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Reinforcement Learning (RL) has been shown to be effective in many scenarios. However, it typically requires the exploration of a sufficiently large number of state-action pairs, some of which may be unsafe. Consequently, its application to…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-06-24 Yousef Emam , Gennaro Notomista , Paul Glotfelter , Zsolt Kira , Magnus Egerstedt

Existing modular Reinforcement Learning (RL) architectures are generally based on reusable components, also allowing for "plug-and-play" integration. However, these modules are homogeneous in nature - in fact, they essentially provide…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-11-01 Lorenz Wolf , Mirco Musolesi

The infinite horizon setting is widely adopted for problems of reinforcement learning (RL). These invariably result in stationary policies that are optimal. In many situations, finite horizon control problems are of interest and for such…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-03-21 Soumyajit Guin , Shalabh Bhatnagar

Reinforcement Learning (RL) is essential for evolving Large Language Models (LLMs) into autonomous agents capable of long-horizon planning, yet a practical recipe for scaling RL in complex, multi-turn environments remains elusive. This…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-03-24 Xixi Wu , Qianguo Sun , Ruiyang Zhang , Chao Song , Junlong Wu , Yiyan Qi , Hong Cheng

Reinforcement learning based recommender systems (RL-based RS) aim at learning a good policy from a batch of collected data, by casting recommendations to multi-step decision-making tasks. However, current RL-based RS research commonly has…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2023-04-18 Kai Wang , Zhene Zou , Minghao Zhao , Qilin Deng , Yue Shang , Yile Liang , Runze Wu , Xudong Shen , Tangjie Lyu , Changjie Fan

Reinforcement learning from human feedback (RLHF) is a variant of reinforcement learning (RL) that learns from human feedback instead of relying on an engineered reward function. Building on prior work on the related setting of…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-12-30 Timo Kaufmann , Paul Weng , Viktor Bengs , Eyke Hüllermeier

Compiling a quantum circuit for specific quantum hardware is a challenging task. Moreover, current quantum computers have severe hardware limitations. To make the most use of the limited resources, the compilation process should be…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2023-08-08 Stan van der Linde , Willem de Kok , Tariq Bontekoe , Sebastian Feld

Nowadays, realistic simulation environments are essential to validate and build reliable robotic solutions. This is particularly true when using Reinforcement Learning (RL) based control policies. To this end, both robotics and RL…

Robotics · Computer Science 2023-10-12 Matteo El-Hariry , Antoine Richard , Miguel Olivares-Mendez

With the development of industry, drones are appearing in various field. In recent years, deep reinforcement learning has made impressive gains in games, and we are committed to applying deep reinforcement learning algorithms to the field…

Robotics · Computer Science 2022-09-08 Z. Jiang , G. Song

Since the introduction of DQN, a vast majority of reinforcement learning research has focused on reinforcement learning with deep neural networks as function approximators. New methods are typically evaluated on a set of environments that…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-05-25 Johan S. Obando-Ceron , Pablo Samuel Castro

Reinforcement Learning (RL) has emerged as a powerful paradigm for sequential decision-making and has attracted growing interest across various domains, particularly following the advent of Deep Reinforcement Learning (DRL) in 2015.…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2025-07-18 Dong Wang , Hanmo You , Lingwei Zhu , Kaiwei Lin , Zheng Chen , Chen Yang , Junji Yu , Zan Wang , Junjie Chen

Adapting the user interface (UI) of software systems to meet the needs and preferences of users is a complex task. The main challenge is to provide the appropriate adaptations at the appropriate time to offer value to end-users. Recent…

Human-Computer Interaction · Computer Science 2024-05-16 Daniel Gaspar-Figueiredo , Marta Fernández-Diego , Ruben Nuredini , Silvia Abrahão , Emilio Insfrán

Reinforcement Learning (RL) in various decision-making tasks of machine learning provides effective results with an agent learning from a stand-alone reward function. However, it presents unique challenges with large amounts of environment…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-03-10 Neda Navidi

We propose a novel model-based offline Reinforcement Learning (RL) framework, called Adversarial Model for Offline Reinforcement Learning (ARMOR), which can robustly learn policies to improve upon an arbitrary reference policy regardless of…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-12-29 Mohak Bhardwaj , Tengyang Xie , Byron Boots , Nan Jiang , Ching-An Cheng

We present relay policy learning, a method for imitation and reinforcement learning that can solve multi-stage, long-horizon robotic tasks. This general and universally-applicable, two-phase approach consists of an imitation learning stage…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2019-10-29 Abhishek Gupta , Vikash Kumar , Corey Lynch , Sergey Levine , Karol Hausman

Digitization and remote connectivity have enlarged the attack surface and made cyber systems more vulnerable. As attackers become increasingly sophisticated and resourceful, mere reliance on traditional cyber protection, such as intrusion…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2021-12-08 Yunhan Huang , Linan Huang , Quanyan Zhu

Reinforcement Learning (RL) struggles in problems with delayed rewards, and one approach is to segment the task into sub-tasks with incremental rewards. We propose a framework called Hierarchical Inverse Reinforcement Learning (HIRL), which…

Robotics · Computer Science 2016-04-25 Sanjay Krishnan , Animesh Garg , Richard Liaw , Lauren Miller , Florian T. Pokorny , Ken Goldberg

Deep reinforcement learning (RL) has shown promising results in robot motion planning with first attempts in human-robot collaboration (HRC). However, a fair comparison of RL approaches in HRC under the constraint of guaranteed safety is…

Robotics · Computer Science 2024-06-26 Jakob Thumm , Felix Trost , Matthias Althoff

Hierarchical Reinforcement Learning (HRL) is a promising approach to solving long-horizon problems with sparse and delayed rewards. Many existing HRL algorithms either use pre-trained low-level skills that are unadaptable, or require…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2019-10-11 Siyuan Li , Rui Wang , Minxue Tang , Chongjie Zhang

While reinforcement learning (RL) has proven to be the approach of choice for tackling many complex problems, it remains challenging to develop and deploy RL agents in real-life scenarios successfully. This paper presents pH-RL…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2021-04-01 Ali el Hassouni , Mark Hoogendoorn , Marketa Ciharova , Annet Kleiboer , Khadicha Amarti , Vesa Muhonen , Heleen Riper , A. E. Eiben