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A common approach for modeling the environment of an autonomous vehicle are dynamic occupancy grid maps, in which the surrounding is divided into cells, each containing the occupancy and velocity state of its location. Despite the advantage…

Robotics · Computer Science 2022-05-06 Marcel Schreiber , Vasileios Belagiannis , Claudius Gläser , Klaus Dietmayer

The ability to learn continuously from an incoming data stream without catastrophic forgetting is critical for designing intelligent systems. Many existing approaches to continual learning rely on stochastic gradient descent and its…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-03-16 Sandeep Madireddy , Angel Yanguas-Gil , Prasanna Balaprakash

The optimal tracking problem is addressed in the robotics literature by using a variety of robust and adaptive control approaches. However, these schemes are associated with implementation limitations such as applicability in uncertain…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-11-10 Mohammed Abouheaf , Wail Gueaieb , Davide Spinello

In a vision system, every task needs that the operators to apply should be {\guillemotleft} well chosen {\guillemotright} and their parameters should be also {\guillemotleft} well adjusted {\guillemotright}. The diversity of operators and…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2012-07-11 Issam Qaffou , Mohammed Sadgal , Abdelaziz Elfazziki

Adapting model parameters to incoming streams of data is a crucial factor to deep learning scalability. Interestingly, prior continual learning strategies in online settings inadvertently anchor their updated parameters to a local parameter…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-09-30 Siddhartha Datta , Nigel Shadbolt

Meta-learning algorithms are able to learn a new task using previously learned knowledge, but they often require a large number of meta-training tasks which may not be readily available. To address this issue, we propose a method for…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-05-18 Wenfang Sun , Yingjun Du , Xiantong Zhen , Fan Wang , Ling Wang , Cees G. M. Snoek

Reliable and effective multi-task learning is a prerequisite for the development of robotic agents that can quickly learn to accomplish related, everyday tasks. However, in the reinforcement learning domain, multi-task learning has not…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2018-02-06 Himani Arora , Rajath Kumar , Jason Krone , Chong Li

Neural operators (NOs) are designed to learn maps between infinite-dimensional function spaces. We propose a novel reframing of their use. By introducing an auxiliary base-space, any finite-dimensional function can be viewed as an operator…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-05-11 Vasilis Niarchos , Angelos Sirbu , Sokratis Trifinopoulos

In this paper, we introduce a novel theoretical framework for multi-task regression, applying random matrix theory to provide precise performance estimations, under high-dimensional, non-Gaussian data distributions. We formulate a…

We introduce a sampling-based learning method for solving optimal control problems involving task satisfaction constraints for systems with partially known dynamics. The control problems are defined by a cost to be minimized and a task to…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-04-14 Peter Varnai , Dimos V. Dimarogonas

Nonlinear optimal control problems are often solved with numerical methods that require knowledge of system's dynamics which may be difficult to infer, and that carry a large computational cost associated with iterative calculations. We…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2019-03-08 Ekaterina Abramova , Luke Dickens , Daniel Kuhn , Aldo Faisal

Neural Memory Networks (NMNs) have received increased attention in recent years compared to deep architectures that use a constrained memory. Despite their new appeal, the success of NMNs hinges on the ability of the gradient-based…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-11-12 Tharindu Fernando , Simon Denman , Sridha Sridharan , Clinton Fookes

Multivariate function approximation is a fundamental problem in machine learning. Classic multivariate function approximations rely on hand-crafted basis functions (e.g., polynomial basis and Fourier basis), which limits their approximation…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-03-17 Wei-Hao Wu , Ting-Zhu Huang , Xi-Le Zhao , Yisi Luo , Deyu Meng

Many combinatorial optimization problems can be phrased in the language of constraint satisfaction problems. We introduce a graph neural network architecture for solving such optimization problems. The architecture is generic; it works for…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2020-02-12 Jan Toenshoff , Martin Ritzert , Hinrikus Wolf , Martin Grohe

We integrate a meta-reinforcement learning algorithm with the DreamerV3 architecture to improve load balancing in operating systems. This approach enables rapid adaptation to dynamic workloads with minimal retraining, outperforming the…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-03-13 Cameron Redovian

We propose a novel fine-tuning method to achieve multi-operator learning through training a distributed neural operator with diverse function data and then zero-shot fine-tuning the neural network using physics-informed losses for…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-11-12 Zecheng Zhang , Christian Moya , Lu Lu , Guang Lin , Hayden Schaeffer

Adapting to unforeseen novelties in open-world environments remains a major challenge for autonomous systems. While hybrid planning and reinforcement learning (RL) approaches show promise, they often suffer from sample inefficiency, slow…

Robotics · Computer Science 2026-01-27 Pierrick Lorang

Much like humans, robots should have the ability to leverage knowledge from previously learned tasks in order to learn new tasks quickly in new and unfamiliar environments. Despite this, most robot learning approaches have focused on…

Robotics · Computer Science 2018-10-09 Stephen James , Michael Bloesch , Andrew J. Davison

We study the problem of representation learning in goal-conditioned hierarchical reinforcement learning. In such hierarchical structures, a higher-level controller solves tasks by iteratively communicating goals which a lower-level policy…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2019-01-10 Ofir Nachum , Shixiang Gu , Honglak Lee , Sergey Levine

Multiple domains like vision, natural language, and audio are witnessing tremendous progress by leveraging Transformers for large scale pre-training followed by task specific fine tuning. In contrast, in robotics we primarily train a single…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-03-23 Agrim Gupta , Linxi Fan , Surya Ganguli , Li Fei-Fei