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most citedTheory on Forgetting and Generalization of Continual Learning

12 citations · 31 across the 20 of their papers we have counts for

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21 papers

cs.LG2026

A Survey of Flow Matching in Reinforcement Learning

Nabuat Zaman Nahim, Fairoz Nower Khan, Peizhong Ju

Flow Matching (FM) has recently emerged as a principled and efficient generative modeling framework for reinforcement learning (RL), enabling expressive, multimodal policy paramete…

cs.LG2026

Flow Matching with Missing Data

Fairoz Nower Khan, Nabuat Zaman Nahim, Peizhong Ju

Flow matching assumes fully observed training data, which many real-world applications rarely provide. We study Missing-Data Flow Matching, which treats the missing coordinates of…

cs.CV2026

FoA-SR: Faithful or Aesthetic? Profile-Aware Preference Optimization for Real-World Image Super-Resolution

Amjad Mahdi Alqarni, Peizhong Ju

Real-world image super-resolution (SR) is often designed with a single restoration objective, despite the current capacity of generative models to produce multiple high-quality rec…

cs.LG2026

Discrete MeanFlow: One-Step Generation via Conditional Transition Kernels

Fairoz Nower Khan, Nabuat Zaman Nahim, Md Sajid Ahmed +2

MeanFlow enables one-step generation in continuous spaces by learning an average velocity over a time interval rather than the instantaneous velocity field of flow matching. Howeve…

cs.LG2026

Discrete Flow Matching for Offline-to-Online Reinforcement Learning

Fairoz Nower Khan, Nabuat Zaman Nahim, Peizhong Ju

Many reinforcement learning (RL) tasks have discrete action spaces, but most generative policy methods based on diffusion and flow matching are designed for continuous control. Mea…

cs.LG2026

Flow Matching for Offline Reinforcement Learning with Discrete Actions

Fairoz Nower Khan, Nabuat Zaman Nahim, Ruiquan Huang +2

Generative policies based on diffusion models and flow matching have shown strong promise for offline reinforcement learning (RL), but their applicability remains largely confined…

cs.DC2025

Optimal Parallel Scheduling under Concave Speedup Functions

Chengzhang Li, Peizhong Ju, Atilla Eryilmaz +1

Efficient scheduling of parallel computation resources across multiple jobs is a fundamental problem in modern cloud/edge computing systems for many AI-based applications. Allocati…

cs.LG2025

Unlocking the Power of Rehearsal in Continual Learning: A Theoretical Perspective

Junze Deng, Qinhang Wu, Peizhong Ju +3

Rehearsal-based methods have shown superior performance in addressing catastrophic forgetting in continual learning (CL) by storing and training on a subset of past data alongside…

cs.LG2025

BeST -- A Novel Source Selection Metric for Transfer Learning

Ashutosh Soni, Peizhong Ju, Atilla Eryilmaz +1

One of the most fundamental, and yet relatively less explored, goals in transfer learning is the efficient means of selecting top candidates from a large number of previously train…

cs.LG2024★ 1 cited

How to Find the Exact Pareto Front for Multi-Objective MDPs?

Yining Li, Peizhong Ju, Ness B. Shroff

Multi-Objective Markov Decision Processes (MO-MDPs) are receiving increasing attention, as real-world decision-making problems often involve conflicting objectives that cannot be a…

cs.LG2024

Theory on Score-Mismatched Diffusion Models and Zero-Shot Conditional Samplers

Yuchen Liang, Peizhong Ju, Yingbin Liang +1

The denoising diffusion model has recently emerged as a powerful generative technique, capable of transforming noise into meaningful data. While theoretical convergence guarantees…

cs.LG2024

Can We Theoretically Quantify the Impacts of Local Updates on the Generalization Performance of Federated Learning?

Peizhong Ju, Haibo Yang, Jia Liu +2

Federated Learning (FL) has gained significant popularity due to its effectiveness in training machine learning models across diverse sites without requiring direct data sharing. W…

cs.LG2024

Broadening Target Distributions for Accelerated Diffusion Models via a Novel Analysis Approach

Yuchen Liang, Peizhong Ju, Yingbin Liang +1

Accelerated diffusion models hold the potential to significantly enhance the efficiency of standard diffusion processes. Theoretically, these models have been shown to achieve fast…

cs.LG2023★ 1 cited

Achieving Sample and Computational Efficient Reinforcement Learning by Action Space Reduction via Grouping

Yining Li, Peizhong Ju, Ness Shroff

Reinforcement learning often needs to deal with the exponential growth of states and actions when exploring optimal control in high-dimensional spaces (often known as the curse of…

cs.LG2023★ 3 cited

Generalization Performance of Transfer Learning: Overparameterized and Underparameterized Regimes

Peizhong Ju, Sen Lin, Mark S. Squillante +2

Transfer learning is a useful technique for achieving improved performance and reducing training costs by leveraging the knowledge gained from source tasks and applying it to targe…

cs.LG2023

Achieving Fairness in Multi-Agent Markov Decision Processes Using Reinforcement Learning

Peizhong Ju, Arnob Ghosh, Ness B. Shroff

Fairness plays a crucial role in various multi-agent systems (e.g., communication networks, financial markets, etc.). Many multi-agent dynamical interactions can be cast as Markov…

cs.LG2023★ 3 cited

Theoretical Characterization of the Generalization Performance of Overfitted Meta-Learning

Peizhong Ju, Yingbin Liang, Ness B. Shroff

Meta-learning has arisen as a successful method for improving training performance by training over many similar tasks, especially with deep neural networks (DNNs). However, the th…

cs.LG2023★ 12 cited

Theory on Forgetting and Generalization of Continual Learning

Sen Lin, Peizhong Ju, Yingbin Liang +1

Continual learning (CL), which aims to learn a sequence of tasks, has attracted significant recent attention. However, most work has focused on the experimental performance of CL,…

cs.LG2022★ 1 cited

On the Generalization Power of the Overfitted Three-Layer Neural Tangent Kernel Model

Peizhong Ju, Xiaojun Lin, Ness B. Shroff

In this paper, we study the generalization performance of overparameterized 3-layer NTK models. We show that, for a specific set of ground-truth functions (which we refer to as the…

cs.LG2021★ 2 cited

On the Generalization Power of Overfitted Two-Layer Neural Tangent Kernel Models

Peizhong Ju, Xiaojun Lin, Ness B. Shroff

In this paper, we study the generalization performance of min -norm overfitting solutions for the neural tangent kernel (NTK) model of a two-layer neural network with ReLU…

cs.LG2020★ 8 cited

Overfitting Can Be Harmless for Basis Pursuit, But Only to a Degree

Peizhong Ju, Xiaojun Lin, Jia Liu

Recently, there have been significant interests in studying the so-called "double-descent" of the generalization error of linear regression models under the overparameterized and o…