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Abstract: In this article, we propose a distributional policy-gradient method based on distributional reinforcement learning (RL) and policy gradient. Conventional RL algorithms typically estimate the ...

Abstract: Sampling-based planning is the predominant paradigm for motion planning in robotics. Most sampling-based planners use a global random sampling scheme to guarantee probabilistic completeness.

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One of the coolest things about generative AI models — both large language models (LLMs) and diffusion-based image generators — is that they are "non-deterministic." That is, despite their reputation ...

John J. Hopfield and Geoffrey E. Hinton received the Nobel Prize in physics on Oct. 8, 2024, for their research on machine learning algorithms and neural networks that help computers learn. Their work ...

This tool is designed to estimate spatial variation in density using spatially referenced data, with the goal of habitat associations (correlations among species and with habitat) and estimating total ...

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Neurons in the cortex show irregular activity with and without explicit stimuli. Theoretical modeling provides a persuading explanation of such complex dynamics using chaos—however, little is known ...

This package performs KDE operations on multidimensional data to: 1) calculate estimated PDFs (probability distribution functions), and 2) resample new data from those PDFs. A number of examples (also ...