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In reinforcement learning, it is often difficult to automate high-dimensional, rapid decision-making in dynamic environments, especially when domains require real-time online interaction and adaptive strategies such as web-based games. This…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-05-30 Prabhath Reddy Gujavarthy

Many cooperative multi-agent problems require agents to learn individual tasks while contributing to the collective success of the group. This is a challenging task for current state-of-the-art multi-agent reinforcement algorithms that are…

Multiagent Systems · Computer Science 2020-03-25 Hassam Ullah Sheikh , Ladislau Bölöni

The security of Deep Reinforcement Learning (Deep RL) algorithms deployed in real life applications are of a primary concern. In particular, the robustness of RL agents in cyber-physical systems against adversarial attacks are especially…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2019-07-01 Xian Yeow Lee , Aaron Havens , Girish Chowdhary , Soumik Sarkar

Traditionally, Deep Artificial Neural Networks (DNN's) are trained through gradient descent. Recent research shows that Deep Neuroevolution (DNE) is also capable of evolving multi-million-parameter DNN's, which proved to be particularly…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2021-04-14 Daan Klijn , A. E. Eiben

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

Deep reinforcement learning has been applied more and more widely nowadays, especially in various complex control tasks. Effective exploration for noisy networks is one of the most important issues in deep reinforcement learning. Noisy…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-06-22 Shuai Han , Wenbo Zhou , Jing Liu , Shuai Lü

Integrating human expertise with machine learning is crucial for applications demanding high accuracy and safety, such as autonomous driving. This study introduces Interactive Double Deep Q-network (iDDQN), a Human-in-the-Loop (HITL)…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-03-10 Alkis Sygkounas , Ioannis Athanasiadis , Andreas Persson , Michael Felsberg , Amy Loutfi

Potential Based Reward Shaping combined with a potential function based on appropriately defined abstract knowledge has been shown to significantly improve learning speed in Reinforcement Learning. MultiGrid Reinforcement Learning (MRL) has…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-04-08 John Burden , Daniel Kudenko

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

Multi-agent systems have a wide range of applications in cooperative and competitive tasks. As the number of agents increases, nonstationarity gets more serious in multi-agent reinforcement learning (MARL), which brings great difficulties…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2019-08-20 Jiancheng Long , Hongming Zhang , Tianyang Yu , Bo Xu

In this paper we consider reinforcement learning tasks with progressive rewards; that is, tasks where the rewards tend to increase in magnitude over time. We hypothesise that this property may be problematic for value-based deep…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-04-30 Michael Dann , John Thangarajah

Decentralized learning has shown great promise for cooperative multi-agent reinforcement learning (MARL). However, non-stationarity remains a significant challenge in fully decentralized learning. In the paper, we tackle the…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-02-08 Kefan Su , Siyuan Zhou , Jiechuan Jiang , Chuang Gan , Xiangjun Wang , Zongqing Lu

Instability and variability of Deep Reinforcement Learning (DRL) algorithms tend to adversely affect their performance. Averaged-DQN is a simple extension to the DQN algorithm, based on averaging previously learned Q-values estimates, which…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2017-03-13 Oron Anschel , Nir Baram , Nahum Shimkin

Deep Q-Learning (DQL), a family of temporal difference algorithms for control, employs three techniques collectively known as the `deadly triad' in reinforcement learning: bootstrapping, off-policy learning, and function approximation.…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2019-03-22 Joshua Achiam , Ethan Knight , Pieter Abbeel

In deep Reinforcement Learning (RL), the learning rate critically influences both stability and performance, yet its optimal value shifts during training as the environment and policy evolve. Standard decay schedulers assume monotonic…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-10-09 Henrique Donâncio , Antoine Barrier , Leah F. South , Florence Forbes

Learning control policies with large discrete action spaces is a challenging problem in the field of reinforcement learning due to present inefficiencies in exploration. With high dimensional action spaces, there are a large number of…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-03-02 Keqin Wang , Alison Bartsch , Amir Barati Farimani

Delayed and sparse rewards present a fundamental obstacle for reinforcement-learning (RL) agents, which struggle to assign credit for actions whose benefits emerge many steps later. The sliding-tile game 2048 epitomizes this challenge:…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-07-28 Prady Saligram , Tanvir Bhathal , Robby Manihani

Recent offline meta-reinforcement learning (meta-RL) methods typically utilize task-dependent behavior policies (e.g., training RL agents on each individual task) to collect a multi-task dataset. However, these methods always require extra…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-06-02 Jianhao Wang , Jin Zhang , Haozhe Jiang , Junyu Zhang , Liwei Wang , Chongjie Zhang

The Metaverse is a new paradigm that aims to create a virtual environment consisting of numerous worlds, each of which will offer a different set of services. To deal with such a dynamic and complex scenario, considering the stringent…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2023-09-20 Hamidreza Mazandarani , Masoud Shokrnezhad , Tarik Taleb , Richard Li

Deep reinforcement learning (DRL) has demonstrated impressive performance in various gaming simulators and real-world applications. In practice, however, a DRL agent may receive faulty observation by abrupt interferences such as black-out,…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-01-26 Chao-Han Huck Yang , I-Te Danny Hung , Yi Ouyang , Pin-Yu Chen