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The success of Reinforcement Learning (RL) heavily relies on the ability to learn robust representations from the observations of the environment. In most cases, the representations learned purely by the reinforcement learning loss can…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-02-12 Somjit Nath , Rushiv Arora , Samira Ebrahimi Kahou

In meta reinforcement learning (meta RL), an agent seeks a Bayes-optimal policy -- the optimal policy when facing an unknown task that is sampled from some known task distribution. Previous approaches tackled this problem by inferring a…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-06-06 Era Choshen , Aviv Tamar

Identifying when to give treatments to patients and how to select among multiple treatments over time are important medical problems with a few existing solutions. In this paper, we introduce the Counterfactual Recurrent Network (CRN), a…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-02-12 Ioana Bica , Ahmed M. Alaa , James Jordon , Mihaela van der Schaar

Recently, contrastive learning has been shown to be effective in improving pre-trained language models (PLM) to derive high-quality sentence representations. It aims to pull close positive examples to enhance the alignment while push apart…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2022-05-03 Kun Zhou , Beichen Zhang , Wayne Xin Zhao , Ji-Rong Wen

Semi-supervised action recognition aims to improve spatio-temporal reasoning ability with a few labeled data in conjunction with a large amount of unlabeled data. Albeit recent advancements, existing powerful methods are still prone to…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-04-26 Yu Wang , Sanping Zhou , Kun Xia , Le Wang

Given a query composed of a reference image and a relative caption, the Composed Image Retrieval goal is to retrieve images visually similar to the reference one that integrates the modifications expressed by the caption. Given that recent…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-08-23 Alberto Baldrati , Marco Bertini , Tiberio Uricchio , Alberto del Bimbo

Human skeleton point clouds are commonly used to automatically classify and predict the behaviour of others. In this paper, we use a contrastive self-supervised learning method, SimCLR, to learn representations that capture the semantics of…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-11-11 Nico Lingg , Miguel Sarabia , Luca Zappella , Barry-John Theobald

Recently, there have been numerous attempts to enhance the sample efficiency of off-policy reinforcement learning (RL) agents when interacting with the environment, including architecture improvements and new algorithms. Despite these…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-02-13 Jiafei Lyu , Jingwen Yang , Zhongjian Qiao , Runze Liu , Zeyuan Liu , Deheng Ye , Zongqing Lu , Xiu Li

We propose a self-supervised learning approach for videos that learns representations of both the RGB frames and the accompanying audio without human supervision. In contrast to images that capture the static scene appearance, videos also…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-02-16 Simon Jenni , Alexander Black , John Collomosse

Real-scene image super-resolution aims to restore real-world low-resolution images into their high-quality versions. A typical RealSR framework usually includes the optimization of multiple criteria which are designed for different image…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-07-27 Yukai Shi , Hao Li , Sen Zhang , Zhijing Yang , Xiao Wang

In this paper, we present a spatio-temporal tendency reasoning (STR) network for recovering human body pose and shape from videos. Previous approaches have focused on how to extend 3D human datasets and temporal-based learning to promote…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-10-11 Boyang Zhang , SuPing Wu , Hu Cao , Kehua Ma , Pan Li , Lei Lin

Image super-resolution (SR) research has witnessed impressive progress thanks to the advance of convolutional neural networks (CNNs) in recent years. However, most existing SR methods are non-blind and assume that degradation has a single…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-07-05 Jiahui Zhang , Shijian Lu , Fangneng Zhan , Yingchen Yu

Temporal sentence grounding is a challenging task that aims to localize the moment spans relevant to a language description. Although recent DETR-based models have achieved notable progress by leveraging multiple learnable moment queries,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-12-20 Xiaolong Sun , Liushuai Shi , Le Wang , Sanping Zhou , Kun Xia , Yabing Wang , Gang Hua

While visual reasoning for simple analogies has received significant attention, compositional visual relations (CVR) remain relatively unexplored due to their greater complexity. To solve CVR tasks, we propose Predictive Reasoning with…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-03-03 Chengtai Li , Yuting He , Jianfeng Ren , Ruibin Bai , Yitian Zhao , Heng Yu , Xudong Jiang

Reinforcement Learning (RL) has achieved tremendous development in recent years, but still faces significant obstacles in addressing complex real-life problems due to the issues of poor system generalization, low sample efficiency as well…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2025-02-25 Chao Yu , Shicheng Ye , Hankz Hankui Zhuo

Contrastive learning is a model pre-training technique by first creating similar views of the original data, and then encouraging the data and its corresponding views to be close in the embedding space. Contrastive learning has witnessed…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-05-01 Wei Cui , Rasa Hosseinzadeh , Junwei Ma , Tongzi Wu , Yi Sui , Keyvan Golestan

The remarkable progress in deep learning (DL) showcases outstanding results in various computer vision tasks. However, adaptation to real-time variations in data distributions remains an important challenge. Test-Time Training (TTT) was…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-11-28 Marco Colussi , Sergio Mascetti , Jose Dolz , Christian Desrosiers

Contrastive learning is a popular form of self-supervised learning that encourages augmentations (views) of the same input to have more similar representations compared to augmentations of different inputs. Recent attempts to theoretically…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-03-01 Nikunj Saunshi , Jordan Ash , Surbhi Goel , Dipendra Misra , Cyril Zhang , Sanjeev Arora , Sham Kakade , Akshay Krishnamurthy

In text classification tasks, models often rely on spurious correlations for predictions, incorrectly associating irrelevant features with the target labels. This issue limits the robustness and generalization of models, especially when…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-02-04 Yuqing Zhou , Ziwei Zhu

We present an accurate and interpretable method for answer extraction in machine reading comprehension that is reminiscent of case-based reasoning (CBR) from classical AI. Our method (CBR-MRC) builds upon the hypothesis that contextualized…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-11-27 Dung Thai , Dhruv Agarwal , Mudit Chaudhary , Wenlong Zhao , Rajarshi Das , Manzil Zaheer , Jay-Yoon Lee , Hannaneh Hajishirzi , Andrew McCallum