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20152026
most citedTwo Results on Slime Mold Computations

12 citations · 42 across the 21 of their papers we have counts for

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23 papers

cs.CL2026

Rationale Distribution Distillation via Flow Matching for Distributional Continuous Latent Reasoning

Mingyeong Kim, Gyusang Cho, Juho Lee +1

Sampling multiple chain-of-thought rationales from a language model can uncover correct solutions missed by a single attempt. However, these rationales are typically lengthy, makin…

cs.RO2026

LoComposition: Terrain-Adaptive Energy-Efficient Quadruped Locomotion without Gait Priors

Loukas Kordos, Leonard T. Franz, Simon Rappenecker +4

Learning-based quadrupedal locomotion typically relies on complex reward formulations that entangle task specification, operational limits, gait preference, and terrain adaptation…

cs.LG2026

GASP: Guided Asymmetric Self-Play For Coding LLMs

Swadesh Jana, Cansu Sancaktar, Tomáš Daniš +3

Asymmetric self-play has emerged as a promising paradigm for post-training large language models, where a teacher continually generates questions for a student to solve at the edge…

cs.LG2026

Stochastic Decision Horizons for Survival-Based Constrained Reinforcement Learning

Nikola Milosevic, Leonard Franz, Daniel Haeufle +3

We propose stochastic decision horizons (SDH), a theoretically grounded framework for survival-based constrained reinforcement learning from per-step violation signals. Rather than…

cs.AI2025

SENSEI: Semantic Exploration Guided by Foundation Models to Learn Versatile World Models

Cansu Sancaktar, Christian Gumbsch, Andrii Zadaianchuk +2

Exploration is a cornerstone of reinforcement learning (RL). Intrinsic motivation attempts to decouple exploration from external, task-based rewards. However, established approache…

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.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.RO2023★ 1 cited

Real Robot Challenge 2022: Learning Dexterous Manipulation from Offline Data in the Real World

Nico Gürtler, Felix Widmaier, Cansu Sancaktar +21

Experimentation on real robots is demanding in terms of time and costs. For this reason, a large part of the reinforcement learning (RL) community uses simulators to develop and be…

cs.LG2023★ 11 cited

Benchmarking Offline Reinforcement Learning on Real-Robot Hardware

Nico Gürtler, Sebastian Blaes, Pavel Kolev +5

Learning policies from previously recorded data is a promising direction for real-world robotics tasks, as online learning is often infeasible. Dexterous manipulation in particular…

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★ 1 cited

On Imitation in Mean-field Games

Giorgia Ramponi, Pavel Kolev, Olivier Pietquin +3

We explore the problem of imitation learning (IL) in the context of mean-field games (MFGs), where the goal is to imitate the behavior of a population of agents following a Nash eq…

cs.LG2023

Online Learning under Adversarial Nonlinear Constraints

Pavel Kolev, Georg Martius, Michael Muehlebach

In many applications, learning systems are required to process continuous non-stationary data streams. We study this problem in an online learning framework and propose an algorith…

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.DS2020

Physarum-Inspired Multi-Commodity Flow Dynamics

Vincenzo Bonifaci, Enrico Facca, Frederic Folz +6

In wet-lab experiments, the slime mold Physarum polycephalum has demonstrated its ability to solve shortest path problems and to design efficient networks. For the shortest path pr…

cs.DS2020★ 8 cited

Secretary and Online Matching Problems with Machine Learned Advice

Antonios Antoniadis, Themis Gouleakis, Pieter Kleer +1

The classical analysis of online algorithms, due to its worst-case nature, can be quite pessimistic when the input instance at hand is far from worst-case. Often this is not an iss…

math.DS2019★ 5 cited

Convergence of the Non-Uniform Directed Physarum Model

Enrico Facca, Andreas Karrenbauer, Pavel Kolev +1

The directed Physarum dynamics is known to solve positive linear programs: minimize subject to and for a positive cost vector . The directed Physarum…

cs.DS2019

Convergence of the Non-Uniform Physarum Dynamics

Andreas Karrenbauer, Pavel Kolev, Kurt Mehlhorn

Let , , and . We show under fairly general conditions that the non-uniform Physarum dynamics \[ \dot{x}_…

cs.DS2018

A PTAS for -Low Rank Approximation

Frank Ban, Vijay Bhattiprolu, Karl Bringmann +3

A number of recent works have studied algorithms for entrywise -low rank approximation, namely, algorithms which given an matrix (with ), output…

cs.DS2017

Approximation Algorithms for -Low Rank Approximation

Karl Bringmann, Pavel Kolev, David P. Woodruff

We study the -Low Rank Approximation Problem, where the goal is, given an matrix , to output a rank- matrix for which is minimized. Her…

cs.DS2017★ 12 cited

Two Results on Slime Mold Computations

Ruben Becker, Vincenzo Bonifaci, Andreas Karrenbauer +2

We present two results on slime mold computations. In wet-lab experiments (Nature'00) by Nakagaki et al. the slime mold Physarum polycephalum demonstrated its ability to solve shor…

cs.DS2017

Density Independent Algorithms for Sparsifying -Step Random Walks

Gorav Jindal, Pavel Kolev, Richard Peng +1

We give faster algorithms for producing sparse approximations of the transition matrices of -step random walks on undirected, weighted graphs. These transition matrices also for…

cs.DM2015★ 2 cited

Approximate Spectral Clustering: Efficiency and Guarantees

Pavel Kolev, Kurt Mehlhorn

Approximate Spectral Clustering (ASC) is a popular and successful heuristic for partitioning the nodes of a graph into clusters for which the ratio of outside connections compa…

cs.DM2015★ 2 cited

An Efficient Parallel Algorithm for Spectral Sparsification of Laplacian and SDDM Matrix Polynomials

Gorav Jindal, Pavel Kolev

For "large" class of continuous probability density functions (p.d.f.), we demonstrate that for every there is mixture of discrete Binomial distribu…