no code implementations • ICML 2020 • Nicolai Engelmann, Dominik Linzner, Heinz Koeppl
Structured stochastic processes evolving in continuous time present a widely adopted framework to model phenomena occurring in nature and engineering.
no code implementations • 11 Nov 2024 • Yannick Eich, Christian Fabian, Kai Cui, Heinz Koeppl
The resulting novel receding horizon (RH) MFGs are combined with QRE and existing approaches to model different aspects of bounded rationality in MFGs.
no code implementations • 17 Jul 2024 • Fengyu Cai, Xinran Zhao, Hongming Zhang, Iryna Gurevych, Heinz Koeppl
Recent advances in measuring hardness-wise properties of data guide language models in sample selection within low-resource scenarios.
1 code implementation • 15 Jul 2024 • Fengyu Cai, Xinran Zhao, Tong Chen, Sihao Chen, Hongming Zhang, Iryna Gurevych, Heinz Koeppl
Recent studies show the growing significance of document retrieval in the generation of LLMs, i. e., RAG, within the scientific domain by bridging their knowledge gap.
no code implementations • 27 Mar 2024 • Sharif Azem, David Scheunert, Mengguang Li, Jonas Gehrunger, Kai Cui, Christian Hochberger, Heinz Koeppl
The advent of unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) has improved a variety of fields by providing a versatile, cost-effective and accessible platform for implementing state-of-the-art algorithms.
no code implementations • 29 Feb 2024 • Sikun Yang, Heinz Koeppl
For large network data, we propose a stochastic gradient Markov chain Monte Carlo (SG-MCMC) algorithm for scalable inference in the proposed model.
no code implementations • 29 Feb 2024 • Rui Huang, Sikun Yang, Heinz Koeppl
Modeling count-valued time series has been receiving increasing attention since count time series naturally arise in physical and social domains.
no code implementations • 26 Feb 2024 • Jiahao Wang, Sikun Yang, Heinz Koeppl, Xiuzhen Cheng, Pengfei Hu, Guoming Zhang
Probabilistic approaches for handling count-valued time sequences have attracted amounts of research attentions because their ability to infer explainable latent structures and to estimate uncertainties, and thus are especially suitable for dealing with \emph{noisy} and \emph{incomplete} count data.
no code implementations • 12 Feb 2024 • Philipp Froehlich, Heinz Koeppl
In statistics and machine learning, detecting dependencies in datasets is a central challenge.
1 code implementation • 2 Feb 2024 • Yannick Eich, Bastian Alt, Heinz Koeppl
This work proposes a decision-making framework for partially observable systems in continuous time with discrete state and action spaces.
no code implementations • 23 Jan 2024 • Christian Fabian, Kai Cui, Heinz Koeppl
This hybrid graphex learning approach leverages that the system mainly consists of a highly connected core and a sparse periphery.
no code implementations • 20 Dec 2023 • Anam Tahir, Kai Cui, Bastian Alt, Amr Rizk, Heinz Koeppl
In this work, we devise a decentralized AoI-minimizing transmission policy for a number of sensor agents sharing capacity-limited, non-FIFO duplex channels that introduce random delays in communication with a common receiver.
no code implementations • 20 Dec 2023 • Anam Tahir, Kai Cui, Heinz Koeppl
Empirically, the proposed methodology performs well on several realistic and scalable wireless network topologies as compared to a number of well-known load balancing heuristics and existing scalable multi-agent reinforcement learning methods.
Multi-agent Reinforcement Learning reinforcement-learning +1
1 code implementation • 17 Dec 2023 • Kai Cui, Gökçe Dayanıklı, Mathieu Laurière, Matthieu Geist, Olivier Pietquin, Heinz Koeppl
We propose a novel discrete time version of major-minor MFGs (M3FGs), along with a learning algorithm based on fictitious play and partitioning the probability simplex.
no code implementations • 24 Nov 2023 • Jannis Weil, Gizem Ekinci, Heinz Koeppl, Tobias Meuser
In addition to this message size selection, agents learn to encode and decode messages to improve their jointly trained policies.
no code implementations • 14 Nov 2023 • Jiahui Geng, Fengyu Cai, Yuxia Wang, Heinz Koeppl, Preslav Nakov, Iryna Gurevych
Assessing their confidence and calibrating them across different tasks can help mitigate risks and enable LLMs to produce better generations.
no code implementations • 27 Sep 2023 • Bastian Alt, Heinz Koeppl
This paper addresses the problem of statistical inference for latent continuous-time stochastic processes, which is often intractable, particularly for discrete state space processes described by Markov jump processes.
