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v139/mguni21a
Learning in Nonzero-Sum Stochastic Games with Potentials
https://proceedings.mlr.press/v139/mguni21a.html
[ "David H Mguni", "Yutong Wu", "Yali Du", "Yaodong Yang", "Ziyi Wang", "Minne Li", "Ying Wen", "Joel Jennings", "Jun Wang" ]
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Multi-agent reinforcement learning (MARL) has become effective in tackling discrete cooperative game scenarios. However, MARL has yet to penetrate settings beyond those modelled by team and zero-sum games, confining it to a small subset of multi-agent systems. In this paper, we introduce a new generation of MARL learne...
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2103.09284
title_snapshot
v139/miao21a
EfficientTTS: An Efficient and High-Quality Text-to-Speech Architecture
https://proceedings.mlr.press/v139/miao21a.html
[ "Chenfeng Miao", "Liang Shuang", "Zhengchen Liu", "Chen Minchuan", "Jun Ma", "Shaojun Wang", "Jing Xiao" ]
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In this work, we address the Text-to-Speech (TTS) task by proposing a non-autoregressive architecture called EfficientTTS. Unlike the dominant non-autoregressive TTS models, which are trained with the need of external aligners, EfficientTTS optimizes all its parameters with a stable, end-to-end training procedure, allo...
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null
702
2012.03500
title_snapshot
v139/miller21a
Outside the Echo Chamber: Optimizing the Performative Risk
https://proceedings.mlr.press/v139/miller21a.html
[ "John P Miller", "Juan C Perdomo", "Tijana Zrnic" ]
null
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In performative prediction, predictions guide decision-making and hence can influence the distribution of future data. To date, work on performative prediction has focused on finding performatively stable models, which are the fixed points of repeated retraining. However, stable solutions can be far from optimal when e...
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null
703
2102.08570
title_snapshot
v139/miller21b
Accuracy on the Line: on the Strong Correlation Between Out-of-Distribution and In-Distribution Generalization
https://proceedings.mlr.press/v139/miller21b.html
[ "John P Miller", "Rohan Taori", "Aditi Raghunathan", "Shiori Sagawa", "Pang Wei Koh", "Vaishaal Shankar", "Percy Liang", "Yair Carmon", "Ludwig Schmidt" ]
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For machine learning systems to be reliable, we must understand their performance in unseen, out- of-distribution environments. In this paper, we empirically show that out-of-distribution performance is strongly correlated with in-distribution performance for a wide range of models and distribution shifts. Specifically...
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null
704
2107.04649
title_snapshot
v139/min21a
Signatured Deep Fictitious Play for Mean Field Games with Common Noise
https://proceedings.mlr.press/v139/min21a.html
[ "Ming Min", "Ruimeng Hu" ]
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Existing deep learning methods for solving mean-field games (MFGs) with common noise fix the sampling common noise paths and then solve the corresponding MFGs. This leads to a nested loop structure with millions of simulations of common noise paths in order to produce accurate solutions, which results in prohibitive co...
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null
705
2106.03272
title_snapshot
v139/min21b
Meta-StyleSpeech : Multi-Speaker Adaptive Text-to-Speech Generation
https://proceedings.mlr.press/v139/min21b.html
[ "Dongchan Min", "Dong Bok Lee", "Eunho Yang", "Sung Ju Hwang" ]
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With rapid progress in neural text-to-speech (TTS) models, personalized speech generation is now in high demand for many applications. For practical applicability, a TTS model should generate high-quality speech with only a few audio samples from the given speaker, that are also short in length. However, existing metho...
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706
2106.03153
title_snapshot
v139/min21c
On the Explicit Role of Initialization on the Convergence and Implicit Bias of Overparametrized Linear Networks
https://proceedings.mlr.press/v139/min21c.html
[ "Hancheng Min", "Salma Tarmoun", "Rene Vidal", "Enrique Mallada" ]
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Neural networks trained via gradient descent with random initialization and without any regularization enjoy good generalization performance in practice despite being highly overparametrized. A promising direction to explain this phenomenon is to study how initialization and overparametrization affect convergence and i...
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null
707
2105.06351
title_judge
v139/mita21a
An Identifiable Double VAE For Disentangled Representations
https://proceedings.mlr.press/v139/mita21a.html
[ "Graziano Mita", "Maurizio Filippone", "Pietro Michiardi" ]
null
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A large part of the literature on learning disentangled representations focuses on variational autoencoders (VAEs). Recent developments demonstrate that disentanglement cannot be obtained in a fully unsupervised setting without inductive biases on models and data. However, Khemakhem et al., AISTATS, 2020 suggest that e...
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708
2010.09360
title_snapshot
v139/mitchell21a
Offline Meta-Reinforcement Learning with Advantage Weighting
https://proceedings.mlr.press/v139/mitchell21a.html
[ "Eric Mitchell", "Rafael Rafailov", "Xue Bin Peng", "Sergey Levine", "Chelsea Finn" ]
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This paper introduces the offline meta-reinforcement learning (offline meta-RL) problem setting and proposes an algorithm that performs well in this setting. Offline meta-RL is analogous to the widely successful supervised learning strategy of pre-training a model on a large batch of fixed, pre-collected data (possibly...
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null
709
2008.06043
title_snapshot
v139/miyagawa21a
The Power of Log-Sum-Exp: Sequential Density Ratio Matrix Estimation for Speed-Accuracy Optimization
https://proceedings.mlr.press/v139/miyagawa21a.html
[ "Taiki Miyagawa", "Akinori F Ebihara" ]
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We propose a model for multiclass classification of time series to make a prediction as early and as accurate as possible. The matrix sequential probability ratio test (MSPRT) is known to be asymptotically optimal for this setting, but contains a critical assumption that hinders broad real-world applications; the MSPRT...
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null
710
2105.13636
title_snapshot
v139/mora21a
PODS: Policy Optimization via Differentiable Simulation
https://proceedings.mlr.press/v139/mora21a.html
[ "Miguel Angel Zamora Mora", "Momchil Peychev", "Sehoon Ha", "Martin Vechev", "Stelian Coros" ]
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Current reinforcement learning (RL) methods use simulation models as simple black-box oracles. In this paper, with the goal of improving the performance exhibited by RL algorithms, we explore a systematic way of leveraging the additional information provided by an emerging class of differentiable simulators. Building o...
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711
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v139/morrill21a
Efficient Deviation Types and Learning for Hindsight Rationality in Extensive-Form Games
https://proceedings.mlr.press/v139/morrill21a.html
[ "Dustin Morrill", "Ryan D’Orazio", "Marc Lanctot", "James R Wright", "Michael Bowling", "Amy R Greenwald" ]
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Hindsight rationality is an approach to playing general-sum games that prescribes no-regret learning dynamics for individual agents with respect to a set of deviations, and further describes jointly rational behavior among multiple agents with mediated equilibria. To develop hindsight rational learning in sequential de...
