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Reinforcement Learning (RL) enables an intelligent agent to optimise its performance in a task by continuously taking action from an observed state and receiving a feedback from the environment in form of rewards. RL typically uses tables…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2025-01-28 Alberto Castagna

Many practical environments contain catastrophic states that an optimal agent would visit infrequently or never. Even on toy problems, Deep Reinforcement Learning (DRL) agents tend to periodically revisit these states upon forgetting their…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2018-03-15 Zachary C. Lipton , Kamyar Azizzadenesheli , Abhishek Kumar , Lihong Li , Jianfeng Gao , Li Deng

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

Practical uses of Artificial Intelligence (AI) in the real world have demonstrated the importance of embedding moral choices into intelligent agents. They have also highlighted that defining top-down ethical constraints on AI according to…

Multiagent Systems · Computer Science 2023-08-31 Elizaveta Tennant , Stephen Hailes , Mirco Musolesi

A key task in Artificial Intelligence is learning effective policies for controlling agents in unknown environments to optimize performance measures. Off-policy learning methods, like Q-learning, allow learners to make optimal decisions…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2025-09-10 Mingxuan Li , Junzhe Zhang , Elias Bareinboim

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

Reinforcement learning (RL) is one of the most practical ways to learn from real-life use-cases. Motivated from the cognitive methods used by humans makes it a widely acceptable strategy in the field of artificial intelligence. Most of the…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2026-04-14 Abhishek Sawaika , Samuel Yen-Chi Chen , Udaya Parampalli , Rajkumar Buyya

HRI research increasingly demands robots that go beyond task execution to respond meaningfully to user emotions. This is especially needed when supporting students with learning difficulties in game-based learning scenarios. Here, the…

Robotics · Computer Science 2026-03-04 Soon Jynn Chu , Raju Gottumukkala , Alan Barhorst

Despite the great empirical success of deep reinforcement learning, its theoretical foundation is less well understood. In this work, we make the first attempt to theoretically understand the deep Q-network (DQN) algorithm (Mnih et al.,…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-02-25 Jianqing Fan , Zhaoran Wang , Yuchen Xie , Zhuoran Yang

In this paper, we explore the use of multi-agent deep learning as well as learning to cooperate principles to meet stringent service level agreements, in terms of throughput and end-to-end delay, for a set of classified network flows. We…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2022-05-25 Hassan Fawaz , Julien Lesca , Pham Tran Anh Quang , Jérémie Leguay , Djamal Zeghlache , Paolo Medagliani

We propose Deep Q-Networks (DQN) with model-based exploration, an algorithm combining both model-free and model-based approaches that explores better and learns environments with sparse rewards more efficiently. DQN is a general-purpose,…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2019-03-25 Stephen Zhen Gou , Yuyang Liu

The widespread use of knowledge graphs in various fields has brought about a challenge in effectively integrating and updating information within them. When it comes to incorporating contexts, conventional methods often rely on rules or…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2024-04-22 Ngoc Quach , Qi Wang , Zijun Gao , Qifeng Sun , Bo Guan , Lillian Floyd

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 solving decision-making problems in dynamic environments. In this research, we explore the application of Double DQN (DDQN) and Dueling Network Architectures, to financial…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-04-17 Bruno Giorgio

In the future, artificial learning agents are likely to become increasingly widespread in our society. They will interact with both other learning agents and humans in a variety of complex settings including social dilemmas. We argue that…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2022-02-22 Tobias Baumann

In this paper, we propose a Deep Reinforcement Learning (RL) framework for task arrangement, which is a critical problem for the success of crowdsourcing platforms. Previous works conduct the personalized recommendation of tasks to workers…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2019-11-05 Caihua Shan , Nikos Mamoulis , Reynold Cheng , Guoliang Li , Xiang Li , Yuqiu Qian

An ambitious goal for machine learning is to create agents that behave ethically: The capacity to abide by human moral norms would greatly expand the context in which autonomous agents could be practically and safely deployed, e.g. fully…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2021-07-21 Adrien Ecoffet , Joel Lehman

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

Live fire creates a dynamic, rapidly changing environment that presents a worthy challenge for deep learning and artificial intelligence methodologies to assist firefighters with scene comprehension in maintaining their situational…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2021-07-23 Manish Bhattarai , Manel Martinez-Ramon

In the future, artificial learning agents are likely to become increasingly widespread in our society. They will interact with both other learning agents and humans in a variety of complex settings including social dilemmas. We consider the…

Computer Science and Game Theory · Computer Science 2019-11-21 Tobias Baumann , Thore Graepel , John Shawe-Taylor