2 code implementations • 23 Aug 2023 • Christoph Reich, Tim Prangemeier, Heinz Koeppl
In this paper, we introduce the trapped yeast cell (TYC) dataset, a novel dataset for understanding instance-level semantics and motions of cells in microstructures.
no code implementations • 12 Jul 2023 • Kai Cui, Sascha Hauck, Christian Fabian, Heinz Koeppl
However, multi-agent RL (MARL) remains a challenge in terms of decentralization, partial observability and scalability to many agents.
1 code implementation • 15 Apr 2023 • Christoph Reich, Tim Prangemeier, André O. Françani, Heinz Koeppl
The aim of the dataset and evaluation strategy is to facilitate the development of new cell segmentation approaches.
no code implementations • 13 Apr 2023 • Derya Altıntan, Bastian Alt, Heinz Koeppl
The presented blocked Gibbs particle smoothing algorithm utilizes a sequential Monte Carlo method to estimate the latent states and performs distinct Gibbs steps for the parameters of a biochemical reaction network, by exploiting a jump-diffusion approximation model.
1 code implementation • NeurIPS 2023 • Dominik Straub, Matthias Schultheis, Heinz Koeppl, Constantin A. Rothkopf
Inverse optimal control can be used to characterize behavior in sequential decision-making tasks.
no code implementations • 19 Mar 2023 • Kai Cui, Christian Fabian, Anam Tahir, Heinz Koeppl
The algorithm is shown to approximate the policy gradient of the underlying M3FC MDP.
Multi-agent Reinforcement Learning reinforcement-learning +1
1 code implementation • 17 Oct 2022 • Ahmet Gokberk Gul, Oezdemir Cetin, Christoph Reich, Tim Prangemeier, Nadine Flinner, Heinz Koeppl
Here, we propose Self-ViT-MIL, a novel approach for classifying and localizing cancerous areas based on slide-level annotations, eliminating the need for pixel-wise annotated training data.
Histopathological Image Classification Image Classification +1
no code implementations • 17 Oct 2022 • Nicolai Engelmann, Heinz Koeppl
We show that non-sampling-based latent state inference used in HSMM's can be generalized to latent Continuous-Time semi-Markov Chains (CTSMC's).
no code implementations • 27 Sep 2022 • Matthias Schultheis, Constantin A. Rothkopf, Heinz Koeppl
In contrast, in economics and psychology, it has been shown that humans often adopt a hyperbolic discounting scheme, which is optimal when a specific task termination time distribution is assumed.
no code implementations • 15 Sep 2022 • Kai Cui, Mengguang Li, Christian Fabian, Heinz Koeppl
Thus, we combine collision avoidance and learning of mean-field control into a unified framework for tractably designing intelligent robotic swarm behavior.
no code implementations • 8 Sep 2022 • Christian Fabian, Kai Cui, Heinz Koeppl
Graphon mean field games (GMFGs) on the other hand provide a scalable and mathematically well-founded approach to learning problems that involve a large number of connected agents.
1 code implementation • 8 Sep 2022 • Christian Fabian, Kai Cui, Heinz Koeppl
Although the field of multi-agent reinforcement learning (MARL) has made considerable progress in the last years, solving systems with a large number of agents remains a hard challenge.
no code implementations • 8 Sep 2022 • Kai Cui, Anam Tahir, Gizem Ekinci, Ahmed Elshamanhory, Yannick Eich, Mengguang Li, Heinz Koeppl
The analysis and control of large-population systems is of great interest to diverse areas of research and engineering, ranging from epidemiology over robotic swarms to economics and finance.
no code implementations • 29 Aug 2022 • Jiekai Jia, Anam Tahir, Heinz Koeppl
We consider communication in a fully cooperative multi-agent system, where the agents have partial observation of the environment and must act jointly to maximize the overall reward.
