Proposes a method to generate diverse translations by conditioning on target domain.
problem NMT models lack diversity in translations, even with search algorithms.
method Condition the decoder on a latent variable representing target domain, generated by a target encoder.
result Generated diverse translations without affecting performance or training time.
We propose a simple yet highly effective method that addresses the mode-collapse problem in the Conditional Generative Adversarial Network (cGAN). Although conditional distributions are multi-modal (i.e., having many modes) in practice, most cGAN approaches tend to learn an overly simplified distribution where an input…
Advances in Deep Reinforcement Learning have led to agents that perform well across a variety of sensory-motor domains. In this work, we study the setting in which an agent must learn to generate programs for diverse scenes conditioned on a given symbolic instruction. Final goals are specified to our agent via images o…
We tackle the task of diverse 3D human motion prediction, that is, forecasting multiple plausible future 3D poses given a sequence of observed 3D poses. In this context, a popular approach consists of using a Conditional Variational Autoencoder (CVAE). However, existing approaches that do so either fail to capture the …
MAP-Elites generates diverse trading strategies for improved execution performance.
problem Optimizing trading execution schedules in volatile market conditions.
method Quality-diversity algorithm (MAP-Elites) generating a portfolio of specialized strategies.
result Diverse strategies achieve 8-10% performance improvements, validating quality-diversity methods.
Conditional generative models have achieved considerable success in the past few years, but usually require a lot of labeled data. Recently, ClusterGAN combines GAN with an encoder to achieve remarkable clustering performance via unsupervised conditional generation. However, it ignores the real conditional distribution…
Identifies latent actions and dynamics from offline data with diverse demonstrators.
problem Recovering latent actions and environment dynamics from action-free trajectories.
method Assumes distinct policies for each demonstrator, identifies latent transitions and policies via matrix factorization.
result Identifies latent transitions and demonstrator policies up to permutation.
Paper explores how text generation quality and diversity metrics relate to distribution fitting.
problem Unclear relation between text generation quality and diversity metrics and distribution fitting.
method Theoretical approach to prove a linear combination of quality and diversity metrics can be a divergence metric.
result CR/NRR proposed as a better substitute for BLEU/Self-BLEU metrics.
A method to improve image synthesis diversity using mutual information.
problem Mode collapse in conditional GANs for multimodal image synthesis.
method Explicitly estimate and maximize mutual information between latent code and output image.
result Prevents mode collapse and encourages synthesis of diverse images.
FlowHFT learns adaptive trading strategies from multiple models for diverse market conditions.
problem Traditional HFT models are limited by specific market conditions and cannot adapt to dynamic markets.
method FlowHFT uses flow matching policy to learn from multiple expert models and adapt to various market scenarios.
result FlowHFT consistently outperforms individual expert models in multiple market conditions.
New algorithms for model selection in linear contextual bandits without feature diversity conditions.
problem Model selection in linear contextual bandits without feature diversity conditions.
method Data-adaptive algorithms that provide model selection guarantees without feature diversity conditions.
result O(d^α T^{1-α}) model selection guarantees with no feature diversity conditions.
New method learns diverse solutions in reinforcement learning without gradient bias.
problem Lack of diverse solutions in reinforcement learning tasks.
method Maximizes state-action-based mutual information directly, using variational lower bound.
result Successfully learns an infinite set of diverse solutions.
Heterogeneous SVO leads to diverse policies in sequential social dilemmas.
problem Understanding how diverse social value orientations affect behavior in sequential social dilemmas.
method Extending prior reinforcement learning studies, we instantiated heterogeneous SVO in a sequential social dilemma setting and measured task-specific diversity metrics.
result Heterogeneous SVO leads to meaningfully diverse policies across various incentive structures.
New method learns diverse protein scaffolds for motif design.
problem Designing long, diverse protein scaffolds for specific motifs.
method E(3)-equivariant graph neural network for diffusion modeling.
result First to guarantee conditional sampling from diffusion models.
UCPO improves diversity in reinforcement learning models, maintaining high accuracy.
problem RLVR objectives often lead to diversity collapse, reducing coverage of correct solutions.
method UCPO adds a conditional uniformity penalty to GRPO, redistributing probability mass.
result UCPO improves Pass@K and diversity while maintaining competitive Pass@1 accuracy.
