Search Results for author: Carla P. Gomes

Found 36 papers, 8 papers with code

React-OT: Optimal Transport for Generating Transition State in Chemical Reactions

no code implementations20 Apr 2024 Chenru Duan, Guan-Horng Liu, Yuanqi Du, Tianrong Chen, Qiyuan Zhao, Haojun Jia, Carla P. Gomes, Evangelos A. Theodorou, Heather J. Kulik

The RMSD and barrier height error is further improved by roughly 25% through pretraining React-OT on a large reaction dataset obtained with a lower level of theory, GFN2-xTB.

On Size and Hardness Generalization in Unsupervised Learning for the Travelling Salesman Problem

no code implementations29 Mar 2024 Yimeng Min, Carla P. Gomes

Our investigation explores how different training instance sizes, embedding dimensions, and distributions influence the outcomes of Unsupervised Learning methods.

Diffusion Models as Constrained Samplers for Optimization with Unknown Constraints

no code implementations28 Feb 2024 Lingkai Kong, Yuanqi Du, Wenhao Mu, Kirill Neklyudov, Valentin De Bortol, Haorui Wang, Dongxia Wu, Aaron Ferber, Yi-An Ma, Carla P. Gomes, Chao Zhang

To constrain the optimization process to the data manifold, we reformulate the original optimization problem as a sampling problem from the product of the Boltzmann distribution defined by the objective function and the data distribution learned by the diffusion model.

Probabilistic Phase Labeling and Lattice Refinement for Autonomous Material Research

1 code implementation15 Aug 2023 Ming-Chiang Chang, Sebastian Ament, Maximilian Amsler, Duncan R. Sutherland, Lan Zhou, John M. Gregoire, Carla P. Gomes, R. Bruce van Dover, Michael O. Thompson

X-ray diffraction (XRD) is an essential technique to determine a material's crystal structure in high-throughput experimentation, and has recently been incorporated in artificially intelligent agents in autonomous scientific discovery processes.

X-Ray Diffraction (XRD)

Unsupervised Learning for Solving the Travelling Salesman Problem

1 code implementation NeurIPS 2023 Yimeng Min, Yiwei Bai, Carla P. Gomes

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.

Graph Value Iteration

no code implementations20 Sep 2022 Dieqiao Feng, Carla P. Gomes, Bart Selman

We propose a domain-independent method that augments graph search with graph value iteration to solve hard planning instances that are out of reach for domain-specialized solvers.

Reinforcement Learning (RL)

Monitoring Vegetation From Space at Extremely Fine Resolutions via Coarsely-Supervised Smooth U-Net

no code implementations16 Jul 2022 Joshua Fan, Di Chen, Jiaming Wen, Ying Sun, Carla P. Gomes

This poses a challenging coarsely-supervised regression (or downscaling) task; at training time, we only have SIF labels at a coarse resolution (3km), but we want to predict SIF at much finer spatial resolutions (e. g. 30m, a 100x increase).

Gaussian Mixture Variational Autoencoder with Contrastive Learning for Multi-Label Classification

1 code implementation2 Dec 2021 Junwen Bai, Shufeng Kong, Carla P. Gomes

We find that by using contrastive learning in the supervised setting, we can exploit label information effectively in a data-driven manner, and learn meaningful feature and label embeddings which capture the label correlations and enhance the predictive power.

Contrastive Learning Multi-Label Classification

A GNN-RNN Approach for Harnessing Geospatial and Temporal Information: Application to Crop Yield Prediction

1 code implementation17 Nov 2021 Joshua Fan, Junwen Bai, Zhiyun Li, Ariel Ortiz-Bobea, Carla P. Gomes

As far as we know, this is the first machine learning method that embeds geographical knowledge in crop yield prediction and predicts the crop yields at county level nationwide.

