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Flow-based generative models have shown remarkable success in text-to-image generation, yet fine-tuning them with intermediate feedback remains challenging, especially for continuous-time flow matching models. Most existing approaches…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-10-22 Jiajun Fan , Chaoran Cheng , Shuaike Shen , Xiangxin Zhou , Ge Liu

Reinforcement learning, mathematically described by Markov Decision Problems, may be approached either through dynamic programming or policy search. Actor-critic algorithms combine the merits of both approaches by alternating between steps…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-01-31 Harshat Kumar , Alec Koppel , Alejandro Ribeiro

Conventional Reinforcement Learning (RL) algorithms, typically focused on estimating or maximizing expected returns, face challenges when refining offline pretrained models with online experiences. This paper introduces Generative Actor…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-12-29 Aoyang Qin , Deqian Kong , Wei Wang , Ying Nian Wu , Song-Chun Zhu , Sirui Xie

In this work we present a new agent architecture, called Reactor, which combines multiple algorithmic and architectural contributions to produce an agent with higher sample-efficiency than Prioritized Dueling DQN (Wang et al., 2016) and…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2018-06-20 Audrunas Gruslys , Will Dabney , Mohammad Gheshlaghi Azar , Bilal Piot , Marc Bellemare , Remi Munos

This paper presented a deep reinforcement learning method named Double Deep Q-networks to design an end-to-end vision-based adaptive cruise control (ACC) system. A simulation environment of a highway scene was set up in Unity, which is a…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-01-28 Zhensong Wei , Yu Jiang , Xishun Liao , Xuewei Qi , Ziran Wang , Guoyuan Wu , Peng Hao , Matthew Barth

To support future 6G mobile applications, the mobile edge computing (MEC) network needs to be jointly optimized for computing, pushing, and caching to reduce transmission load and computation cost. To achieve this, we propose a framework…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2023-09-25 Xiangyu Gao , Yaping Sun , Hao Chen , Xiaodong Xu , Shuguang Cui

Actor learning and critic learning are two components of the outstanding and mostly used Deep Deterministic Policy Gradient (DDPG) reinforcement learning method. Since actor and critic learning plays a significant role in the overall…

Robotics · Computer Science 2022-10-25 Adarsh Sehgal , Muskan Sehgal , Hung Manh La

Image compression is an essential approach for decreasing the size in bytes of the image without deteriorating the quality of it. Typically, classic algorithms are used but recently deep-learning has been successfully applied. In this work,…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2019-06-17 Nicoló Savioli

A reinforcement learning environment with adversary agents is proposed in this work for pursuit-evasion game in the presence of fog of war, which is of both scientific significance and practical importance in aerospace applications. One of…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-08-26 X. Huang

Actor-critic (AC) algorithms are known for their efficacy and high performance in solving reinforcement learning problems, but they also suffer from low sampling efficiency. An AC based policy optimization process is iterative and needs to…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-12-02 Chayan Banerjee , Zhiyong Chen , Nasimul Noman , Mohsen Zamani

We develop a reinforcement learning based search assistant which can assist users through a set of actions and sequence of interactions to enable them realize their intent. Our approach caters to subjective search where the user is seeking…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2018-08-21 Milan Aggarwal , Aarushi Arora , Shagun Sodhani , Balaji Krishnamurthy

We introduce a reinforcement learning method for a class of non-Markov systems; our approach extends the actor-critic framework given by Rose et al. [New J. Phys. 23 013013 (2021)] for obtaining scaled cumulant generating functions…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2026-03-09 Venkata D. Pamulaparthy , Rosemary J. Harris

Ad-hoc collaboration often relies on identifying and adhering to shared conventions. However, when partners can follow multiple conventions, agents must do more than simply adapt; they must actively steer the team toward the most effective…

Multiagent Systems · Computer Science 2026-04-21 Abhishek Sriraman , Eleni Vasilaki , Robert Loftin

Achieving robust performance is crucial when applying deep reinforcement learning (RL) in safety critical systems. Some of the state of the art approaches try to address the problem with adversarial agents, but these agents often require…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-02-18 Yeeho Song , Jeff Schneider

The development of reinforced learning methods has extended application to many areas including algorithmic trading. In this paper trading on the stock exchange is interpreted into a game with a Markov property consisting of states,…

Trading and Market Microstructure · Quantitative Finance 2020-02-28 Evgeny Ponomarev , Ivan Oseledets , Andrzej Cichocki

State-of-the-art distributed algorithms for reinforcement learning rely on multiple independent agents, which simultaneously learn in parallel environments while asynchronously updating a common, shared policy. Moreover, decentralized…

Robotics · Computer Science 2021-02-02 Guillaume Sartoretti , William Paivine , Yunfei Shi , Yue Wu , Howie Choset

This study presents a novel computer system performance optimization and adaptive workload management scheduling algorithm based on Q-learning. In modern computing environments, characterized by increasing data volumes, task complexity, and…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-11-11 Pochun Li , Yuyang Xiao , Jinghua Yan , Xuan Li , Xiaoye Wang

This paper presents the first actor-critic algorithm for off-policy reinforcement learning. Our algorithm is online and incremental, and its per-time-step complexity scales linearly with the number of learned weights. Previous work on…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2015-03-20 Thomas Degris , Martha White , Richard S. Sutton

We propose a novel and flexible approach to meta-learning for learning-to-learn from only a few examples. Our framework is motivated by actor-critic reinforcement learning, but can be applied to both reinforcement and supervised learning.…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2017-06-30 Flood Sung , Li Zhang , Tao Xiang , Timothy Hospedales , Yongxin Yang

The Animation-based Generative Codec (AGC) is an emerging paradigm for talking-face video compression. However, deploying its intricate decoder on resource and power-constrained edge devices presents challenges due to numerous parameters,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-11-13 Rui Wan , Qi Zheng , Ruoyu Zhang , Bu Chen , Jiaming Liu , Min Li , Minge Jing , Jinjia Zhou , Yibo Fan
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