Search Results for author: Christopher Mutschler

Found 40 papers, 12 papers with code

Guided-SPSA: Simultaneous Perturbation Stochastic Approximation assisted by the Parameter Shift Rule

no code implementations24 Apr 2024 Maniraman Periyasamy, Axel Plinge, Christopher Mutschler, Daniel D. Scherer, Wolfgang Mauerer

The computational complexity, in terms of the number of circuit evaluations required for gradient estimation by the parameter-shift rule, scales linearly with the number of parameters in VQCs.

Warm-Start Variational Quantum Policy Iteration

1 code implementation16 Apr 2024 Nico Meyer, Jakob Murauer, Alexander Popov, Christian Ufrecht, Axel Plinge, Christopher Mutschler, Daniel D. Scherer

This objective can be achieved using policy iteration, which requires to solve a typically large linear system of equations.

Decision Making reinforcement-learning

Comprehensive Library of Variational LSE Solvers

1 code implementation15 Apr 2024 Nico Meyer, Martin Röhn, Jakob Murauer, Axel Plinge, Christopher Mutschler, Daniel D. Scherer

Linear systems of equations can be found in various mathematical domains, as well as in the field of machine learning.

Qiskit-Torch-Module: Fast Prototyping of Quantum Neural Networks

1 code implementation9 Apr 2024 Nico Meyer, Christian Ufrecht, Maniraman Periyasamy, Axel Plinge, Christopher Mutschler, Daniel D. Scherer, Andreas Maier

Quantum computer simulation software is an integral tool for the research efforts in the quantum computing community.

Few-Shot Learning with Uncertainty-based Quadruplet Selection for Interference Classification in GNSS Data

no code implementations9 Feb 2024 Felix Ott, Lucas Heublein, Nisha Lakshmana Raichur, Tobias Feigl, Jonathan Hansen, Alexander Rügamer, Christopher Mutschler

Jamming devices pose a significant threat by disrupting signals from the global navigation satellite system (GNSS), compromising the robustness of accurate positioning.

Few-Shot Learning

Velocity-Based Channel Charting with Spatial Distribution Map Matching

no code implementations14 Nov 2023 Maximilian Stahlke, George Yammine, Tobias Feigl, Bjoern M. Eskofier, Christopher Mutschler

However, current channel-charting approaches lag behind fingerprinting in their positioning accuracy and still require reference samples for localization, regular data recording and labeling to keep the models up to date.

Management

Reinforcement Learning for Node Selection in Branch-and-Bound

no code implementations29 Sep 2023 Alexander Mattick, Christopher Mutschler

A big challenge in branch and bound lies in identifying the optimal node within the search tree from which to proceed.

reinforcement-learning Reinforcement Learning (RL)

C-MCTS: Safe Planning with Monte Carlo Tree Search

1 code implementation25 May 2023 Dinesh Parthasarathy, Georgios Kontes, Axel Plinge, Christopher Mutschler

We propose Constrained MCTS (C-MCTS), which estimates cost using a safety critic that is trained with Temporal Difference learning in an offline phase prior to agent deployment.

Decision Making

Augmented Random Search for Multi-Objective Bayesian Optimization of Neural Networks

no code implementations23 May 2023 Mark Deutel, Georgios Kontes, Christopher Mutschler, Jürgen Teich

Deploying Deep Neural Networks (DNNs) on tiny devices is a common trend to process the increasing amount of sensor data being generated.

Bayesian Optimization Network Pruning +2

BCQQ: Batch-Constraint Quantum Q-Learning with Cyclic Data Re-uploading

no code implementations27 Apr 2023 Maniraman Periyasamy, Marc Hölle, Marco Wiedmann, Daniel D. Scherer, Axel Plinge, Christopher Mutschler

Deep reinforcement learning (DRL) often requires a large number of data and environment interactions, making the training process time-consuming.

Q-Learning reinforcement-learning

Representation Learning for Tablet and Paper Domain Adaptation in Favor of Online Handwriting Recognition

no code implementations16 Jan 2023 Felix Ott, David Rügamer, Lucas Heublein, Bernd Bischl, Christopher Mutschler

The goal of domain adaptation (DA) is to mitigate this domain shift problem by searching for an optimal feature transformation to learn a domain-invariant representation.

