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48 results for diverse behaviors

AIPS improves ranking policy evaluation by adapting to diverse user behavior.

problem Inaccurate Off-Policy Evaluation of ranking policies due to high variance under diverse user behavior.
method Developed Adaptive IPS (AIPS) that adapts to different user behaviors and minimizes MSE.
result AIPS achieves minimum variance among unbiased estimators and provides significant empirical accuracy improvement.

New method recovers diverse policies from expert data using state-action pair weighting.

problem Recovering diverse policies from expert trajectories.
method Pointwise mutual information weighted behavioral cloning.
result Effective in focusing on state-action pairs most representative of the style.

Quality-Diversity algorithms explore multiple high-performing solutions in a search space.

problem Finding multiple high-performing solutions in complex optimization problems.
method Evolutionary computation approach focusing on behavioral space and holistic solution distribution.
result Quality-Diversity algorithms provide a comprehensive view of high-performing solutions in a search space.

The paper improves QD policy ensembles using distribution ratio estimators.

problem Training diverse and high-quality reinforcement learning agents.
method Using Stein variational gradient descent and distribution ratio estimators.
result The method generates diverse and high-quality reinforcement learning agents.

This paper analyzes DRL strategies in finance, revealing unique trading patterns and performance differences.

problem Limited research on DRL behavior in finance applications.
method Analysis of trading behaviors and purchase diversity of DRL algorithms (A2C, PPO, SAC, DDPG, TD3).
result DRL algorithms exhibit distinct trading patterns and performance differences, with A2C outperforming others in terms of cumulative rewards.

We derive a class of macroscopic differential equations that describe collective adaptation, starting from a discrete-time stochastic microscopic model. The behavior of each agent is a dynamic balance between adaptation that locally achieves the best action and memory loss that leads to randomized behavior. We show tha…

2004-08-20abs ↗pdf ↗

A method for a single policy to solve various tasks across diverse agent morphologies.

problem Generalizing a single policy to solve various tasks across diverse agent morphologies.
method Unified representation and behavior distillation using a morphology-task graph and Transformer architecture.
result Improves multi-task performances compared to baselines, suggesting a promising approach.

Hydra distills ensemble models into a single model while preserving diversity and uncertainty.

problem Loss of ensemble diversity and uncertainty in distilled models.
method Single multi-headed neural network with shared body network.
result Hydra improves distillation performance and preserves ensemble diversity and uncertainty.

Interactive news recommendation has been launched and attracted much attention recently. In this scenario, user's behavior evolves from single click behavior to multiple behaviors including like, comment, share etc. However, most of the existing methods still use single click behavior as the unique criterion of judging…

2018-11-30abs ↗pdf ↗

Proposes method to discover diverse near-optimal policies in reinforcement learning.

problem Finding different solutions to the same problem in reinforcement learning.
method Formalizes problem as CMDP, uses Successor Features, proposes new diversity rewards.
result Proposed method discovers diverse near-optimal policies that are robust and distinct.

Learning algorithms are enabling robots to solve increasingly challenging real-world tasks. These approaches often rely on demonstrations and reproduce the behavior shown. Unexpected changes in the environment may require using different behaviors to achieve the same effect, for instance to reach and grasp an object in…

2018-11-07abs ↗pdf ↗

New method uses SHapley Additive Explanations to identify anomaly detectors with complementary behaviors.

problem Challenges in unsupervised anomaly detection due to diverse data distributions and lack of labels.
method Characterize anomaly detectors using SHapley Additive Explanations to measure feature importance and similarity.
result Detectors with similar explanations produce correlated anomaly scores, while those with divergent explanations are complementary.

Most animals possess the ability to actuate a vast diversity of movements, ostensibly constrained only by morphology and physics. In practice, however, a frequent assumption in behavioral science is that most of an animal's activities can be described in terms of a small set of stereotyped motifs. Here we introduce a m…

2013-10-16abs ↗pdf ↗

DIVA generates diverse tasks for complex simulators, enabling adaptive agent training.

problem Lack of diverse training data for complex, open-ended simulators.
method Evolutionary approach using domain randomization and procedural generation.
result Successfully trains adaptive agent behavior in complex simulators.

This paper improves model generalization by integrating diverse pretrained models.

problem Leveraging diverse pretrained models for robust out-of-distribution generalization.
method Characterize and integrate diverse pretrained models based on diversity and correlation shifts.
result Demonstrates state-of-the-art out-of-distribution generalization performance.

