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Image classification is a well-studied task in computer vision, and yet it remains challenging under high-uncertainty conditions, such as when input images are corrupted or training data are limited. Conventional classification approaches…

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Many consumer decisions are repeated choices under uncertainty. Standard models capture these decisions using Bayesian learning and dynamic programming: consumers update beliefs from feedback and use those beliefs to guide future choices.…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-05-19 Mehrzad Khosravi , Max Kleiman-Weiner , Hema Yoganarasimhan

Reranking plays a crucial role in modern multi-stage recommender systems by rearranging the initial ranking list to model interplay between items. Considering the inherent challenges of reranking such as combinatorial searching space, some…

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Computer modeling of human decision making is of large importance for, e.g., sustainable transport, urban development, and online recommendation systems. In this paper we present a model for predicting the behavior of an individual during a…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2021-01-18 Chenda Zhang , Hedvig Kjellström

Diffusion-based generative models have recently emerged as powerful solutions for high-quality synthesis in multiple domains. Leveraging the bidirectional Markov chains, diffusion probabilistic models generate samples by inferring the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-03-29 Mengyi Zhao , Mengyuan Liu , Bin Ren , Shuling Dai , Nicu Sebe

Human decision making behavior is observed with choice-response time data during psychological experiments. Drift-diffusion models of this data consist of a Wiener first-passage time (WFPT) distribution and are described by cognitive…

Neurons and Cognition · Quantitative Biology 2022-08-18 Qinhua Jenny Sun , Khuong Vo , Kitty Lui , Michael Nunez , Joachim Vandekerckhove , Ramesh Srinivasan

The diffusion model has recently emerged as a potent approach in computer vision, demonstrating remarkable performances in the field of generative artificial intelligence. Capable of producing high-quality synthetic images, diffusion models…

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Diffusion models have recently shown significant potential in solving decision-making problems, particularly in generating behavior plans -- also known as diffusion planning. While numerous studies have demonstrated the impressive…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-03-04 Haofei Lu , Dongqi Han , Yifei Shen , Dongsheng Li

Diffusion language models (DLMs) are an attractive alternative to autoregressive models because they promise sublinear-time, parallel generation, yet practical gains remain elusive as high-quality samples still demand hundreds of refinement…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-05-04 Hasan Amin , Yuan Gao , Yaser Souri , Subhojit Som , Ming Yin , Rajiv Khanna , Xia Song

Decision Transformer (DT), a trajectory modelling method, has shown competitive performance compared to traditional offline reinforcement learning (RL) approaches on various classic control tasks. However, it struggles to learn optimal…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-09-18 Xingshuai Huang , Di Wu , Benoit Boulet

This paper develops a general framework for dynamic models in which individuals simultaneously make both discrete and continuous choices. The framework incorporates a wide range of unobserved heterogeneity. I show that such models are…

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Ants are social insects. When the existing nest of an ant colony becomes uninhabitable, the hunt for a new suitable location for migration of the colony begins. Normally, multiple sites may be available as the potential new nest site.…

Adaptation and Self-Organizing Systems · Physics 2021-05-04 Smriti Pradhan , Swayamshree Patra , Debashish Chowdhury

Inverse reinforcement learning (IRL) and dynamic discrete choice (DDC) models explain sequential decision-making by recovering reward functions that rationalize observed behavior. Flexible IRL methods typically rely on machine learning but…

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This paper studies choice situations in which a decision maker can choose multiple alternatives. Given a menu of available options, the decision maker selects a subset of the menu with certain probabilities. We employ an axiomatic approach…

Theoretical Economics · Economics 2025-11-25 Tri Phu Vu

In group decision-making (GDM) scenarios, uncertainty, dynamic social structures, and vague information present major challenges for traditional opinion dynamics models. To address these issues, this study proposes a novel social network…

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What is intuitive: pro-social or anti-social behaviour? To answer this fundamental question, recent studies analyse decision times in game theory experiments under the assumption that intuitive decisions are fast and that deliberation is…

Physics and Society · Physics 2020-04-14 Riccardo Gallotti , Jelena Grujic

Recent research showcases the considerable potential of conditional diffusion models for generating consistent stories. However, current methods, which predominantly generate stories in an autoregressive and excessively caption-dependent…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-07-08 Fei Shen , Hu Ye , Sibo Liu , Jun Zhang , Cong Wang , Xiao Han , Wei Yang

Decision making in modern stochastic systems, including e-commerce platforms, financial markets and healthcare systems, has evolved into a multifaceted process that combines information acquisition and adaptive information sources. This…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2026-01-07 Renyuan Xu , Thaleia Zariphopoulou , Luhao Zhang

We present a dynamic model in which the weights are conditioned on an input sample x and are learned to match those that would be obtained by finetuning a base model on x and its label y. This mapping between an input sample and network…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-06-12 Shahar Lutati , Lior Wolf

Diffusion models, a powerful and universal generative AI technology, have achieved tremendous success in computer vision, audio, reinforcement learning, and computational biology. In these applications, diffusion models provide flexible…

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