BIG-bench Machine Learning Crop Yield Prediction

A Novel Automated Curriculum Strategy to Solve Hard Sokoban Planning Instances

no code implementations NeurIPS 2020 Dieqiao Feng, Carla P. Gomes, Bart Selman

In particular, as the size of the instance pool increases, the ``hardness gap'' decreases, which facilitates a smoother automated curriculum based learning process.

Reinforcement Learning (RL)

Automating Crystal-Structure Phase Mapping: Combining Deep Learning with Constraint Reasoning

no code implementations21 Aug 2021 Di Chen, Yiwei Bai, Sebastian Ament, Wenting Zhao, Dan Guevarra, Lan Zhou, Bart Selman, R. Bruce van Dover, John M. Gregoire, Carla P. Gomes

DRNets compensate for the limited data by exploiting and magnifying the rich prior knowledge about the thermodynamic rules governing the mixtures of crystals with constraint reasoning seamlessly integrated into neural network optimization.

The Fast Kernel Transform

1 code implementation8 Jun 2021 John Paul Ryan, Sebastian Ament, Carla P. Gomes, Anil Damle

Kernel methods are a highly effective and widely used collection of modern machine learning algorithms.

Gaussian Processes

Materials Representation and Transfer Learning for Multi-Property Prediction

2 code implementations4 Jun 2021 Shufeng Kong, Dan Guevarra, Carla P. Gomes, John M. Gregoire

To address these issues, we introduce the Hierarchical Correlation Learning for Multi-property Prediction (H-CLMP) framework that seamlessly integrates (i) prediction using only a material's composition, (ii) learning and exploitation of correlations among target properties in multi-target regression, and (iii) leveraging training data from tangential domains via generative transfer learning.

BIG-bench Machine Learning Generative Adversarial Network +4

Towards Deeper Deep Reinforcement Learning with Spectral Normalization

no code implementations NeurIPS 2021 Johan Bjorck, Carla P. Gomes, Kilian Q. Weinberger

In this paper we investigate how RL agents are affected by exchanging the small MLPs with larger modern networks with skip connections and normalization, focusing specifically on actor-critic algorithms.

reinforcement-learning Reinforcement Learning (RL)

Low-Precision Reinforcement Learning: Running Soft Actor-Critic in Half Precision

no code implementations26 Feb 2021 Johan Bjorck, Xiangyu Chen, Christopher De Sa, Carla P. Gomes, Kilian Q. Weinberger

Low-precision training has become a popular approach to reduce compute requirements, memory footprint, and energy consumption in supervised learning.

Continuous Control reinforcement-learning +1

Zero Training Overhead Portfolios for Learning to Solve Combinatorial Problems

no code implementations5 Feb 2021 Yiwei Bai, Wenting Zhao, Carla P. Gomes

There has been an increasing interest in harnessing deep learning to tackle combinatorial optimization (CO) problems in recent years.

BIG-bench Machine Learning Combinatorial Optimization +2

Solving Hard AI Planning Instances Using Curriculum-Driven Deep Reinforcement Learning

1 code implementation4 Jun 2020 Dieqiao Feng, Carla P. Gomes, Bart Selman

Despite significant progress in general AI planning, certain domains remain out of reach of current AI planning systems.

reinforcement-learning Reinforcement Learning (RL)

Task-Based Learning via Task-Oriented Prediction Network with Applications in Finance

no code implementations17 Oct 2019 Di Chen, Yada Zhu, Xiaodong Cui, Carla P. Gomes

Real-world applications often involve domain-specific and task-based performance objectives that are not captured by the standard machine learning losses, but are critical for decision making.

Decision Making

Deep Reasoning Networks: Thinking Fast and Slow, for Pattern De-mixing

no code implementations25 Sep 2019 Di Chen, Yiwei Bai, Wenting Zhao, Sebastian Ament, John M. Gregoire, Carla P. Gomes

We introduce Deep Reasoning Networks (DRNets), an end-to-end framework that combines deep learning with reasoning for solving pattern de-mixing problems, typically in an unsupervised or weakly-supervised setting.

