives and…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2026-02-16 Ziye Tong , Jiahao Liu , Weimin Zhang , Hongji Ruan , Derick Tang , Zhanpeng Zeng , Qinsong Zeng , Peng Zhang , Tun Lu , Ning Gu

We present an approach for continual learning (CL) that is based on fully probabilistic (or generative) models of machine learning. In contrast to, e.g., GANs that are "generative" in the sense that they can generate samples, fully…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-04-20 Benedikt Pfülb , Alexander Gepperth , Benedikt Bagus

One of the key challenges that Reinforcement Learning (RL) faces is its limited capability to adapt to a change of data distribution caused by uncertainties. This challenge arises especially in RL systems using deep neural networks as…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-06-17 Amornyos Horprasert , Esa Apriaskar , Xingyu Liu , Lanlan Su , Lyudmila S. Mihaylova

In recent years, meta-reinforcement learning (meta-RL) algorithm has been proposed to improve sample efficiency in the field of decision-making and control, enabling agents to learn new knowledge from a small number of samples. However,…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-01-14 Chenyang Qi , Huiping Li , Panfeng Huang

The learning of Gaussian Mixture Models (also referred to simply as GMMs) plays an important role in machine learning. Known for their expressiveness and interpretability, Gaussian mixture models have a wide range of applications, from…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-07-14 Ruichong Zhang

This paper investigates Gaussian copula mixture models (GCMM), which are an extension of Gaussian mixture models (GMM) that incorporate copula concepts. The paper presents the mathematical definition of GCMM and explores the properties of…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-05-25 Ke Wan , Alain Kornhauser

This paper aims at the algorithmic/theoretical core of reinforcement learning (RL) by introducing the novel class of proximal Bellman mappings. These mappings are defined in reproducing kernel Hilbert spaces (RKHSs), to benefit from the…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-09-15 Yuki Akiyama , Konstantinos Slavakis

Unsupervised learning has been widely used in many real-world applications. One of the simplest and most important unsupervised learning models is the Gaussian mixture model (GMM). In this work, we study the multi-task learning problem on…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2025-12-29 Ye Tian , Haolei Weng , Lucy Xia , Yang Feng

We develop the use of mutual information (MI), a well-established metric in information theory, to interpret the inner workings of deep learning models. To accurately estimate MI from a finite number of samples, we present GMM-MI…

Data Analysis, Statistics and Probability · Physics 2023-04-12 Davide Piras , Hiranya V. Peiris , Andrew Pontzen , Luisa Lucie-Smith , Ningyuan Guo , Brian Nord

In this work, we use real-world data in order to evaluate and validate a machine learning (ML)-based algorithm for physical layer functionalities. Specifically, we apply a recently introduced Gaussian mixture model (GMM)-based algorithm in…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2022-07-29 Nurettin Turan , Benedikt Fesl , Moritz Grundei , Michael Koller , Wolfgang Utschick

Programming a robot manipulator should be as intuitive as possible. To achieve that, the paradigm of teaching motion skills by providing few demonstrations has become widely popular in recent years. Probabilistic versions thereof take into…

Robotics · Computer Science 2023-12-07 Julian Richter , João Oliveira , Christian Scheurer , Jochen Steil , Niels Dehio

Value function learning plays a central role in many state-of-the-art reinforcement-learning algorithms. Many popular algorithms like Q-learning do not optimize any objective function, but are fixed-point iterations of some variant of…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-01-10 Yihao Feng , Lihong Li , Qiang Liu

Mixture modelling using elliptical distributions promises enhanced robustness, flexibility and stability over the widely employed Gaussian mixture model (GMM). However, existing studies based on the elliptical mixture model (EMM) are…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-09-30 Shengxi Li , Zeyang Yu , Danilo Mandic
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