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Neural Information Processing Systems

However, in practice, new reconstruction methods could improve performance for at least three other reasons: learning more about the distribution of stimuli, becoming better at reconstructing text or images in general, or exploiting weaknesses in current image and/or text evaluation metrics. Here we disentangle how much of the reconstruction is due to these other factors vs. productively using the neural recordings.



Efficient Gradient Computation for Structured Output Learning with Rational and Tropical Losses

Neural Information Processing Systems

Many of these algorithms have been successfully used with specific loss functions such as the Hamming loss. Their use has been also extended to multivariate performance measures such as Precision/Recall orF1-score (Joachims,2005),which depend onpredictions onalltraining points.


Variational Delayed Policy Optimization

Neural Information Processing Systems

However, state-of-the-art (SOT A) RL techniques with Temporal-Difference (TD) learning frameworks often suffer from learning inefficiency, due to the significant expansion of the augmented state space with the delay. To improve learning efficiency without sacrificing performance, this work introduces a novel framework called V ariational Delayed Policy Optimization (VDPO), which reformulates delayed RL as a variational inference problem. This problem is further modelled as a two-step iterative optimization problem, where the first step is TD learning in the delay-free environment with a small state space, and the second step is behaviour cloning which can be addressed much more efficiently than TD learning. We not only provide a theoretical analysis of VDPO in terms of sample complexity and performance, but also empirically demonstrate that VDPO can achieve consistent performance with SOT A methods, with a significant enhancement of sample efficiency (approximately 50% less amount of samples) in the MuJoCo benchmark.