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48 results for multi-stage tasks

CSAC enables cooperative reinforcement learning for multi-stage tasks.

problem Coordinating consecutive reinforcement learning agents for long-term multi-stage tasks.
method CSAC modifies each agent's policy to maximize both current and next agent's critic.
result CSAC outperforms uncooperative policies and single-agent training in multi-room maze domain.

Improves classifier performance in multi-stage processes with adversarial autoencoders and multi-task learning.

problem Challenges in training classifiers due to varying sample sizes and information content across stages.
method Combines adversarial autoencoders, multi-task learning, and semi-supervised learning to address underfitting and overfitting.
result Our approach outperforms state-of-the-art methods across different domains.

Study uses deep neural networks for causal inference tasks, especially in high-dimensional settings.

problem Challenges in direct estimation for complex causal inference tasks.
method Sequential multi-stage learning with doubly robust deep neural networks.
result Theoretical guarantees for DNNs' effectiveness in high-dimensional causal inference.

Multi-task sparse feature learning aims to improve the generalization performance by exploiting the shared features among tasks. It has been successfully applied to many applications including computer vision and biomedical informatics. Most of the existing multi-task sparse feature learning algorithms are formulated a…

2012-10-22abs ↗pdf ↗

We consider the problem of learning multi-stage vision-based tasks on a real robot from a single video of a human performing the task, while leveraging demonstration data of subtasks with other objects. This problem presents a number of major challenges. Video demonstrations without teleoperation are easy for humans to…

2018-10-25abs ↗pdf ↗

Guided Learning improves end-to-end modeling for multi-stage decision-making.

problem Challenges in training unified neural networks for multi-stage decision-making.
method Guided Learning framework with a guide function and utility function.
result Significant improvement in performance over traditional methods.

Multi-task feature learning aims to identity the shared features among tasks to improve generalization. It has been shown that by minimizing non-convex learning models, a better solution than the convex alternatives can be obtained. Therefore, a non-convex model based on the capped-1,1\ell_{1},\ell_{1} regularization wa…

2014-06-16abs ↗pdf ↗

Improves disentangled representation learning with multi-stage modeling.

problem Trade-off between disentanglement and reconstruction quality in autoencoders.
method Penalty-based disentanglement learning followed by detail information modeling.
result Higher reconstruction quality than state-of-the-art methods with equivalent disentanglement.

This paper develops a learning framework for optimal strategies in multi-stage decentralized matching markets.

problem Optimal strategies in multi-stage decentralized matching markets with uncertain preferences.
method Nonparametric statistical approach and variational analysis.
result Participants can be better off with multi-stage matching compared to single-stage matching.

In this paper, we introduce multi-task learning (MTL) to data harmonization (DH); where we aim to harmonize images across different acquisition platforms and sites. This allows us to integrate information from multiple acquisitions and improve the predictive performance and learning efficiency of the harmonization mode…

2019-07-26abs ↗pdf ↗

Multi-stage financial decision optimization under uncertainty depends on a careful numerical approximation of the underlying stochastic process, which describes the future returns of the selected assets or asset categories. Various approaches towards an optimal generation of discrete-time, discrete-state approximations…

2009-12-08abs ↗pdf ↗

The low-rank tensor approximation is very promising for the compression of deep neural networks. We propose a new simple and efficient iterative approach, which alternates low-rank factorization with a smart rank selection and fine-tuning. We demonstrate the efficiency of our method comparing to non-iterative ones. Our…

2019-03-24abs ↗pdf ↗

New method designs experiments robustly for nonlinear estimation, improving parameter knowledge.

problem Designing robust experiments for nonlinear estimation under parametric uncertainty.
method Multi-stage robust optimization framework for sequential experiments.
result Identifies experiments better conducted early for improved parameter knowledge.

Estimates and infers multi-stage stationary treatment policies with variable selection.

problem Valid inference for multi-stage stationary treatment policies with high-dimensional feature variables.
method Estimate the value function using augmented inverse probability weighted estimator, apply penalty for variable selection, construct one-step improvements for valid inference.
result Improved estimators are asymptotically normal, valid inference for policy parameters demonstrated.

Improves classifier performance in multi-stage selection processes.

problem Difficulty in training classifiers in multi-stage selection processes due to varying sample sizes and information.
method Multi-Stage Transfer Learning (MSGTL) approach that uses knowledge from simpler classifiers trained in early stages to improve later stages.
result MSGTL outperforms other transfer learning methods in real-world selection process data.

