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The feasibility of collecting a large amount of expert demonstrations has inspired growing research interests in learning-to-drive settings, where models learn by imitating the driving behaviour from experts. However, exclusively relying on…

Robotics · Computer Science 2022-12-20 Jonathan Francis , Bingqing Chen , Weiran Yao , Eric Nyberg , Jean Oh

Modern generative machine learning models demonstrate surprising ability to create realistic outputs far beyond their training data, such as photorealistic artwork, accurate protein structures, or conversational text. These successes…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-01-17 William Gilpin

Recent work suggests that large language models may implicitly learn world models. How should we assess this possibility? We formalize this question for the case where the underlying reality is governed by a deterministic finite automaton.…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-11-12 Keyon Vafa , Justin Y. Chen , Ashesh Rambachan , Jon Kleinberg , Sendhil Mullainathan

Generative methods (Gen-AI) are reviewed with a particular goal of solving tasks in machine learning and Bayesian inference. Generative models require one to simulate a large training dataset and to use deep neural networks to solve a…

Computation · Statistics 2025-05-20 Maria Nareklishvili , Nick Polson , Vadim Sokolov

We introduce the $\gamma$-model, a predictive model of environment dynamics with an infinite probabilistic horizon. Replacing standard single-step models with $\gamma$-models leads to generalizations of the procedures central to model-based…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-11-30 Michael Janner , Igor Mordatch , Sergey Levine

Molecular dynamics (MD) is a powerful technique for studying microscopic phenomena, but its computational cost has driven significant interest in the development of deep learning-based surrogate models. We introduce generative modeling of…

Biomolecules · Quantitative Biology 2024-09-27 Bowen Jing , Hannes Stärk , Tommi Jaakkola , Bonnie Berger

World models have recently re-emerged as a central paradigm for embodied intelligence, robotics, autonomous driving, and model-based reinforcement learning. However, current world model research is often dominated by three partially…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2026-05-27 Sen Cui , Jingheng Ma

Developing a single foundation model with the capability to excel across diverse tasks has been a long-standing objective in the field of artificial intelligence. As the wave of general-purpose foundation models sweeps across various…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2025-07-02 Zheli Zhou , Chenxu Zhu , Jianghao Lin , Bo Chen , Ruiming Tang , Weinan Zhang , Yong Yu

Deep generative models such as diffusion and flow matching are powerful machine learning tools capable of learning and sampling from high-dimensional distributions. They are particularly useful when the training data appears to be…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2026-04-30 Zachary Bogorad , Ibrahim Elsharkawy , Yonatan Kahn , Andrew J. Larkoski , Noam Levi

Multimodal learning is a framework for building models that make predictions based on different types of modalities. Important challenges in multimodal learning are the inference of shared representations from arbitrary modalities and…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-07-06 Masahiro Suzuki , Yutaka Matsuo

As generative models become ubiquitous, there is a critical need for fine-grained control over the generation process. Yet, while controlled generation methods from prompting to fine-tuning proliferate, a fundamental question remains…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2026-01-12 Emily Cheng , Carmen Amo Alonso , Federico Danieli , Arno Blaas , Luca Zappella , Pau Rodriguez , Xavier Suau

Generative modeling in machine learning aims to synthesize new data samples that are statistically similar to those observed during training. While conventional generative models such as GANs and diffusion models typically assume access to…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-02-17 Milad Abdollahzadeh , Guimeng Liu , Touba Malekzadeh , Christopher T. H. Teo , Keshigeyan Chandrasegaran , Ngai-Man Cheung

Generative artificial intelligence models learn probability distributions from data and produce novel samples that capture the salient properties of their training sets. Proteins are particularly attractive for such approaches given their…

Biomolecules · Quantitative Biology 2026-02-27 Filippo Stocco , Michele Garibbo , Noelia Ferruz

Growing interest in modelling complex systems from brains to societies to cities using networks has led to increased efforts to describe generative processes that explain those networks. Recent successes in machine learning have prompted…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2024-01-12 Govind Gandhi

Recent advances at the intersection of reinforcement learning (RL) and visual intelligence have enabled agents that not only perceive complex visual scenes but also reason, generate, and act within them. This survey offers a critical and…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-12-24 Weijia Wu , Chen Gao , Joya Chen , Kevin Qinghong Lin , Qingwei Meng , Yiming Zhang , Yuke Qiu , Hong Zhou , Mike Zheng Shou

Deep reinforcement learning has shown remarkable success in the past few years. Highly complex sequential decision making problems have been solved in tasks such as game playing and robotics. Unfortunately, the sample complexity of most…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-12-03 Aske Plaat , Walter Kosters , Mike Preuss

We present a data-efficient framework for solving visuomotor sequential decision-making problems which exploits the combination of reinforcement learning (RL) and latent variable generative models. Our framework trains deep visuomotor…

Robotics · Computer Science 2020-11-09 Ali Ghadirzadeh , Petra Poklukar , Ville Kyrki , Danica Kragic , Mårten Björkman

Beginning with text and images, generative AI has expanded to audio, video, computer code, and molecules. Yet, if generative AI is the answer, what is the question? We explore the foundations of generation as a distinct machine learning…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-12-12 Ambuj Tewari

Generative diffusion models showed high success in many fields with a powerful theoretical background. They convert the data distribution to noise and remove the noise back to obtain a similar distribution. Many existing reviews focused on…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-09-19 Melike Nur Yeğin , Mehmet Fatih Amasyalı

Research on probabilistic models of networks now spans a wide variety of fields, including physics, sociology, biology, statistics, and machine learning. These efforts have produced a diverse ecology of models and methods. Despite this…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2014-11-18 Abigail Z. Jacobs , Aaron Clauset