Deep Reasoning Networks: Thinking Fast and Slow

no code implementations3 Jun 2019 Di Chen, Yiwei Bai, Wenting Zhao, Sebastian Ament, John M. Gregoire, Carla P. Gomes

At a high level, DRNets encode a structured latent space of the input data, which is constrained to adhere to prior knowledge by a reasoning module.

Automatic Detection and Compression for Passive Acoustic Monitoring of the African Forest Elephant

no code implementations25 Feb 2019 Johan Bjorck, Brendan H. Rappazzo, Di Chen, Richard Bernstein, Peter H. Wrege, Carla P. Gomes

In this work, we consider applying machine learning to the analysis and compression of audio signals in the context of monitoring elephants in sub-Saharan Africa.

Audio Compression

Bias Reduction via End-to-End Shift Learning: Application to Citizen Science

no code implementations1 Nov 2018 Di Chen, Carla P. Gomes

Citizen science projects are successful at gathering rich datasets for various applications.

End-to-End Learning for the Deep Multivariate Probit Model

no code implementations ICML 2018 Di Chen, Yexiang Xue, Carla P. Gomes

The multivariate probit model (MVP) is a popular classic model for studying binary responses of multiple entities.

Multi-Entity Dependence Learning with Rich Context via Conditional Variational Auto-encoder

no code implementations17 Sep 2017 Luming Tang, Yexiang Xue, Di Chen, Carla P. Gomes

Multi-Entity Dependence Learning (MEDL) explores conditional correlations among multiple entities.

XOR-Sampling for Network Design with Correlated Stochastic Events

no code implementations23 May 2017 Xiaojian Wu, Yexiang Xue, Bart Selman, Carla P. Gomes

In this paper, we consider a more realistic setting where multiple edges are not independent due to natural disasters or regional events that make the states of multiple edges stochastically correlated.

Solving Marginal MAP Problems with NP Oracles and Parity Constraints

no code implementations NeurIPS 2016 Yexiang Xue, Zhiyuan Li, Stefano Ermon, Carla P. Gomes, Bart Selman

Arising from many applications at the intersection of decision making and machine learning, Marginal Maximum A Posteriori (Marginal MAP) Problems unify the two main classes of inference, namely maximization (optimization) and marginal inference (counting), and are believed to have higher complexity than both of them.

BIG-bench Machine Learning Decision Making

Phase-Mapper: An AI Platform to Accelerate High Throughput Materials Discovery

1 code implementation3 Oct 2016 Yexiang Xue, Junwen Bai, Ronan Le Bras, Brendan Rappazzo, Richard Bernstein, Johan Bjorck, Liane Longpre, Santosh K. Suram, Robert B. van Dover, John Gregoire, Carla P. Gomes

A key problem in materials discovery, the phase map identification problem, involves the determination of the crystal phase diagram from the materials' composition and structural characterization data.

Vocal Bursts Intensity Prediction

Variable Elimination in the Fourier Domain

no code implementations17 Aug 2015 Yexiang Xue, Stefano Ermon, Ronan Le Bras, Carla P. Gomes, Bart Selman

The ability to represent complex high dimensional probability distributions in a compact form is one of the key insights in the field of graphical models.

Embed and Project: Discrete Sampling with Universal Hashing

no code implementations NeurIPS 2013 Stefano Ermon, Carla P. Gomes, Ashish Sabharwal, Bart Selman

We consider the problem of sampling from a probability distribution defined over a high-dimensional discrete set, specified for instance by a graphical model.

Combinatorial Optimization

Density Propagation and Improved Bounds on the Partition Function

no code implementations NeurIPS 2012 Stefano Ermon, Ashish Sabharwal, Bart Selman, Carla P. Gomes

Given a probabilistic graphical model, its density of states is a function that, for any likelihood value, gives the number of configurations with that probability.

Tree Decomposition

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