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Many real-world sequential decision making problems are partially observable by nature, and the environment model is typically unknown. Consequently, there is great need for reinforcement learning methods that can tackle such problems given…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2018-06-08 Maximilian Igl , Luisa Zintgraf , Tuan Anh Le , Frank Wood , Shimon Whiteson

When particles move at a constant speed and have the tendency to align their directions of motion, ordered large scale movement can emerge despite significant levels of noise. Many variants of this model of self-propelled particles have…

Biological Physics · Physics 2012-12-11 Matthias Meschede , Oskar Hallatschek

We consider self-organization and memory formation in a mesoscopic model of an amorphous solid subject to a random shear strain protocol confined to a strain range $\pm \varepsilon_{\rm max}$. We develop proper read-out protocols to show…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2025-06-03 Muhittin Mungan , Dheeraj Kumar , Sylvain Patinet , Damien Vandembroucq

We consider the patterns of collective motion emerging when many aligning, self-propelling units move in two dimensions while interacting through a repulsive potential and are also subject to delays and random perturbations. In this…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2023-11-14 Fatemeh Pakpour , Tamás Vicsek

We present an experimental and theoretical study of 2-D swarms in which collective behavior emerges from both direct local mechanical coupling between agents and from the exchange and processing of information between agents. Each agent, an…

Physics and Society · Physics 2026-04-28 Shengkai Li , Trung V. Phan , Luca Di Carlo , Gao Wang , Van H. Do , Elia Mikhail , Robert H. Austin , Liyu Liu

Memory effects are ubiquitous in small-scale systems. They emerge from interactions between accessible and inaccessible degrees of freedom and give rise to evolution equations that are non-local in time. If the characteristic time scales of…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2025-01-22 Kay Brandner

Offline reinforcement learning (RL) refers to the problem of learning policies entirely from a large batch of previously collected data. This problem setting offers the promise of utilizing such datasets to acquire policies without any…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-11-24 Tianhe Yu , Garrett Thomas , Lantao Yu , Stefano Ermon , James Zou , Sergey Levine , Chelsea Finn , Tengyu Ma

Deep reinforcement learning (DRL) has achieved significant breakthroughs in various tasks. However, most DRL algorithms suffer a problem of generalizing the learned policy which makes the learning performance largely affected even by minor…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2019-07-11 Zhengyao Jiang , Shan Luo

We introduce a new mechanism---the forget-remember mechanism into the spreading process. Equipped with such a mechanism an individual is prone to forget the "message" received and remember the one forgotten, namely switching his state…

Biological Physics · Physics 2015-05-20 Jiao Gu , Wei Li , Xu Cai

Growth and shape formation in crowded multicellular assemblies arise from the interplay of chemical gradients, single-cell expansion and mechanical interactions, making it essential to understand how these processes jointly shape collective…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2025-12-02 Ilias-Marios Sarris , Ramin Golestianian , Philip Bittihn

What is the underlying mechanism leading to power-law degree distributions of many natural and artificial networks is still at issue. We consider that scale-free networks emerges from self-organizing process, and such a evolving model is…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2007-05-23 Gang Yan , Tao Zhou , Ying-Di Jin , Zhong-Qian Fu

Non-Markovian memory effects in open quantum systems provide valuable resources for preserving coherence and enhancing controllability. However, exploiting them requires strategies adapted to history-dependent dynamics. We introduce a…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-01-12 Safae Gaidi , Abdallah Slaoui , Mohammed EL Falaki , Amine Jaouadi

We elucidate that the nearly phase-ordered active XY spins in contact with a conserved, diffusing species on a substrate can be stable. For wide-ranging model parameters, it has stable uniform phases robust against noises. These are…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2023-09-27 Astik Haldar , Apurba Sarkar , Swarnajit Chatterjee , Abhik Basu

Model-based reinforcement learning (RL) is a sample-efficient way of learning complex behaviors by leveraging a learned single-step dynamics model to plan actions in imagination. However, planning every action for long-horizon tasks is not…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-12-13 Lucy Xiaoyang Shi , Joseph J. Lim , Youngwoon Lee

Reinforcement learning (RL) agents often suffer from high sample complexity in sparse or delayed reward settings due to limited prior structure. Large language models (LLMs) can provide subgoal decompositions, plausible trajectories, and…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-02-23 Narjes Nourzad , Carlee Joe-Wong

Many existing obstacle avoidance algorithms overlook the crucial balance between safety and agility, especially in environments of varying complexity. In our study, we introduce an obstacle avoidance pipeline based on reinforcement…

Robotics · Computer Science 2024-02-14 Hang Yu , Christophe De Wagter , Guido C. H. E de Croon

We propose a general mechanism of random-field-induced order (RFIO), in which long-range order is induced by a random field that breaks the continuous symmetry of the model. We particularly focus on the case of the classical ferromagnetic…

Other Condensed Matter · Physics 2007-05-23 Jan Wehr , Armand Niederberger , Laurent Sanchez-Palencia , Maciej Lewenstein

Diffusion Large Language Models (dLLMs) break the rigid left-to-right constraint of traditional LLMs, enabling token generation in arbitrary orders. Intuitively, this flexibility implies a solution space that strictly supersets the fixed…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2026-03-20 Zanlin Ni , Shenzhi Wang , Yang Yue , Tianyu Yu , Weilin Zhao , Yeguo Hua , Tianyi Chen , Jun Song , Cheng Yu , Bo Zheng , Gao Huang

LLMs are trained once, then deployed into a world that never stops changing. External memory compensates for this, but most systems manage it explicitly rather than letting it adapt on its own. Biological memory works differently: coupled…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-05-08 Andreas Pattichis , Constantine Dovrolis

In this paper, we study novel neural network structures to better model long term dependency in sequential data. We propose to use more memory units to keep track of more preceding states in recurrent neural networks (RNNs), which are all…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2016-05-03 Rohollah Soltani , Hui Jiang