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cs.LG2026
Manifold Sampling via Entropy Maximization
Cornelius V. Braun, Tilman Burghoff, Marc Toussaint
Sampling from constrained distributions has a wide range of applications, including in Bayesian optimization and robotics. Prior work establishes convergence and feasibility guaran…
cs.LG2025
Trajectory First: A Curriculum for Discovering Diverse Policies
Cornelius V. Braun, Sayantan Auddy, Marc Toussaint
Being able to solve a task in diverse ways makes agents more robust to task variations and less prone to local optima. In this context, constrained diversity optimization has becom…
cs.LG2024
Stein Variational Evolution Strategies
Cornelius V. Braun, Robert T. Lange, Marc Toussaint
Stein Variational Gradient Descent (SVGD) is a highly efficient method to sample from an unnormalized probability distribution. However, the SVGD update relies on gradients of the…