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This paper develops a unifying analytical framework for comparing deployment and duplexing paradigms in distributed cell-free massive multiple-input multiple-output (CF-mMIMO) integrated sensing and communication (ISAC) systems. The system…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2026-05-26 Yousef Kloob , Mohammad Al-Jarrah , Emad Alsusa

We consider a class of regularization methods for inverse problems where a coupled regularization is employed for the simultaneous reconstruction of data from multiple sources. Applications for such a setting can be found in multi-spectral…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2018-08-01 Martin Holler , Richard Huber , Florian Knoll

The Kullback-Leibler (KL) divergence is frequently used in data science. For discrete distributions on large state spaces, approximations of probability vectors may result in a few small negative entries, rendering the KL divergence…

Accelerated algorithms for maximum likelihood image reconstruction are essential for emerging applications such as 3D tomography, dynamic tomographic imaging, and other high dimensional inverse problems. In this paper, we introduce and…

Computation · Statistics 2012-01-31 Stéphane Chrétien , Alfred O. Hero

Diffusion models are a new class of generative models that revolve around the estimation of the score function associated with a stochastic differential equation. Subsequent to its acquisition, the approximated score function is then…

Statistics Theory · Mathematics 2024-09-13 Giovanni Conforti , Alain Durmus , Marta Gentiloni Silveri

We study the problem of distributed cooperative learning, where a group of agents seeks to agree on a set of hypotheses that best describes a sequence of private observations. In the scenario where the set of hypotheses is large, we propose…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-09-22 Mohammad Taha Toghani , César A. Uribe

Kullback-Leibler divergence (KL) regularization is widely used in reinforcement learning, but it becomes infinite under support mismatch and can degenerate in low-noise limits. Utilizing a unified information-geometric framework, we…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2026-02-03 Viktor Stein , Adwait Datar , Nihat Ay

Multi-agent RL is rendered difficult due to the non-stationary nature of environment perceived by individual agents. Theoretically sound methods using the REINFORCE estimator are impeded by its high-variance, whereas value-function based…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-04-12 Kenzo Lobos-Tsunekawa , Akshay Srinivasan , Michael Spranger

Reverse Kullback-Leibler (KL) divergence-based regularization with respect to a fixed reference policy is widely used in modern reinforcement learning to preserve the desired traits of the reference policy and sometimes to promote…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-02-05 Anupam Nayak , Tong Yang , Osman Yagan , Gauri Joshi , Yuejie Chi

We propose a framework for the decentralized control of a team of agents that are assigned local tasks expressed as Linear Temporal Logic (LTL) formulas. Each local LTL task specification captures both the requirements on the respective…

Systems and Control · Computer Science 2014-05-09 Meng Guo , Jana Tumova , Dimos V. Dimarogonas

Estimating the Kullback-Leibler (KL) divergence between random variables is a fundamental problem in statistical analysis. For continuous random variables, traditional information-theoretic estimators scale poorly with dimension and/or…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-10-08 Mikil Foss , Andrew Lamperski

Interpreting deep neural networks through concept-based explanations offers a bridge between low-level features and high-level human-understandable semantics. However, existing automatic concept discovery methods often fail to align these…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-10-14 Dipkamal Bhusal , Michael Clifford , Sara Rampazzi , Nidhi Rastogi

Animals execute goal-directed behaviours despite the limited range and scope of their sensors. To cope, they explore environments and store memories maintaining estimates of important information that is not presently available. Recently,…

Empirical risk minimization, a cornerstone in machine learning, is often hindered by the Optimizer's Curse stemming from discrepancies between the empirical and true data-generating distributions.To address this challenge, the robust…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-08-20 Haojie Yan , Minglong Zhou , Jiayi Guo

This paper introduces a multi-round interaction problem with privacy constraints between two agents that observe correlated data. The agents alternately share data with one another for a total of K rounds such that each agent initiates…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2016-10-04 Bahman Moraffah , Lalitha Sankar

This paper considers the problem of autonomous multi-agent cooperative target search in an unknown environment using a decentralized framework under a no-communication scenario. The targets are considered as static targets and the agents…

Robotics · Computer Science 2020-03-13 Titas Bera , Rajarshi Bardhan , Sundaram Suresh

Collaborative perception empowers autonomous agents to share complementary information and overcome perception limitations. While early fusion offers more perceptual complementarity and is inherently robust to model heterogeneity, its high…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-03-03 Yushan Han , Hui Zhang , Qiming Xia , Yi Jin , Yidong Li

We propose a fully decentralized multi-agent world model that enables both symbol emergence for communication and coordinated behavior through temporal extension of collective predictive coding. Unlike previous research that focuses on…

Multiagent Systems · Computer Science 2026-04-13 Kentaro Nomura , Tatsuya Aoki , Tadahiro Taniguchi , Takato Horii

Autonomous agents are increasingly deployed in dynamic environments where their ability to perform a given task depends on both individual and team-level proficiency. While proficiency self-assessment (PSA) has been studied for single…

Applications · Statistics 2025-10-28 Anna Guerra , Francesco Guidi , Pau Closas , Davide Dardari , Petar M. Djuric

Meta-analytic methods tend to take all-or-nothing approaches to study-level heterogeneity, assuming all studies are heterogeneous or homogeneous, leading to inefficiency and/or bias in estimation and inference. In this paper, we develop a…

Methodology · Statistics 2026-03-12 Elizabeth M. Davis , Emily C. Hector