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Continual learning (CL) is a particular machine learning paradigm where the data distribution and learning objective changes through time, or where all the training data and objective criteria are never available at once. The evolution of…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2019-11-25 Timothée Lesort , Vincenzo Lomonaco , Andrei Stoian , Davide Maltoni , David Filliat , Natalia Díaz-Rodríguez

In lifelong learning, a learner faces a sequence of tasks with shared structure and aims to identify and leverage it to accelerate learning. We study the setting where such structure is captured by a common representation of data. Unlike…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-11-04 Zhi Wang , Chicheng Zhang , Ramya Korlakai Vinayak

Enhancing the sustainability and efficiency of wireless sensor networks (WSN) in dynamic and unpredictable environments requires adaptive communication and energy harvesting strategies. We propose a novel adaptive control strategy for WSNs…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2026-02-20 Hossein Mohammadi Firouzjaei , Rafaela Scaciota , Sumudu Samarakoon

The utility of learning a dynamics/world model of the environment in reinforcement learning has been shown in a many ways. When using neural networks, however, these models suffer catastrophic forgetting when learned in a lifelong or…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2019-06-12 Nicholas Ketz , Soheil Kolouri , Praveen Pilly

Reinforcement learning (RL) combines a control problem with statistical estimation: The system dynamics are not known to the agent, but can be learned through experience. A recent line of research casts `RL as inference' and suggests a…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-11-05 Brendan O'Donoghue , Ian Osband , Catalin Ionescu

In this tutorial article, we aim to provide the reader with the conceptual tools needed to get started on research on offline reinforcement learning algorithms: reinforcement learning algorithms that utilize previously collected data,…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-11-03 Sergey Levine , Aviral Kumar , George Tucker , Justin Fu

Learning by interaction is the key to skill acquisition for most living organisms, which is formally called Reinforcement Learning (RL). RL is efficient in finding optimal policies for endowing complex systems with sophisticated behavior.…

Robotics · Computer Science 2025-11-21 Karim Farid , Nourhan Sakr

AI alignment is growing in importance, yet many current approaches learn safety behavior by directly modifying policy parameters, entangling normative constraints with the underlying policy. This often yields opaque, difficult-to-edit…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-03-26 Elias Malomgré , Pieter Simoens

In many daily tasks we make multiple decisions before reaching a goal. In order to learn such sequences of decisions, a mechanism to link earlier actions to later reward is necessary. Reinforcement learning theory suggests two classes of…

Neurons and Cognition · Quantitative Biology 2019-11-13 Marco Lehmann , He Xu , Vasiliki Liakoni , Michael Herzog , Wulfram Gerstner , Kerstin Preuschoff

In recent years, model-free methods that use deep learning have achieved great success in many different reinforcement learning environments. Most successful approaches focus on solving a single task, while multi-task reinforcement learning…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2017-05-25 Asier Mujika

Deep Reinforcement Learning (DRL) is a subfield of machine learning for training autonomous agents that take sequential actions across complex environments. Despite its significant performance in well-known environments, it remains…

Lifelong learning or continual learning is the problem of training an AI agent continuously while also preventing it from forgetting its previously acquired knowledge. Streaming lifelong learning is a challenging setting of lifelong…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-02-20 Soumya Banerjee , Vinay K. Verma , Avideep Mukherjee , Deepak Gupta , Vinay P. Namboodiri , Piyush Rai

When environmental interaction is expensive, model-based reinforcement learning offers a solution by planning ahead and avoiding costly mistakes. Model-based agents typically learn a single-step transition model. In this paper, we propose a…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2018-11-02 Kavosh Asadi , Evan Cater , Dipendra Misra , Michael L. Littman

Reinforcement Learning is an area of Machine Learning focused on how agents can be trained to make sequential decisions, and achieve a particular goal within an arbitrary environment. While learning, they repeatedly take actions based on…

Reinforcement learning (RL) is one of the three basic paradigms of machine learning. It has demonstrated impressive performance in many complex tasks like Go and StarCraft, which is increasingly involved in smart manufacturing and…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-06-03 Mingqi Yuan

For most reinforcement learning approaches, the learning is performed by maximizing an accumulative reward that is expectedly and manually defined for specific tasks. However, in real world, rewards are emergent phenomena from the complex…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2017-05-23 Min Xu

A learning algorithm based on primary school teaching and learning is presented. The methodology is to continuously evaluate a student and to give them training on the examples for which they repeatedly fail, until, they can correctly…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2010-12-14 Ninan Sajeeth Philip

In recent years, on-policy reinforcement learning (RL) has been successfully applied to many different continuous control tasks. While RL algorithms are often conceptually simple, their state-of-the-art implementations take numerous low-…

Current natural language processing models work well on a single task, yet they often fail to continuously learn new tasks without forgetting previous ones as they are re-trained throughout their lifetime, a challenge known as lifelong…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2020-10-07 Zirui Wang , Sanket Vaibhav Mehta , Barnabás Póczos , Jaime Carbonell

Reinforcement Learning (RL) is a general framework concerned with an agent that seeks to maximize rewards in an environment. The learning typically happens through trial and error using explorative methods, such as epsilon-greedy. There are…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-10-06 Per-Arne Andersen , Morten Goodwin , Ole-Christoffer Granmo