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Learning skills that interact with objects is of major importance for robotic manipulation. These skills can indeed serve as an efficient prior for solving various manipulation tasks. We propose a novel Skill Learning approach that…

Robotics · Computer Science 2024-10-08 Paul Jansonnie , Bingbing Wu , Julien Perez , Jan Peters

Reward-free, unsupervised discovery of skills is an attractive alternative to the bottleneck of hand-designing rewards in environments where task supervision is scarce or expensive. However, current skill pre-training methods, like many RL…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-03-22 Nur Muhammad Shafiullah , Lerrel Pinto

During the first part of life, the brain develops while it learns through a process called synaptogenesis. The neurons, growing and interacting with each other, create synapses. However, eventually the brain prunes those synapses. While…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2023-04-04 Andrea Ferigo , Giovanni Iacca

Skill-based reinforcement learning (RL) has emerged as a promising strategy to leverage prior knowledge for accelerated robot learning. Skills are typically extracted from expert demonstrations and are embedded into a latent space from…

Robotics · Computer Science 2022-11-07 Krishan Rana , Ming Xu , Brendan Tidd , Michael Milford , Niko Sünderhauf

The human brain has many remarkable information processing characteristics that deeply puzzle scientists and engineers. Among the most important and the most intriguing of these characteristics are the brain's broad universality as a…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2007-05-23 Victor Eliashberg

In reservoir computing, an input sequence is processed by a recurrent neural network, the reservoir, which transforms it into a spatial pattern that a shallow readout network can then exploit for tasks such as memorization and time-series…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2025-12-30 Denis Kleyko , Christopher J. Kymn , E. Paxon Frady , Amy Loutfi , Friedrich T. Sommer

We propose the neural programmer-interpreter (NPI): a recurrent and compositional neural network that learns to represent and execute programs. NPI has three learnable components: a task-agnostic recurrent core, a persistent key-value…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2016-03-01 Scott Reed , Nando de Freitas

The human brain can self-organize rich and diverse sparse neural pathways to incrementally master hundreds of cognitive tasks. However, most existing continual learning algorithms for deep artificial and spiking neural networks are unable…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2026-05-06 Bing Han , Feifei Zhao , Wenxuan Pan , Zhuoya Zhao , Xianqi Li , Qingqun Kong , Yi Zeng

Semantic concept hierarchy is still under-explored for semantic segmentation due to the inefficiency and complicated optimization of incorporating structural inference into dense prediction. This lack of modeling semantic correlations also…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-03-19 Xiaodan Liang , Hongfei Zhou , Eric Xing

Learning from experience is critical for building capable large language model (LLM) agents, yet prevailing self-evolving paradigms remain inefficient: agents learn in isolation, repeatedly rediscover similar behaviors from limited…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2026-04-21 Chenxi Wang , Zhuoyun Yu , Xin Xie , Wuguannan Yao , Runnan Fang , Shuofei Qiao , Kexin Cao , Guozhou Zheng , Xiang Qi , Peng Zhang , Shumin Deng

We describe and analyze a simple and effective algorithm for sequence segmentation applied to speech processing tasks. We propose a neural architecture that is composed of two modules trained jointly: a recurrent neural network (RNN) module…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2016-10-26 Yossi Adi , Joseph Keshet , Emily Cibelli , Matthew Goldrick

Artificial Intelligence has looked into biological systems as a source of inspiration. Although there are many aspects of the brain yet to be discovered, neuroscience has found evidence that the connections between neurons continuously grow…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2020-10-29 Javier Lopez Randulfe , Leon Bonde Larsen

Biological plastic neural networks are systems of extraordinary computational capabilities shaped by evolution, development, and lifetime learning. The interplay of these elements leads to the emergence of adaptive behavior and…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2018-08-09 Andrea Soltoggio , Kenneth O. Stanley , Sebastian Risi

In recent years, scientific machine learning, particularly physic-informed neural networks (PINNs), has introduced new innovative methods to understanding the differential equations that describe power system dynamics, providing a more…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-03-12 Huynh T. T. Tran , Hieu T. Nguyen

Training state-of-the-art neural networks requires a high cost in terms of compute and time. Model scale is recognized to be a critical factor to achieve and improve the state-of-the-art. Increasing the scale of a neural network normally…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-08-14 Andrea Gesmundo , Kaitlin Maile

Effective human-robot collaboration requires the ability to learn personalized concepts from a limited number of demonstrations, while exhibiting inductive generalization, hierarchical composition, and adaptability to novel constraints.…

Most existing slot filling models tend to memorize inherent patterns of entities and corresponding contexts from training data. However, these models can lead to system failure or undesirable outputs when being exposed to spoken language…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2022-09-16 Guanting Dong , Daichi Guo , Liwen Wang , Xuefeng Li , Zechen Wang , Chen Zeng , Keqing He , Jinzheng Zhao , Hao Lei , Xinyue Cui , Yi Huang , Junlan Feng , Weiran Xu

The incredible feats of athleticism demonstrated by humans are made possible in part by a vast repertoire of general-purpose motor skills, acquired through years of practice and experience. These skills not only enable humans to perform…

Graphics · Computer Science 2022-05-06 Xue Bin Peng , Yunrong Guo , Lina Halper , Sergey Levine , Sanja Fidler

This research introduces a comprehensive system based on state-of-the-art natural language processing, semantic embedding, and efficient search techniques for retrieving similarities and thus generating actionable insights from raw textual…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2025-03-14 Phoebe Koundouri , Conrad Landis , Georgios Feretzakis

The goal of sentence and document modeling is to accurately represent the meaning of sentences and documents for various Natural Language Processing tasks. In this work, we present Dependency Sensitive Convolutional Neural Networks (DSCNN)…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2016-11-09 Rui Zhang , Honglak Lee , Dragomir Radev