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48 results for state embeddings

New method learns state embeddings from demonstrations for improved reinforcement learning.

problem Difficult relationship between observed state and useful policy actions in dynamic problems.
method Variational framework for learning state embeddings that optimize trajectory linearity.
result Learning embedding spaces improves policy gradient reinforcement learning performance.

In this paper we consider self-supervised representation learning to improve sample efficiency in reinforcement learning (RL). We propose a forward prediction objective for simultaneously learning embeddings of states and action sequences. These embeddings capture the structure of the environment's dynamics, enabling e…

2019-08-25abs ↗pdf ↗

The transition amplitudes between coherent states on a coherent state manifold are expressed in terms of the embedding of the coherent state manifold into a projective Hilbert space. Consequences for the dimension of projective Hilbert space and a simple geometric interpretation of Calabi's diastasis follows.

1997-07-31abs ↗pdf ↗

New method uses Cantor embeddings and Wasserstein distances to analyze predictive states in time series data.

problem Analyzing predictive states in stochastic processes using time series data.
method Wasserstein distances for detecting predictive equivalences in symbolic data, using Cantor embeddings for finite-dimensional representation.
result Exploratory analysis of temporal structure in various processes reveals insights.

Efficient RL in large POMDPs with latent determinism and embeddings.

problem Efficient reinforcement learning in large-scale POMDPs with latent states and observations.
method Conditional Hilbert space embeddings, linear optimal QQ-function, deterministic latent transitions, gap assumption.
result Computationally and statistically efficient algorithm for exact optimal policy.

A nonparametric approach for policy learning for POMDPs is proposed. The approach represents distributions over the states, observations, and actions as embeddings in feature spaces, which are reproducing kernel Hilbert spaces. Distributions over states given the observations are obtained by applying the kernel Bayes' …

2012-10-16abs ↗pdf ↗

Predictive State Representations (PSRs) are an expressive class of models for controlled stochastic processes. PSRs represent state as a set of predictions of future observable events. Because PSRs are defined entirely in terms of observable data, statistically consistent estimates of PSR parameters can be learned effi…

2013-09-26abs ↗pdf ↗

New method improves reinforcement learning generalization.

problem Few environments lead to poor generalization in reinforcement learning.
method Integrates sequential structure into representation learning, using a policy similarity metric (PSM) and contrastive embeddings (PSEs).
result PSEs improve generalization across various benchmarks.

Learning image representations to capture fine-grained semantics has been a challenging and important task enabling many applications such as image search and clustering. In this paper, we present Graph-Regularized Image Semantic Embedding (Graph-RISE), a large-scale neural graph learning framework that allows us to tr…

2019-02-14abs ↗pdf ↗

FREDE efficiently embeds graphs using linear space and guarantees quality.

problem Efficiently embedding graphs with quality guarantees and linear space complexity.
method FREDE combines matrix sketching with a nonlinear transform of PageRank similarities to achieve linear space and quality guarantees.
result FREDE provides column-covariance approximation guarantees that are nearly as good as SVD, even with limited node similarities.

Transformers encode latent distributions in text, improving performance in out-of-distribution cases.

problem What should embeddings from language models represent?
method Connecting autoregressive prediction to sufficient statistics, identifying three settings.
result Transformers encode latent generating distributions, improving performance.

A new method estimates multi-dimensional value distributions using Hilbert space embeddings.

problem Estimating value distributions in complex, multi-dimensional reinforcement learning settings.
method Hilbert space mappings and kernel mean embeddings to estimate the kernel mean embedding of multi-dimensional value distributions.
result Uniform convergence guarantees and robust off-policy evaluation demonstrated in simulations.

Embedding words in a vector space has gained a lot of attention in recent years. While state-of-the-art methods provide efficient computation of word similarities via a low-dimensional matrix embedding, their motivation is often left unclear. In this paper, we argue that word embedding can be naturally viewed as a rank…

2015-06-09abs ↗pdf ↗

We propose a simple discrete time semi-supervised graph embedding approach to link prediction in dynamic networks. The learned embedding reflects information from both the temporal and cross-sectional network structures, which is performed by defining the loss function as a weighted sum of the supervised loss from past…

2016-10-14abs ↗pdf ↗

Obtaining continuous representations of structural data such as directed acyclic graphs (DAGs) has gained attention in machine learning and artificial intelligence. However, embedding complex DAGs in which both ancestors and descendants of nodes are exponentially increasing is difficult. Tackling in this problem, we de…

2019-02-12abs ↗pdf ↗

In this paper we introduce score embedding, a neural network based model to learn interpretable vector representations for words. Score embedding is a supervised method that takes advantage of the labeled training data and the neural network architecture to learn interpretable representations for words. Health care has…

2019-08-19abs ↗pdf ↗

Explains Hodge theory and Kodaira embedding theorem for complex manifolds.

problem Understanding complex manifold properties and their geometric implications.
method Expository review of harmonic forms, Hodge theory, and Kodaira embedding theorem.
result Establishes connections between de Rham cohomology, Dolbeault cohomology, and projective varieties.