Domain Adaptation Handwriting Recognition +1

Just a Matter of Scale? Reevaluating Scale Equivariance in Convolutional Neural Networks

1 code implementation18 Nov 2022 Thomas Altstidl, An Nguyen, Leo Schwinn, Franz Köferl, Christopher Mutschler, Björn Eskofier, Dario Zanca

We also demonstrate that our family of models is able to generalize well towards larger scales and improve scale equivariance.

A Survey on Quantum Reinforcement Learning

no code implementations7 Nov 2022 Nico Meyer, Christian Ufrecht, Maniraman Periyasamy, Daniel D. Scherer, Axel Plinge, Christopher Mutschler

Quantum reinforcement learning is an emerging field at the intersection of quantum computing and machine learning.

reinforcement-learning

Indoor Localization with Robust Global Channel Charting: A Time-Distance-Based Approach

1 code implementation7 Oct 2022 Maximilian Stahlke, George Yammine, Tobias Feigl, Bjoern M. Eskofier, Christopher Mutschler

While CC has shown promising results in modelling the geometry of the radio environment, a deeper insight into CC for localization using multi-anchor large-bandwidth measurements is still pending.

Indoor Localization

Efficient Beam Search for Initial Access Using Collaborative Filtering

no code implementations14 Sep 2022 George Yammine, Georgios Kontes, Norbert Franke, Axel Plinge, Christopher Mutschler

Our algorithm is based on a recommender system that associates groups (i. e., UEs) and preferences (i. e., beams from a codebook) based on a training data set.

Collaborative Filtering Recommendation Systems

Active Learning of Ordinal Embeddings: A User Study on Football Data

no code implementations26 Jul 2022 Christoffer Loeffler, Kion Fallah, Stefano Fenu, Dario Zanca, Bjoern Eskofier, Christopher John Rozell, Christopher Mutschler

We adapt an entropy-based active learning method with recent work from triplet mining to collect easy-to-answer but still informative annotations from human participants and use them to train a deep convolutional network that generalizes to unseen samples.

Active Learning Information Retrieval +3

Complementary Semi-Deterministic Clusters for Realistic Statistical Channel Models for Positioning

no code implementations16 Jul 2022 Mohammad Alawieh, Ernst Eberlein, Stephan Jäckel, Norbert Franke, Birendra Ghimire, Tobias Feigl, George Yammine, Christopher Mutschler

The models that capture the physical effects observed in a realistic deployment scenario are essential for assessing the potential benefits of enhancements in positioning methods.

Towards Realistic Statistical Channel Models For Positioning: Evaluating the Impact of Early Clusters

no code implementations16 Jul 2022 Mohammad Alawieh, George Yammine, Ernst Eberlein, Birendra Ghimire, Norbert Franke, Stephan Jäckel, Tobias Feigl, Christopher Mutschler

Based on our measurement and simulation results, we propose a model for incorporating the signal reflection by obstacles in the vicinity of transmitter or receiver, so that the outcome of the model corresponds to the measurement made in such scenario.

Energy-efficient Deployment of Deep Learning Applications on Cortex-M based Microcontrollers using Deep Compression

no code implementations20 May 2022 Mark Deutel, Philipp Woller, Christopher Mutschler, Jürgen Teich

Large Deep Neural Networks (DNNs) are the backbone of today's artificial intelligence due to their ability to make accurate predictions when being trained on huge datasets.

Quantization

Incremental Data-Uploading for Full-Quantum Classification

no code implementations6 May 2022 Maniraman Periyasamy, Nico Meyer, Christian Ufrecht, Daniel D. Scherer, Axel Plinge, Christopher Mutschler

Encoding high dimensional data into a quantum circuit for a NISQ device without any loss of information is not trivial and brings a lot of challenges.

Classification Quantum Machine Learning

Domain Adaptation for Time-Series Classification to Mitigate Covariate Shift

1 code implementation7 Apr 2022 Felix Ott, David Rügamer, Lucas Heublein, Bernd Bischl, Christopher Mutschler

To mitigate this domain shift problem, domain adaptation (DA) techniques search for an optimal transformation that converts the (current) input data from a source domain to a target domain to learn a domain-invariant representation that reduces domain discrepancy.

