Previous approaches often downweight instances from irrelevant classes to mitigate the negative impact of class distribution mismatch on model training.

Collaborative robots and machine learning-based virtual agents are increasingly entering the human workspace with the aim of increasing productivity and enhancing safety.

We propose UTSP, an Unsupervised Learning (UL) framework for solving the Travelling Salesman Problem (TSP). We train a Graph Neural Network (GNN) using a surrogate loss. The GNN outputs a heat map representing the probability for each edge to be part of the optimal path. We then apply local search to generate our final prediction based on the heat map. Our loss function consists of two parts: one pushes the model to find the shortest path and the other serves as a surrogate for the constraint that the route should form a Hamiltonian Cycle. Experimental results show that UTSP outperforms the existing data-driven TSP heuristics. Our approach is parameter efficient as well as data efficient: the model takes 10% of the number of parameters and 0.2% of training samples compared with Reinforcement Learning or Supervised Learning methods.

Cross-domain recommendation (CDR) offers a promising solution to the data sparsity problem by enabling knowledge transfer between source and target domains. However, many recent CDR models overlook crucial issues such as privacy as well as the risk of negative transfer (which negatively impact model performance), especially in multi-domain settings.

The work was conducted during the internship of Y uqi Chen and Y uchen Fang at Microsoft Research.

Recent methodologies in LLM self-training mostly rely on LLM generating responses and filtering those with correct output answers as training data. This approach often yields a low-quality fine-tuning training set (e.g., incorrect plans or intermediate reasoning).

Easily integrated, FamO2O statistically enhances existing algorithms' performance.