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null
712
2102.06973
title_snapshot
v139/morrill21b
Neural Rough Differential Equations for Long Time Series
https://proceedings.mlr.press/v139/morrill21b.html
[ "James Morrill", "Cristopher Salvi", "Patrick Kidger", "James Foster" ]
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Neural controlled differential equations (CDEs) are the continuous-time analogue of recurrent neural networks, as Neural ODEs are to residual networks, and offer a memory-efficient continuous-time way to model functions of potentially irregular time series. Existing methods for computing the forward pass of a Neural CD...
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null
713
2009.08295
title_snapshot
v139/moshkovitz21a
Connecting Interpretability and Robustness in Decision Trees through Separation
https://proceedings.mlr.press/v139/moshkovitz21a.html
[ "Michal Moshkovitz", "Yao-Yuan Yang", "Kamalika Chaudhuri" ]
null
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Recent research has recognized interpretability and robustness as essential properties of trustworthy classification. Curiously, a connection between robustness and interpretability was empirically observed, but the theoretical reasoning behind it remained elusive. In this paper, we rigorously investigate this connecti...
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null
714
2102.07048
title_snapshot
v139/mukherjee21a
Outlier-Robust Optimal Transport
https://proceedings.mlr.press/v139/mukherjee21a.html
[ "Debarghya Mukherjee", "Aritra Guha", "Justin M Solomon", "Yuekai Sun", "Mikhail Yurochkin" ]
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Optimal transport (OT) measures distances between distributions in a way that depends on the geometry of the sample space. In light of recent advances in computational OT, OT distances are widely used as loss functions in machine learning. Despite their prevalence and advantages, OT loss functions can be extremely sens...
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null
715
2012.07363
title_snapshot
v139/munteanu21a
Oblivious Sketching for Logistic Regression
https://proceedings.mlr.press/v139/munteanu21a.html
[ "Alexander Munteanu", "Simon Omlor", "David Woodruff" ]
null
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What guarantees are possible for solving logistic regression in one pass over a data stream? To answer this question, we present the first data oblivious sketch for logistic regression. Our sketch can be computed in input sparsity time over a turnstile data stream and reduces the size of a $d$-dimensional data set from...
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null
716
2107.06615
title_snapshot
v139/murata21a
Bias-Variance Reduced Local SGD for Less Heterogeneous Federated Learning
https://proceedings.mlr.press/v139/murata21a.html
[ "Tomoya Murata", "Taiji Suzuki" ]
null
null
Recently, local SGD has got much attention and been extensively studied in the distributed learning community to overcome the communication bottleneck problem. However, the superiority of local SGD to minibatch SGD only holds in quite limited situations. In this paper, we study a new local algorithm called Bias-Varianc...
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null
717
2102.03198
title_snapshot
v139/murphy21a
Implicit-PDF: Non-Parametric Representation of Probability Distributions on the Rotation Manifold
https://proceedings.mlr.press/v139/murphy21a.html
[ "Kieran A Murphy", "Carlos Esteves", "Varun Jampani", "Srikumar Ramalingam", "Ameesh Makadia" ]
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In the deep learning era, the vast majority of methods to predict pose from a single image are trained to classify or regress to a single given ground truth pose per image. Such methods have two main shortcomings, i) they cannot represent uncertainty about the predictions, and ii) they cannot handle symmetric objects, ...
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null
718
2106.05965
title_snapshot
v139/mutny21a
No-regret Algorithms for Capturing Events in Poisson Point Processes
https://proceedings.mlr.press/v139/mutny21a.html
[ "Mojmir Mutny", "Andreas Krause" ]
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Inhomogeneous Poisson point processes are widely used models of event occurrences. We address \emph{adaptive sensing of Poisson Point processes}, namely, maximizing the number of captured events subject to sensing costs. We encode prior assumptions on the rate function by modeling it as a member of a known \emph{reprod...
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719
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v139/nabati21a
Online Limited Memory Neural-Linear Bandits with Likelihood Matching
https://proceedings.mlr.press/v139/nabati21a.html
[ "Ofir Nabati", "Tom Zahavy", "Shie Mannor" ]
null
null
We study neural-linear bandits for solving problems where {\em both} exploration and representation learning play an important role. Neural-linear bandits harnesses the representation power of Deep Neural Networks (DNNs) and combines it with efficient exploration mechanisms by leveraging uncertainty estimation of the m...
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null
720
2102.03799
title_snapshot
v139/nakagawa21a
Quantitative Understanding of VAE as a Non-linearly Scaled Isometric Embedding
https://proceedings.mlr.press/v139/nakagawa21a.html
[ "Akira Nakagawa", "Keizo Kato", "Taiji Suzuki" ]
null
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Variational autoencoder (VAE) estimates the posterior parameters (mean and variance) of latent variables corresponding to each input data. While it is used for many tasks, the transparency of the model is still an underlying issue. This paper provides a quantitative understanding of VAE property through the differentia...
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721
2007.15190
title_snapshot
v139/nam21a
GMAC: A Distributional Perspective on Actor-Critic Framework
https://proceedings.mlr.press/v139/nam21a.html
[ "Daniel W Nam", "Younghoon Kim", "Chan Y Park" ]
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In this paper, we devise a distributional framework on actor-critic as a solution to distributional instability, action type restriction, and conflation between samples and statistics. We propose a new method that minimizes the Cram{é}r distance with the multi-step Bellman target distribution generated from a novel Sam...
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722
2105.11366
title_snapshot
v139/narayanan21a
Memory-Efficient Pipeline-Parallel DNN Training
https://proceedings.mlr.press/v139/narayanan21a.html
[ "Deepak Narayanan", "Amar Phanishayee", "Kaiyu Shi", "Xie Chen", "Matei Zaharia" ]
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Many state-of-the-art ML results have been obtained by scaling up the number of parameters in existing models. However, parameters and activations for such large models often do not fit in the memory of a single accelerator device; this means that it is necessary to distribute training of large models over multiple acc...
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723
2006.09503
title_snapshot
v139/narayanan21b
Randomized Dimensionality Reduction for Facility Location and Single-Linkage Clustering
https://proceedings.mlr.press/v139/narayanan21b.html
[ "Shyam Narayanan", "Sandeep Silwal", "Piotr Indyk", "Or Zamir" ]
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Random dimensionality reduction is a versatile tool for speeding up algorithms for high-dimensional problems. We study its application to two clustering problems: the facility location problem, and the single-linkage hierarchical clustering problem, which is equivalent to computing the minimum spanning tree. We show th...
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null
724
2107.01804
title_snapshot
v139/nash21a
Generating images with sparse representations
https://proceedings.mlr.press/v139/nash21a.html
[ "Charlie Nash", "Jacob Menick", "Sander Dieleman", "Peter Battaglia" ]
null
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The high dimensionality of images presents architecture and sampling-efficiency challenges for likelihood-based generative models. Previous approaches such as VQ-VAE use deep autoencoders to obtain compact representations, which are more practical as inputs for likelihood-based models. We present an alternative approac...
