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In applications, an anticipated situation is where the system of interest has never been encountered before and sparse observations can be made only once. Can the dynamics be faithfully reconstructed from the limited observations without…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-10-29 Zheng-Meng Zhai , Jun-Yin Huang , Benjamin D. Stern , Ying-Cheng Lai

This paper presents a novel framework for automatically learning complete Stack-of-Tasks (SoT) controllers for redundant robotic systems, including task priorities, activation logic, and control parameters. Unlike classical SoT…

Robotics · Computer Science 2025-12-24 Alessandro Adami , Aris Synodinos , Matteo Iovino , Ruggero Carli , Pietro Falco

We present a discrete-time formulation for the autonomous learning conjecture. The main feature of this formulation is the possibility to apply the autonomous learning scheme to systems in which the errors with respect to target functions…

Adaptation and Self-Organizing Systems · Physics 2017-06-07 Agustín M. Bilen , Pablo Kaluza

The emerging trend in computer vision emphasizes developing universal models capable of simultaneously addressing multiple diverse tasks. Such universality typically requires joint training across multi-domain datasets to ensure effective…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-05-01 Eunsoo Im , Changhyun Jee , Jung Kwon Lee

Machine learning, particularly deep learning, is transforming industrial quality inspection. Yet, training robust machine learning models typically requires large volumes of high-quality labeled data, which are expensive, time-consuming,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-05-26 Ruo-Syuan Mei , Sixian Jia , Guangze Li , Soo Yeon Lee , Brian Musser , William Keller , Sreten Zakula , Jorge Arinez , Chenhui Shao

Autonomous inspection in hazardous environments requires AI agents that can interpret high-level goals and execute precise control. A key capability for such agents is spatial grounding, for example when a drone must center a detected…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2025-11-25 Xian Yeow Lee , Lasitha Vidyaratne , Gregory Sin , Ahmed Farahat , Chetan Gupta

This paper develops a novel machine learning-based framework using Semi-Supervised Multi-Task Learning (SS-MTL) for power system dynamic security assessment that is accurate, reliable, and aware of topological changes. The learning…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-07-15 Muhy Eddin Za'ter , Amirhossein Sajadi , Bri-Mathias Hodge

Accurate prediction of Drug-Target Affinity (DTA) is of vital importance in early-stage drug discovery, facilitating the identification of drugs that can effectively interact with specific targets and regulate their activities. While wet…

Biomolecules · Quantitative Biology 2023-10-18 Qizhi Pei , Lijun Wu , Jinhua Zhu , Yingce Xia , Shufang Xie , Tao Qin , Haiguang Liu , Tie-Yan Liu , Rui Yan

Real-world artificial intelligence (AI) systems are increasingly required to operate autonomously in dynamic, uncertain, and continuously changing environments. However, most existing AI models rely on predefined objectives, static training…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2025-11-04 Hong Su

Predicting the mean-field Hamiltonian matrix in density functional theory is a fundamental formulation to leverage machine learning for solving molecular science problems. Yet, its applicability is limited by insufficient labeled data for…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-06-06 He Zhang , Chang Liu , Zun Wang , Xinran Wei , Siyuan Liu , Nanning Zheng , Bin Shao , Tie-Yan Liu

Accurate prediction of drug-target interactions (DTI) is pivotal in drug discovery. However, existing approaches often fail to capture deep intra-modal feature interactions or achieve effective cross-modal alignment, limiting predictive…

Multimedia · Computer Science 2025-10-22 Xiangyu Li , Ran Su , Liangliang Liu

Human-robot interactive decision-making is increasingly becoming ubiquitous, and trust is an influential factor in determining the reliance on autonomy. However, it is not reasonable to trust systems that are beyond our comprehension, and…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-08-16 Daoming Lyu , Fangkai Yang , Hugh Kwon , Wen Dong , Levent Yilmaz , Bo Liu

Recently, the self-supervised pre-training paradigm has shown great potential in leveraging large-scale unlabeled data to improve downstream task performance. However, increasing the scale of unlabeled pre-training data in real-world…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-12-13 Yiqi Lin , Huabin Zheng , Huaping Zhong , Jinjing Zhu , Weijia Li , Conghui He , Lin Wang

The rapidly evolving industry demands high accuracy of the models without the need for time-consuming and computationally expensive experiments required for fine-tuning. Moreover, a model and training pipeline, which was once carefully…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-12-01 Galina Zalesskaya , Bogna Bylicka , Eugene Liu

This paper focuses on source-free domain adaptation for object detection in computer vision. This task is challenging and of great practical interest, due to the cost of obtaining annotated data sets for every new domain. Recent research…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-07-11 Yan Hao , Florent Forest , Olga Fink

Methods for object detection and segmentation often require abundant instance-level annotations for training, which are time-consuming and expensive to collect. To address this, the task of zero-shot object detection (or segmentation) aims…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-02-16 Siddhesh Khandelwal , Anirudth Nambirajan , Behjat Siddiquie , Jayan Eledath , Leonid Sigal

Pre-training techniques play a crucial role in deep learning, enhancing models' performance across a variety of tasks. By initially training on large datasets and subsequently fine-tuning on task-specific data, pre-training provides a solid…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-10-01 Fulong Ma , Guoyang Zhao , Weiqing Qi , Ming Liu , Jun Ma

In task-oriented dialogue (TOD) systems, Slot Schema Induction (SSI) is essential for automatically identifying key information slots from dialogue data without manual intervention. This paper presents a novel state-of-the-art (SoTA)…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-04-28 James D. Finch , Yasasvi Josyula , Jinho D. Choi

We present our approach to unsupervised domain adaptation for single-stage object detectors on top-view grid maps in automated driving scenarios. Our goal is to train a robust object detector on grid maps generated from custom sensor data…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-02-04 Sascha Wirges , Shuxiao Ding , Christoph Stiller

Topology optimization (TO) has been widely adopted in engineering design; however, it is prone to being trapped in local optima, particularly in strongly nonlinear problems. Sensitivity-free data-driven topology design (DDTD) offers a…

Computational Physics · Physics 2026-03-10 Jun Yang , Ziliang Wang , Shintaro Yamasaki