Adaptive multi-stage density ratio estimation improves learning of latent space EBM.

problem Learning energy-based models in latent space is computationally expensive and challenging.
method Adaptive multi-stage density ratio estimation using NCE to bridge the gap between prior and posterior densities.
result The method enables more expressive prior models and sharpens the latent space EBM.

Estimates time-varying network connections using multi-stage smoothing.

problem Estimating edge probabilities of time-varying networks.
method Multi-stage smoothing: temporal local smoothing followed by node-domain smoothing.
result Captures both smooth temporal evolution and structural patterns in connectivity.

This paper proposes a cascading failure mitigation strategy based on Reinforcement Learning (RL) method. Firstly, the principles of RL are introduced. Then, the Multi-Stage Cascading Failure (MSCF) problem is presented and its challenges are investigated. The problem is then tackled by the RL based on DC-OPF (Optimal P…

2019-08-19abs ↗pdf ↗

Deep neural networks can grok better than shallow ones, showing multi-stage generalization.

problem Understanding the generalization behavior of deep neural networks.
method Empirical replication and analysis of grokking phenomenon in deep MLP models.
result Deep neural networks exhibit multi-stage generalization, with a secondary surge in test accuracy.

A number of recent work studied the effectiveness of feature selection using Lasso. It is known that under the restricted isometry properties (RIP), Lasso does not generally lead to the exact recovery of the set of nonzero coefficients, due to the looseness of convex relaxation. This paper considers the feature selecti…

2011-06-03abs ↗pdf ↗

In many classification systems, sensing modalities have different acquisition costs. It is often {\it unnecessary} to use every modality to classify a majority of examples. We study a multi-stage system in a prediction time cost reduction setting, where the full data is available for training, but for a test example, m…

2012-05-20abs ↗pdf ↗

Neural network with data augmentation improves multi-stage pump prediction accuracy.

problem Predicting multi-stage pump external characteristics with high accuracy.
method Neural network model with data augmentation for multi-objective prediction.
result Neural network model with data augmentation outperforms other models in accuracy.

OCEAN infers online task identities from context variables.

problem Online task inference for compositional tasks with context adaptation.
method Variational inference framework OCEAN models global and local context variables in a joint latent space.
result OCEAN provides more effective task inference with sequential context adaptation.

We introduce a class of learning problems where the agent is presented with a series of tasks. Intuitively, if there is relation among those tasks, then the information gained during execution of one task has value for the execution of another task. Consequently, the agent is intrinsically motivated to explore its envi…

2012-01-12abs ↗pdf ↗

Paper proposes a method to maintain ASR performance on new tasks without forgetting old ones.

problem Mitigating forgetting in ASR models when learning new tasks.
method A novel explainability-based knowledge distillation combined with response-based knowledge distillation.
result Our method outperforms existing ones in mitigating forgetting on multi-stage sequential training tasks.

Simple framework decouples word alignment and multilingual embedding mapping.

problem Learning multilingual embeddings without supervision.
method Two-stage approach: 1) unsupervised word alignment, 2) mapping embeddings to shared space.
result Robust performance across various multilingual tasks, including distant languages.

Generative adversarial networks (GAN) have recently been shown to be efficient for speech enhancement. However, most, if not all, existing speech enhancement GANs (SEGAN) make use of a single generator to perform one-stage enhancement mapping. In this work, we propose to use multiple generators that are chained to perf…

2020-01-15abs ↗pdf ↗

SummaryNet automates video summarisation using deep learning.

problem Creating informative video summaries from videos.
method Two-stream convolutional network for spatial and temporal features, encoder-decoder model for salient features, sigmoid regression with LSTM for frame probability.
result SummaryNet achieves comparable or better results than state-of-the-art methods on benchmark datasets.

The paper proposes a new method to improve microcredit decisions by modeling sequential loan interactions.

problem Improving microcredit decision-making by addressing population bias and model generalization.
method The authors introduce a multi-stage interaction sequence (MSIS) method that models sequential loan interactions and uses a hierarchical attention module to leverage interaction information.
result The MSIS method effectively remedies population bias and improves model generalization on a real loan data set.

MsIGN tackles high-dimensional Bayesian inference using multiscale structure.

problem High-dimensional Bayesian inference challenges due to the curse of dimensionality.
method MsIGN generates samples from coarse to fine scale, minimizing Jeffreys divergence.
result MsIGN outperforms previous approaches in posterior approximation and mode capture.

Planning methods can solve temporally extended sequential decision making problems by composing simple behaviors. However, planning requires suitable abstractions for the states and transitions, which typically need to be designed by hand. In contrast, model-free reinforcement learning (RL) can acquire behaviors from l…

2019-11-19abs ↗pdf ↗