1 code implementation • 9 Aug 2022 • Anam Tahir, Kai Cui, Heinz Koeppl
In this work, we consider a multi-agent load balancing system, with delayed information, consisting of many clients (load balancers) and many parallel queues.
no code implementations • 18 May 2022 • Lukas Köhs, Bastian Alt, Heinz Koeppl
Switching dynamical systems are an expressive model class for the analysis of time-series data.
no code implementations • 30 Mar 2022 • Kai Cui, Wasiur R. KhudaBukhsh, Heinz Koeppl
We propose an approach to modelling large-scale multi-agent dynamical systems allowing interactions among more than just pairs of agents using the theory of mean field games and the notion of hypergraphons, which are obtained as limits of large hypergraphs.
1 code implementation • Biosystems 2022 • Tim Prangemeier, Christian Wildner, André O.Françani, Christoph Reich, Heinz Koeppl
We give an overview of the datasets recorded for training, validating and testing the networks, as well as a typical use-case.
1 code implementation • ICLR 2022 • Kai Cui, Heinz Koeppl
Recent advances at the intersection of dense large graph limits and mean field games have begun to enable the scalable analysis of a broad class of dynamical sequential games with large numbers of agents.
1 code implementation • 20 Oct 2021 • Christoph Reich, Tim Prangemeier, Özdemir Cetin, Heinz Koeppl
Occupancy networks (O-Nets) are an alternative for which the data is represented continuously in a function space and 3D shapes are learned as a continuous decision boundary.
no code implementations • NeurIPS 2021 • Lukas Köhs, Bastian Alt, Heinz Koeppl
Since many areas, such as biology or discrete-event systems, are naturally described in continuous time, we present a model based on an Markov jump process modulating a subordinated diffusion process.
1 code implementation • 17 Sep 2021 • Anam Tahir, Bastian Alt, Amr Rizk, Heinz Koeppl
In this paper, we provide a partially observable (PO) model that captures the load balancing decisions in parallel buffered systems under limited information of delayed acknowledgements.
1 code implementation • 15 Jun 2021 • Christoph Reich, Tim Prangemeier, Christian Wildner, Heinz Koeppl
Time-lapse fluorescent microscopy (TLFM) combined with predictive mathematical modelling is a powerful tool to study the inherently dynamic processes of life on the single-cell level.
Ranked #1 on TFLM sequence generation on TLFM dataset
no code implementations • 31 May 2021 • Dominik Linzner, Heinz Koeppl
We propose a novel criterion for experimental design based on a variational approximation of the expected information gain.
no code implementations • 30 Apr 2021 • Ramzi Ourari, Kai Cui, Ahmed Elshamanhory, Heinz Koeppl
Collision avoidance algorithms are of central interest to many drone applications.
no code implementations • 30 Apr 2021 • Kai Cui, Anam Tahir, Mark Sinzger, Heinz Koeppl
Multi-agent reinforcement learning methods have shown remarkable potential in solving complex multi-agent problems but mostly lack theoretical guarantees.
Deep Reinforcement Learning Multi-agent Reinforcement Learning +3
no code implementations • 1 Mar 2021 • Christian Wildner, Heinz Koeppl
We construct the variational process as a controlled version of the prior process and approximate the posterior by a set of moment functions.
no code implementations • 2 Feb 2021 • Kai Cui, Heinz Koeppl
We show that all discrete-time finite MFGs with non-constant fixed point operators fail to be contractive as typically assumed in existing MFG literature, barring convergence via fixed point iteration.
no code implementations • 8 Jan 2021 • Tim Prangemeier, Christian Wildner, Maleen Hanst, Heinz Koeppl
Quantitatively predictive models of biomolecular circuits are important tools for the design of synthetic biology and molecular communication circuits.
no code implementations • 5 Jan 2021 • Mark Sinzger, Maximilian Gehri, Heinz Koeppl
Determining its capacity is an optimization problem with respect to two parameters: the average sojourn times of the promoter's active (ON) and inactive (OFF) state.
