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While deep reinforcement learning (RL) has been demonstrated effective in solving complex control tasks, sample efficiency remains a key challenge due to the large amounts of data required for remarkable performance. Existing research…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-10-25 Mingxuan Ye , Yufei Kuang , Jie Wang , Rui Yang , Wengang Zhou , Houqiang Li , Feng Wu

Successor-style representations have many advantages for reinforcement learning: for example, they can help an agent generalize from past experience to new goals, and they have been proposed as explanations of behavioral and neural data…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-03-17 Kianté Brantley , Soroush Mehri , Geoffrey J. Gordon

This paper studies the transfer reinforcement learning (RL) problem where multiple RL problems have different reward functions but share the same underlying transition dynamics. In this setting, the Q-function of each RL problem (task) can…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-09-24 Shuai Zhang , Heshan Devaka Fernando , Miao Liu , Keerthiram Murugesan , Songtao Lu , Pin-Yu Chen , Tianyi Chen , Meng Wang

Here we propose using the successor representation (SR) to accelerate learning in a constructive knowledge system based on general value functions (GVFs). In real-world settings like robotics for unstructured and dynamic environments, it is…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2018-03-28 Craig Sherstan , Marlos C. Machado , Patrick M. Pilarski

Latent representations are critical for the performance and robustness of machine learning models, as they encode the essential features of data in a compact and informative manner. However, in vision tasks, these representations are often…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-10-03 Bruno Corcuera , Carlos Eiras-Franco , Brais Cancela

Most reinforcement learning (RL) methods only focus on learning a single task from scratch and are not able to use prior knowledge to learn other tasks more effectively. Context-based meta RL techniques are recently proposed as a possible…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-08-01 Xu Han , Feng Wu

Methods that combine local and global features have recently shown excellent performance on multiple challenging deep image retrieval benchmarks, but their use of local features raises at least two issues. First, these local features simply…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-02-01 Philippe Weinzaepfel , Thomas Lucas , Diane Larlus , Yannis Kalantidis

Deep Reinforcement Learning (RL) has demonstrated success in solving complex sequential decision-making problems by integrating neural networks with the RL framework. However, training deep RL models poses several challenges, such as the…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-09-30 Sooraj Sathish , Keshav Goyal , Raghuram Bharadwaj Diddigi

We study how representation learning can accelerate reinforcement learning from rich observations, such as images, without relying either on domain knowledge or pixel-reconstruction. Our goal is to learn representations that both provide…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-04-08 Amy Zhang , Rowan McAllister , Roberto Calandra , Yarin Gal , Sergey Levine

Slow feature analysis (SFA) is an unsupervised method for extracting representations from time series data. The successor representation (SR) is a method for representing states in a Markov decision process (MDP) based on transition…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-03-13 Eddie Seabrook , Laurenz Wiskott

Zero-shot learning (ZSL) is a challenging task aiming at recognizing novel classes without any training instances. In this paper we present a simple but high-performance ZSL approach by generating pseudo feature representations (GPFR).…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-09-11 Jiang Lu , Jin Li , Ziang Yan , Changshui Zhang

A key question in reinforcement learning is how an intelligent agent can generalize knowledge across different inputs. By generalizing across different inputs, information learned for one input can be immediately reused for improving…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-10-06 Lucas Lehnert , Michael L. Littman

A major challenge in reinforcement learning (RL) is the design of agents that are able to generalize across tasks that share common dynamics. A viable solution is meta-reinforcement learning, which identifies common structures among past…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2019-10-24 Sephora Madjiheurem , Laura Toni

The latest deep learning approaches perform better than the state-of-the-art signal processing approaches in various image restoration tasks. However, if an image contains many patterns and structures, the performance of these CNNs is still…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2017-08-01 Woong Bae , Jaejun Yoo , Jong Chul Ye

Efficiently reconstructing complex and intricate surfaces at scale is a long-standing goal in machine perception. To address this problem we introduce Deep Local Shapes (DeepLS), a deep shape representation that enables encoding and…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-08-25 Rohan Chabra , Jan Eric Lenssen , Eddy Ilg , Tanner Schmidt , Julian Straub , Steven Lovegrove , Richard Newcombe

Hand-held light field (LF) cameras often exhibit low spatial resolution due to the inherent trade-off between spatial and angular dimensions. Existing supervised learning-based LF spatial super-resolution (SR) methods, which rely on…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-12-09 Jianxin Lei , Dongze Wu , Chengcai Xu , Hongcheng Gu , Guangquan Zhou , Junhui Hou , Ping Zhou

In many real-world problems, collecting a large number of labeled samples is infeasible. Few-shot learning (FSL) is the dominant approach to address this issue, where the objective is to quickly adapt to novel categories in presence of a…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-04-20 Mamshad Nayeem Rizve , Salman Khan , Fahad Shahbaz Khan , Mubarak Shah

Continual learning has been developed using standard supervised contrastive loss from the perspective of feature learning. Due to the data imbalance during the training, there are still challenges in learning better representations. In this…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-06-06 Bilan Gao , YoungBin Kim

Deep learning based approaches has achieved great performance in single image super-resolution (SISR). However, recent advances in efficient super-resolution focus on reducing the number of parameters and FLOPs, and they aggregate more…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-05-17 Fangyuan Kong , Mingxi Li , Songwei Liu , Ding Liu , Jingwen He , Yang Bai , Fangmin Chen , Lean Fu

Data-efficient reinforcement learning (RL) in continuous state-action spaces using very high-dimensional observations remains a key challenge in developing fully autonomous systems. We consider a particularly important instance of this…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2015-10-12 John-Alexander M. Assael , Niklas Wahlström , Thomas B. Schön , Marc Peter Deisenroth