Online feature selection has been an active research area in recent years. We propose a novel diverse online feature selection method based on Determinantal Point Processes (DPP). Our model aims to provide diverse features which can be composed in either a supervised or unsupervised framework. The framework aims to pro…
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.
Study optimal stopping for group with diverse discount rates using an attitude function.
problem Optimal stopping for a group with diverse discount rates under an aggregation preference.
method Develop iterative approach using consistent planning for time-consistent equilibria.
result Characterize all time-consistent mild equilibria as fixed points of an operator.
Proposes MOGFNs for generating diverse Pareto optimal solutions in multi-objective optimization.
problem Generating diverse candidates in multi-objective optimization with conflicting objectives.
method Introduces MOGFNs based on GFlowNets, with two variants: MOGFN-PC and MOGFN-AL.
result Improved candidate diversity compared to existing methods.
A new LLM-based method enhances diversity in oversampling for imbalanced classification.
problem Limited diversity in synthetic minority samples generated by current LLM-based approaches reduces robustness and generalizability.
method Condition synthetic sample generation on minority labels and features, use permutation strategy for fine-tuning, fine-tune on minority and interpolated samples.
result Significantly outperforms eight SOTA baselines in diverse synthetic sample generation and downstream classification tasks.
Synthesizing high resolution photorealistic images has been a long-standing challenge in machine learning. In this paper we introduce new methods for the improved training of generative adversarial networks (GANs) for image synthesis. We construct a variant of GANs employing label conditioning that results in 128x128 r…
Conditional generative models enjoy remarkable progress over the past few years. One of the popular conditional models is Auxiliary Classifier GAN (AC-GAN), which generates highly discriminative images by extending the loss function of GAN with an auxiliary classifier. However, the diversity of the generated samples by…
Study finds AI can predict diverse cardiac and non-cardiac diagnoses from a single ECG.
problem Narrow focus of ECG analysis models for diverse medical conditions.
method Exploratory study using a single AI model to predict multiple ICD codes.
result Model achieved AUROC scores > 0.8 for 253 cardiac and 172 non-cardiac diagnoses.
Diversity plays a vital role in many text generating applications. In recent years, Conditional Variational Auto Encoders (CVAE) have shown promising performances for this task. However, they often encounter the so called KL-Vanishing problem. Previous works mitigated such problem by heuristic methods such as strengthe…
Automatic program repair holds the potential of dramatically improving the productivity of programmers during the software development process and correctness of software in general. Recent advances in machine learning, deep learning, and NLP have rekindled the hope to eventually fully automate the process of repairing…
A novel framework uses goal-conditioned reinforcement learning to generate diverse samples.
problem Generating high-quality, diverse samples from generative models.
method Two agents: GC-agent learns to reconstruct the training set, S-agent learns to imitate GC-agent without knowing the goals.
result Empirically, the method generates diverse and high-quality samples in image synthesis.
This work introduces an efficient method to sample high-quality images from conditional GANs.
problem Efficient subsampling of images from conditional GANs (cGANs) is challenging.
method Developed a novel conditional density ratio estimation method (cDRE-F-cSP) and rejection sampling scheme (cDR-RS).
result cDR-RS outperforms state-of-the-art methods in both effectiveness and efficiency.
Recent advances in conditional image generation tasks, such as image-to-image translation and image inpainting, are largely accounted to the success of conditional GAN models, which are often optimized by the joint use of the GAN loss with the reconstruction loss. However, we reveal that this training recipe shared by …
We introduce a new sampling method for large language models that balances diversity and parallelism.
problem Balancing diversity and parallelism in decoding for large language models.
method Arithmetic sampling framework compatible with various sampling variations.
result Improves estimation of expected BLEU score reward and reduces the gap with beam search.
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.
Generative model learns to create coherent slates from prompts.
problem Generating coherent slates from natural language prompts.
method DMSG, a generative framework based on diffusion models.
result DMSG outperforms baselines in relevance and diversity.
New algorithm reduces bandit problem's regret bound to logarithmic in dimension.
problem Sparse linear bandit problem with sparse reward structure.
method Proposes an algorithm that uses compatibility condition on optimal arm.
result Achieves regret bound of O(poly log dT) without additional diversity assumptions.
