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Class-Incremental Learning (CIL) requires models to learn new classes without forgetting old ones. A common method is to freeze a pre-trained model and train a new, lightweight adapter for each task. While this prevents forgetting, it…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-02-25 Ruiqi Liu , Boyu Diao , Hangda Liu , Zhulin An , Fei Wang , Yongjun Xu

This paper investigates the model aggregation process in an over-the-air federated learning (AirFL) system, where an intelligent reflecting surface (IRS) is deployed to assist the transmission from users to the base station (BS). With the…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2021-03-23 Jingheng Zheng , Wanli Ni , Hui Tian

In-context imitation learning allows robots to acquire skills from demonstrations, yet one-shot trajectory generation remains fragile under environmental variation. We propose SAIL, a framework that reframes robot imitation as an iterative…

Robotics · Computer Science 2026-03-10 Makoto Sato , Yusuke Iwasawa , Yujin Tang , So Kuroki

In robotic manipulation, acquiring samples is extremely expensive because it often requires interacting with the real world. Traditional image-level data augmentation has shown the potential to improve sample efficiency in various machine…

Robotics · Computer Science 2022-11-02 Mingxi Jia , Dian Wang , Guanang Su , David Klee , Xupeng Zhu , Robin Walters , Robert Platt

Recently, there have been numerous attempts to enhance the sample efficiency of off-policy reinforcement learning (RL) agents when interacting with the environment, including architecture improvements and new algorithms. Despite these…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-02-13 Jiafei Lyu , Jingwen Yang , Zhongjian Qiao , Runze Liu , Zeyuan Liu , Deheng Ye , Zongqing Lu , Xiu Li

We present an efficient computational approach to perform real-space electronic structure calculations using an adaptive higher-order finite-element discretization of Kohn-Sham density-functional theory (DFT). To this end, we develop an…

Computational Physics · Physics 2015-06-05 Phani Motamarri , Michael R Nowak , Kenneth Leiter , Jaroslaw Knap , Vikram Gavini

Exemplar-free Class Incremental Learning (EFCIL) aims to learn from a sequence of tasks without having access to previous task data. In this paper, we consider the challenging Cold Start scenario in which insufficient data is available in…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-10-06 Simone Magistri , Tomaso Trinci , Albin Soutif-Cormerais , Joost van de Weijer , Andrew D. Bagdanov

We design a dynamically-weighted state-averaged constrained CASSCF to treat \ul{e}lectrons or \ul{h}oles moving between $n$ molecular fragments (where $n$ can be larger than 2). Within such a so-called eDSCn/hDSCn approach, we consider…

Computational Physics · Physics 2025-09-01 Tian Qiu , Joseph E. Subotnik

Kohn-Sham density functional theory is the base of modern computational approaches to electronic structures. Their accuracy vitally relies on the exchange-correlation energy functional, which encapsulates electron-electron interaction…

Computational Physics · Physics 2019-11-04 Ryo Nagai , Ryosuke Akashi , Osamu Sugino

Double-machine-learning pipelines for the Average Dose-Response Function rely on kernel-weighted local-linear smoothers, which inherit unbounded functional influence: a single outlier within a kernel window biases the curve across the…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2026-05-04 Eichi Uehara

Demonstrations are commonly used to speed up the learning process of Deep Reinforcement Learning algorithms. To cope with the difficulty of accessing multiple demonstrations, some algorithms have been developed to learn from a single…

Robotics · Computer Science 2024-02-15 Alexandre Chenu , Olivier Serris , Olivier Sigaud , Nicolas Perrin-Gilbert

We propose a novel adaptive damping algorithm for the self-consistent field (SCF) iterations of Kohn-Sham density-functional theory, using a backtracking line search to automatically adjust the damping in each SCF step. This line search is…

Materials Science · Physics 2022-03-14 Michael F. Herbst , Antoine Levitt

Linear-scaling techniques for Kohn-Sham density functional theory (KS-DFT) are essential to describe the ground state properties of extended systems. Still, these techniques often rely on the locality of the density matrix or on accurate…

Chemical Physics · Physics 2023-01-25 Ming Chen , Roi Baer , Eran Rabani

Several studies have shown the ability of natural gradient descent to minimize the objective function more efficiently than ordinary gradient descent based methods. However, the bottleneck of this approach for training deep neural networks…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2022-10-17 Abdoulaye Koroko , Ani Anciaux-Sedrakian , Ibtihel Ben Gharbia , Valérie Garès , Mounir Haddou , Quang Huy Tran

Kohn-Sham inversion, that is, the finding of the exact Kohn-Sham potential for a given density, is difficult in localized basis sets. We study the precision and reliability of several inversion schemes, finding estimates of density-driven…

Chemical Physics · Physics 2020-04-27 Seungsoo Nam , Suhwan Song , Eunji Sim , Kieron Burke

Multi-agent reinforcement learning (MARL), despite its popularity and empirical success, suffers from the curse of dimensionality. This paper builds the mathematical framework to approximate cooperative MARL by a mean-field control (MFC)…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-10-04 Haotian Gu , Xin Guo , Xiaoli Wei , Renyuan Xu

Federated learning (FL) has been proposed to enable distributed learning on Artificial Intelligence Internet of Things (AIoT) devices with guarantees of high-level data privacy. Since random initial models in FL can easily result in…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-09-06 Pengyu Zhang , Yingbo Zhou , Ming Hu , Xian Wei , Mingsong Chen

To reduce the experimental validation workload for chemical researchers and accelerate the design and optimization of high-energy-density lithium metal batteries, we aim to leverage models to automatically predict Coulombic Efficiency (CE)…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-07-31 Xinhe Li , Zhuoying Feng , Yezeng Chen , Weichen Dai , Zixu He , Yi Zhou , Shuhong Jiao

Kohn-Sham density functional theory (DFT) is the workhorse of quantum chemistry, offering an attractive balance between accuracy and computational cost. Although exact in principle, DFT in practice relies on an approximation to the unknown…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-05-12 Karim K. Alaa El-Din , Antonius v. Strachwitz , Sam M. Vinko