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In Semi-Supervised Semi-Private (SP) learning, the learner has access to both public unlabelled and private labelled data. We propose a computationally efficient algorithm that, under mild assumptions on the data, provably achieves…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-06-08 Francesco Pinto , Yaxi Hu , Fanny Yang , Amartya Sanyal

For artificially intelligent learning systems to have widespread applicability in real-world settings, it is important that they be able to operate decentrally. Unfortunately, decentralized control is difficult -- computing even an…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2021-01-13 Samuel Sokota , Edward Lockhart , Finbarr Timbers , Elnaz Davoodi , Ryan D'Orazio , Neil Burch , Martin Schmid , Michael Bowling , Marc Lanctot

Diffusion models showcase strong capabilities in image synthesis, being used in many computer vision tasks with great success. To this end, we propose to explore a new use case, namely to copy black-box classification models without having…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-03-17 Vlad Hondru , Radu Tudor Ionescu

Recent advances in deep learning has lead to rapid developments in the field of image retrieval. However, the best performing architectures incur significant computational cost. Recent approaches tackle this issue using knowledge…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-07-14 Zakaria Laskar , Juho Kannala

We study example-level private supervised speech classification under a practical release constraint: training may access privileged side information, but the released model must be audio-only. This setting is important because speech…

Sound · Computer Science 2026-05-05 Yadi Wen , Tianxin Li , Enji Liang , Rong Du , Yue Fu

Experience replay is a core ingredient of modern deep reinforcement learning, yet its benefits in policy optimization are poorly understood beyond empirical heuristics. This paper develops a novel theoretical framework for experience replay…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-02-04 Hua Zheng , Wei Xie , M. Ben Feng

Achieving cooperation among self-interested agents remains a fundamental challenge in multi-agent reinforcement learning. Recent work showed that mutual cooperation can be induced between "learning-aware" agents that account for and shape…

Data selection is essential for any data-based optimization technique, such as Reinforcement Learning. State-of-the-art sampling strategies for the experience replay buffer improve the performance of the Reinforcement Learning agent.…

Model-based reinforcement learning uses models to plan, where the predictions and policies of an agent can be improved by using more computation without additional data from the environment, thereby improving sample efficiency. However,…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-02-22 Animesh Kumar Paul , Videh Raj Nema

Recent work on designing an appropriate distribution of environments has shown promise for training effective generally capable agents. Its success is partly because of a form of adaptive curriculum learning that generates environment…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2023-07-26 Dexun Li , Wenjun Li , Pradeep Varakantham

Multi-agent games in dynamic nonlinear settings are challenging due to the time-varying interactions among the agents and the non-stationarity of the (potential) Nash equilibria. In this paper we consider model-free games, where agent…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-09-24 Eduardo Sebastián , Maitrayee Keskar , Eeman Iqbal , Eduardo Montijano , Carlos Sagüés , Nikolay Atanasov

We consider the problem of imitation learning from a finite set of expert trajectories, without access to reinforcement signals. The classical approach of extracting the expert's reward function via inverse reinforcement learning, followed…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2019-06-10 Ruohan Wang , Carlo Ciliberto , Pierluigi Amadori , Yiannis Demiris

Federated Learning (FL) has increasingly been recognized as an innovative and secure distributed model training paradigm, aiming to coordinate multiple edge clients to collaboratively train a shared model without uploading their private…

Computer Science and Game Theory · Computer Science 2024-04-15 Wenhao Yuan , Xuehe Wang

This paper introduces two novel modifications to the Dynamic sAmpling Policy Optimization (DAPO) algorithm [1], approached from a mixed-policy perspective. Standard policy gradient methods can suffer from instability and sample…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-08-20 Hongze Tan , Yuchen Li

Artistic style transfer is concerned with the generation of imagery that combines the content of an image with the style of an artwork. In the realm of computer games, most work has focused on post-processing video frames. Some recent work…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-02-25 Eleftherios Ioannou , Steve Maddock

Deep Neural Networks have achieved remarkable achievements across various domains, however balancing performance and generalization still remains a challenge while training these networks. In this paper, we propose a novel framework that…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-05-22 Maheak Dave , Aniket Kumar Singh , Aryan Pareek , Harshita Jha , Debasis Chaudhuri , Manish Pratap Singh

As modern games continue growing both in size and complexity, it has become more challenging to ensure that all the relevant content is tested and that any potential issue is properly identified and fixed. Attempting to maximize testing…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-06-25 Camilo Gordillo , Joakim Bergdahl , Konrad Tollmar , Linus Gisslén

Representation-based retrieval models, so-called bi-encoders, estimate the relevance of a document to a query by calculating the similarity of their respective embeddings. Current state-of-the-art bi-encoders are trained using an expensive…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2025-06-24 Lukas Gienapp , Niklas Deckers , Martin Potthast , Harrisen Scells

Dataset Distillation aims to compress a large dataset into a significantly more compact, synthetic one without compromising the performance of the trained models. To achieve this, existing methods use the agent model to extract information…

Active learning is an iterative labeling process that is used to obtain a small labeled subset, despite the absence of labeled data, thereby enabling to train a model for supervised tasks such as text classification. While active learning…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-10-07 Christopher Schröder , Gerhard Heyer