DiCE uses diverse agents to explore and learn, avoiding local minima.

problem Local minima in RL due to limited exploration and correlated behavior.
method DiCE employs a group of heterogeneous agents to explore simultaneously and share experiences, with a diversity regularization mechanism.
result DiCE achieves substantial improvement over baselines in MuJoCo locomotion tasks.

RE enhances DL by learning model behavior, enabling iterative self-improvement.

problem Static data representations limit DL's potential for evolving models.
method RE uses multiple mappings of data through identical deep architectures, analyzing internal representations and performance signals.
result Models can gain insight from predecessors, leading to iterative self-improvement.

Model assesses credit risk using behavioral data from Experian and Bank of Italy.

problem Improving credit risk assessment in financial institutions.
method Statistical and machine learning techniques applied to behavioral data from Experian and Bank of Italy.
result Demonstrates transferability of the model from private to central data.

This paper proposes a new method to connect language and physical actions in reinforcement learning.

problem Connecting linguistic representations to the physical world in embodied agents.
method Language-conditioned goal generators to decouple sensorimotor learning from language acquisition.
result Agents can demonstrate a diversity of behaviors for any given instruction.

RL enhances LLM planning but introduces spurious solutions and diversity collapse.

problem Theoretical understanding of RL's benefits and limitations in LLM planning.
method Graph-based abstraction, policy gradient, Q-learning, supervised fine-tuning.
result RL's exploration is crucial for generalization, but PG suffers from diversity collapse.

We study the problem of controllable generation of long-term sequential behaviors, where the goal is to calibrate to multiple behavior styles simultaneously. In contrast to the well-studied areas of controllable generation of images, text, and speech, there are two questions that pose significant challenges when genera…

2019-10-02abs ↗pdf ↗

The Hull-Strominger system for supersymmetric vacua of the heterotic string allows general unitary Hermitian connections with torsion and not just the Chern unitary connection. Solutions on unimodular Lie groups exploiting this flexibility were found by T. Fei and S.T. Yau. The Anomaly flow is a flow whose stationary p…

2017-05-27abs ↗pdf ↗

SODA-RL learns diverse treatment options for hypotension from data.

problem Identifying the best treatment for acute hypotension from observational data.
method SODA-RL: Safely Optimized, Diverse, and Accurate Reinforcement Learning.
result SODA-RL identifies distinct, plausible treatment options from observational data.

We study --both in theory and practice-- the use of momentum motions in classic iterative hard thresholding (IHT) methods. By simply modifying plain IHT, we investigate its convergence behavior on convex optimization criteria with non-convex constraints, under standard assumptions. In diverse scenaria, we observe that …

2017-12-26abs ↗pdf ↗

GGP models multivariate time series with latent sub-sequences for diverse behaviors.

problem Modeling multivariate time series with diverse behaviors and patterns.
method Graph Gamma Process (GGP) linear dynamical systems with latent sub-sequences.
result GGP models exhibit good predictive performance and reveal interpretable latent patterns.

ActiLabel learns activity patterns across diverse sensor devices.

problem Limited adoption of activity recognition models across different domains due to diverse sensor devices.
method Combination of graph model and optimal tiered mapping for learning activity labels.
result Superior performance compared to state-of-the-art methods on public datasets.

The study provides precise asymptotic theory for in-context learning by Transformers.

problem Understanding the sample complexity, pretraining task diversity, and context length for successful in-context learning.
method An exactly solvable model of linear regression task by linear attention, deriving sharp asymptotics.
result Double-descent learning curve with increasing pretraining examples, phase transition between low and high task diversity regimes.

Efficient exploration remains a challenging research problem in reinforcement learning, especially when an environment contains large state spaces, deceptive local optima, or sparse rewards. To tackle this problem, we present a diversity-driven approach for exploration, which can be easily combined with both off- and o…

2018-02-13abs ↗pdf ↗

Learning to rank is an important problem in machine learning and recommender systems. In a recommender system, a user is typically recommended a list of items. Since the user is unlikely to examine the entire recommended list, partial feedback arises naturally. At the same time, diverse recommendations are important be…

2018-11-01abs ↗pdf ↗

Inspired by the unsupervised learning or self-organization in the machine learning context, here we attempt to draw `learning curve' for the collective behavior of job-seeking `zero-intelligence' labors in successive job-hunting processes. Our labor market is supposed to be opened especially for university graduates in…

2013-09-19abs ↗pdf ↗

HealthSyn generates synthetic user behavior data for health interventions.

problem Lack of representative data for testing AI health interventions.
method Uses Markov processes to simulate diverse user actions, generating logs for ML algorithms.
result Synthetic data can be used to develop, test, and evaluate ML algorithms and RL-based interventions.