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Reinforcement learning is a learning paradigm for solving sequential decision-making problems. Recent years have witnessed remarkable progress in reinforcement learning upon the fast development of deep neural networks. Along with the…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-07-06 Zhuangdi Zhu , Kaixiang Lin , Anil K. Jain , Jiayu Zhou

Through this project, we researched on transfer learning methods and their applications on real world problems. By implementing and modifying various methods in transfer learning for our problem, we obtained an insight in the advantages and…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2017-07-11 Hailin Chen , Shengping Cui , Sebastian Li

In this paper, we explore the transferability of SSL by addressing two central questions: (i) what is the representation transferability of SSL, and (ii) how can we effectively model this transferability? Transferability is defined as the…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-11-19 Huijie Guo , Jingyao Wang , Peizheng Guo , Xingchen Shen , Changwen Zheng , Wenwen Qiang

This paper introduces Fast Linearized Adaptive Policy (FLAP), a new meta-reinforcement learning (meta-RL) method that is able to extrapolate well to out-of-distribution tasks without the need to reuse data from training, and adapt almost…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-01-14 Matt Peng , Banghua Zhu , Jiantao Jiao

In lifelong learning, data are used to improve performance not only on the present task, but also on past and future (unencountered) tasks. While typical transfer learning algorithms can improve performance on future tasks, their…

Active learning is an important machine learning problem in reducing the human labeling effort. Current active learning strategies are designed from human knowledge, and are applied on each dataset in an immutable manner. In other words,…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2016-08-03 Hong-Min Chu , Hsuan-Tien Lin

Multi-relational semantic similarity datasets define the semantic relations between two short texts in multiple ways, e.g., similarity, relatedness, and so on. Yet, all the systems to date designed to capture such relations target one…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2020-09-17 Li Zhang , Steven R. Wilson , Rada Mihalcea

Machine-learning models in high-energy physics are often trained on simulated data, where fully simulated samples are computationally expensive while fast simulation provides large statistics at reduced realism. In this work, we…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-05-11 Matthias Schott , Lucie Flek

Generalizing skill policies to novel conditions remains a key challenge in robot learning. Imitation learning methods, while data-efficient, are largely confined to the training region and consistently fail on input data outside it, leading…

Robotics · Computer Science 2026-03-10 Serdar Bahar , Fatih Dogangun , Matteo Saveriano , Yukie Nagai , Emre Ugur

Meta-learning stands for 'learning to learn' such that generalization to new tasks is achieved. Among these methods, Gradient-based meta-learning algorithms are a specific sub-class that excel at quick adaptation to new tasks with limited…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-10-20 Jathushan Rajasegaran , Salman Khan , Munawar Hayat , Fahad Shahbaz Khan , Mubarak Shah

The ability to effectively reuse prior knowledge is a key requirement when building general and flexible Reinforcement Learning (RL) agents. Skill reuse is one of the most common approaches, but current methods have considerable…

Transfer learning is an umbrella term for machine learning approaches that leverage knowledge gained from solving one problem (the source domain) to improve speed, efficiency, and data requirements in solving a different but related problem…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-12-03 Alireza Nadali , Bingzhuo Zhong , Ashutosh Trivedi , Majid Zamani

Transfer learning borrows knowledge from a source domain to facilitate learning in a target domain. Two primary issues to be addressed in transfer learning are what and how to transfer. For a pair of domains, adopting different transfer…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2017-08-21 Ying Wei , Yu Zhang , Qiang Yang

Sample efficiency and risk-awareness are central to the development of practical reinforcement learning (RL) for complex decision-making. The former can be addressed by transfer learning and the latter by optimizing some utility function of…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-06-01 Michael Gimelfarb , André Barreto , Scott Sanner , Chi-Guhn Lee

Imitation learning methods have demonstrated considerable success in teaching autonomous systems complex tasks through expert demonstrations. However, a limitation of these methods is their lack of interpretability, particularly in…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-07-21 Wenliang Liu , Danyang Li , Erfan Aasi , Daniela Rus , Roberto Tron , Calin Belta

Despite significant progress, deep reinforcement learning (RL) suffers from data-inefficiency and limited generalization. Recent efforts apply meta-learning to learn a meta-learner from a set of RL tasks such that a novel but related task…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2019-06-05 Lin Lan , Zhenguo Li , Xiaohong Guan , Pinghui Wang

Intermediate task transfer learning can greatly improve model performance. If, for example, one has little training data for emotion detection, first fine-tuning a language model on a sentiment classification dataset may improve performance…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-10-22 David Schulte , Felix Hamborg , Alan Akbik

This paper presents a novel online transfer learning approach in state-based potential games (TL-SbPGs) for distributed self-optimization in manufacturing systems. The approach targets practical industrial scenarios where knowledge sharing…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-01-01 Steve Yuwono , Dorothea Schwung , Andreas Schwung

In most cases, the lack of parallel corpora makes it impossible to directly train supervised models for the text style transfer task. In this paper, we explore training algorithms that instead optimize reward functions that explicitly…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2021-05-14 Yixin Liu , Graham Neubig , John Wieting

Temporal-Difference (TD) learning is a standard and very successful reinforcement learning approach, at the core of both algorithms that learn the value of a given policy, as well as algorithms which learn how to improve policies.…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-06-17 Mingde Zhao