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null
725
2103.03841
title_snapshot
v139/natarovskii21a
Geometric convergence of elliptical slice sampling
https://proceedings.mlr.press/v139/natarovskii21a.html
[ "Viacheslav Natarovskii", "Daniel Rudolf", "Björn Sprungk" ]
null
null
For Bayesian learning, given likelihood function and Gaussian prior, the elliptical slice sampler, introduced by Murray, Adams and MacKay 2010, provides a tool for the construction of a Markov chain for approximate sampling of the underlying posterior distribution. Besides of its wide applicability and simplicity its m...
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null
726
2105.03308
title_snapshot
v139/nayman21a
HardCoRe-NAS: Hard Constrained diffeRentiable Neural Architecture Search
https://proceedings.mlr.press/v139/nayman21a.html
[ "Niv Nayman", "Yonathan Aflalo", "Asaf Noy", "Lihi Zelnik" ]
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Realistic use of neural networks often requires adhering to multiple constraints on latency, energy and memory among others. A popular approach to find fitting networks is through constrained Neural Architecture Search (NAS), however, previous methods enforce the constraint only softly. Therefore, the resulting network...
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null
727
2102.11646
title_snapshot
v139/ndousse21a
Emergent Social Learning via Multi-agent Reinforcement Learning
https://proceedings.mlr.press/v139/ndousse21a.html
[ "Kamal K Ndousse", "Douglas Eck", "Sergey Levine", "Natasha Jaques" ]
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Social learning is a key component of human and animal intelligence. By taking cues from the behavior of experts in their environment, social learners can acquire sophisticated behavior and rapidly adapt to new circumstances. This paper investigates whether independent reinforcement learning (RL) agents in a multi-agen...
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null
728
2010.00581
title_snapshot
v139/neiswanger21a
Bayesian Algorithm Execution: Estimating Computable Properties of Black-box Functions Using Mutual Information
https://proceedings.mlr.press/v139/neiswanger21a.html
[ "Willie Neiswanger", "Ke Alexander Wang", "Stefano Ermon" ]
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In many real world problems, we want to infer some property of an expensive black-box function f, given a budget of T function evaluations. One example is budget constrained global optimization of f, for which Bayesian optimization is a popular method. Other properties of interest include local optima, level sets, inte...
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729
2104.09460
title_snapshot
v139/nekoei21a
Continuous Coordination As a Realistic Scenario for Lifelong Learning
https://proceedings.mlr.press/v139/nekoei21a.html
[ "Hadi Nekoei", "Akilesh Badrinaaraayanan", "Aaron Courville", "Sarath Chandar" ]
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Current deep reinforcement learning (RL) algorithms are still highly task-specific and lack the ability to generalize to new environments. Lifelong learning (LLL), however, aims at solving multiple tasks sequentially by efficiently transferring and using knowledge between tasks. Despite a surge of interest in lifelong ...
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730
2103.03216
title_snapshot
v139/nemecek21a
Policy Caches with Successor Features
https://proceedings.mlr.press/v139/nemecek21a.html
[ "Mark Nemecek", "Ronald Parr" ]
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Transfer in reinforcement learning is based on the idea that it is possible to use what is learned in one task to improve the learning process in another task. For transfer between tasks which share transition dynamics but differ in reward function, successor features have been shown to be a useful representation which...
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731
null
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v139/neto21a
Causality-aware counterfactual confounding adjustment as an alternative to linear residualization in anticausal prediction tasks based on linear learners
https://proceedings.mlr.press/v139/neto21a.html
[ "Elias Chaibub Neto" ]
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Linear residualization is a common practice for confounding adjustment in machine learning applications. Recently, causality-aware predictive modeling has been proposed as an alternative causality-inspired approach for adjusting for confounders. In this paper, we compare the linear residualization approach against the ...
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732
2011.04605
title_snapshot
v139/ngo21a
Incentivizing Compliance with Algorithmic Instruments
https://proceedings.mlr.press/v139/ngo21a.html
[ "Dung Daniel T Ngo", "Logan Stapleton", "Vasilis Syrgkanis", "Steven Wu" ]
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Randomized experiments can be susceptible to selection bias due to potential non-compliance by the participants. While much of the existing work has studied compliance as a static behavior, we propose a game-theoretic model to study compliance as dynamic behavior that may change over time. In rounds, a social planner i...
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733
2107.10093
title_snapshot
v139/nguyen21a
On the Proof of Global Convergence of Gradient Descent for Deep ReLU Networks with Linear Widths
https://proceedings.mlr.press/v139/nguyen21a.html
[ "Quynh Nguyen" ]
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We give a simple proof for the global convergence of gradient descent in training deep ReLU networks with the standard square loss, and show some of its improvements over the state-of-the-art. In particular, while prior works require all the hidden layers to be wide with width at least $\Omega(N^8)$ ($N$ being the numb...
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734
2101.09612
title_snapshot
v139/nguyen21b
Value-at-Risk Optimization with Gaussian Processes
https://proceedings.mlr.press/v139/nguyen21b.html
[ "Quoc Phong Nguyen", "Zhongxiang Dai", "Bryan Kian Hsiang Low", "Patrick Jaillet" ]
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Value-at-risk (VaR) is an established measure to assess risks in critical real-world applications with random environmental factors. This paper presents a novel VaR upper confidence bound (V-UCB) algorithm for maximizing the VaR of a black-box objective function with the first no-regret guarantee. To realize this, we f...
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735
2105.06126
title_snapshot
v139/nguyen21c
Cross-model Back-translated Distillation for Unsupervised Machine Translation
https://proceedings.mlr.press/v139/nguyen21c.html
[ "Xuan-Phi Nguyen", "Shafiq Joty", "Thanh-Tung Nguyen", "Kui Wu", "Ai Ti Aw" ]
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Recent unsupervised machine translation (UMT) systems usually employ three main principles: initialization, language modeling and iterative back-translation, though they may apply them differently. Crucially, iterative back-translation and denoising auto-encoding for language modeling provide data diversity to train th...
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736
2006.02163
title_snapshot
v139/nguyen21d
Optimal Transport Kernels for Sequential and Parallel Neural Architecture Search
https://proceedings.mlr.press/v139/nguyen21d.html
[ "Vu Nguyen", "Tam Le", "Makoto Yamada", "Michael A. Osborne" ]
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Neural architecture search (NAS) automates the design of deep neural networks. One of the main challenges in searching complex and non-continuous architectures is to compare the similarity of networks that the conventional Euclidean metric may fail to capture. Optimal transport (OT) is resilient to such complex structu...
