24 accepted papers
Fine-tuning Large Language Models (LLMs) as autonomous agents on domain-specific data has emerged as a promising paradigm for tackling interactive, real-world tasks. However, existing studies have overlooked the critical coordination between long-term planning and multi-step execution in optimizing …
Continual Generalized Category Discovery (C-GCD) seeks to incrementally discover new categories from unlabeled data and memorize old categories' knowledge, fostering model adaptability in real-world scenarios. Especially, the unlabeled data is from both old and new classes, requiring the model to re
Continual Visual Question Answering (Continual VQA) poses unique challenges for multimodal continual learning, requiring models to incrementally acquire new knowledge while preserving visual-semantic grounding across tasks. However, existing benchmarks hinder fair and robust evaluation of such capab
Agents significantly enhance the capabilities of standalone Large Language Models (LLMs) by perceiving environments, making decisions, and executing actions. However, LLM agents still face challenges in tasks that require multiple decision-making steps. Estimating the value of actions in specific ta…
This paper addresses the challenge of discontinuity in goal-achievement capabilities observed in Goal-conditioned Reinforcement Learning (GCRL) algorithms. Through a theoretical analysis, we identify that the reuse of successful trajectories or policies during training can aid in achieving adjacent…
Class-Incremental Learning (CIL) enables models to continuously learn new classes while mitigating catastrophic forgetting. Recently, Pre-Trained Models (PTMs) have greatly enhanced CIL performance, even when fine-tuning is limited to the first task. This advantage is particularly beneficial for CIL…
Logit-based knowledge distillation (KD) is commonly used to mitigate catastrophic forgetting in class-incremental learning (CIL) caused by data distribution shifts. However, the strict match of logit values between student and teacher models conflicts with the cross-entropy (CE) loss objective of le…
This paper addresses the challenge of Velocity Vector Control (VVC) for fixed-wing UAVs using Reinforcement Learning (RL) in the presence of imperfect demonstrations. The multi-objective and long-horizon nature of VVC introduces significant spatial and temporal complexities, complicating RL's explor
Multi-goal long-horizon problems are prevalent in real-world applications. The additional goal space introduced by multi-goal problems intensifies the spatial complexity of exploration; meanwhile, the long interaction sequences in long-horizon problems exacerbate the temporal complexity of explorati…
Deep reinforcement learning (DRL) methods have been widely applied in distributed multi-robotic systems and successfully realized autonomous learning in many fields. In these fields, robots need to communicate and collaborate with other robots in real time, and reach agreed cognition for task assign
Existing Goal-Conditioned Reinforcement Learning (GCRL) algorithms are built upon Hindsight Experience Replay (HER), which densifies rewards through hindsight replay and leverages historical goal-achieving information to construct a learning curriculum. However, when the task is characterized by a n…
Imitation learning heavily relies on the quality of provided demonstrations. In scenarios where demonstrations are imperfect and rare, a prevalent approach for refining policies is through online fine-tuning with reinforcement learning, in which a Kullback–Leibler (KL) regularization is often employ…
Model-based offline reinforcement learning (RL) has made remarkable progress, offering a promising avenue for improving generalization with synthetic model rollouts. Existing works primarily focus on incorporating pessimism for policy optimization, usually via constructing a Pessimistic Markov Decis…
Continual learning (CL) empowers pre-trained vision-language (VL) models to efficiently adapt to a sequence of downstream tasks. However, these models often encounter challenges in retaining previously acquired skills due to parameter shifts and limited access to historical data. In response, recent…
Deep supervised learning has demonstrated strong capabilities; however, such progress relies on massive and expensive data annotation. Active Learning (AL) has been introduced to selectively annotate samples, thus reducing the human labeling effort. Previous AL research has focused on employing rece…
Deep reinforcement learning has achieved encouraging performance in many realms. However, one of its primary challenges is the sparsity of extrinsic rewards, which is still far from solved. Complementary learning system theory suggests that effective human learning relies on two complementary learni…
The use of graph attention networks (GAT) in communication-enhanced multi-agent reinforcement learning (Comm-MARL) has become prevalent. While successful, GAT can lead to homogeneity in the strategies of message aggregation, which can severely limit multi-agent coordination. To address this challeng…
Multi-agent reinforcement learning methods have been widely used for multi-robotic systems, and meta-learning methods are also applied to help robots reuse prior experiences to guide new tasks learning. But in some multi-robotic tasks, the robot types cannot be determined in advance or may dynamical
We present an approach to learn voice-face representations from the talking face videos, without any identity labels. Previous works employ cross-modal instance discrimination tasks to establish the correlation of voice and face. These methods neglect the semantic content of different videos, introd…
B-mode ultrasound tongue imaging is widely used to visualize the tongue motion, due to its appearing properties. Extracting the tongue surface contour in the B-mode ultrasound image is still a challenge, while it is a prerequisite for further quantitative analysis. Recently, deep learning-based appr…
Off-Policy Actor-Critic (OffP-AC) methods have proven successful in a variety of continuous control tasks. Normally, the critic's action-value function is updated using temporal-difference, and the critic in turn provides a loss for the actor that trains it to take actions with higher expected retur…
B-mode ultrasound tongue imaging is widely used in the speech production field. However, efficient interpretation is in a great need for the tongue image sequences. Inspired by the recent success of unsupervised deep learning approach, we explore unsupervised convolutional network architecture for t…
A challenge in speech production research is to predict future tongue movements based on a short period of past tongue movements. This study tackles speaker-dependent tongue motion prediction problem in unlabeled ultrasound videos with convolutional long short-term memory (ConvLSTM) networks. The mo…
Complete coverage, which is the foundation of many robotic applications, aims to cover an area as quickly as possible. This study investigates the time-limited version of multi-robot complete coverage problem, that is, to find the least number of robots and allocate tasks properly to them such that…