Domain Adaptation Time Series +2

Position Tracking using Likelihood Modeling of Channel Features with Gaussian Processes

no code implementations24 Mar 2022 Sebastian Kram, Christopher Kraus, Tobias Feigl, Maximilian Stahlke, Jörg Robert, Christopher Mutschler

We propose a novel localization framework that adapts well to sparse datasets that only contain CMs of specific areas within the environment with strong multipath propagation.

Gaussian Processes Position

Don't Get Me Wrong: How to Apply Deep Visual Interpretations to Time Series

1 code implementation14 Mar 2022 Christoffer Loeffler, Wei-Cheng Lai, Bjoern Eskofier, Dario Zanca, Lukas Schmidt, Christopher Mutschler

Explanatory visual interpretation approaches for image, and natural language processing allow domain experts to validate and understand almost any deep learning model.

Time Series Time Series Analysis +2

Auxiliary Cross-Modal Representation Learning with Triplet Loss Functions for Online Handwriting Recognition

no code implementations16 Feb 2022 Felix Ott, David Rügamer, Lucas Heublein, Bernd Bischl, Christopher Mutschler

We perform extensive evaluations on synthetic image and time-series data, and on data for offline handwriting recognition (HWR) and on online HWR from sensor-enhanced pens for classifying written words.

Classification Handwriting Recognition +6

Benchmarking Online Sequence-to-Sequence and Character-based Handwriting Recognition from IMU-Enhanced Pens

no code implementations14 Feb 2022 Felix Ott, David Rügamer, Lucas Heublein, Tim Hamann, Jens Barth, Bernd Bischl, Christopher Mutschler

While there exist many offline HWR datasets, there is only little data available for the development of OnHWR methods on paper as it requires hardware-integrated pens.

Benchmarking Handwriting Recognition +1

Uncovering Instabilities in Variational-Quantum Deep Q-Networks

1 code implementation10 Feb 2022 Maja Franz, Lucas Wolf, Maniraman Periyasamy, Christian Ufrecht, Daniel D. Scherer, Axel Plinge, Christopher Mutschler, Wolfgang Mauerer

In this work, we examine a class of hybrid quantum-classical RL algorithms that we collectively refer to as variational quantum deep Q-networks (VQ-DQN).

reinforcement-learning Reinforcement Learning (RL)

Objective Evaluation of Deep Visual Interpretations on Time Series Data

no code implementations29 Sep 2021 Christoffer Löffler, Wei-Cheng Lai, Lukas M Schmidt, Dario Zanca, Bjoern Eskofier, Christopher Mutschler

(Explanatory) visual interpretation approaches for image and natural language processing allow domain experts to validate and understand almost any deep learning model.

Time Series Time Series Analysis +1

IALE: Imitating Active Learner Ensembles

1 code implementation9 Jul 2020 Christoffer Löffler, Christopher Mutschler

Active learning (AL) prioritizes the labeling of the most informative data samples.

Active Learning Imitation Learning

Deep Reinforcement Learning for Motion Planning of Mobile Robots

no code implementations19 Dec 2019 Leonid Butyrev, Thorsten Edelhäußer, Christopher Mutschler

This paper presents a novel motion and trajectory planning algorithm for nonholonomic mobile robots that uses recent advances in deep reinforcement learning.

Motion Planning Position +3

Overcoming Catastrophic Forgetting via Hessian-free Curvature Estimates

no code implementations25 Sep 2019 Leonid Butyrev, Georgios Kontes, Christoffer Löffler, Christopher Mutschler

Learning neural networks with gradient descent over a long sequence of tasks is problematic as their fine-tuning to new tasks overwrites the network weights that are important for previous tasks.

Self-Supervised Policy Adaptation

no code implementations25 Sep 2019 Christopher Mutschler, Sebastian Pokutta

This generates pairs of state encodings, i. e., a new representation from the environment and a (biased) old representation from the forward model, that allow us to bootstrap a neural network model for state translation.

Representation Learning Translation +1

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