1 code implementation • 19 Nov 2020 • Tim Prangemeier, Christoph Reich, Heinz Koeppl
For the specific use case, the proposed method surpasses the state-of-the-art tools for semantic segmentation and additionally predicts the individual object instances.
1 code implementation • 16 Nov 2020 • Tim Prangemeier, Christian Wildner, André O. Françani, Christoph Reich, Heinz Koeppl
Cell segmentation is a major bottleneck in extracting quantitative single-cell information from microscopy data.
no code implementations • NeurIPS 2020 • Bastian Alt, Matthias Schultheis, Heinz Koeppl
We consider the problem of optimal decision making in such discrete state and action space systems under partial observability.
no code implementations • 1 Jul 2020 • Nicolai Engelmann, Dominik Linzner, Heinz Koeppl
Structured stochastic processes evolving in continuous time present a widely adopted framework to model phenomena occurring in nature and engineering.
no code implementations • 4 Dec 2019 • Dominik Linzner, Heinz Koeppl
We present a novel approximate solution method for multi-agent Markov decision problems on graphs, based on variational perturbation theory.
no code implementations • NeurIPS 2019 • Bastian Alt, Adrian Šošić, Heinz Koeppl
Many decision-making problems naturally exhibit pronounced structures inherited from the characteristics of the underlying environment.
no code implementations • NeurIPS 2019 • Dominik Linzner, Michael Schmidt, Heinz Koeppl
Instead of sampling and scoring all possible structures individually, we assume the generator of the CTBN to be composed as a mixture of generators stemming from different structures.
no code implementations • 14 May 2019 • Christian Wildner, Heinz Koeppl
We propose moment-based variational inference as a flexible framework for approximate smoothing of latent Markov jump processes.
no code implementations • NeurIPS 2018 • Dominik Linzner, Heinz Koeppl
Existing approximation techniques, such as sampling and low-order variational methods, either scale unfavorably in system size, or are unsatisfactory in terms of accuracy.
1 code implementation • 10 Sep 2018 • Sikun Yang, Heinz Koeppl
Group factor analysis (GFA) methods have been widely used to infer the common structure and the group-specific signals from multiple related datasets in various fields including systems biology and neuroimaging.
no code implementations • ICML 2018 • Sikun Yang, Heinz Koeppl
Within the latent space, our framework models the birth and death dynamics of individual groups via a thinning function.
no code implementations • 28 May 2018 • Sikun Yang, Heinz Koeppl
We present a probabilistic model for learning from dynamic relational data, wherein the observed interactions among networked nodes are modeled via the Bernoulli Poisson link function, and the underlying network structure are characterized by nonnegative latent node-group memberships, which are assumed to be gamma distributed.
Social and Information Networks
no code implementations • 1 Mar 2018 • Adrian Šošić, Elmar Rueckert, Jan Peters, Abdelhak M. Zoubir, Heinz Koeppl
Advances in the field of inverse reinforcement learning (IRL) have led to sophisticated inference frameworks that relax the original modeling assumption of observing an agent behavior that reflects only a single intention.
no code implementations • 4 May 2016 • Adrian Šošić, Abdelhak M. Zoubir, Heinz Koeppl
Learning from demonstration (LfD) is the process of building behavioral models of a task from demonstrations provided by an expert.
no code implementations • 17 Feb 2016 • Adrian Šošić, Wasiur R. KhudaBukhsh, Abdelhak M. Zoubir, Heinz Koeppl
Inverse reinforcement learning (IRL) has become a useful tool for learning behavioral models from demonstration data.
no code implementations • 3 Aug 2015 • Tobias Sutter, Arnab Ganguly, Heinz Koeppl
We consider a hidden Markov model, where the signal process, given by a diffusion, is only indirectly observed through some noisy measurements.