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Equilibrium learning in adversarial games is an important topic widely examined in the fields of game theory and reinforcement learning (RL). Pursuit-evasion game (PEG), as an important class of real-world games from the fields of robotics…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-12-15 Runyu Lu , Peng Zhang , Ruochuan Shi , Yuanheng Zhu , Dongbin Zhao , Yang Liu , Dong Wang , Cesare Alippi

Recently experience replay is widely used in various deep reinforcement learning (RL) algorithms, in this paper we rethink the utility of experience replay. It introduces a new hyper-parameter, the memory buffer size, which needs carefully…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2018-05-01 Shangtong Zhang , Richard S. Sutton

We study the problem of parameter-free stochastic optimization, inquiring whether, and under what conditions, do fully parameter-free methods exist: these are methods that achieve convergence rates competitive with optimally tuned methods,…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-10-22 Amit Attia , Tomer Koren

We introduce ordered transfer hyperparameter optimisation (OTHPO), a version of transfer learning for hyperparameter optimisation (HPO) where the tasks follow a sequential order. Unlike for state-of-the-art transfer HPO, the assumption is…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-06-30 Sigrid Passano Hellan , Huibin Shen , François-Xavier Aubet , David Salinas , Aaron Klein

Averaging checkpoints along the training trajectory is a simple yet powerful approach to improve the generalization performance of Machine Learning models and reduce training time. Motivated by these potential gains, and in an effort to…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-11-25 Niccolò Ajroldi , Antonio Orvieto , Jonas Geiping

Classical objectives in two-player zero-sum games played on graphs often deal with limit behaviors of infinite plays: e.g., mean-payoff and total-payoff in the quantitative setting, or parity in the qualitative one (a canonical way to…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2016-09-21 Véronique Bruyère , Quentin Hautem , Mickael Randour

Deep learning techniques play an increasingly important role in industrial and research environments due to their outstanding results. However, the large number of hyper-parameters to be set may lead to errors if they are set manually. The…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-06-04 Michele Fraccaroli , Evelina Lamma , Fabrizio Riguzzi

A core novelty of Alpha Zero is the interleaving of tree search and deep learning, which has proven very successful in board games like Chess, Shogi and Go. These games have a discrete action space. However, many real-world reinforcement…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2018-05-25 Thomas M. Moerland , Joost Broekens , Aske Plaat , Catholijn M. Jonker

The task of hyper-parameter optimization (HPO) is burdened with heavy computational costs due to the intractability of optimizing both a model's weights and its hyper-parameters simultaneously. In this work, we introduce a new class of HPO…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-12-14 Mathieu Tuli , Mahdi S. Hosseini , Konstantinos N. Plataniotis

Optimization plays a costly and crucial role in developing machine learning systems. In learned optimizers, the few hyperparameters of commonly used hand-designed optimizers, e.g. Adam or SGD, are replaced with flexible parametric…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-07-19 Luke Metz , C. Daniel Freeman , James Harrison , Niru Maheswaranathan , Jascha Sohl-Dickstein

As model sizes grow, finding efficient and cost-effective hyperparameter optimization (HPO) methods becomes increasingly crucial for deep learning pipelines. While multi-fidelity HPO (MF-HPO) trades off computational resources required for…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-04-18 Timur Carstensen , Neeratyoy Mallik , Frank Hutter , Martin Rapp

In this paper, a novel racing environment for OpenAI Gym is introduced. This environment operates with continuous action- and state-spaces and requires agents to learn to control the acceleration and steering of a car while navigating a…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-01-16 Mario S. Holubar , Marco A. Wiering

The standard for Deep Reinforcement Learning in games, following Alpha Zero, is to use residual networks and to increase the depth of the network to get better results. We propose to improve mobile networks as an alternative to residual…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2021-04-12 Tristan Cazenave

Large Language Models (LLMs) have demonstrated excellent performance in general language understanding, generation and other tasks. However, when fine-tuning for specific domain tasks, the general knowledge accumulated in the pre-training…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2026-04-21 Weijie Wan , Jiangjiang Zhao

Reinforcement learning has achieved great success in many applications. However, sample efficiency remains a key challenge, with prominent methods requiring millions (or even billions) of environment steps to train. Recently, there has been…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-12-14 Weirui Ye , Shaohuai Liu , Thanard Kurutach , Pieter Abbeel , Yang Gao

Recently, preference optimization methods such as DPO have significantly enhanced large language models (LLMs) in wide tasks including dialogue and question-answering. However, current methods fail to account for the varying difficulty…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-12-31 Jingyuan Ma , Rui Li , Zheng Li , Lei Sha , Zhifang Sui

Simple stochastic games are turn-based 2.5-player zero-sum graph games with a reachability objective. The problem is to compute the winning probability as well as the optimal strategies of both players. In this paper, we compare the three…

Computer Science and Game Theory · Computer Science 2020-09-24 Jan Křetínský , Emanuel Ramneantu , Alexander Slivinskiy , Maximilian Weininger

The performance of deep (reinforcement) learning systems crucially depends on the choice of hyperparameters. Their tuning is notoriously expensive, typically requiring an iterative training process to run for numerous steps to convergence.…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-01-19 Vu Nguyen , Sebastian Schulze , Michael A Osborne

In this article, we study the evolution of the strategies in a sort of weighted three cornered game, Glico Game. This game has three strategies in each agent and three parameters in the payoff matrix. We divide the parameter region into 8…

Cellular Automata and Lattice Gases · Physics 2016-09-08 Shota Hayakawa , Norihito Toyota

The performance of neural network classifiers is determined by a number of hyperparameters, including learning rate, batch size, and depth. A number of attempts have been made to explore these parameters in the literature, and at times, to…

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