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It is a long-standing challenge to enable an intelligent agent to learn in one environment and generalize to an unseen environment without further data collection and finetuning. In this paper, we consider a zero shot generalization problem…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-03-16 Huazhe Xu , Boyuan Chen , Yang Gao , Trevor Darrell

We propose an optimal transport (OT) framework for generalized zero-shot learning (GZSL), seeking to distinguish samples for both seen and unseen classes, with the assist of auxiliary attributes. The discrepancy between features and…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-12-29 Wenlin Wang , Hongteng Xu , Guoyin Wang , Wenqi Wang , Lawrence Carin

Building an AI agent that can design on its own has been a goal since the 1980s. Recently, deep learning has shown the ability to learn from large-scale data, enabling significant advances in data-driven design. However, learning over prior…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-11-29 Ayush Raina , Jonathan Cagan , Christopher McComb

This article presents a digital twin (DT)-enhanced reinforcement learning (RL) framework aimed at optimizing performance and reliability in network resource management, since the traditional RL methods face several unified challenges when…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-06-18 Nan Cheng , Xiucheng Wang , Zan Li , Zhisheng Yin , Tom Luan , Xuemin Shen

We solve active target tracking, one of the essential tasks in autonomous systems, using a deep reinforcement learning (RL) approach. In this problem, an autonomous agent is tasked with acquiring information about targets of interests using…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-06-19 Heejin Jeong , Hamed Hassani , Manfred Morari , Daniel D. Lee , George J. Pappas

Zero-shot Composed Image Retrieval (ZS-CIR) aims to retrieve the target image based on a reference image and a text description without requiring in-distribution triplets for training. One prevalent approach follows the vision-language…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-03-10 Zining Chen , Zhicheng Zhao , Fei Su , Xiaoqin Zhang , Shijian Lu

Many real-world decisions are made under uncertainty by solving optimization problems using predicted quantities. This predict-then-optimize paradigm has motivated decision-focused learning, which trains models with awareness of how the…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-11-10 Paula Rodriguez-Diaz , Kirk Bansak Elisabeth Paulson

Zero-shot learning (ZSL) is to handle the prediction of those unseen classes that have no labeled training data. Recently, generative methods like Generative Adversarial Networks (GANs) are being widely investigated for ZSL due to their…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-04-08 Yuxia Geng , Jiaoyan Chen , Zhuo Chen , Zhiquan Ye , Zonggang Yuan , Yantao Jia , Huajun Chen

Humans are capable of abstracting various tasks as different combinations of multiple attributes. This perspective of compositionality is vital for human rapid learning and adaption since previous experiences from related tasks can be…

Reinforcement learning (RL) excels in various applications but struggles in dynamic environments where the underlying Markov decision process evolves. Continual reinforcement learning (CRL) enables RL agents to continually learn and adapt…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-12-23 Xue Yang , Michael Schukat , Junlin Lu , Patrick Mannion , Karl Mason , Enda Howley

Zero-shot coordination (ZSC) is a new cooperative multi-agent reinforcement learning (MARL) challenge that aims to train an ego agent to work with diverse, unseen partners during deployment. The significant difference between the…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2024-09-27 Xihuai Wang , Shao Zhang , Wenhao Zhang , Wentao Dong , Jingxiao Chen , Ying Wen , Weinan Zhang

The task of zero-shot learning (ZSL) requires correctly predicting the label of samples from classes which were unseen at training time. This is achieved by leveraging side information about class labels, such as label attributes or word…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-10-23 Colin Samplawski , Jannik Wolff , Tassilo Klein , Moin Nabi

The continuous-review (s,S) inventory model is a cornerstone of stochastic inventory theory, yet its analysis becomes analytically intractable when dealing with non-Markovian systems. In such systems, evaluating long-run performance…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-01-21 Eliran Sherzer , Yonit Barron

Zero-shot learning (ZSL) addresses the unseen class recognition problem by leveraging semantic information to transfer knowledge from seen classes to unseen classes. Generative models synthesize the unseen visual features and convert ZSL…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-07-21 Maunil R Vyas , Hemanth Venkateswara , Sethuraman Panchanathan

Reinforcement learning (RL) has become a foundational approach for enabling intelligent robotic behavior in dynamic and uncertain environments. This work presents an in-depth review of RL principles, advanced deep reinforcement learning…

Robotics · Computer Science 2026-03-17 Kumater Ter , Abolanle Adetifa , Daniel Udekwe

Reinforcement Learning (RL) or Deep Reinforcement Learning (DRL) is a powerful approach to solving Markov Decision Processes (MDPs) when the model of the environment is not known a priori. However, RL models are still faced with challenges…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-06-04 Kabirat Olayemi , Mien Van , Luke Maguire , Sean McLoone

Real economies can be modeled as a sequential imperfect-information game with many heterogeneous agents, such as consumers, firms, and governments. Dynamic general equilibrium (DGE) models are often used for macroeconomic analysis in this…

Computer Science and Game Theory · Computer Science 2022-02-25 Michael Curry , Alexander Trott , Soham Phade , Yu Bai , Stephan Zheng

Intent detection, a critical component in task-oriented dialogue (TOD) systems, faces significant challenges in adapting to the rapid influx of integrable tools with complex interrelationships. Existing approaches, such as zero-shot…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-04-22 Zihao Feng , Xiaoxue Wang , Ziwei Bai , Donghang Su , Bowen Wu , Qun Yu , Baoxun Wang

Join order selection is a sub-field of query optimization that aims to find the optimal join order for an SQL query with the minimum cost. The challenge lies in the exponentially growing search space as the number of tables increases,…

Databases · Computer Science 2024-12-16 Chang Liu , Amin Kamali , Verena Kantere , Calisto Zuzarte , Vincent Corvinelli

In recent years, the amalgamation of satellite communications and aerial platforms into space-air-ground integrated network (SAGINs) has emerged as an indispensable area of research for future communications due to the global coverage…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2024-01-03 Chong Huang , Gaojie Chen , Pei Xiao , Yue Xiao , Zhu Han , Jonathon A. Chambers