MetaTrader combines diverse expert strategies to optimize portfolio performance.
problem Optimizing portfolio performance in changing financial markets.
method Two-stage RL approach: imitation learning followed by a meta-policy.
result MetaTrader significantly outperforms state-of-the-art baselines in balancing profits and risks.
Reinforcement learning with sparse rewards is challenging because an agent can rarely obtain non-zero rewards and hence, gradient-based optimization of parameterized policies can be incremental and slow. Recent work demonstrated that using a memory buffer of previous successful trajectories can result in more effective…
Transformers learn to generalize out-of-distribution with diverse pretraining tasks.
problem Conditions for pretrained transformers to generalize out-of-distribution.
method Empirical study of task diversity and pretraining distribution.
result As task diversity increases, transformers transition from specialized to generalized solutions.
Enhances multimodal generation with Normalizing Flows and correlation analysis.
problem Generating coherent cross-modal data from multiple sources.
method Uses Deep Canonical Correlation Analysis for shared information, Normalizing Flows for diversity, and Product of Experts for scalability.
result Improves likelihood, diversity, and coherence in conditional generation.
Method learns diverse models to resist spurious correlations.
problem Models learn spurious correlations in i.i.d. training data.
method Multiple models with minimized conditional total correlation.
result Framework significantly outperforms baseline on distribution shift.
Developing a range-aware Bayesian optimization framework for discovering diverse designs within target property windows.
problem Discovering multiple, distinct solutions within target property windows.
method Range-aware Bayesian optimization framework.
result Consistently recovers larger and more diverse sets of valid designs.
High-dimensional diffusion models suffer from distorted samples due to CFG.
problem Distortions in high-dimensional guided diffusion models.
method Analytical tools from statistical physics, dynamic mean-field theory.
result Distortions arise in high-dimensional settings due to class separability issues.
Wariness affects poverty traps and equilibrium diversity in economic models.
problem The impact of wariness on poverty traps and equilibrium diversity in economic models.
method An overlapping generations model to explore the effects of wariness on poverty traps and equilibrium diversity.
result Wariness can amplify or mitigate the likelihood of poverty traps and can lead to multiple intertemporal equilibria.
Online learning algorithms, widely used to power search and content optimization on the web, must balance exploration and exploitation, potentially sacrificing the experience of current users for information that will lead to better decisions in the future. Recently, concerns have been raised about whether the process …
We propose MAD-GAN, an intuitive generalization to the Generative Adversarial Networks (GANs) and its conditional variants to address the well known problem of mode collapse. First, MAD-GAN is a multi-agent GAN architecture incorporating multiple generators and one discriminator. Second, to enforce that different gener…
New analysis shows diverse classes in pre-training boost NLP performance.
problem Improving sample efficiency in downstream NLP tasks.
method Proved that diverse classes in pre-training lead to better performance, using a large last linear layer singular value.
result Transfer learning excess risk improves with large ildeν and $O\left(\frac{1}{ ildeν \sqrt{n}}
ight)$ rate. MGLM models all possible language channel factorizations for improved multilingual generation.
problem Generating multilingual text with flexibility and quality.
method Generative joint distribution model over language channels, marginalizing all possible factorizations.
result MGLM outperforms traditional models in multilingual generation tasks.
DPA aligns LLMs with multi-objective rewards for diverse user preferences.
problem Fine-grained control over LLMs for diverse user needs.
method Integrates multi-objective reward modeling and directional preference control.
result DPA offers better performance trade-offs and intuitive user control over LLM generation.
The study identifies latent concepts from diverse observations without assuming specific models.
problem Lack of general theoretical support for concept learning.
method Develops a nonparametric framework for identifying latent concepts from multiple classes of observations.
result Correctness guarantees for concept identification without parametric assumptions.
Ensembles, as a widely used and effective technique in the machine learning community, succeed within a key element -- "diversity." The relationship between diversity and generalization, unfortunately, is not entirely understood and remains an open research issue. To reveal the effect of diversity on the generalization…
This paper introduces f-DPO, a generalized approach to Direct Preference Optimization using diverse divergence constraints.
problem Aligning large language models with human preferences while mitigating safety risks.
method Incorporates diverse divergence constraints to simplify the relationship between reward and optimal policy, eliminating the need for estimating the normalizing constant.
result Optimizes LLMs to align with human preferences more efficiently and under a broader set of divergence constraints.