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Researchers have demonstrated that Deep Reinforcement Learning (DRL) is a powerful tool for finding policies that perform well on complex robotic systems. However, these policies are often unpredictable and can induce highly variable…

Robotics · Computer Science 2022-03-08 Sean Gillen , Asutay Ozmen , Katie Byl

Recommender Systems are becoming ubiquitous in many settings and take many forms, from product recommendation in e-commerce stores, to query suggestions in search engines, to friend recommendation in social networks. Current research…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2018-09-17 David Rohde , Stephen Bonner , Travis Dunlop , Flavian Vasile , Alexandros Karatzoglou

Deploying machine learning algorithms for robot tasks in real-world applications presents a core challenge: overcoming the domain gap between the training and the deployment environment. This is particularly difficult for visuomotor…

Robotics · Computer Science 2024-07-25 Weiyao Wang , Gregory D. Hager

While current benchmark reinforcement learning (RL) tasks have been useful to drive progress in the field, they are in many ways poor substitutes for learning with real-world data. By testing increasingly complex RL algorithms on…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2018-11-16 Amy Zhang , Yuxin Wu , Joelle Pineau

Sim-to-real transfer remains a major challenge in reinforcement learning (RL) for robotics, as policies trained in simulation often fail to generalize to the real world due to discrepancies in environment dynamics. Domain Randomization (DR)…

Robotics · Computer Science 2025-11-07 Marco Iannotta , Yuxuan Yang , Johannes A. Stork , Erik Schaffernicht , Todor Stoyanov

Task offloading, crucial for balancing computational loads across devices in networks such as the Internet of Things, poses significant optimization challenges, including minimizing latency and energy usage under strict communication and…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-10-10 Frederico Metelo , Stevo Racković , Pedro Ákos Costa , Cláudia Soares

Domain Randomization (DR) is known to require a significant amount of training data for good performance. We argue that this is due to DR's strategy of random data generation using a uniform distribution over simulation parameters, as a…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-08-31 Rawal Khirodkar , Kris M. Kitani

Reinforcement learning (RL) has proven effective for AI-based building energy management. However, there is a lack of flexible framework to implement RL across various control problems in building energy management. To address this gap, we…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2025-09-16 Xilei Dai , Ruotian Chen , Songze Guan , Wen-Tai Li , Chau Yuen

Generalization in Reinforcement Learning (RL) aims to learn an agent during training that generalizes to the target environment. This paper studies RL generalization from a theoretical aspect: how much can we expect pre-training over…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-06-30 Haotian Ye , Xiaoyu Chen , Liwei Wang , Simon S. Du

We address the problem of deploying a reinforcement learning (RL) agent on a physical system such as a datacenter cooling unit or robot, where critical constraints must never be violated. We show how to exploit the typically smooth dynamics…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2018-01-29 Gal Dalal , Krishnamurthy Dvijotham , Matej Vecerik , Todd Hester , Cosmin Paduraru , Yuval Tassa

Generalist LLM agents are often post-trained on a narrow set of environments but deployed across far broader, unseen domains. In this work, we investigate the challenge of agentic post-training when the eventual test domains are unknown.…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2026-01-27 Zhihan Liu , Lin Guan , Yixin Nie , Kai Zhang , Zhuoqun Hao , Lin Chen , Asli Celikyilmaz , Zhaoran Wang , Na Zhang

PC-Gym is an open-source tool for developing and evaluating reinforcement learning (RL) algorithms in chemical process control. It features environments that simulate various chemical processes, incorporating nonlinear dynamics,…

The Reinforcement Learning (RL) paradigm has been an essential tool for automating robotic tasks. Despite the advances in RL, it is still not widely adopted in the industry due to the need for an expensive large amount of robot interaction…

This paper investigates the threat of backdoors in Deep Reinforcement Learning (DRL) agent policies and proposes a novel method for their detection at runtime. Our study focuses on elusive in-distribution backdoor triggers. Such triggers…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-07-23 Sanyam Vyas , Chris Hicks , Vasilios Mavroudis

Safety is a critical component of autonomous systems and remains a challenge for learning-based policies to be utilized in the real world. In particular, policies learned using reinforcement learning often fail to generalize to novel…

Robotics · Computer Science 2023-04-04 Kai-Chieh Hsu , Allen Z. Ren , Duy Phuong Nguyen , Anirudha Majumdar , Jaime F. Fisac

In this paper, We Apply Reinforcement learning (RL) techniques to train a realistic biomechanical model to work with different people and on different walking environments. We benchmarking 3 RL algorithms: Deep Deterministic Policy Gradient…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2019-01-16 Montaser Mohammedalamen , Waleed D. Khamies , Benjamin Rosman

With increasing numbers of vulnerabilities exposed on the internet, autonomous penetration testing (pentesting) has emerged as a promising research area. Reinforcement learning (RL) is a natural fit for studying this topic. However, two key…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-02-12 Shicheng Zhou , Jingju Liu , Yuliang Lu , Jiahai Yang , Yue Zhang , Jie Chen

We introduce Reasoning Gym (RG), a library of reasoning environments for reinforcement learning with verifiable rewards. It provides over 100 data generators and verifiers spanning multiple domains including algebra, arithmetic,…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-10-21 Zafir Stojanovski , Oliver Stanley , Joe Sharratt , Richard Jones , Abdulhakeem Adefioye , Jean Kaddour , Andreas Köpf

Deep reinforcement learning has the potential to train robots to perform complex tasks in the real world without requiring accurate models of the robot or its environment. A practical approach is to train agents in simulation, and then…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-10-26 Tianhong Dai , Kai Arulkumaran , Tamara Gerbert , Samyakh Tukra , Feryal Behbahani , Anil Anthony Bharath

Existing offline reinforcement learning (RL) algorithms typically assume that training data is either: 1) generated by a known policy, or 2) of entirely unknown origin. We consider multi-demonstrator offline RL, a middle ground where we…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-11-29 Alan Clark , Shoaib Ahmed Siddiqui , Robert Kirk , Usman Anwar , Stephen Chung , David Krueger