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737
2006.07593
title_snapshot
v139/nguyen21e
Interactive Learning from Activity Description
https://proceedings.mlr.press/v139/nguyen21e.html
[ "Khanh X Nguyen", "Dipendra Misra", "Robert Schapire", "Miroslav Dudik", "Patrick Shafto" ]
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We present a novel interactive learning protocol that enables training request-fulfilling agents by verbally describing their activities. Unlike imitation learning (IL), our protocol allows the teaching agent to provide feedback in a language that is most appropriate for them. Compared with reward in reinforcement lear...
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738
2102.07024
title_snapshot
v139/nguyen21f
Nonmyopic Multifidelity Acitve Search
https://proceedings.mlr.press/v139/nguyen21f.html
[ "Quan Nguyen", "Arghavan Modiri", "Roman Garnett" ]
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Active search is a learning paradigm where we seek to identify as many members of a rare, valuable class as possible given a labeling budget. Previous work on active search has assumed access to a faithful (and expensive) oracle reporting experimental results. However, some settings offer access to cheaper surrogates s...
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v139/nguyen21g
Tight Bounds on the Smallest Eigenvalue of the Neural Tangent Kernel for Deep ReLU Networks
https://proceedings.mlr.press/v139/nguyen21g.html
[ "Quynh Nguyen", "Marco Mondelli", "Guido F Montufar" ]
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A recent line of work has analyzed the theoretical properties of deep neural networks via the Neural Tangent Kernel (NTK). In particular, the smallest eigenvalue of the NTK has been related to the memorization capacity, the global convergence of gradient descent algorithms and the generalization of deep nets. However, ...
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740
2012.11654
title_snapshot
v139/nguyen21h
Temporal Predictive Coding For Model-Based Planning In Latent Space
https://proceedings.mlr.press/v139/nguyen21h.html
[ "Tung D Nguyen", "Rui Shu", "Tuan Pham", "Hung Bui", "Stefano Ermon" ]
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High-dimensional observations are a major challenge in the application of model-based reinforcement learning (MBRL) to real-world environments. To handle high-dimensional sensory inputs, existing approaches use representation learning to map high-dimensional observations into a lower-dimensional latent space that is mo...
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741
2106.07156
title_snapshot
v139/nguyen21i
Differentially Private Densest Subgraph Detection
https://proceedings.mlr.press/v139/nguyen21i.html
[ "Dung Nguyen", "Anil Vullikanti" ]
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Densest subgraph detection is a fundamental graph mining problem, with a large number of applications. There has been a lot of work on efficient algorithms for finding the densest subgraph in massive networks. However, in many domains, the network is private, and returning a densest subgraph can reveal information abou...
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742
2105.13287
title_snapshot
v139/ni21a
Data Augmentation for Meta-Learning
https://proceedings.mlr.press/v139/ni21a.html
[ "Renkun Ni", "Micah Goldblum", "Amr Sharaf", "Kezhi Kong", "Tom Goldstein" ]
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Conventional image classifiers are trained by randomly sampling mini-batches of images. To achieve state-of-the-art performance, practitioners use sophisticated data augmentation schemes to expand the amount of training data available for sampling. In contrast, meta-learning algorithms sample support data, query data, ...
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743
2010.07092
title_snapshot
v139/nichol21a
Improved Denoising Diffusion Probabilistic Models
https://proceedings.mlr.press/v139/nichol21a.html
[ "Alexander Quinn Nichol", "Prafulla Dhariwal" ]
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Denoising diffusion probabilistic models (DDPM) are a class of generative models which have recently been shown to produce excellent samples. We show that with a few simple modifications, DDPMs can also achieve competitive log-likelihoods while maintaining high sample quality. Additionally, we find that learning varian...
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744
2102.09672
title_snapshot
v139/nietert21a
Smooth $p$-Wasserstein Distance: Structure, Empirical Approximation, and Statistical Applications
https://proceedings.mlr.press/v139/nietert21a.html
[ "Sloan Nietert", "Ziv Goldfeld", "Kengo Kato" ]
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Discrepancy measures between probability distributions, often termed statistical distances, are ubiquitous in probability theory, statistics and machine learning. To combat the curse of dimensionality when estimating these distances from data, recent work has proposed smoothing out local irregularities in the measured ...
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745
2101.04039
title_snapshot
v139/niu21a
AdaXpert: Adapting Neural Architecture for Growing Data
https://proceedings.mlr.press/v139/niu21a.html
[ "Shuaicheng Niu", "Jiaxiang Wu", "Guanghui Xu", "Yifan Zhang", "Yong Guo", "Peilin Zhao", "Peng Wang", "Mingkui Tan" ]
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In real-world applications, data often come in a growing manner, where the data volume and the number of classes may increase dynamically. This will bring a critical challenge for learning: given the increasing data volume or the number of classes, one has to instantaneously adjust the neural model capacity to obtain p...
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746
2107.00254
title_snapshot
v139/niwa21a
Asynchronous Decentralized Optimization With Implicit Stochastic Variance Reduction
https://proceedings.mlr.press/v139/niwa21a.html
[ "Kenta Niwa", "Guoqiang Zhang", "W. Bastiaan Kleijn", "Noboru Harada", "Hiroshi Sawada", "Akinori Fujino" ]
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A novel asynchronous decentralized optimization method that follows Stochastic Variance Reduction (SVR) is proposed. Average consensus algorithms, such as Decentralized Stochastic Gradient Descent (DSGD), facilitate distributed training of machine learning models. However, the gradient will drift within the local nodes...
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747
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v139/no21a
WGAN with an Infinitely Wide Generator Has No Spurious Stationary Points
https://proceedings.mlr.press/v139/no21a.html
[ "Albert No", "Taeho Yoon", "Kwon Sehyun", "Ernest K Ryu" ]
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Generative adversarial networks (GAN) are a widely used class of deep generative models, but their minimax training dynamics are not understood very well. In this work, we show that GANs with a 2-layer infinite-width generator and a 2-layer finite-width discriminator trained with stochastic gradient ascent-descent have...
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2102.07541
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v139/nock21a
The Impact of Record Linkage on Learning from Feature Partitioned Data
https://proceedings.mlr.press/v139/nock21a.html
[ "Richard Nock", "Stephen Hardy", "Wilko Henecka", "Hamish Ivey-Law", "Jakub Nabaglo", "Giorgio Patrini", "Guillaume Smith", "Brian Thorne" ]
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There has been recently a significant boost to machine learning with distributed data, in particular with the success of federated learning. A common and very challenging setting is that of vertical or feature partitioned data, when multiple data providers hold different features about common entities. In general, trai...
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v139/nori21a
Accuracy, Interpretability, and Differential Privacy via Explainable Boosting
https://proceedings.mlr.press/v139/nori21a.html
[ "Harsha Nori", "Rich Caruana", "Zhiqi Bu", "Judy Hanwen Shen", "Janardhan Kulkarni" ]
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We show that adding differential privacy to Explainable Boosting Machines (EBMs), a recent method for training interpretable ML models, yields state-of-the-art accuracy while protecting privacy. Our experiments on multiple classification and regression datasets show that DP-EBM models suffer surprisingly little accurac...
