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Multi-agent systems (MAS) powered by large language models (LLMs) have emerged as a powerful paradigm for complex problem solving, where performance critically depends on the underlying inter-agent communication topology. However, existing…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-05-19 Xuefei Wang , Jialu Wang , Fengbo Zhang , Yihan Hu , Di Zhang , Yutong Ye , Yikun Ban , Jun Han , Ruijie Wang

Accurately modeling and predicting complex dynamical systems, particularly those involving force exchange and dissipation, is crucial for applications ranging from fluid dynamics to robotics, but presents significant challenges due to the…

Robotics · Computer Science 2025-06-24 Andrea Testa , Søren Hauberg , Tamim Asfour , Leonel Rozo

We present a continual learning approach for generative adversarial networks (GANs), by designing and leveraging parameter-efficient feature map transformations. Our approach is based on learning a set of global and task-specific…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-08-02 Sakshi Varshney , Vinay Kumar Verma , Srijith P K , Lawrence Carin , Piyush Rai

Online off-policy reinforcement learning (RL) is shaped by two coupled choices: the policy class and the update rule. Gaussian policies are fast and have tractable entropy, but struggle with multimodal action distributions. Generative…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-05-22 Zeyuan Wang , Da Li , Yulin Chen , Yuehu Gong , Yanming Guo , Ye Shi , Liang Bai , Tianyuan Yu , Yanwei Fu

This paper studies how to achieve accurate modeling and effective control in stochastic nonlinear dynamics with multiple interacting objects. However, non-uniform interactions and random topologies make this task challenging. We address…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-10-31 Xiaoyuan Cheng , Yiming Yang , Wei Jiang , Chenyang Yuan , Zhuo Sun , Yukun Hu

Training model to generate data has increasingly attracted research attention and become important in modern world applications. We propose in this paper a new geometry-based optimization approach to address this problem. Orthogonal to…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2017-08-18 Trung Le , Hung Vu , Tu Dinh Nguyen , Dinh Phung

A uniform distribution of the image force field around the object fasts the convergence speed of the segmentation process. However, to achieve this aim, it causes the force constructed from the heat diffusion model unable to indicate the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2012-05-08 Hongyu Lu , Yutian Wang , Shanglian Bao

Actor-critic methods solve reinforcement learning problems by updating a parameterized policy known as an actor in a direction that increases an estimate of the expected return known as a critic. However, existing actor-critic methods only…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2018-02-23 Voot Tangkaratt , Abbas Abdolmaleki , Masashi Sugiyama

Diffusion models and flow matching have become a cornerstone of robotic imitation learning, yet they suffer from a structural inefficiency where inference is often bound to a fixed integration schedule that is agnostic to state complexity.…

Robotics · Computer Science 2026-04-28 Zunzhe Zhang , Runhan Huang , Yicheng Liu , Shaoting Zhu , Linzhan Mou , Hang Zhao

Training expressive flow-based policies with off-policy reinforcement learning is notoriously unstable due to gradient pathologies in the multi-step action sampling process. We trace this instability to a fundamental connection: the flow…

Robotics · Computer Science 2026-01-15 Yixian Zhang , Shu'ang Yu , Tonghe Zhang , Mo Guang , Haojia Hui , Kaiwen Long , Yu Wang , Chao Yu , Wenbo Ding

The rapid growth of graph data creates significant scalability challenges as most graph algorithms scale quadratically with size. To mitigate these issues, Graph Condensation (GC) methods have been proposed to learn a small graph from a…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-08-06 Shengbo Gong , Mohammad Hashemi , Juntong Ni , Carl Yang , Wei Jin

Safety is a critical issue in learning-based robotic and autonomous systems as learned information about their environments is often unreliable and inaccurate. In this paper, we propose a risk-aware motion control tool that is robust…

Robotics · Computer Science 2020-03-06 Astghik Hakobyan , Insoon Yang

Achieving generalizable and precise robotic manipulation across diverse environments remains a critical challenge, largely due to limitations in spatial perception. While prior imitation-learning approaches have made progress, their…

Robotics · Computer Science 2025-05-28 Yiqi Huang , Travis Davies , Jiahuan Yan , Jiankai Sun , Xiang Chen , Luhui Hu

Classifier-Free Guidance (CFG) improves sample quality in diffusion models, but its dual-pass inference and reliance on null-condition training limit its use in few-step regimes. Attention-space guidance has emerged as a complementary…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-05-19 Kwanyoung Kim

Non-parametric episodic memory can be used to quickly latch onto high-rewarded experience in reinforcement learning tasks. In contrast to parametric deep reinforcement learning approaches in which reward signals need to be back-propagated…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-04-25 Zhao Yang , Thomas M. Moerland , Mike Preuss , Aske Plaat

Asynchronous execution is essential for scaling reinforcement learning (RL) to modern large model workloads, including large language models and AI agents, but it can fundamentally alter RL optimization behavior. While prior work on…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-03-03 Haofeng Xu , Junwei Su , Yukun Tian , Lansong Diao , Zhengping Qian , Chuan Wu

Generative Behavior Cloning (GBC) is a simple yet effective framework for robot learning, particularly in multi-task settings. Recent GBC methods often employ diffusion policies with open-loop (OL) control, where actions are generated via a…

Robotics · Computer Science 2025-10-15 Junhyuk So , Chiwoong Lee , Shinyoung Lee , Jungseul Ok , Eunhyeok Park

Recent years have shown a growing interest in using haptic shared control (HSC) in teleoperated systems. In HSC, the application of virtual guiding forces decreases the user's control effort and improves execution time in various tasks,…

Robotics · Computer Science 2024-10-28 Franklin Cardeñoso Fernandez , Wouter Caarls

One of the key challenges that Reinforcement Learning (RL) faces is its limited capability to adapt to a change of data distribution caused by uncertainties. This challenge arises especially in RL systems using deep neural networks as…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-06-17 Amornyos Horprasert , Esa Apriaskar , Xingyu Liu , Lanlan Su , Lyudmila S. Mihaylova

Bimanual manipulation requires policies that can reason about 3D geometry, anticipate how it evolves under action, and generate smooth, coordinated motions. However, existing methods typically rely on 2D features with limited spatial…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-03-02 Chongyang Xu , Haipeng Li , Shen Cheng , Jingyu Hu , Haoqiang Fan , Ziliang Feng , Shuaicheng Liu