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Many real-world situations allow for the acquisition of additional relevant information when making decisions with limited or uncertain data. However, traditional RL approaches either require all features to be acquired beforehand (e.g. in…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-10-08 Yang Li , Junier Oliva

The adoption of pre-trained visual representations (PVRs), leveraging features from large-scale vision models, has become a popular paradigm for training visuomotor policies. However, these powerful representations can encode a broad range…

Industrial anomaly detection plays a crucial role in ensuring product quality control. Therefore, proposing an effective anomaly detection model is of great significance. While existing feature-reconstruction methods have demonstrated…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-03-25 Wei Luo , Haiming Yao , Wenyong Yu

The multi-agent pathfinding (MAPF) problem seeks collision-free paths for a team of agents from their current positions to their pre-set goals in a known environment, and is an essential problem found at the core of many logistics,…

Robotics · Computer Science 2023-10-13 Chengyang He , Tianze Yang , Tanishq Duhan , Yutong Wang , Guillaume Sartoretti

Despite recent advancements in deep learning, deep neural networks continue to suffer from performance degradation when applied to new data that differs from training data. Test-time adaptation (TTA) aims to address this challenge by…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-09-06 Sanghun Jung , Jungsoo Lee , Nanhee Kim , Amirreza Shaban , Byron Boots , Jaegul Choo

We propose a reinforcement learning based approach to tackle the cost-sensitive learning problem where each input feature has a specific cost. The acquisition process is handled through a stochastic policy which allows features to be…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2016-07-14 Gabriella Contardo , Ludovic Denoyer , Thierry Artières

Pre-trained generalist policies are rapidly gaining relevance in robot learning due to their promise of fast adaptation to novel, in-domain tasks. This adaptation often relies on collecting new demonstrations for a specific task of interest…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-06-24 Marco Bagatella , Jonas Hübotter , Georg Martius , Andreas Krause

Aggregating information from features across different layers is an essential operation for dense prediction models. Despite its limited expressiveness, feature concatenation dominates the choice of aggregation operations. In this paper, we…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-01-20 Yung-Hsu Yang , Thomas E. Huang , Min Sun , Samuel Rota Bulò , Peter Kontschieder , Fisher Yu

Feature selection helps reduce data acquisition costs in ML, but the standard approach is to train models with static feature subsets. Here, we consider the dynamic feature selection (DFS) problem where a model sequentially queries features…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-06-09 Ian Covert , Wei Qiu , Mingyu Lu , Nayoon Kim , Nathan White , Su-In Lee

In real-world scenarios, different features have different acquisition costs at test-time which necessitates cost-aware methods to optimize the cost and performance trade-off. This paper introduces a novel and scalable approach for…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2018-12-10 Mohammad Kachuee , Sajad Darabi , Babak Moatamed , Majid Sarrafzadeh

This paper introduces a novel approach to active feature acquisition for classification, which is the task of sequentially selecting the most informative subset of features to achieve optimal prediction performance during testing while…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-06-27 Ali Mirzaei , Vahid Pourahmadi , Hamid Sheikhzadeh , Alireza Abdollahpourrostam

Current model-based reinforcement learning methods struggle when operating from complex visual scenes due to their inability to prioritize task-relevant features. To mitigate this problem, we propose learning Task Informed Abstractions…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-07-01 Xiang Fu , Ge Yang , Pulkit Agrawal , Tommi Jaakkola

Assumption-based Argumentation (ABA) is advocated as a unifying formalism for various forms of non-monotonic reasoning, including logic programming. It allows capturing defeasible knowledge, subject to argumentative debate. While, in much…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2024-11-11 Emanuele De Angelis , Maurizio Proietti , Francesca Toni

Automated feature engineering (AFE) enables AI systems to autonomously construct high-utility representations from raw tabular data. However, existing AFE methods rely on statistical heuristics, yielding brittle features that fail under…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2026-02-19 Arun Vignesh Malarkkan , Wangyang Ying , Yanjie Fu

By using unsupervised domain adaptation (UDA), knowledge can be transferred from a label-rich source domain to a target domain that contains relevant information but lacks labels. Many existing UDA algorithms suffer from directly using raw…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-03-22 Le Luo , Bingrong Xu , Qingyong Zhang , Cheng Lian , Jie Luo

Feature attribution is a fundamental task in both machine learning and data analysis, which involves determining the contribution of individual features or variables to a model's output. This process helps identify the most important…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-10-26 Jinfeng Zhong , Elsa Negre

Feature acquisition algorithms address the problem of acquiring informative features while balancing the costs of acquisition to improve the learning performances of ML models. Previous approaches have focused on calculating the expected…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-12-23 Sungsoo Lim , Diego Klabjan , Mark Shapiro

With the increasing prevalence of smartphones and websites, Image Aesthetic Assessment (IAA) has become increasingly crucial. While the significance of attributes in IAA is widely recognized, many attribute-based methods lack consideration…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-11-22 Weijie Li , Yitian Wan , Xingjiao Wu , Junjie Xu , Cheng Jin , Liang He

In many real-world learning scenarios, features are only acquirable at a cost constrained under a budget. In this paper, we propose a novel approach for cost-sensitive feature acquisition at the prediction-time. The suggested method…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2019-02-19 Mohammad Kachuee , Orpaz Goldstein , Kimmo Karkkainen , Sajad Darabi , Majid Sarrafzadeh

In many real-world machine learning problems, feature values are not readily available. To make predictions, some of the missing features have to be acquired, which can incur a cost in money, computational time, or human time, depending on…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2019-12-20 Kimmo Kärkkäinen , Mohammad Kachuee , Orpaz Goldstein , Majid Sarrafzadeh