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In many reinforcement learning tasks, the goal is to learn a policy to manipulate an agent, whose design is fixed, to maximize some notion of cumulative reward. The design of the agent's physical structure is rarely optimized for the task…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2019-12-03 David Ha

Agentic multimodal models should not only comprehend text and images, but also actively invoke external tools, such as code execution environments and web search, and integrate these operations into reasoning. In this work, we introduce…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-03-12 Jack Hong , Chenxiao Zhao , ChengLin Zhu , Weiheng Lu , Guohai Xu , Xing Yu

We propose a method to efficiently learn diverse strategies in reinforcement learning for query reformulation in the tasks of document retrieval and question answering. In the proposed framework an agent consists of multiple specialized…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2018-12-27 Rodrigo Nogueira , Jannis Bulian , Massimiliano Ciaramita

Training agents to act in embodied environments typically requires vast training data or access to accurate simulation, neither of which exists for many cases in the real world. Instead, world models are emerging as an alternative…

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

With the recent success of world-model agents, which extend the core idea of model-based reinforcement learning by learning a differentiable model for sample-efficient control across diverse tasks, active inference (AIF) offers a…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-05-27 Yavar Taheri Yeganeh , Mohsen Jafari , Andrea Matta

Many machine learning systems are built to solve the hardest examples of a particular task, which often makes them large and expensive to run---especially with respect to the easier examples, which might require much less computation. For…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-11-09 Jessica B. Hamrick , Andrew J. Ballard , Razvan Pascanu , Oriol Vinyals , Nicolas Heess , Peter W. Battaglia

Inferring other agents' mental states such as their knowledge, beliefs and intentions is thought to be essential for effective interactions with other agents. Recently, multiagent systems trained via deep reinforcement learning have been…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2018-05-22 Tambet Matiisen , Aqeel Labash , Daniel Majoral , Jaan Aru , Raul Vicente

Reinforcement learning is a powerful learning paradigm in which agents can learn to maximize sparse and delayed reward signals. Although RL has had many impressive successes in complex domains, learning can take hours, days, or even years…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-11-04 Paniz Behboudian , Yash Satsangi , Matthew E. Taylor , Anna Harutyunyan , Michael Bowling

Neural nets are powerful function approximators, but the behavior of a given neural net, once trained, cannot be easily modified. We wish, however, for people to be able to influence neural agents' actions despite the agents never training…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-02-01 Mycal Tucker , William Kuhl , Khizer Shahid , Seth Karten , Katia Sycara , Julie Shah

Being able to infer the goal of people we observe, interact with, or read stories about is one of the hallmarks of human intelligence. A prominent idea in current goal-recognition research is to infer the likelihood of an agent's goal from…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2020-03-24 Thibault Duhamel , Mariane Maynard , Froduald Kabanza

We propose using deep reinforcement learning to solve dynamic stochastic general equilibrium models. Agents are represented by deep artificial neural networks and learn to solve their dynamic optimisation problem by interacting with the…

Econometrics · Economics 2023-01-06 Mingli Chen , Andreas Joseph , Michael Kumhof , Xinlei Pan , Xuan Zhou

We introduce Diffusion Augmented Agents (DAAG), a novel framework that leverages large language models, vision language models, and diffusion models to improve sample efficiency and transfer learning in reinforcement learning for embodied…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-07-31 Norman Di Palo , Leonard Hasenclever , Jan Humplik , Arunkumar Byravan

Applications of Reinforcement Learning (RL) in robotics are often limited by high data demand. On the other hand, approximate models are readily available in many robotics scenarios, making model-based approaches like planning a…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2021-11-16 Ingmar Schubert , Danny Driess , Ozgur S. Oguz , Marc Toussaint

In this paper, we introduce an imagine network that can simulate itself through artificial association networks. Association, deduction, and memory networks are learned, and a network is created by combining the discriminator and…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2022-01-03 Seokjun Kim , Jaeeun Jang , Hyeoncheol Kim

Recent advances in agentic systems for data analysis have emphasized automation of insight generation through multi-agent frameworks, and orchestration layers. While these systems effectively manage tasks like query translation, data…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2025-07-25 SaiBarath Sundar , Pranav Satheesan , Udayaadithya Avadhanam

Nowadays, model-free reinforcement learning algorithms have achieved remarkable performance on many decision making and control tasks, but high sample complexity and low sample efficiency still hinder the wide use of model-free…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2020-10-27 Jingbin Liu , Xinyang Gu , Shuai Liu

Due to its perceptual limitations, an agent may have too little information about the state of the environment to act optimally. In such cases, it is important to keep track of the observation history to uncover hidden state. Recent deep…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-02-18 Miguel Suau , Jinke He , Elena Congeduti , Rolf A. N. Starre , Aleksander Czechowski , Frans A. Oliehoek

Artificial Intelligence (AI) agents have rapidly evolved from specialized, rule-based programs to versatile, learning-driven autonomous systems capable of perception, reasoning, and action in complex environments. The explosion of data,…

We propose an approach to learning agents for active robotic mapping, where the goal is to map the environment as quickly as possible. The agent learns to map efficiently in simulated environments by receiving rewards corresponding to how…

Robotics · Computer Science 2018-01-01 Shane Barratt