Supervised deep-embedding methods project inputs of a domain to a representational space in which same-class instances lie near one another and different-class instances lie far apart. We propose a probabilistic method that treats embeddings as random variables. Extending a state-of-the-art deterministic method, Protot…

2019-09-25abs ↗pdf ↗

MEANTIME improves sequential recommendation by using multi-temporal embeddings and attention mechanisms.

problem Limited use of timestamp information and information bottleneck in sequential recommendation models.
method MEANTIME employs multiple types of temporal embeddings and attention mechanisms to capture diverse patterns from user behavior sequences.
result MEANTIME outperforms state-of-the-art sequential recommendation methods.

Unsupervised text embedding has shown great power in a wide range of NLP tasks. While text embeddings are typically learned in the Euclidean space, directional similarity is often more effective in tasks such as word similarity and document clustering, which creates a gap between the training stage and usage stage of t…

2019-11-04abs ↗pdf ↗

Word embeddings have demonstrated strong performance on NLP tasks. However, lack of interpretability and the unsupervised nature of word embeddings have limited their use within computational social science and digital humanities. We propose the use of informative priors to create interpretable and domain-informed dime…

2019-09-03abs ↗pdf ↗

New method for embedding large networks without attributes, achieving state-of-the-art performance.

problem Learning embeddings from large-scale networks without domain-dependent attributes.
method Use predefined local encodings based on node degree frequencies at different distances.
result Inductive network embeddings generalize well across unseen or distant regions in the network.

Given an integral symplectic manifold, we construct a family of "coherent state" maps into complex projective space. The maps are built from sections of the tensor powers of a hermitian line bundle whose curvature is a multiple of the symplectic form. We show that this family is an almost-complex version of the Kodiara…

1998-12-07abs ↗pdf ↗

We address the problem of tuning word embeddings for specific use cases and domains. We propose a new method that automatically combines multiple domain-specific embeddings, selected from a wide range of pre-trained domain-specific embeddings, to improve their combined expressive power. Our approach relies on two key c…

2019-09-05abs ↗pdf ↗

In this paper, we propose a Tensor Train Neighborhood Preserving Embedding (TTNPE) to embed multi-dimensional tensor data into low dimensional tensor subspace. Novel approaches to solve the optimization problem in TTNPE are proposed. For this embedding, we evaluate novel trade-off gain among classification, computation…

2017-12-03abs ↗pdf ↗

The study examines Kähler structures on coadjoint orbits of Lie groups using coherent and squeezed states.

problem Does the coadjoint orbits of Lie groups support a Kähler structure?
method Examined three Lie groups: Weyl-Heisenberg, SU(2), and SU(1,1). Used coherent and squeezed states to explore Kähler structures.
result Coherent states provide Kähler embeddings, while squeezed states only symplectic embeddings.

Speaker embedding models that utilize neural networks to map utterances to a space where distances reflect similarity between speakers have driven recent progress in the speaker recognition task. However, there is still a significant performance gap between recognizing speakers in the training set and unseen speakers. …

2019-02-06abs ↗pdf ↗

Contrastive embeddings improve neural architecture search performance.

problem Improving performance of neural architecture search algorithms.
method Contrastive learning to identify networks based on data Jacobians and produce embeddings.
result Traditional black-box optimization algorithms can reach state-of-the-art performance with contrastive embeddings.

Proposes FEFM and DeepFEFM for CTR prediction, outperforming state-of-the-art models.

problem Click-through rate prediction in online applications.
method Field-Embedded Factorization Machine (FEFM) and its deep counterpart DeepFEFM, combining feature embeddings and deep neural networks.
result FEFM and DeepFEFM outperform existing models in CTR prediction tasks.

We find the minimal number of links in an embedding of any complete kk-partite graph on 7 vertices (including K7K_7, which has at least 21 links). We give either exact values or upper and lower bounds for the minimal number of links for all complete kk-partite graphs on 8 vertices. We also look at larger complete bip…

2006-11-21abs ↗pdf ↗

Recent works reveal that network embedding techniques enable many machine learning models to handle diverse downstream tasks on graph structured data. However, as previous methods usually focus on learning embeddings for a single network, they can not learn representations transferable on multiple networks. Hence, it i…

2019-06-03abs ↗pdf ↗

The goal of this note is to prove a compact embedding result for spaces of forward rate curves. As a consequence of this result, we show that any forward rate evolution can be approximated by a sequence of finite dimensional processes in the larger state space.

2019-07-02abs ↗pdf ↗