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2106.09680
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v139/nota21a
Posterior Value Functions: Hindsight Baselines for Policy Gradient Methods
https://proceedings.mlr.press/v139/nota21a.html
[ "Chris Nota", "Philip Thomas", "Bruno C. Da Silva" ]
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Hindsight allows reinforcement learning agents to leverage new observations to make inferences about earlier states and transitions. In this paper, we exploit the idea of hindsight and introduce posterior value functions. Posterior value functions are computed by inferring the posterior distribution over hidden compone...
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v139/ober21a
Global inducing point variational posteriors for Bayesian neural networks and deep Gaussian processes
https://proceedings.mlr.press/v139/ober21a.html
[ "Sebastian W Ober", "Laurence Aitchison" ]
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We consider the optimal approximate posterior over the top-layer weights in a Bayesian neural network for regression, and show that it exhibits strong dependencies on the lower-layer weights. We adapt this result to develop a correlated approximate posterior over the weights at all layers in a Bayesian neural network. ...
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752
2005.08140
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v139/oberst21a
Regularizing towards Causal Invariance: Linear Models with Proxies
https://proceedings.mlr.press/v139/oberst21a.html
[ "Michael Oberst", "Nikolaj Thams", "Jonas Peters", "David Sontag" ]
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We propose a method for learning linear models whose predictive performance is robust to causal interventions on unobserved variables, when noisy proxies of those variables are available. Our approach takes the form of a regularization term that trades off between in-distribution performance and robustness to intervent...
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753
2103.02477
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v139/oh21a
Sparsity-Agnostic Lasso Bandit
https://proceedings.mlr.press/v139/oh21a.html
[ "Min-Hwan Oh", "Garud Iyengar", "Assaf Zeevi" ]
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We consider a stochastic contextual bandit problem where the dimension $d$ of the feature vectors is potentially large, however, only a sparse subset of features of cardinality $s_0 \ll d$ affect the reward function. Essentially all existing algorithms for sparse bandits require a priori knowledge of the value of the s...
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754
2007.08477
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v139/oring21a
Autoencoder Image Interpolation by Shaping the Latent Space
https://proceedings.mlr.press/v139/oring21a.html
[ "Alon Oring", "Zohar Yakhini", "Yacov Hel-Or" ]
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One of the fascinating properties of deep learning is the ability of the network to reveal the underlying factors characterizing elements in datasets of different types. Autoencoders represent an effective approach for computing these factors. Autoencoders have been studied in the context of enabling interpolation betw...
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755
2008.01487
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v139/oymak21a
Generalization Guarantees for Neural Architecture Search with Train-Validation Split
https://proceedings.mlr.press/v139/oymak21a.html
[ "Samet Oymak", "Mingchen Li", "Mahdi Soltanolkotabi" ]
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Neural Architecture Search (NAS) is a popular method for automatically designing optimized deep-learning architectures. NAS methods commonly use bilevel optimization where one optimizes the weights over the training data (lower-level problem) and hyperparameters - such as the architecture - over the validation data (up...
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756
2104.14132
title_snapshot
v139/ozair21a
Vector Quantized Models for Planning
https://proceedings.mlr.press/v139/ozair21a.html
[ "Sherjil Ozair", "Yazhe Li", "Ali Razavi", "Ioannis Antonoglou", "Aaron Van Den Oord", "Oriol Vinyals" ]
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Recent developments in the field of model-based RL have proven successful in a range of environments, especially ones where planning is essential. However, such successes have been limited to deterministic fully-observed environments. We present a new approach that handles stochastic and partially-observable environmen...
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757
2106.04615
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v139/ozdenizci21a
Training Adversarially Robust Sparse Networks via Bayesian Connectivity Sampling
https://proceedings.mlr.press/v139/ozdenizci21a.html
[ "Ozan Özdenizci", "Robert Legenstein" ]
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Deep neural networks have been shown to be susceptible to adversarial attacks. This lack of adversarial robustness is even more pronounced when models are compressed in order to meet hardware limitations. Hence, if adversarial robustness is an issue, training of sparsely connected networks necessitates considering adve...
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v139/pal21a
Opening the Blackbox: Accelerating Neural Differential Equations by Regularizing Internal Solver Heuristics
https://proceedings.mlr.press/v139/pal21a.html
[ "Avik Pal", "Yingbo Ma", "Viral Shah", "Christopher V Rackauckas" ]
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Democratization of machine learning requires architectures that automatically adapt to new problems. Neural Differential Equations (NDEs) have emerged as a popular modeling framework by removing the need for ML practitioners to choose the number of layers in a recurrent model. While we can control the computational cos...
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759
2105.03918
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v139/pal21b
RNN with Particle Flow for Probabilistic Spatio-temporal Forecasting
https://proceedings.mlr.press/v139/pal21b.html
[ "Soumyasundar Pal", "Liheng Ma", "Yingxue Zhang", "Mark Coates" ]
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Spatio-temporal forecasting has numerous applications in analyzing wireless, traffic, and financial networks. Many classical statistical models often fall short in handling the complexity and high non-linearity present in time-series data. Recent advances in deep learning allow for better modelling of spatial and tempo...
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760
2106.06064
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v139/pan21a
Inference for Network Regression Models with Community Structure
https://proceedings.mlr.press/v139/pan21a.html
[ "Mengjie Pan", "Tyler Mccormick", "Bailey Fosdick" ]
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Network regression models, where the outcome comprises the valued edge in a network and the predictors are actor or dyad-level covariates, are used extensively in the social and biological sciences. Valid inference relies on accurately modeling the residual dependencies among the relations. Frequently homogeneity assum...
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761
2106.04271
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v139/pang21a
Latent Space Energy-Based Model of Symbol-Vector Coupling for Text Generation and Classification
https://proceedings.mlr.press/v139/pang21a.html
[ "Bo Pang", "Ying Nian Wu" ]
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We propose a latent space energy-based prior model for text generation and classification. The model stands on a generator network that generates the text sequence based on a continuous latent vector. The energy term of the prior model couples a continuous latent vector and a symbolic one-hot vector, so that discrete c...
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762
2108.11556
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v139/papini21a
Leveraging Good Representations in Linear Contextual Bandits
https://proceedings.mlr.press/v139/papini21a.html
[ "Matteo Papini", "Andrea Tirinzoni", "Marcello Restelli", "Alessandro Lazaric", "Matteo Pirotta" ]
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The linear contextual bandit literature is mostly focused on the design of efficient learning algorithms for a given representation. However, a contextual bandit problem may admit multiple linear representations, each one with different characteristics that directly impact the regret of the learning algorithm. In parti...
