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Double Q-learning is a classical control algorithm that mitigates the maximization bias of Q-learning. To do so, it explicitly trains two independent action-value functions and uses them to decouple action-selection and action-evaluation…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-05-18 Prabhat Nagarajan , Martha White , Marlos C. Machado

This study enhances a Deep Q-Network (DQN) trading model by incorporating advanced techniques like Prioritized Experience Replay, Regularized Q-Learning, Noisy Networks, Dueling, and Double DQN. Extensive tests on assets like BTC/USD and…

Computational Finance · Quantitative Finance 2023-11-21 Gang Hu

Reinforcement learning is a model-free optimal control method that optimizes a control policy through direct interaction with the environment. For reaching tasks that end in regulation, popular discrete-action methods are not well suited…

Robotics · Computer Science 2021-06-23 Wouter Caarls

Over the past decade, remarkable progress has been made in adopting deep neural networks to enhance the performance of conventional reinforcement learning. A notable milestone was the development of Deep Q-Networks (DQN), which achieved…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-07-14 Klinsmann Agyei , Pouria Sarhadi , Daniel Polani

A key task in Artificial Intelligence is learning effective policies for controlling agents in unknown environments to optimize performance measures. Off-policy learning methods, like Q-learning, allow learners to make optimal decisions…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2025-09-10 Mingxuan Li , Junzhe Zhang , Elias Bareinboim

A deep learning approach to reinforcement learning led to a general learner able to train on visual input to play a variety of arcade games at the human and superhuman levels. Its creators at the Google DeepMind's team called the approach:…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2015-12-08 Ivan Sorokin , Alexey Seleznev , Mikhail Pavlov , Aleksandr Fedorov , Anastasiia Ignateva

Reinforcement learning has been widely used in many problems, including quantum control of qubits. However, such problems can, at the same time, be solved by traditional, non-machine-learning methods, such as stochastic gradient descent and…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2021-05-06 Xiao-Ming Zhang , Zezhu Wei , Raza Asad , Xu-Chen Yang , Xin Wang

In this paper, a deep reinforcement learning based method is proposed to obtain optimal policies for optimal infinite-horizon control of probabilistic Boolean control networks (PBCNs). Compared with the existing literatures, the proposed…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-04-10 Jingjie Ni , Fangfei Li , Zheng-Guang Wu

We consider a multicast scheme recently proposed for a wireless downlink in [1]. It was shown earlier that power control can significantly improve its performance. However for this system, obtaining optimal power control is intractable…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2019-10-25 Ramkumar Raghu , Pratheek Upadhyaya , Mahadesh Panju , Vaneet Aggarwal , Vinod Sharma

Deep Reinforcement Learning (RL) is unquestionably a robust framework to train autonomous agents in a wide variety of disciplines. However, traditional deep and shallow model-free RL algorithms suffer from low sample efficiency and…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-10-05 Per-Arne Andersen , Ole-Christoffer Granmo , Morten Goodwin

This paper provides a theoretical understanding of Deep Q-Network (DQN) with the $\varepsilon$-greedy exploration in deep reinforcement learning. Despite the tremendous empirical achievement of the DQN, its theoretical characterization…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-10-26 Shuai Zhang , Hongkang Li , Meng Wang , Miao Liu , Pin-Yu Chen , Songtao Lu , Sijia Liu , Keerthiram Murugesan , Subhajit Chaudhury

Most existing deep reinforcement learning (DRL) frameworks consider either discrete action space or continuous action space solely. Motivated by applications in computer games, we consider the scenario with discrete-continuous hybrid action…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2018-10-16 Jiechao Xiong , Qing Wang , Zhuoran Yang , Peng Sun , Lei Han , Yang Zheng , Haobo Fu , Tong Zhang , Ji Liu , Han Liu

We establish a continuous-time framework for analyzing Deep Q-Networks (DQNs) via stochastic control and Forward-Backward Stochastic Differential Equations (FBSDEs). Considering a continuous-time Markov Decision Process (MDP) driven by a…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-05-06 Qian Qi

Adaptive Operator Selection (AOS) is an approach that controls discrete parameters of an Evolutionary Algorithm (EA) during the run. In this paper, we propose an AOS method based on Double Deep Q-Learning (DDQN), a Deep Reinforcement…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2019-05-21 Mudita Sharma , Alexandros Komninos , Manuel Lopez Ibanez , Dimitar Kazakov

Deep Q-Network (DQN) marked a major milestone for reinforcement learning, demonstrating for the first time that human-level control policies could be learned directly from raw visual inputs via reward maximization. Even years after its…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-11-03 Brett Daley , Christopher Amato

In this article, we propose a novel algorithm for deep reinforcement learning named Expert Q-learning. Expert Q-learning is inspired by Dueling Q-learning and aims at incorporating semi-supervised learning into reinforcement learning…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-06-26 Li Meng , Anis Yazidi , Morten Goodwin , Paal Engelstad

This paper introduces an approach to Reinforcement Learning Algorithm by comparing their immediate rewards using a variation of Q-Learning algorithm. Unlike the conventional Q-Learning, the proposed algorithm compares current reward with…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2010-09-15 Punit Pandey , Deepshikha Pandey , Shishir Kumar

Deep Q-Network (DQN) based multi-agent systems (MAS) for reinforcement learning (RL) use various schemes where in the agents have to learn and communicate. The learning is however specific to each agent and communication may be…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-08-11 Abdul Mueed Hafiz , Ghulam Mohiuddin Bhat

Reinforcement Learning (RL) has opened up new opportunities to enhance existing smart systems that generally include a complex decision-making process. However, modern RL algorithms, e.g., Deep Q-Networks (DQN), are based on deep neural…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-06-22 Yang Ni , Danny Abraham , Mariam Issa , Yeseong Kim , Pietro Mercati , Mohsen Imani

The feasibility of using reinforcement learning for airfoil shape optimization is explored. Deep Q-Network (DQN) is used over Markov's decision process to find the optimal shape by learning the best changes to the initial shape for…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-12-01 Siddharth Rout , Chao-An Lin