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Reinforcement learning algorithms have been widely used in dynamic and control systems. However, interpreting their internal learning behavior remains a challenge. In the authors' previous work, a critic match loss landscape visualization…

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Learning shared structure across environments facilitates rapid learning and adaptive behavior in neural systems. This has been widely demonstrated and applied in machine learning to train models that are capable of generalizing to novel…

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Data streams in real-world industrial scenarios often contain transitional operating conditions that are uncovered during offline training, leading to significant distribution shifts. To bridge the gap between static offline models and…

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Non-stationary environments are challenging for reinforcement learning algorithms. If the state transition and/or reward functions change based on latent factors, the agent is effectively tasked with optimizing a behavior that maximizes…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-05-21 Lucas N. Alegre , Ana L. C. Bazzan , Bruno C. da Silva

Recent advancements in meta-learning have enabled the automatic discovery of novel reinforcement learning algorithms parameterized by surrogate objective functions. To improve upon manually designed algorithms, the parameterization of this…

A framework is introduced for actively and adaptively solving a sequence of machine learning problems, which are changing in bounded manner from one time step to the next. An algorithm is developed that actively queries the labels of the…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2018-05-31 Yuheng Bu , Jiaxun Lu , Venugopal V. Veeravalli

Modern applications increasingly require unsupervised learning of latent dynamics from high-dimensional time-series. This presents a significant challenge of identifiability: many abstract latent representations may reconstruct…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-03-14 Yubo Ye , Sumeet Vadhavkar , Xiajun Jiang , Ryan Missel , Huafeng Liu , Linwei Wang

Compared to current AI or robotic systems, humans navigate their environment with ease, making tasks such as data collection trivial. However, humans find it harder to model complex relationships hidden in the data. AI systems, especially…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2022-06-17 Ryan Nguyen , Rahul Rai

This paper develops an adaptive observation-based efficient reinforcement learning (RL) approach for systems with uncertain drift dynamics. A novel concurrent learning adaptive extended observer (CL-AEO) is first designed to jointly…

Dynamical Systems · Mathematics 2020-11-25 Maopeng Ran , Lihua Xie

Deep learning-based diagnostic models often suffer performance drops due to distribution shifts between training (source) and test (target) domains. Collecting and labeling sufficient target domain data for model retraining represents an…

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Predictive uncertainty-a model's self awareness regarding its accuracy on an input-is key for both building robust models via training interventions and for test-time applications such as selective classification. We propose a novel…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-01-04 Nishant Jain , Karthikeyan Shanmugam , Pradeep Shenoy

Under certain statistical assumptions of noise, recent self-supervised approaches for denoising have been introduced to learn network parameters without true clean images, and these methods can restore an image by exploiting information…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-01-10 Seunghwan Lee , Donghyeon Cho , Jiwon Kim , Tae Hyun Kim

Dynamic Optimization Problems (DOPs) are challenging to address due to their complex nature, i.e., dynamic environment variation. Evolutionary Computation methods are generally advantaged in solving DOPs since they resemble dynamic…

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Student diversity, like academic background, learning styles, career and life goals, ethnicity, age, social and emotional characteristics, course load and work schedule, offers unique opportunities in education, like learning new skills,…

Computers and Society · Computer Science 2022-05-02 Alex Doboli , Simona Doboli , Ryan Duke , Sangjin Hong , Wendy Tang

Example weighting algorithm is an effective solution to the training bias problem, however, most previous typical methods are usually limited to human knowledge and require laborious tuning of hyperparameters. In this paper, we propose a…

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When we interact with small screen devices, sometimes we make errors, due to our abilities/disabilities, contextual factors that distract our attention or problems related to the interface. Recovering from these errors may be time consuming…

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Adaptive learning aims to stimulate and meet the needs of individual learners, which requires sophisticated system-level coordination of diverse tasks, including modeling learning resources, estimating student states, and making…

Computers and Society · Computer Science 2022-08-10 Qingyang Zhong , Jifan Yu , Zheyuan Zhang , Yiming Mao , Yuquan Wang , Yankai Lin , Lei Hou , Juanzi Li , Jie Tang

Humans and animals can learn complex predictive models that allow them to accurately and reliably reason about real-world phenomena, and they can adapt such models extremely quickly in the face of unexpected changes. Deep neural network…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2019-01-30 Anusha Nagabandi , Chelsea Finn , Sergey Levine

A critical challenge in the data-driven modeling of dynamical systems is producing methods robust to measurement error, particularly when data is limited. Many leading methods either rely on denoising prior to learning or on access to large…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2019-09-04 Samuel H. Rudy , J. Nathan Kutz , Steven L. Brunton

Robust cross-subject emotion recognition from multimodal physiological signals remains a challenging problem, primarily due to modality heterogeneity and inter-subject distribution shift. To tackle these challenges, we propose a novel…

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