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763
2104.03781
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v139/park21a
Wasserstein Distributional Normalization For Robust Distributional Certification of Noisy Labeled Data
https://proceedings.mlr.press/v139/park21a.html
[ "Sung Woo Park", "Junseok Kwon" ]
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We propose a novel Wasserstein distributional normalization method that can classify noisy labeled data accurately. Recently, noisy labels have been successfully handled based on small-loss criteria, but have not been clearly understood from the theoretical point of view. In this paper, we address this problem by adopt...
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v139/park21b
Unsupervised Representation Learning via Neural Activation Coding
https://proceedings.mlr.press/v139/park21b.html
[ "Yookoon Park", "Sangho Lee", "Gunhee Kim", "David Blei" ]
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We present neural activation coding (NAC) as a novel approach for learning deep representations from unlabeled data for downstream applications. We argue that the deep encoder should maximize its nonlinear expressivity on the data for downstream predictors to take full advantage of its representation power. To this end...
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765
2112.04014
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v139/park21c
Conditional Distributional Treatment Effect with Kernel Conditional Mean Embeddings and U-Statistic Regression
https://proceedings.mlr.press/v139/park21c.html
[ "Junhyung Park", "Uri Shalit", "Bernhard Schölkopf", "Krikamol Muandet" ]
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We propose to analyse the conditional distributional treatment effect (CoDiTE), which, in contrast to the more common conditional average treatment effect (CATE), is designed to encode a treatment’s distributional aspects beyond the mean. We first introduce a formal definition of the CoDiTE associated with a distance f...
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766
2102.08208
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v139/park21d
Generative Adversarial Networks for Markovian Temporal Dynamics: Stochastic Continuous Data Generation
https://proceedings.mlr.press/v139/park21d.html
[ "Sung Woo Park", "Dong Wook Shu", "Junseok Kwon" ]
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In this paper, we present a novel generative adversarial network (GAN) that can describe Markovian temporal dynamics. To generate stochastic sequential data, we introduce a novel stochastic differential equation-based conditional generator and spatial-temporal constrained discriminator networks. To stabilize the learni...
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v139/parmentier21a
Optimal Counterfactual Explanations in Tree Ensembles
https://proceedings.mlr.press/v139/parmentier21a.html
[ "Axel Parmentier", "Thibaut Vidal" ]
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Counterfactual explanations are usually generated through heuristics that are sensitive to the search’s initial conditions. The absence of guarantees of performance and robustness hinders trustworthiness. In this paper, we take a disciplined approach towards counterfactual explanations for tree ensembles. We advocate f...
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768
2106.06631
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v139/patil21a
PHEW : Constructing Sparse Networks that Learn Fast and Generalize Well without Training Data
https://proceedings.mlr.press/v139/patil21a.html
[ "Shreyas Malakarjun Patil", "Constantine Dovrolis" ]
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Methods that sparsify a network at initialization are important in practice because they greatly improve the efficiency of both learning and inference. Our work is based on a recently proposed decomposition of the Neural Tangent Kernel (NTK) that has decoupled the dynamics of the training process into a data-dependent ...
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2010.11354
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v139/paulus21a
CombOptNet: Fit the Right NP-Hard Problem by Learning Integer Programming Constraints
https://proceedings.mlr.press/v139/paulus21a.html
[ "Anselm Paulus", "Michal Rolinek", "Vit Musil", "Brandon Amos", "Georg Martius" ]
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Bridging logical and algorithmic reasoning with modern machine learning techniques is a fundamental challenge with potentially transformative impact. On the algorithmic side, many NP-hard problems can be expressed as integer programs, in which the constraints play the role of their ’combinatorial specification’. In thi...
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2105.02343
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v139/peer21a
Ensemble Bootstrapping for Q-Learning
https://proceedings.mlr.press/v139/peer21a.html
[ "Oren Peer", "Chen Tessler", "Nadav Merlis", "Ron Meir" ]
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Q-learning (QL), a common reinforcement learning algorithm, suffers from over-estimation bias due to the maximization term in the optimal Bellman operator. This bias may lead to sub-optimal behavior. Double-Q-learning tackles this issue by utilizing two estimators, yet results in an under-estimation bias. Similar to ov...
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771
2103.00445
title_snapshot
v139/peng21a
Homomorphic Sensing: Sparsity and Noise
https://proceedings.mlr.press/v139/peng21a.html
[ "Liangzu Peng", "Boshi Wang", "Manolis Tsakiris" ]
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\emph{Unlabeled sensing} is a recent problem encompassing many data science and engineering applications and typically formulated as solving linear equations whose right-hand side vector has undergone an unknown permutation. It was generalized to the \emph{homomorphic sensing} problem by replacing the unknown permutati...
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v139/peng21b
How could Neural Networks understand Programs?
https://proceedings.mlr.press/v139/peng21b.html
[ "Dinglan Peng", "Shuxin Zheng", "Yatao Li", "Guolin Ke", "Di He", "Tie-Yan Liu" ]
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Semantic understanding of programs is a fundamental problem for programming language processing (PLP). Recent works that learn representations of code based on pre-training techniques in NLP have pushed the frontiers in this direction. However, the semantics of PL and NL have essential differences. These being ignored,...
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773
2105.04297
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v139/pentyala21a
Privacy-Preserving Video Classification with Convolutional Neural Networks
https://proceedings.mlr.press/v139/pentyala21a.html
[ "Sikha Pentyala", "Rafael Dowsley", "Martine De Cock" ]
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Many video classification applications require access to personal data, thereby posing an invasive security risk to the users’ privacy. We propose a privacy-preserving implementation of single-frame method based video classification with convolutional neural networks that allows a party to infer a label from a video wi...
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774
2102.03513
title_snapshot
v139/perez21a
Rissanen Data Analysis: Examining Dataset Characteristics via Description Length
https://proceedings.mlr.press/v139/perez21a.html
[ "Ethan Perez", "Douwe Kiela", "Kyunghyun Cho" ]
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We introduce a method to determine if a certain capability helps to achieve an accurate model of given data. We view labels as being generated from the inputs by a program composed of subroutines with different capabilities, and we posit that a subroutine is useful if and only if the minimal program that invokes it is ...
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775
2103.03872
title_snapshot
v139/perez-nieves21a
Modelling Behavioural Diversity for Learning in Open-Ended Games
https://proceedings.mlr.press/v139/perez-nieves21a.html
[ "Nicolas Perez-Nieves", "Yaodong Yang", "Oliver Slumbers", "David H Mguni", "Ying Wen", "Jun Wang" ]
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Promoting behavioural diversity is critical for solving games with non-transitive dynamics where strategic cycles exist, and there is no consistent winner (e.g., Rock-Paper-Scissors). Yet, there is a lack of rigorous treatment for defining diversity and constructing diversity-aware learning dynamics. In this work, we o...
