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With AlphaGo defeats top human players, reinforcement learning(RL) algorithms have gradually become the code-base of building stronger artificial intelligence(AI). The RL algorithm design firstly needs to adapt to the specific environment,…

The AlphaZero algorithm has achieved superhuman performance in two-player, deterministic, zero-sum games where perfect information of the game state is available. This success has been demonstrated in Chess, Shogi, and Go where learning…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2019-12-10 Nick Petosa , Tucker Balch

AlphaZero has been very successful in many games. Unfortunately, it still consumes a huge amount of computing resources, the majority of which is spent in self-play. Hyperparameter tuning exacerbates the training cost since each…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2020-03-16 Ti-Rong Wu , Ting-Han Wei , I-Chen Wu

Large-scale model training has been a playing ground for a limited few requiring complex model refactoring and access to prohibitively expensive GPU clusters. ZeRO-Offload changes the large model training landscape by making large model…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2021-01-19 Jie Ren , Samyam Rajbhandari , Reza Yazdani Aminabadi , Olatunji Ruwase , Shuangyan Yang , Minjia Zhang , Dong Li , Yuxiong He

Recently, the seminal algorithms AlphaGo and AlphaZero have started a new era in game learning and deep reinforcement learning. While the achievements of AlphaGo and AlphaZero - playing Go and other complex games at super human level - are…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-09-27 Johannes Scheiermann , Wolfgang Konen

We develop a method of adapting the AlphaZero model to General Game Playing (GGP) that focuses on faster model generation and requires less knowledge to be extracted from the game rules. The dataset generation uses MCTS playing instead of…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2023-12-22 Michał Maras , Michał Kępa , Jakub Kowalski , Marek Szykuła

Fairness in artificial intelligence and machine learning (AI/ML) models is becoming critically important, especially as decisions made by these systems impact diverse groups. In education, a vital sector for all countries, the widespread…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-10-10 Nga Pham , Minh Kha Do , Tran Vu Dai , Pham Ngoc Hung , Anh Nguyen-Duc

Due to the increasing complexity seen in both workloads and hardware resources in state-of-the-art embedded systems, developing efficient real-time schedulers and the corresponding schedulability tests becomes rather challenging. Although…

Operating Systems · Computer Science 2020-07-13 Zelun Kong , Yaswanth Yadlapalli , Soroush Bateni , Junfeng Guo , Cong Liu

In this paper, we propose SmartFreeze, a framework that effectively reduces the memory footprint by conducting the training in a progressive manner. Instead of updating the full model in each training round, SmartFreeze divides the shared…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2024-08-20 Wu Yebo , Li Li , Tian Chunlin , Chang Tao , Lin Chi , Wang Cong , Xu Cheng-Zhong

Federated adversarial training can effectively complement adversarial robustness into the privacy-preserving federated learning systems. However, the high demand for memory capacity and computing power makes large-scale federated…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-04-27 Minxue Tang , Jianyi Zhang , Mingyuan Ma , Louis DiValentin , Aolin Ding , Amin Hassanzadeh , Hai Li , Yiran Chen

This paper introduces Goku, a state-of-the-art family of joint image-and-video generation models leveraging rectified flow Transformers to achieve industry-leading performance. We detail the foundational elements enabling high-quality…

Recent years have witnessed the great breakthrough of deep reinforcement learning (DRL) in various perfect and imperfect information games. Among these games, DouDizhu, a popular card game in China, is very challenging due to the imperfect…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2022-04-07 Youpeng Zhao , Jian Zhao , Xunhan Hu , Wengang Zhou , Houqiang Li

In 2019, Google DeepMind released MuZero, a model-based reinforcement learning method that achieves strong results in perfect-information games by combining learned dynamics models with Monte Carlo Tree Search (MCTS). However, comparatively…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2026-03-31 Adam Haile

Zero-shot text learning enables text classifiers to handle unseen classes efficiently, alleviating the need for task-specific training data. A simple approach often relies on comparing embeddings of query (text) to those of potential…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2024-06-28 Tassallah Abdullahi , Ritambhara Singh , Carsten Eickhoff

Evolutionary Reinforcement Learning (EvoRL) has emerged as a promising approach to overcoming the limitations of traditional reinforcement learning (RL) by integrating the Evolutionary Computation (EC) paradigm with RL. However, the…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2025-07-22 Bowen Zheng , Ran Cheng , Kay Chen Tan

Since DeepMind's AlphaZero, Zero learning quickly became the state-of-the-art method for many board games. It can be improved using a fully convolutional structure (no fully connected layer). Using such an architecture plus global pooling,…

With the rapid development of embodied intelligence, robotics education faces a dual challenge: high computational barriers and cumbersome environment configuration. Existing centralized cloud simulation solutions incur substantial GPU and…

Robotics · Computer Science 2026-04-21 Kaixuan Chen , Linqi Ye

In recent years, large language models have achieved great success due to their unprecedented size. However, training these models poses a challenge for most researchers as it requires a substantial number of GPUs. To reduce GPU memory…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2023-06-01 Haichen Huang , Jiarui Fang , Hongxin Liu , Shenggui Li , Yang You

MuZero, a model-based reinforcement learning algorithm that uses a value equivalent dynamics model, achieved state-of-the-art performance in Chess, Shogi and the game of Go. In contrast to standard forward dynamics models that predict a…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-03-04 Joery A. de Vries , Ken S. Voskuil , Thomas M. Moerland , Aske Plaat

Reinforcement learning with verifiable rewards (RLVR) has shown promise in enhancing the reasoning capabilities of large language models by learning directly from outcome-based rewards. Recent RLVR works that operate under the zero setting…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-10-17 Andrew Zhao , Yiran Wu , Yang Yue , Tong Wu , Quentin Xu , Yang Yue , Matthieu Lin , Shenzhi Wang , Qingyun Wu , Zilong Zheng , Gao Huang