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Lane-changing decisions, which are crucial for autonomous vehicle path planning, face practical challenges due to rule-based constraints and limited data. Deep reinforcement learning has become a major research focus due to its advantages…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2025-10-27 Xiaojun Bi , Mingjie He , Yiwen Sun

Value-function-based methods have long played an important role in reinforcement learning. However, finding the best next action given a value function of arbitrary complexity is nontrivial when the action space is too large for…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-10-26 Arthur Delarue , Ross Anderson , Christian Tjandraatmadja

With the advent of ride-sharing services, there is a huge increase in the number of people who rely on them for various needs. Most of the earlier approaches tackling this issue required handcrafted functions for estimating travel times and…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-06-22 Oscar de Lima , Hansal Shah , Ting-Sheng Chu , Brian Fogelson

Centralized training with decentralized execution has become an important paradigm in multi-agent learning. Though practical, current methods rely on restrictive assumptions to decompose the centralized value function across agents for…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-06-11 Yaodong Yang , Ying Wen , Liheng Chen , Jun Wang , Kun Shao , David Mguni , Weinan Zhang

Deep reinforcement learning (RL) has been applied extensively to solve complex decision-making problems. In many real-world scenarios, tasks often have several conflicting objectives and may require multiple agents to cooperate, which are…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2026-03-03 Tianmeng Hu , Biao Luo , Chunhua Yang , Tingwen Huang

With the advent of the big data era, the data quality problem is becoming more critical. Among many factors, data with missing values is one primary issue, and thus developing effective imputation models is a key topic in the research…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-08-04 Xinyao Liu , Shengdong Du , Tianrui Li , Fei Teng , Yan Yang

In recent years, $Q$-learning has become indispensable for model-free reinforcement learning (MFRL). However, it suffers from well-known problems such as under- and overestimation bias of the value, which may adversely affect the policy…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-02-09 Youngmin Oh , Jinwoo Shin , Eunho Yang , Sung Ju Hwang

We propose a new perspective on representation learning in reinforcement learning based on geometric properties of the space of value functions. We leverage this perspective to provide formal evidence regarding the usefulness of value…

In this paper we focus on efficient implementations of the Multivariate Decomposition Method (MDM) for approximating integrals of $\infty$-variate functions. Such $\infty$-variate integrals occur for example as expectations in uncertainty…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2018-08-06 Alexander D. Gilbert , Frances Y. Kuo , Dirk Nuyens , Grzegorz W. Wasilkowski

In the health domain, decisions are often based on different data modalities. Thus, when creating prediction models, multimodal fusion approaches that can extract and combine relevant features from different data modalities, can be highly…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2024-02-20 Mafalda Malafaia , Thalea Schlender , Peter A. N. Bosman , Tanja Alderliesten

Multi-agent reinforcement learning (MARL) provides a promising paradigm for coordinating multi-agent systems (MAS). However, most existing methods rely on restrictive assumptions, such as a fixed number of agents and fully synchronous…

Multiagent Systems · Computer Science 2026-02-17 Yexin Li , Jinjin Guo , Haoyu Zhang , Yuhan Zhao , Yiwen Sun , Zihao Jiao

Data heterogeneity is one of the major challenges in federated learning (FL), which results in substantial client variance and slow convergence. In this study, we propose a novel solution: decomposing a convolutional filter in FL into a…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-03-12 Wei Chen , Qiang Qiu

Vision-language models (VLMs) like CLIP have showcased a remarkable ability to extract transferable features for downstream tasks. Nonetheless, the training process of these models is usually based on a coarse-grained contrastive loss…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-09-13 Ali Abdollah , Amirmohammad Izadi , Armin Saghafian , Reza Vahidimajd , Mohammad Mozafari , Amirreza Mirzaei , Mohammadmahdi Samiei , Mahdieh Soleymani Baghshah

Rapid adaptation in complex control systems remains a central challenge in reinforcement learning. We introduce a framework in which policy and value functions share a low-dimensional coefficient vector - a goal embedding - that captures…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-03-19 Cristiano Capone , Luca Falorsi , Andrea Ciardiello , Luca Manneschi

Cooperative problems under continuous control have always been the focus of multi-agent reinforcement learning. Existing algorithms suffer from the problem of uneven learning degree with the increase of the number of agents. In this paper,…

Multiagent Systems · Computer Science 2021-07-05 Kai Liu , Yuyang Zhao , Gang Wang , Bei Peng

Extended Reality (XR) services are set to transform applications over 5th and 6th generation wireless networks, delivering immersive experiences. Concurrently, Artificial Intelligence (AI) advancements have expanded their role in wireless…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2024-11-22 Pedro Enrique Iturria-Rivera , Raimundas Gaigalas , Medhat Elsayed , Majid Bavand , Yigit Ozcan , Melike Erol-Kantarci

Vertical Federated Learning (VFL) enables collaborative learning by integrating disjoint feature subsets from multiple clients/parties. However, VFL typically faces two key challenges: i) the requirement for perfectly aligned data samples…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-08-11 Qinghua Yao , Xiangrui Xu , Zhize Li

Federated Learning (FL) enables collaborative model training across multiple clients while preserving data privacy. Traditional FL methods often use a global model to fit all clients, assuming that clients' data are independent and…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-12-01 Dario Fenoglio , Mohan Li , Pietro Barbiero , Nicholas D. Lane , Marc Langheinrich , Martin Gjoreski

Effective multi-agent collaboration is imperative for solving complex, distributed problems. In this context, two key challenges must be addressed: first, autonomously identifying optimal objectives for collective outcomes; second, aligning…

Multiagent Systems · Computer Science 2024-05-01 Chi-Hui Lin , Joewie J. Koh , Alessandro Roncone , Lijun Chen

In the field of reinforcement learning (RL), agents are often tasked with solving a variety of problems differing only in their reward functions. In order to quickly obtain solutions to unseen problems with new reward functions, a popular…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-06-16 Jacob Adamczyk , Volodymyr Makarenko , Argenis Arriojas , Stas Tiomkin , Rahul V. Kulkarni