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Reinforcement learning agents in complex game environments often suffer from sparse rewards, training instability, and poor sample efficiency. This paper presents a hybrid training approach that combines offline imitation learning with…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-09-19 Thomas Ackermann , Moritz Spang , Hamza A. A. Gardi

With AlphaGo defeats top human players, reinforcement learning(RL) algorithms have gradually become the code-base of building stronger artificial intelligence(AI). The RL algorithm design firstly needs to adapt to the specific environment,…

In the domain of combat simulations in support of wargaming, the development of intelligent agents has predominantly been characterized by rule-based, scripted methodologies with deep reinforcement learning (RL) approaches only recently…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-12-02 Scotty Black , Christian Darken

Artificial Intelligence (AI) is becoming a critical component in the defense industry, as recently demonstrated by DARPA`s AlphaDogfight Trials (ADT). ADT sought to vet the feasibility of AI algorithms capable of piloting an F-16 in…

The universe involves many independent co-learning agents as an ever-evolving part of our observed environment. Yet, in practice, Multi-Agent Reinforcement Learning (MARL) applications are typically constrained to small, homogeneous…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-04-29 Yann Bouteiller , Karthik Soma , Giovanni Beltrame

While Monte Carlo Tree Search and closely related methods have dominated General Video Game Playing, recent research has demonstrated the promise of Rolling Horizon Evolutionary Algorithms as an interesting alternative. However, there is…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2017-04-25 Rauca D. Gaina , Simon M. Lucas , Diego Perez-Liebana

Deriving robust control policies for realistic urban navigation scenarios is not a trivial task. In an end-to-end approach, these policies must map high-dimensional images from the vehicle's cameras to low-level actions such as steering and…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-09-06 Gustavo Claudio Karl Couto , Eric Aislan Antonelo

One of the main challenges in reinforcement learning (RL) is generalisation. In typical deep RL methods this is achieved by approximating the optimal value function with a low-dimensional representation using a deep network. While this…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2017-11-29 Harm van Seijen , Mehdi Fatemi , Joshua Romoff , Romain Laroche , Tavian Barnes , Jeffrey Tsang

Learning to search is the task of building artificial agents that learn to autonomously use a search box to find information. So far, it has been shown that current language models can learn symbolic query reformulation policies, in…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2023-03-30 Michelle Chen Huebscher , Christian Buck , Massimiliano Ciaramita , Sascha Rothe

Embodied agents operating in complex and uncertain environments face considerable challenges. While some advanced agents handle complex manipulation tasks with proficiency, their success often hinges on extensive training data to develop…

Robotics · Computer Science 2024-04-19 Yichen Zhu , Zhicai Ou , Xiaofeng Mou , Jian Tang

Deep Reinforcement Learning (Deep RL) and Evolutionary Algorithms (EA) are two major paradigms of policy optimization with distinct learning principles, i.e., gradient-based v.s. gradient-free. An appealing research direction is integrating…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2023-07-03 Jianye Hao , Pengyi Li , Hongyao Tang , Yan Zheng , Xian Fu , Zhaopeng Meng

This paper presents the development of an Artificial Intelligence (AI) based fighter jet agent within a customized Pygame simulation environment, designed to solve multi-objective tasks via deep reinforcement learning (DRL). The jet's…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2025-02-20 Swati Kar , Soumyabrata Dey , Mahesh K Banavar , Shahnewaz Karim Sakib

Balancing multiple competing and conflicting objectives is an essential task for any artificial intelligence tasked with satisfying human values or preferences. Conflict arises both from misalignment between individuals with competing…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2022-08-15 Benjamin J Smith , Robert Klassert , Roland Pihlakas

We propose a new framework for imitation learning -- treating imitation as a two-player ranking-based game between a policy and a reward. In this game, the reward agent learns to satisfy pairwise performance rankings between behaviors,…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-01-18 Harshit Sikchi , Akanksha Saran , Wonjoon Goo , Scott Niekum

Multi-agent settings are quickly gathering importance in machine learning. This includes a plethora of recent work on deep multi-agent reinforcement learning, but also can be extended to hierarchical RL, generative adversarial networks and…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2018-09-21 Jakob N. Foerster , Richard Y. Chen , Maruan Al-Shedivat , Shimon Whiteson , Pieter Abbeel , Igor Mordatch

Model-based reinforcement learning has attracted much attention due to its high sample efficiency and is expected to be applied to real-world robotic applications. In the real world, as unobservable disturbances can lead to unexpected…

Robotics · Computer Science 2025-05-26 Taisuke Kobayashi

In this paper we proposed reinforcement learning algorithms with the generalized reward function. In our proposed method we use Q-learning and SARSA algorithms with generalised reward function to train the reinforcement learning agent. We…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2016-02-17 Harshit Sethy , Amit Patel

We present the Battlesnake Challenge, a framework for multi-agent reinforcement learning with Human-In-the-Loop Learning (HILL). It is developed upon Battlesnake, a multiplayer extension of the traditional Snake game in which 2 or more…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2020-07-22 Jonathan Chung , Anna Luo , Xavier Raffin , Scott Perry

We introduce a real-time strategy game environment based on Generals.io, a game with thousands of weekly active players. Our environment is fully compatible with Gymnasium and PettingZoo and is capable of running thousands of frames per…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-07-11 Matej Straka , Martin Schmid

Generative Adversarial Imitation Learning (GAIL) can learn policies without explicitly defining the reward function from demonstrations. GAIL has the potential to learn policies with high-dimensional observations as input, e.g., images. By…

Robotics · Computer Science 2022-09-22 Yoshihisa Tsurumine , Takamitsu Matsubara