Foundation Models Defining a New Era in Vision: a Survey and Outlook

M Awais, M Naseer, S Khan, RM Anwer… - … on Pattern Analysis …, 2025 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Vision systems that see and reason about the compositional nature of visual scenes are
fundamental to understanding our world. The complex relations between objects and their …

Exploration in deep reinforcement learning: A survey

P Ladosz, L Weng, M Kim, H Oh - Information Fusion, 2022 - Elsevier
This paper reviews exploration techniques in deep reinforcement learning. Exploration
techniques are of primary importance when solving sparse reward problems. In sparse …

Voyager: An open-ended embodied agent with large language models

G Wang, Y **e, Y Jiang, A Mandlekar, C **ao… - arxiv preprint arxiv …, 2023 - arxiv.org
We introduce Voyager, the first LLM-powered embodied lifelong learning agent in Minecraft
that continuously explores the world, acquires diverse skills, and makes novel discoveries …

First return, then explore

A Ecoffet, J Huizinga, J Lehman, KO Stanley, J Clune - Nature, 2021 - nature.com
Reinforcement learning promises to solve complex sequential-decision problems
autonomously by specifying a high-level reward function only. However, reinforcement …

Designing neural networks through neuroevolution

KO Stanley, J Clune, J Lehman… - Nature Machine …, 2019 - nature.com
Much of recent machine learning has focused on deep learning, in which neural network
weights are trained through variants of stochastic gradient descent. An alternative approach …

Fiber laser development enabled by machine learning: review and prospect

M Jiang, H Wu, Y An, T Hou, Q Chang, L Huang, J Li… - PhotoniX, 2022 - Springer
In recent years, machine learning, especially various deep neural networks, as an emerging
technique for data analysis and processing, has brought novel insights into the development …

Go-explore: a new approach for hard-exploration problems

A Ecoffet, J Huizinga, J Lehman, KO Stanley… - arxiv preprint arxiv …, 2019 - arxiv.org
A grand challenge in reinforcement learning is intelligent exploration, especially when
rewards are sparse or deceptive. Two Atari games serve as benchmarks for such hard …

EA-LSTM: Evolutionary attention-based LSTM for time series prediction

Y Li, Z Zhu, D Kong, H Han, Y Zhao - Knowledge-Based Systems, 2019 - Elsevier
Time series prediction with deep learning methods, especially Long Short-term Memory
Neural Network (LSTM), have scored significant achievements in recent years. Despite the …

Survey on evolutionary deep learning: Principles, algorithms, applications, and open issues

N Li, L Ma, G Yu, B Xue, M Zhang, Y ** - ACM Computing Surveys, 2023 - dl.acm.org
Over recent years, there has been a rapid development of deep learning (DL) in both
industry and academia fields. However, finding the optimal hyperparameters of a DL model …

Episodic curiosity through reachability

N Savinov, A Raichuk, R Marinier, D Vincent… - arxiv preprint arxiv …, 2018 - arxiv.org
Rewards are sparse in the real world and most of today's reinforcement learning algorithms
struggle with such sparsity. One solution to this problem is to allow the agent to create …