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We study zero-shot generalization in reinforcement learning-optimizing a policy on a set of training tasks to perform well on a similar but unseen test task. To mitigate overfitting, previous work explored different notions of invariance to…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-01-17 Ev Zisselman , Itai Lavie , Daniel Soudry , Aviv Tamar

Converging Zero Trust (ZT) with learning techniques can solve various operational and security challenges in Distributed Computing Continuum Systems (DCCS). Implementing centralized ZT architecture is seen as unsuitable for the computing…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2023-12-27 Ilir Murturi , Praveen Kumar Donta , Victor Casamayor Pujol , Andrea Morichetta , Schahram Dustdar

Attribute-based Zero-Shot Learning (ZSL) has revolutionized the ability of models to recognize new classes not seen during training. However, with the advancement of large-scale models, the expectations have risen. Beyond merely achieving…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-05-14 Dubing Chen , Chenyi Jiang , Haofeng Zhang

A key limitation preventing the wider adoption of autonomous agents trained via deep reinforcement learning (RL) is their limited ability to generalise to new environments, even when these share similar characteristics with environments…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-12-12 Samuel Garcin , James Doran , Shangmin Guo , Christopher G. Lucas , Stefano V. Albrecht

Learning to classify unseen class samples at test time is popularly referred to as zero-shot learning (ZSL). If test samples can be from training (seen) as well as unseen classes, it is a more challenging problem due to the existence of…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2019-09-11 Vinay Kumar Verma , Dhanajit Brahma , Piyush Rai

Learning from rewards (i.e., reinforcement learning or RL) and learning to imitate a teacher (i.e., teacher-student learning) are two established approaches for solving sequential decision-making problems. To combine the benefits of these…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-02-21 Idan Shenfeld , Zhang-Wei Hong , Aviv Tamar , Pulkit Agrawal

Deep reinforcement learning has been applied to solve a variety of control problems in isolation. However, the learned latent representations cannot be optimally reused for other analogous tasks and/or control systems without additional…

Robotics · Computer Science 2020-12-25 Ashish Malik

Autonomous visual navigation is an essential element in robot autonomy. Reinforcement learning (RL) offers a promising policy training paradigm. However existing RL methods suffer from high sample complexity, poor sim-to-real transfer, and…

Robotics · Computer Science 2025-07-31 Qianzhong Chen , Jiankai Sun , Naixiang Gao , JunEn Low , Timothy Chen , Mac Schwager

Building generally capable agents is a grand challenge for deep reinforcement learning (RL). To approach this challenge practically, we outline two key desiderata: 1) to facilitate generalization, exploration should be task agnostic; 2) to…

Emerging data-driven approaches, such as deep reinforcement learning (DRL), aim at on-the-field learning of powertrain control policies that optimize fuel economy and other performance metrics. Indeed, they have shown great potential in…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-04-30 Lindsey Kerbel , Beshah Ayalew , Andrej Ivanco

This paper introduces a novel approach, Decision Theory-guided Deep Reinforcement Learning (DT-guided DRL), to address the inherent cold start problem in DRL. By integrating decision theory principles, DT-guided DRL enhances agents' initial…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-02-12 Zelin Wan , Jin-Hee Cho , Mu Zhu , Ahmed H. Anwar , Charles Kamhoua , Munindar P. Singh

Efficient planning of activities is essential for modern industrial assembly lines to uphold manufacturing standards, prevent project constraint violations, and achieve cost-effective operations. While exact solutions to such challenges can…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2025-07-23 Ali Mohamed Ali , Luca Tirel , Hashim A. Hashim

Energy management systems (EMS) are becoming increasingly important in order to utilize the continuously growing curtailed renewable energy. Promising energy storage systems (ESS), such as batteries and green hydrogen should be employed to…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-12-13 Dongju Kang , Doeun Kang , Sumin Hwangbo , Haider Niaz , Won Bo Lee , J. Jay Liu , Jonggeol Na

Reinforcement Learning (RL) and Deep Reinforcement Learning (DRL) have advanced rapidly in recent years and have been successfully applied to e-learning environments like intelligent tutoring systems (ITSs). Despite great success, the…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-02-25 Md Mirajul Islam , Xi Yang , Adittya Soukarjya Saha , Rajesh Debnath , Min Chi

Evolutionary algorithms (EAs) have shown promise in solving sequential decision problems (SDPs) by simplifying them to static optimization problems and searching for the optimal policy parameters in a zeroth-order way. While these methods…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-01-14 Yuheng Lei , Yao Lyu , Guojian Zhan , Tao Zhang , Jiangtao Li , Jianyu Chen , Shengbo Eben Li , Sifa Zheng

Zero-shot action recognition can recognize samples of unseen classes that are unavailable in training by exploring common latent semantic representation in samples. However, most methods neglected the connotative relation and extensional…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-05-26 Bin Sun , Dehui Kong , Shaofan Wang , Jinghua Li , Baocai Yin , Xiaonan Luo

Zero-shot detection (ZSD) is a challenging task where we aim to recognize and localize objects simultaneously, even when our model has not been trained with visual samples of a few target ("unseen") classes. Recently, methods employing…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-12-13 Sandipan Sarma , Sushil Kumar , Arijit Sur

Deep reinforcement learning (DRL) is a booming area of artificial intelligence. Many practical applications of DRL naturally involve more than one collaborative learners, making it important to study DRL in a multi-agent context. Previous…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2019-10-22 Gang Chen

Graphical user interface (GUI)-based mobile agents automate digital tasks on mobile devices by interpreting natural-language instructions and interacting with the screen. While recent methods apply reinforcement learning (RL) to train…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-03-10 Li Gu , Zihuan Jiang , Zhixiang Chi , Huan Liu , Ziqiang Wang , Yuanhao Yu , Glen Berseth , Yang Wang

Zero-shot learning (ZSL) aims to recognize unseen objects (test classes) given some other seen objects (training classes), by sharing information of attributes between different objects. Attributes are artificially annotated for objects and…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-10-29 Xiaofeng Xu , Ivor W. Tsang , Chuancai Liu