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Balancing the trade-off between safety and efficiency is of significant importance for path planning under uncertainty. Many risk-aware path planners have been developed to explicitly limit the probability of collision to an acceptable…

Robotics · Computer Science 2022-10-26 Fei Meng , Liangliang Chen , Han Ma , Jiankun Wang , Max Q. -H. Meng

In previous research, we developed methods to train decision trees (DT) as agents for reinforcement learning tasks, based on deep reinforcement learning (DRL) networks. The samples from which the DTs are built, use the environment's state…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-12-09 Raphael C. Engelhardt , Marcel J. Meinen , Moritz Lange , Laurenz Wiskott , Wolfgang Konen

Navigating and understanding the real world remains a key challenge in machine learning and inspires a great variety of research in areas such as language grounding, planning, navigation and computer vision. We propose an…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2019-11-25 Karl Moritz Hermann , Mateusz Malinowski , Piotr Mirowski , Andras Banki-Horvath , Keith Anderson , Raia Hadsell

Coverage path planning in a generic known environment is shown to be NP-hard. When the environment is unknown, it becomes more challenging as the robot is required to rely on its online map information built during coverage for planning its…

Robotics · Computer Science 2021-10-19 Javad Heydari , Olimpiya Saha , Viswanath Ganapathy

In Meta-Reinforcement Learning (meta-RL) an agent is trained on a set of tasks to prepare for and learn faster in new, unseen, but related tasks. The training tasks are usually hand-crafted to be representative of the expected distribution…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2021-07-07 Ricardo Luna Gutierrez , Matteo Leonetti

In this work, we propose a deep reinforcement learning (DRL) based reactive planner to solve large-scale Lidar-based autonomous robot exploration problems in 2D action space. Our DRL-based planner allows the agent to reactively plan its…

Robotics · Computer Science 2024-03-19 Yuhong Cao , Rui Zhao , Yizhuo Wang , Bairan Xiang , Guillaume Sartoretti

This document is a thesis on the subject of single-agent on-line path planning in continuous,unpredictable and highly dynamic environments. The problem is finding and traversing a collision-free path for a holonomic robot, without…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2009-12-03 Nicolas A. Barriga

Motion planning is an essential component in most of today's robotic applications. In this work, we consider the learning setting, where a set of solved motion planning problems is used to improve the efficiency of motion planning on…

Robotics · Computer Science 2019-06-04 Tom Jurgenson , Aviv Tamar

Coordinating agents through hazardous environments, such as aid-delivering drones navigating conflict zones or field robots traversing deployment areas filled with obstacles, poses fundamental planning challenges. We introduce and analyze…

Computer Science and Game Theory · Computer Science 2026-03-20 Andrzej Kaczmarczyk , Šimon Schierreich , Nicholas Axel Tanujaya , Haifeng Xu

We introduce a new RL problem where the agent is required to generalize to a previously-unseen environment characterized by a subtask graph which describes a set of subtasks and their dependencies. Unlike existing hierarchical multitask RL…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2019-05-28 Sungryull Sohn , Junhyuk Oh , Honglak Lee

We address planning and navigation in challenging 3D video games featuring maps with disconnected regions reachable by agents using special actions. In this setting, classical symbolic planners are not applicable or difficult to adapt. We…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-12-23 Edward Beeching , Maxim Peter , Philippe Marcotte , Jilles Debangoye , Olivier Simonin , Joshua Romoff , Christian Wolf

In recent years, we have witnessed tremendous progress in deep reinforcement learning (RL) for tasks such as Go, Chess, video games, and robot control. Nevertheless, other combinatorial domains, such as AI planning, still pose considerable…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2021-10-05 Dieqiao Feng , Carla P. Gomes , Bart Selman

Methods for navigation based on large-scale learning typically treat each episode as a new problem, where the agent is spawned with a clean memory in an unknown environment. While these generalization capabilities to an unknown environment…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-07-30 Gianluca Monaci , Rafael S. Rezende , Romain Deffayet , Gabriela Csurka , Guillaume Bono , Hervé Déjean , Stéphane Clinchant , Christian Wolf

Deep Reinforcement Learning (DRL) and Deep Multi-agent Reinforcement Learning (MARL) have achieved significant successes across a wide range of domains, including game AI, autonomous vehicles, robotics, and so on. However, DRL and deep MARL…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2023-02-03 Jianye Hao , Tianpei Yang , Hongyao Tang , Chenjia Bai , Jinyi Liu , Zhaopeng Meng , Peng Liu , Zhen Wang

Soft real-time applications are becoming increasingly complex, posing significant challenges for scheduling offloaded tasks in edge computing environments while meeting task timing constraints. Moreover, the exponential growth of the search…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-06-11 Amin Avan , Akramul Azim , Qusay Mahmoud

Reasoning in a complex and ambiguous environment is a key goal for Reinforcement Learning (RL) agents. While some sophisticated RL agents can successfully solve difficult tasks, they require a large amount of training data and often…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-02-03 Ishita Dasgupta , Christine Kaeser-Chen , Kenneth Marino , Arun Ahuja , Sheila Babayan , Felix Hill , Rob Fergus

Real-time recurrent learning (RTRL) for sequence-processing recurrent neural networks (RNNs) offers certain conceptual advantages over backpropagation through time (BPTT). RTRL requires neither caching past activations nor truncating…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-02-29 Kazuki Irie , Anand Gopalakrishnan , Jürgen Schmidhuber

Building deep reinforcement learning agents that can generalize and adapt to unseen environments remains a fundamental challenge for AI. This paper describes progresses on this challenge in the context of man-made environments, which are…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2018-10-01 Yi Wu , Yuxin Wu , Aviv Tamar , Stuart Russell , Georgia Gkioxari , Yuandong Tian

Reinforcement learning (RL) is a goal-oriented learning solution that has proven to be successful for Neural Architecture Search (NAS) on the CIFAR and ImageNet datasets. However, a limitation of this approach is its high computational…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2019-12-04 J. Gomez Robles , J. Vanschoren

In the last decade, Deep Reinforcement Learning has evolved into a powerful tool for complex sequential decision-making problems. It combines deep learning's proficiency in processing rich input signals with reinforcement learning's…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-12-11 Julien Roy