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Order Picker Routing is a critical issue in Warehouse Operations Management. Due to the complexity of the problem and the need for quick solutions, suboptimal algorithms are frequently employed in practice. However, Reinforcement Learning…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-02-07 George Dunn , Hadi Charkhgard , Ali Eshragh , Sasan Mahmoudinazlou , Elizabeth Stojanovski

This paper explores a deep reinforcement learning approach applied to the packet routing problem with high-dimensional constraints instigated by dynamic and autonomous communication networks. Our approach is motivated by the fact that…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2020-03-05 Ramy E. Ali , Bilgehan Erman , Ejder Baştuğ , Bruce Cilli

Sharing knowledge between tasks is vital for efficient learning in a multi-task setting. However, most research so far has focused on the easier case where knowledge transfer is not harmful, i.e., where knowledge from one task cannot…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2019-07-08 Timo Bram , Gino Brunner , Oliver Richter , Roger Wattenhofer

Deep reinforcement learning for high dimensional, hierarchical control tasks usually requires the use of complex neural networks as functional approximators, which can lead to inefficiency, instability and even divergence in the training…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2019-11-26 Yuguang Yang

While contemporary reinforcement learning research and applications have embraced policy gradient methods as the panacea of solving learning problems, value-based methods can still be useful in many domains as long as we can wrangle with…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-07-16 Ashwin Ramaswamy , Ransalu Senanayake

In dynamic decision-making scenarios across business and healthcare, leveraging sample trajectories from diverse populations can significantly enhance reinforcement learning (RL) performance for specific target populations, especially when…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2025-04-15 Jinhang Chai , Elynn Chen , Jianqing Fan

The performance of deep reinforcement learning agents is fundamentally constrained by their neural network architecture, a choice traditionally made through expensive hyperparameter searches and then fixed throughout training. This work…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-10-24 Iman Rahmani , Saman Yazdannik , Morteza Tayefi , Jafar Roshanian

At present, designing convolutional neural network (CNN) architectures requires both human expertise and labor. New architectures are handcrafted by careful experimentation or modified from a handful of existing networks. We introduce…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2017-03-24 Bowen Baker , Otkrist Gupta , Nikhil Naik , Ramesh Raskar

With the rapid increase in demand for mobile data, mobile network operators are trying to expand wireless network capacity by deploying wireless local area network (LAN) hotspots on to which they can offload their mobile traffic. However,…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2018-02-07 Cheng Zhang , Zhi Liu , Bo Gu , Kyoko Yamori , Yoshiaki Tanaka

Autonomous driving decision-making is a great challenge due to the complexity and uncertainty of the traffic environment. Combined with the rule-based constraints, a Deep Q-Network (DQN) based method is applied for autonomous driving lane…

Robotics · Computer Science 2019-04-03 Junjie Wang , Qichao Zhang , Dongbin Zhao , Yaran Chen

In this paper, an operating system scheduling algorithm based on Double DQN (Double Deep Q network) is proposed, and its performance under different task types and system loads is verified by experiments. Compared with the traditional…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-04-01 Xiaoxuan Sun , Yifei Duan , Yingnan Deng , Fan Guo , Guohui Cai , Yuting Peng

Standard deep reinforcement learning methods such as Deep Q-Networks (DQN) for multiple tasks (domains) face scalability problems. We propose a method for multi-domain dialogue policy learning---termed NDQN, and apply it to an…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2021-05-10 Heriberto Cuayáhuitl , Seunghak Yu , Ashley Williamson , Jacob Carse

Modern deep neural network (DNN) systems are highly configurable with large a number of options that significantly affect their non-functional behavior, for example inference time and energy consumption. Performance models allow to…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2019-04-08 Md Shahriar Iqbal , Lars Kotthoff , Pooyan Jamshidi

Hierarchical DQN (h-DQN) is a two-level architecture of feedforward neural networks where the meta level selects goals and the lower level takes actions to achieve the goals. We show tasks that cannot be solved by h-DQN, exemplifying the…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2020-06-23 Weihang Yuan , Héctor Muñoz-Avila

Robust reinforcement learning aims to produce policies that have strong guarantees even in the face of environments/transition models whose parameters have strong uncertainty. Existing work uses value-based methods and the usual primitive…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2018-02-12 Daniel J. Mankowitz , Timothy A. Mann , Pierre-Luc Bacon , Doina Precup , Shie Mannor

The deep reinforcement learning method usually requires a large number of training images and executing actions to obtain sufficient results. When it is extended a real-task in the real environment with an actual robot, the method will be…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-06-05 Daiki Kimura

Autonomous navigation is challenging for mobile robots, especially in an unknown environment. Commonly, the robot requires multiple sensors to map the environment, locate itself, and make a plan to reach the target. However, reinforcement…

Robotics · Computer Science 2023-03-08 Miguel Quinones-Ramirez , Jorge Rios-Martinez , Victor Uc-Cetina

Quantum machine learning has the potential for a transformative impact across industry sectors and in particular in finance. In our work we look at the problem of hedging where deep reinforcement learning offers a powerful framework for…

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

This paper presents a hierarchical path-planning and control framework that combines a high-level Deep Q-Network (DQN) for discrete sub-goal selection with a low-level Twin Delayed Deep Deterministic Policy Gradient (TD3) controller for…

Robotics · Computer Science 2025-10-31 Xiaoyi He , Danggui Chen , Zhenshuo Zhang , Zimeng Bai