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776
2103.07927
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v139/perolat21a
From Poincaré Recurrence to Convergence in Imperfect Information Games: Finding Equilibrium via Regularization
https://proceedings.mlr.press/v139/perolat21a.html
[ "Julien Perolat", "Remi Munos", "Jean-Baptiste Lespiau", "Shayegan Omidshafiei", "Mark Rowland", "Pedro Ortega", "Neil Burch", "Thomas Anthony", "David Balduzzi", "Bart De Vylder", "Georgios Piliouras", "Marc Lanctot", "Karl Tuyls" ]
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In this paper we investigate the Follow the Regularized Leader dynamics in sequential imperfect information games (IIG). We generalize existing results of Poincar{é} recurrence from normal-form games to zero-sum two-player imperfect information games and other sequential game settings. We then investigate how adapting ...
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777
2002.08456
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v139/pervez21a
Spectral Smoothing Unveils Phase Transitions in Hierarchical Variational Autoencoders
https://proceedings.mlr.press/v139/pervez21a.html
[ "Adeel Pervez", "Efstratios Gavves" ]
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Variational autoencoders with deep hierarchies of stochastic layers have been known to suffer from the problem of posterior collapse, where the top layers fall back to the prior and become independent of input. We suggest that the hierarchical VAE objective explicitly includes the variance of the function parameterizin...
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v139/petersen21a
Differentiable Sorting Networks for Scalable Sorting and Ranking Supervision
https://proceedings.mlr.press/v139/petersen21a.html
[ "Felix Petersen", "Christian Borgelt", "Hilde Kuehne", "Oliver Deussen" ]
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Sorting and ranking supervision is a method for training neural networks end-to-end based on ordering constraints. That is, the ground truth order of sets of samples is known, while their absolute values remain unsupervised. For that, we propose differentiable sorting networks by relaxing their pairwise conditional swa...
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779
2105.04019
title_snapshot
v139/petrenko21a
Megaverse: Simulating Embodied Agents at One Million Experiences per Second
https://proceedings.mlr.press/v139/petrenko21a.html
[ "Aleksei Petrenko", "Erik Wijmans", "Brennan Shacklett", "Vladlen Koltun" ]
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We present Megaverse, a new 3D simulation platform for reinforcement learning and embodied AI research. The efficient design of our engine enables physics-based simulation with high-dimensional egocentric observations at more than 1,000,000 actions per second on a single 8-GPU node. Megaverse is up to 70x faster than D...
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780
2107.08170
title_snapshot
v139/phan21a
Towards Practical Mean Bounds for Small Samples
https://proceedings.mlr.press/v139/phan21a.html
[ "My Phan", "Philip Thomas", "Erik Learned-Miller" ]
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Historically, to bound the mean for small sample sizes, practitioners have had to choose between using methods with unrealistic assumptions about the unknown distribution (e.g., Gaussianity) and methods like Hoeffding’s inequality that use weaker assumptions but produce much looser (wider) intervals. In 1969, \citet{An...
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781
2106.03163
title_snapshot
v139/plassier21a
DG-LMC: A Turn-key and Scalable Synchronous Distributed MCMC Algorithm via Langevin Monte Carlo within Gibbs
https://proceedings.mlr.press/v139/plassier21a.html
[ "Vincent Plassier", "Maxime Vono", "Alain Durmus", "Eric Moulines" ]
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Performing reliable Bayesian inference on a big data scale is becoming a keystone in the modern era of machine learning. A workhorse class of methods to achieve this task are Markov chain Monte Carlo (MCMC) algorithms and their design to handle distributed datasets has been the subject of many works. However, existing ...
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782
2106.06300
title_snapshot
v139/poklukar21a
GeomCA: Geometric Evaluation of Data Representations
https://proceedings.mlr.press/v139/poklukar21a.html
[ "Petra Poklukar", "Anastasiia Varava", "Danica Kragic" ]
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Evaluating the quality of learned representations without relying on a downstream task remains one of the challenges in representation learning. In this work, we present Geometric Component Analysis (GeomCA) algorithm that evaluates representation spaces based on their geometric and topological properties. GeomCA can b...
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783
2105.12486
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v139/popov21a
Grad-TTS: A Diffusion Probabilistic Model for Text-to-Speech
https://proceedings.mlr.press/v139/popov21a.html
[ "Vadim Popov", "Ivan Vovk", "Vladimir Gogoryan", "Tasnima Sadekova", "Mikhail Kudinov" ]
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Recently, denoising diffusion probabilistic models and generative score matching have shown high potential in modelling complex data distributions while stochastic calculus has provided a unified point of view on these techniques allowing for flexible inference schemes. In this paper we introduce Grad-TTS, a novel text...
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784
2105.06337
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v139/potapczynski21a
Bias-Free Scalable Gaussian Processes via Randomized Truncations
https://proceedings.mlr.press/v139/potapczynski21a.html
[ "Andres Potapczynski", "Luhuan Wu", "Dan Biderman", "Geoff Pleiss", "John P Cunningham" ]
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Scalable Gaussian Process methods are computationally attractive, yet introduce modeling biases that require rigorous study. This paper analyzes two common techniques: early truncated conjugate gradients (CG) and random Fourier features (RFF). We find that both methods introduce a systematic bias on the learned hyperpa...
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785
2102.06695
title_snapshot
v139/price21a
Dense for the Price of Sparse: Improved Performance of Sparsely Initialized Networks via a Subspace Offset
https://proceedings.mlr.press/v139/price21a.html
[ "Ilan Price", "Jared Tanner" ]
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That neural networks may be pruned to high sparsities and retain high accuracy is well established. Recent research efforts focus on pruning immediately after initialization so as to allow the computational savings afforded by sparsity to extend to the training process. In this work, we introduce a new ‘DCT plus Sparse...
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786
2102.07655
title_snapshot
v139/qi21a
BANG: Bridging Autoregressive and Non-autoregressive Generation with Large Scale Pretraining
https://proceedings.mlr.press/v139/qi21a.html
[ "Weizhen Qi", "Yeyun Gong", "Jian Jiao", "Yu Yan", "Weizhu Chen", "Dayiheng Liu", "Kewen Tang", "Houqiang Li", "Jiusheng Chen", "Ruofei Zhang", "Ming Zhou", "Nan Duan" ]
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In this paper, we propose BANG, a new pretraining model to Bridge the gap between Autoregressive (AR) and Non-autoregressive (NAR) Generation. AR and NAR generation can be uniformly regarded as to what extent previous tokens can be attended, and BANG bridges AR and NAR generation through designing a novel model structu...
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787
2012.15525
title_snapshot
v139/qian21a
A Probabilistic Approach to Neural Network Pruning
https://proceedings.mlr.press/v139/qian21a.html
[ "Xin Qian", "Diego Klabjan" ]
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Neural network pruning techniques reduce the number of parameters without compromising predicting ability of a network. Many algorithms have been developed for pruning both over-parameterized fully-connected networks (FCN) and convolutional neural networks (CNN), but analytical studies of capabilities and compression r...
