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Media streaming is the dominant application over wireless edge (access) networks. The increasing softwarization of such networks has led to efforts at intelligent control, wherein application-specific actions may be dynamically taken to…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-04-18 Archana Bura , Sarat Chandra Bobbili , Shreyas Rameshkumar , Desik Rengarajan , Dileep Kalathil , Srinivas Shakkottai

Building Free-Viewpoint Videos in a streaming manner offers the advantage of rapid responsiveness compared to offline training methods, greatly enhancing user experience. However, current streaming approaches face challenges of high…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-03-24 Jinbo Yan , Rui Peng , Zhiyan Wang , Luyang Tang , Jiayu Yang , Jie Liang , Jiahao Wu , Ronggang Wang

Stream Learning (SL) requires models that can quickly adapt to continuously evolving data, posing significant challenges in both computational efficiency and learning accuracy. Effective data selection is critical in SL to ensure a balance…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-01-07 Tongjun Shi , Shuhao Zhang , Binbin Chen , Bingsheng He

Optimal control of stochastic nonlinear dynamical systems is a major challenge in the domain of robot learning. Given the intractability of the global control problem, state-of-the-art algorithms focus on approximate sequential optimization…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-04-23 Joe Watson , Hany Abdulsamad , Jan Peters

This paper introduces a novel stochastic control framework to enhance the capabilities of automated investment managers, or robo-advisors, by accurately inferring clients' investment preferences from past activities. Our approach leverages…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2024-06-05 Haoyang Cao , Zhengqi Wu , Renyuan Xu

Devising intelligent agents able to live in an environment and learn by observing the surroundings is a longstanding goal of Artificial Intelligence. From a bare Machine Learning perspective, challenges arise when the agent is prevented…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-04-27 Matteo Tiezzi , Simone Marullo , Lapo Faggi , Enrico Meloni , Alessandro Betti , Stefano Melacci

Proactive streaming video understanding requires models to continuously process video streams and decide when to respond, rather than merely what to respond. This naturally introduces a decision-making problem under partial observations,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-05-19 Ao Li , Zihan Xiao , Zihao Yue , Boshen Xu , Linli Yao , Jiaze Li , Pei Fu , Jianzhong Ju , Jian Luan , Qin Jin

Predicting the next pickup location of individual users is a fundamental problem in intelligent mobility systems, which requires modeling personalized travel behaviors under complex spatiotemporal contexts. Existing methods mainly learn…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2026-01-22 Lingyu Zhang , Pengfei Xu , Rui Ban , Zhenchao Zhang , Songtao Liu , Yan Wang , Yunhai Wang

Stochastic Interpolants (SI) is a powerful framework for generative modeling, capable of flexibly transforming between two probability distributions. However, its use in jointly optimized latent variable models remains unexplored as it…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-04-23 Saurabh Singh , Dmitry Lagun

Recent progress in generative modeling has enabled high-quality visual synthesis with diffusion-based frameworks, supporting controllable sampling and large-scale training. Inference-time guidance methods such as classifier-free and…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-02-02 Wenqiang Zu , Shenghao Xie , Bo Lei , Lei Ma

Predictive power allocation is conceived for energy-efficient video streaming over mobile networks using deep reinforcement learning. The goal is to minimize the accumulated energy consumption of each base station over a complete video…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-11-06 Dong Liu , Jianyu Zhao , Chenyang Yang , Lajos Hanzo

We propose a plug-and-play framework for speech enhancement and separation that augments predictive methods with a generative speech prior. Our approach, termed Stochastic Interpolant Prior for Speech (SIPS), builds on stochastic…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2026-05-08 Julius Richter , Yoshiki Masuyama , Christoph Boeddeker , Takahiro Edo , Gordon Wichern , Jonathan Le Roux

Recent works have shown the promise of inference-time search over action samples for improving generative robot policies. In particular, optimizing cross-chunk coherence via bidirectional decoding has proven effective in boosting the…

Robotics · Computer Science 2025-08-19 Rhea Malhotra , Yuejiang Liu , Chelsea Finn

Classifier-free Guidance (CFG) is a widely used technique in modern diffusion models for enhancing sample quality and prompt adherence. However, through an empirical analysis on Gaussian mixture modeling with a closed-form solution, we…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-03-05 Chubin Chen , Jiashu Zhu , Xiaokun Feng , Nisha Huang , Chen Zhu , Meiqi Wu , Fangyuan Mao , Jiahong Wu , Xiangxiang Chu , Xiu Li

Recent advances in diffusion$/$flow-matching policies have enabled imitation learning of complex, multi-modal action trajectories. However, they are computationally expensive because they sample a trajectory of trajectories: a…

The use of guidance to steer sampling toward desired outcomes has been widely explored within diffusion models, especially in applications such as image and trajectory generation. However, incorporating guidance during training remains…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-05-21 Marvin Alles , Nutan Chen , Patrick van der Smagt , Botond Cseke

Generative models have demonstrated remarkable success in domains such as text, image, and video synthesis. In this work, we explore the application of generative models to fluid dynamics, specifically for turbulence simulation, where…

Computational Engineering, Finance, and Science · Computer Science 2025-04-09 Nikolaj T. Mücke , Benjamin Sanderse

Due to the sparse rewards and high degree of environment variation, reinforcement learning approaches such as Deep Deterministic Policy Gradient (DDPG) are plagued by issues of high variance when applied in complex real world environments.…

Robotics · Computer Science 2018-11-28 Linhai Xie , Yishu Miao , Sen Wang , Phil Blunsom , Zhihua Wang , Changhao Chen , Andrew Markham , Niki Trigoni

We study data-driven learning of robust stochastic control for infinite-horizon systems with potentially continuous state and action spaces. In many managerial settings--supply chains, finance, manufacturing, services, and dynamic…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2025-11-18 Shengbo Wang , Jason Meng , Nian Si , Jose Blanchet , Zhengyuan Zhou

Diffusion policies (DP) have demonstrated significant potential in visual navigation by capturing diverse multi-modal trajectory distributions. However, standard imitation learning (IL), which most DP methods rely on for training, often…

Robotics · Computer Science 2026-02-02 Runhua Zhang , Junyi Hou , Changxu Cheng , Qiyi Chen , Tao Wang , Wuyue Zhao