New Connection
Research on "new connections" spans diverse fields, focusing on uncovering hidden relationships and improving efficiency in various contexts. Current efforts involve developing algorithms to identify meaningful links within complex datasets (e.g., using graph neural networks for knowledge graph construction and analysis, or low-rank updates for federated learning), optimizing model architectures for improved performance and reduced computational cost (e.g., parallel vs. sequential connections in multi-module collaborative perception), and establishing theoretical connections between seemingly disparate concepts (e.g., non-negative matrix factorization and latent Dirichlet allocation). These advancements have significant implications for diverse applications, including autonomous vehicle perception, medical image analysis, and accelerating scientific discovery through knowledge graph reasoning.
Papers
A Connection between One-Step Regularization and Critic Regularization in Reinforcement Learning
Benjamin Eysenbach, Matthieu Geist, Sergey Levine, Ruslan Salakhutdinov
On the Connection between Pre-training Data Diversity and Fine-tuning Robustness
Vivek Ramanujan, Thao Nguyen, Sewoong Oh, Ludwig Schmidt, Ali Farhadi