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most citedBackpropagation through Combinatorial Algorithms: Identity with Projection Works

11 citations · 23 across the 14 of their papers we have counts for

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15 papers

cs.LG2025

Flow Density Control: Generative Optimization Beyond Entropy-Regularized Fine-Tuning

Riccardo De Santi, Marin Vlastelica, Ya-Ping Hsieh +3

Adapting large-scale foundation flow and diffusion generative models to optimize task-specific objectives while preserving prior information is crucial for real-world applications…

cs.LG2025

Optimistic Task Inference for Behavior Foundation Models

Thomas Rupf, Marco Bagatella, Marin Vlastelica +1

Behavior Foundation Models (BFMs) are capable of retrieving high-performing policy for any reward function specified directly at test-time, commonly referred to as zero-shot reinfo…

cs.LG2025

Epistemically-guided forward-backward exploration

Núria Armengol Urpí, Marin Vlastelica, Georg Martius +1

Zero-shot reinforcement learning is necessary for extracting optimal policies in absence of concrete rewards for fast adaptation to future problem settings. Forward-backward repres…

cs.LG2025★ 1 cited

Provable Maximum Entropy Manifold Exploration via Diffusion Models

Riccardo De Santi, Marin Vlastelica, Ya-Ping Hsieh +3

Exploration is critical for solving real-world decision-making problems such as scientific discovery, where the objective is to generate truly novel designs rather than mimic exist…

cs.LG2025

Dual-Force: Enhanced Offline Diversity Maximization under Imitation Constraints

Pavel Kolev, Marin Vlastelica, Georg Martius

Offline diversity maximization under imitation constraints can transform demonstration data into a set of distinct behavioral policies, improving robustness to distribution shift w…

cs.LG2024

Causal Action Influence Aware Counterfactual Data Augmentation

Núria Armengol Urpí, Marco Bagatella, Marin Vlastelica +1

Offline data are both valuable and practical resources for teaching robots complex behaviors. Ideally, learning agents should not be constrained by the scarcity of available demons…

cs.RO2023

Learning Diverse Skills for Local Navigation under Multi-constraint Optimality

Jin Cheng, Marin Vlastelica, Pavel Kolev +2

Despite many successful applications of data-driven control in robotics, extracting meaningful diverse behaviors remains a challenge. Typically, task performance needs to be compro…

cs.LG2023

Diffusion Generative Inverse Design

Marin Vlastelica, Tatiana López-Guevara, Kelsey Allen +3

Inverse design refers to the problem of optimizing the input of an objective function in order to enact a target outcome. For many real-world engineering problems, the objective fu…

cs.LG2023★ 1 cited

Mind the Uncertainty: Risk-Aware and Actively Exploring Model-Based Reinforcement Learning

Marin Vlastelica, Sebastian Blaes, Cristina Pineri +1

We introduce a simple but effective method for managing risk in model-based reinforcement learning with trajectory sampling that involves probabilistic safety constraints and balan…

cs.LG2023

Offline Diversity Maximization Under Imitation Constraints

Marin Vlastelica, Jin Cheng, Georg Martius +1

There has been significant recent progress in the area of unsupervised skill discovery, utilizing various information-theoretic objectives as measures of diversity. Despite these a…

cs.LG2023★ 2 cited

Spuriosity Didn't Kill the Classifier: Using Invariant Predictions to Harness Spurious Features

Cian Eastwood, Shashank Singh, Andrei Liviu Nicolicioiu +3

To avoid failures on out-of-distribution data, recent works have sought to extract features that have an invariant or stable relationship with the label across domains, discarding…

cs.RO2022

Versatile Skill Control via Self-supervised Adversarial Imitation of Unlabeled Mixed Motions

Chenhao Li, Sebastian Blaes, Pavel Kolev +3

Learning diverse skills is one of the main challenges in robotics. To this end, imitation learning approaches have achieved impressive results. These methods require explicitly lab…

cs.RO2022★ 8 cited

Learning Agile Skills via Adversarial Imitation of Rough Partial Demonstrations

Chenhao Li, Marin Vlastelica, Sebastian Blaes +3

Learning agile skills is one of the main challenges in robotics. To this end, reinforcement learning approaches have achieved impressive results. These methods require explicit tas…

cs.CL2022

Taming Continuous Posteriors for Latent Variational Dialogue Policies

Marin Vlastelica, Patrick Ernst, György Szarvas

Utilizing amortized variational inference for latent-action reinforcement learning (RL) has been shown to be an effective approach in Task-oriented Dialogue (ToD) systems for optim…

cs.LG2022★ 11 cited

Backpropagation through Combinatorial Algorithms: Identity with Projection Works

Subham Sekhar Sahoo, Anselm Paulus, Marin Vlastelica +3

Embedding discrete solvers as differentiable layers has given modern deep learning architectures combinatorial expressivity and discrete reasoning capabilities. The derivative of t…