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In recent years, Deep Learning has been successfully applied to multimodal learning problems, with the aim of learning useful joint representations in data fusion applications. When the available modalities consist of time series data such…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2017-04-12 Xitong Yang , Palghat Ramesh , Radha Chitta , Sriganesh Madhvanath , Edgar A. Bernal , Jiebo Luo

Reinforcement Learning (RL) agents are often unable to generalise well to environment variations in the state space that were not observed during training. This issue is especially problematic for image-based RL, where a change in just one…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-02-28 Mhairi Dunion , Trevor McInroe , Kevin Sebastian Luck , Josiah P. Hanna , Stefano V. Albrecht

This paper introduces TempSamp-R1, a new reinforcement fine-tuning framework designed to improve the effectiveness of adapting multimodal large language models (MLLMs) to video temporal grounding tasks. We reveal that existing reinforcement…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-09-26 Yunheng Li , Jing Cheng , Shaoyong Jia , Hangyi Kuang , Shaohui Jiao , Qibin Hou , Ming-Ming Cheng

This paper investigates the optimization of temporal windows in Financial Deep Reinforcement Learning (DRL) models using 2D Convolutional Neural Networks (CNNs). We introduce a novel approach to treating the temporal field as a…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-03-24 Sina Montazeri , Haseebullah Jumakhan , Amir Mirzaeinia

How much does a trained RL policy actually use its past observations? We propose \emph{Temporal Range}, a model-agnostic metric that treats first-order sensitivities of multiple vector outputs across a temporal window to the input sequence…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-12-09 Rodney Lafuente-Mercado , Daniela Rus , T. Konstantin Rusch

Sequential deep learning models such as RNN, causal CNN and attention mechanism do not readily consume continuous-time information. Discretizing the temporal data, as we show, causes inconsistency even for simple continuous-time processes.…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-03-30 Da Xu , Chuanwei Ruan , Evren Korpeoglu , Sushant Kumar , Kannan Achan

The World Wide Web thrives on intelligent services that rely on accurate time series classification, which has recently witnessed significant progress driven by advances in deep learning. However, existing studies face challenges in domain…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-01-16 Zhipeng Liu , Peibo Duan , Xuan Tang , Haodong Jing , Mingyang Geng , Yongsheng Huang , Jialu Xu , Bin Zhang , Binwu Wang

Enhancing the temporal understanding of Multimodal Large Language Models (MLLMs) is essential for advancing long-form video analysis, enabling tasks such as temporal localization, action detection, and time-sensitive question answering.…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-04-15 Tao Wu , Li Yang , Gen Zhan , Yabin Zhang , Yiting Liao , Junlin Li , Deliang Fu , Li Zhang , Limin Wang

We study policy evaluation problems in multi-task reinforcement learning (RL) under a low-rank representation setting. In this setting, we are given $N$ learning tasks where the corresponding value function of these tasks lie in an…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-03-05 Yitao Bai , Sihan Zeng , Justin Romberg , Thinh T. Doan

Domain shift poses a fundamental challenge in time series analysis, where models trained on source domain often fail dramatically when applied in target domain with different yet similar distributions. While current unsupervised domain…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-08-07 Rongyao Cai , Ming Jin , Qingsong Wen , Kexin Zhang

To obtain better value estimation in reinforcement learning, we propose a novel algorithm based on the double actor-critic framework with temporal difference error-driven regularization, abbreviated as TDDR. TDDR employs double actors, with…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-10-01 Haohui Chen , Zhiyong Chen , Aoxiang Liu , Wentuo Fang

In this paper, a new reinforcement learning (RL) method known as the method of temporal differential is introduced. Compared to the traditional temporal-difference learning method, it plays a crucial role in developing novel RL techniques…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-06-02 Tao Bian , Zhong-Ping Jiang

Functional magnetic resonance imaging produces high dimensional data, with a less then ideal number of labelled samples for brain decoding tasks (predicting brain states). In this study, we propose a new deep temporal convolutional neural…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2015-01-13 Orhan Firat , Emre Aksan , Ilke Oztekin , Fatos T. Yarman Vural

Many time-series classification problems involve developing metrics that are invariant to temporal misalignment. In human activity analysis, temporal misalignment arises due to various reasons including differing initial phase, sensor…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-06-17 Suhas Lohit , Qiao Wang , Pavan Turaga

Off-policy reinforcement learning has many applications including: learning from demonstration, learning multiple goal seeking policies in parallel, and representing predictive knowledge. Recently there has been an proliferation of new…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2016-04-01 Adam White , Martha White

Deep learning models have enjoyed great success for image related computer vision tasks like image classification and object detection. For video related tasks like human action recognition, however, the advancements are not as significant…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-09-12 Xiaolin Song , Cuiling Lan , Wenjun Zeng , Junliang Xing , Jingyu Yang , Xiaoyan Sun

Temporal Action Detection (TAD) is an essential and challenging topic in video understanding, aiming to localize the temporal segments containing human action instances and predict the action categories. The previous works greatly rely upon…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-09-21 Jiannan Wu , Peize Sun , Shoufa Chen , Jiewen Yang , Zihao Qi , Lan Ma , Ping Luo

Methods for unsupervised domain adaptation (UDA) help to improve the performance of deep neural networks on unseen domains without any labeled data. Especially in medical disciplines such as histopathology, this is crucial since large…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-02-03 Kevin Thandiackal , Luigi Piccinelli , Pushpak Pati , Orcun Goksel

Robot learning in high-dimensional control settings, such as humanoid locomotion, presents persistent challenges for reinforcement learning (RL) algorithms due to unstable dynamics, complex contact interactions, and sensitivity to…

Robotics · Computer Science 2025-05-21 Khang Nguyen , Khai Nguyen , An T. Le , Jan Peters , Manfred Huber , Ngo Anh Vien , Minh Nhat Vu

We study a class of reinforcement learning (RL) tasks where the objective of the agent is to accomplish temporally extended goals. In this setting, a common approach is to represent the tasks as deterministic finite automata (DFA) and…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2023-06-27 Yash Paliwal , Rajarshi Roy , Jean-Raphaël Gaglione , Nasim Baharisangari , Daniel Neider , Xiaoming Duan , Ufuk Topcu , Zhe Xu