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Model-based reinforcement learning could enable sample-efficient learning by quickly acquiring rich knowledge about the world and using it to improve behaviour without additional data. Learned dynamics models can be directly used for…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2019-10-15 Rinu Boney , Juho Kannala , Alexander Ilin

Human decision making underlies data generating process in multiple application areas, and models explaining and predicting choices made by individuals are in high demand. Discrete choice models are widely studied in economics and…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2017-11-06 Danqing Zhang , Kimon Fountoulakis , Junyu Cao , Michael Mahoney , Alexei Pozdnoukhov

This paper proposes a new optimization objective for value-based deep reinforcement learning. We extend conventional Deep Q-Networks (DQNs) by adding a model-learning component yielding a transcoder network. The prediction errors for the…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2018-11-21 Felix Leibfried , Peter Vrancx

Multimodal learning robust to missing modality has attracted increasing attention due to its practicality. Existing methods tend to address it by learning a common subspace representation for different modality combinations. However, we…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-07-08 Shicai Wei , Yang Luo , Yuji Wang , Chunbo Luo

High-dimensional prediction is a challenging problem setting for traditional statistical models. Although regularization improves model performance in high dimensions, it does not sufficiently leverage knowledge on feature importances held…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2019-12-10 Shouvik Mani , Mehdi Maasoumy , Sina Pakazad , Henrik Ohlsson

Neural architectures inspired by our own human cognitive system, such as the recently introduced world models, have been shown to outperform traditional deep reinforcement learning (RL) methods in a variety of different domains. Instead of…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2019-06-24 Sebastian Risi , Kenneth O. Stanley

We propose a new method for computing Dynamic Mode Decomposition (DMD) evolution matrices, which we use to analyze dynamical systems. Unlike the majority of existing methods, our approach is based on a variational formulation consisting of…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2019-05-24 Omri Azencot , Wotao Yin , Andrea Bertozzi

Dynamic mode decomposition (DMD) has emerged as a popular data-driven modeling approach to identifying spatio-temporal coherent structures in dynamical systems, owing to its strong relation with the Koopman operator. For dynamical systems…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-10-26 Manu Krishnan , Serkan Gugercin , Pablo A. Tarazaga

Diffusion models (DMs) have achieved state-of-the-art results for image synthesis tasks as well as density estimation. Applied in the latent space of a powerful pretrained autoencoder (LDM), their immense computational requirements can be…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-10-21 Jeremias Traub

State-of-the-art stereo matching networks have difficulties in generalizing to new unseen environments due to significant domain differences, such as color, illumination, contrast, and texture. In this paper, we aim at designing a…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-12-02 Feihu Zhang , Xiaojuan Qi , Ruigang Yang , Victor Prisacariu , Benjamin Wah , Philip Torr

World models learn an internal representation of environment dynamics, enabling agents to simulate and reason about future states within a compact latent space for tasks such as planning, prediction, and inference. However, running world…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-02-03 Zhongqian Fu , Tianyi Zhao , Kai Han , Hang Zhou , Xinghao Chen , Yunhe Wang

We take a geometrical viewpoint and present a unifying view on supervised deep learning with the Bregman divergence loss function - this entails frequent classification and prediction tasks. Motivated by simulations we suggest that there is…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-07-07 Petr Taborsky , Lars Kai Hansen

We investigate robust model-free reinforcement learning algorithms designed for environments that may be dynamic or even adversarial. Traditional state-based policies often struggle to accommodate the challenges imposed by the presence of…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-11-02 Udaya Ghai , Arushi Gupta , Wenhan Xia , Karan Singh , Elad Hazan

Current world models lack a unified and controlled setting for systematic evaluation, making it difficult to assess whether they truly capture the underlying rules that govern environment dynamics. In this work, we address this open…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-12-01 Xinyi Li , Zaishuo Xia , Weyl Lu , Chenjie Hao , Yubei Chen

In this work we consider partially observable environments with sparse rewards. We present a self-supervised representation learning method for image-based observations, which arranges embeddings respecting temporal distance of…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-10-07 Aleksandr Ermolov , Nicu Sebe

One's ability to learn a generative model of the world without supervision depends on the extent to which one can construct abstract knowledge representations that generalize across experiences. To this end, capturing an accurate…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-10-28 Zahra Sheikhbahaee , Dongshu Luo , Blake VanBerlo , S. Alex Yun , Adam Safron , Jesse Hoey

The ability to generalize to unseen domains is crucial for machine learning systems deployed in the real world, especially when we only have data from limited training domains. In this paper, we propose a simple and effective regularization…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-12-06 Zhenmei Shi , Yifei Ming , Ying Fan , Frederic Sala , Yingyu Liang

Robotic manipulation policies are commonly initialized through imitation learning, but their performance is limited by the scarcity and narrow coverage of expert data. Reinforcement learning can refine polices to alleviate this limitation,…

Robotics · Computer Science 2026-03-23 Zhennan Jiang , Kai Liu , Yuxin Qin , Shuai Tian , Yupeng Zheng , Mingcai Zhou , Chao Yu , Haoran Li , Dongbin Zhao

Large Language Models (LLMs) exhibit a troubling duality, capable of both remarkable generalization and brittle, verbatim memorization of their training data. This unpredictability undermines their reliability in high-stakes applications.…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-10-28 Xuanming Zhang

A World Model is a compressed spatial and temporal representation of a real world environment that allows one to train an agent or execute planning methods. However, world models are typically trained on observations from the real world…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-10-28 Fabio Ferreira , Moreno Schlageter , Raghu Rajan , Andre Biedenkapp , Frank Hutter