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788
2105.10065
title_snapshot
v139/qian21b
Global Prosody Style Transfer Without Text Transcriptions
https://proceedings.mlr.press/v139/qian21b.html
[ "Kaizhi Qian", "Yang Zhang", "Shiyu Chang", "Jinjun Xiong", "Chuang Gan", "David Cox", "Mark Hasegawa-Johnson" ]
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Prosody plays an important role in characterizing the style of a speaker or an emotion, but most non-parallel voice or emotion style transfer algorithms do not convert any prosody information. Two major components of prosody are pitch and rhythm. Disentangling the prosody information, particularly the rhythm component,...
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789
2106.08519
title_judge
v139/qiao21a
Efficient Differentiable Simulation of Articulated Bodies
https://proceedings.mlr.press/v139/qiao21a.html
[ "Yi-Ling Qiao", "Junbang Liang", "Vladlen Koltun", "Ming C Lin" ]
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We present a method for efficient differentiable simulation of articulated bodies. This enables integration of articulated body dynamics into deep learning frameworks, and gradient-based optimization of neural networks that operate on articulated bodies. We derive the gradients of the contact solver using spatial algeb...
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790
2109.07719
title_snapshot
v139/qiao21b
Oneshot Differentially Private Top-k Selection
https://proceedings.mlr.press/v139/qiao21b.html
[ "Gang Qiao", "Weijie Su", "Li Zhang" ]
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Being able to efficiently and accurately select the top-$k$ elements with differential privacy is an integral component of various private data analysis tasks. In this paper, we present the oneshot Laplace mechanism, which generalizes the well-known Report Noisy Max \cite{dwork2014algorithmic} mechanism to reporting no...
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791
2105.08233
title_snapshot
v139/qin21a
Density Constrained Reinforcement Learning
https://proceedings.mlr.press/v139/qin21a.html
[ "Zengyi Qin", "Yuxiao Chen", "Chuchu Fan" ]
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We study constrained reinforcement learning (CRL) from a novel perspective by setting constraints directly on state density functions, rather than the value functions considered by previous works. State density has a clear physical and mathematical interpretation, and is able to express a wide variety of constraints su...
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792
2106.12764
title_snapshot
v139/qin21b
Budgeted Heterogeneous Treatment Effect Estimation
https://proceedings.mlr.press/v139/qin21b.html
[ "Tian Qin", "Tian-Zuo Wang", "Zhi-Hua Zhou" ]
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Heterogeneous treatment effect (HTE) estimation is receiving increasing interest due to its important applications in fields such as healthcare, economics, and education. Current HTE estimation methods generally assume the existence of abundant observational data, though the acquisition of such data can be costly. In s...
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v139/qiu21a
Neural Transformation Learning for Deep Anomaly Detection Beyond Images
https://proceedings.mlr.press/v139/qiu21a.html
[ "Chen Qiu", "Timo Pfrommer", "Marius Kloft", "Stephan Mandt", "Maja Rudolph" ]
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Data transformations (e.g. rotations, reflections, and cropping) play an important role in self-supervised learning. Typically, images are transformed into different views, and neural networks trained on tasks involving these views produce useful feature representations for downstream tasks, including anomaly detection...
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794
2103.16440
title_snapshot
v139/qiu21b
Provably Efficient Fictitious Play Policy Optimization for Zero-Sum Markov Games with Structured Transitions
https://proceedings.mlr.press/v139/qiu21b.html
[ "Shuang Qiu", "Xiaohan Wei", "Jieping Ye", "Zhaoran Wang", "Zhuoran Yang" ]
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While single-agent policy optimization in a fixed environment has attracted a lot of research attention recently in the reinforcement learning community, much less is known theoretically when there are multiple agents playing in a potentially competitive environment. We take steps forward by proposing and analyzing new...
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2207.12463
title_snapshot
v139/qiu21c
Optimization Planning for 3D ConvNets
https://proceedings.mlr.press/v139/qiu21c.html
[ "Zhaofan Qiu", "Ting Yao", "Chong-Wah Ngo", "Tao Mei" ]
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It is not trivial to optimally learn a 3D Convolutional Neural Networks (3D ConvNets) due to high complexity and various options of the training scheme. The most common hand-tuning process starts from learning 3D ConvNets using short video clips and then is followed by learning long-term temporal dependency using lengt...
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796
2201.04021
title_snapshot
v139/qiu21d
On Reward-Free RL with Kernel and Neural Function Approximations: Single-Agent MDP and Markov Game
https://proceedings.mlr.press/v139/qiu21d.html
[ "Shuang Qiu", "Jieping Ye", "Zhaoran Wang", "Zhuoran Yang" ]
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To achieve sample efficiency in reinforcement learning (RL), it necessitates to efficiently explore the underlying environment. Under the offline setting, addressing the exploration challenge lies in collecting an offline dataset with sufficient coverage. Motivated by such a challenge, we study the reward-free RL probl...
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797
2110.09771
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v139/radford21a
Learning Transferable Visual Models From Natural Language Supervision
https://proceedings.mlr.press/v139/radford21a.html
[ "Alec Radford", "Jong Wook Kim", "Chris Hallacy", "Aditya Ramesh", "Gabriel Goh", "Sandhini Agarwal", "Girish Sastry", "Amanda Askell", "Pamela Mishkin", "Jack Clark", "Gretchen Krueger", "Ilya Sutskever" ]
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State-of-the-art computer vision systems are trained to predict a fixed set of predetermined object categories. This restricted form of supervision limits their generality and usability since additional labeled data is needed to specify any other visual concept. Learning directly from raw text about images is a promisi...
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2103.00020
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v139/raghuram21a
A General Framework For Detecting Anomalous Inputs to DNN Classifiers
https://proceedings.mlr.press/v139/raghuram21a.html
[ "Jayaram Raghuram", "Varun Chandrasekaran", "Somesh Jha", "Suman Banerjee" ]
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Detecting anomalous inputs, such as adversarial and out-of-distribution (OOD) inputs, is critical for classifiers (including deep neural networks or DNNs) deployed in real-world applications. While prior works have proposed various methods to detect such anomalous samples using information from the internal layer repre...
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2007.15147
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v139/rahman21a
Towards Open Ad Hoc Teamwork Using Graph-based Policy Learning
https://proceedings.mlr.press/v139/rahman21a.html
[ "Muhammad A Rahman", "Niklas Hopner", "Filippos Christianos", "Stefano V Albrecht" ]
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Ad hoc teamwork is the challenging problem of designing an autonomous agent which can adapt quickly to collaborate with teammates without prior coordination mechanisms, including joint training. Prior work in this area has focused on closed teams in which the number of agents is fixed. In this work, we consider open te...
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2006.10412
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