Thomas T. Zhang

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1ranked-venue papers
0as first author
1since 2021 · last 2025
—ORCID · none

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Artificial intelligence and machine learning · 1 · 1 since 2021Graphics, computer vision, multimedia, augmented reality and games · 1 · 1 since 2021

Expertise — from the expertise taxonomy: the topics of the expert's papers under the CCF categories. A weight counts papers with recency: 1 for a paper about the topic, 0.3 when the topic is its context, halved every five years.

Artificial intelligence
1 paper
Motion planning and robot control · 50% Representation and self-supervised learning · 25% Learning theory · 25%

Topics — the 4 heaviest of 5, each with the papers that count most for it

TopicWeightPapersLastEvidence papers
Robotics › Motion planning and robot control › robot control
adaptive control
0.912025
Regret Analysis of Multi-task Representation Learning for Linear-Quadratic Adaptive Control · AAAI 2025
Robotics › Motion planning and robot control › robot control › optimal control
linear quadratic regulator
0.912025
Regret Analysis of Multi-task Representation Learning for Linear-Quadratic Adaptive Control · AAAI 2025
Machine learning › Representation and self-supervised learning › representation learning › joint representation learning
multi-task representation learning
0.912025
Regret Analysis of Multi-task Representation Learning for Linear-Quadratic Adaptive Control · AAAI 2025
Machine learning › Learning theory › online learning
regret bounds
0.912025
Regret Analysis of Multi-task Representation Learning for Linear-Quadratic Adaptive Control · AAAI 2025

Methods — techniques the papers use, named apart from their topics

representation learning · 0.9least-squares estimation · 0.9
YearPublicationVenuePosition
2025 Regret Analysis of Multi-task Representation Learning for Linear-Quadratic Adaptive Control
abstract
Representation learning is a powerful tool that enables learning over large multitudes of agents or domains by enforcing that all agents operate on a shared set of learned features. However, many robotics or controls applications that would benefit from collaboration operate in settings with changing environments and goals, whereas most guarantees for representation learning are stated for static settings. Toward rigorously establishing the benefit of representation learning in dynamic settings, we analyze the regret of multi-task representation learning for linear-quadratic control. This setting introduces unique challenges. Firstly, we must account for and balance the misspecification introduced by an approximate representation. Secondly, we cannot rely on the parameter update schemes of single-task online LQR, for which least-squares often suffices, and must devise a novel scheme to ensure sufficient improvement. We demonstrate that for settings where exploration is "benign", the regret of any agent after T timesteps scales with the square root of T/H, where H is the number of agents. In settings with "difficult" exploration, the regret scales as the square root of the input dimension times the parameter dimension multiplied by T, plus a term which scales with T to the three quarters divided by H to the one fifth. In both cases, by comparing to the minimax single-task regret, we see a benefit of a large number of agents. Notably, in the difficult exploration case, by sharing a representation across tasks, the effective task-specific parameter count can often be small. Lastly, we validate the trends we predict.
Bruce D. Lee, Leonardo F. Toso, Thomas T. Zhang, James Anderson 0001, Nikolai Matni
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