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We address the problem of learning hierarchical deep neural network policies for reinforcement learning. In contrast to methods that explicitly restrict or cripple lower layers of a hierarchy to force them to use higher-level modulating…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2018-09-05 Tuomas Haarnoja , Kristian Hartikainen , Pieter Abbeel , Sergey Levine

Recurrent neural networks (RNN) are capable of learning to encode and exploit activation history over an arbitrary timescale. However, in practice, state of the art gradient descent based training methods are known to suffer from…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2016-02-29 Andrew J. R. Simpson

Hierarchical reinforcement learning (HRL) has recently shown promising advances on speeding up learning, improving the exploration, and discovering intertask transferable skills. Most recent works focus on HRL with two levels, i.e., a…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2018-11-14 Yuhang Song , Jianyi Wang , Thomas Lukasiewicz , Zhenghua Xu , Mai Xu

Graph Neural Networks (GNNs) and Graph Transformers (GTs) are now a fundamental paradigm for graph learning, combining the representation-learning capabilities of deep models with the sample efficiency induced by their inductive biases.…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-05-19 Stefano Carotti , Marco Pacini , Alessio Gravina , Davide Bacciu , Bruno Lepri , Sebastiano Bontorin

Hierarchical reinforcement learning (HRL) has seen widespread interest as an approach to tractable learning of complex modular behaviors. However, existing work either assume access to expert-constructed hierarchies, or use…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-10-19 Kurtland Chua , Qi Lei , Jason D. Lee

The recommender system is an important form of intelligent application, which assists users to alleviate from information redundancy. Among the metrics used to evaluate a recommender system, the metric of conversion has become more and more…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2019-03-25 Dongyang Zhao , Liang Zhang , Bo Zhang , Lizhou Zheng , Yongjun Bao , Weipeng Yan

This paper explores a deep reinforcement learning approach applied to the packet routing problem with high-dimensional constraints instigated by dynamic and autonomous communication networks. Our approach is motivated by the fact that…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2020-03-05 Ramy E. Ali , Bilgehan Erman , Ejder Baştuğ , Bruce Cilli

Understanding and predicting the evolution of across complex systems remains a fundamental challenge due to the absence of unified and computationally testable frameworks. Here we propose the Recursive Hierarchical Network(RHN),…

Physics and Society · Physics 2026-05-20 Hui Li , Yanxin Li

Deep reinforcement learning (RL) is notoriously impractical to deploy due to sample inefficiency. Meta-RL directly addresses this sample inefficiency by learning to perform few-shot learning when a distribution of related tasks is available…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-12-27 Jacob Beck , Risto Vuorio , Zheng Xiong , Shimon Whiteson

Deep Reinforcement Learning (DRL) has achieved remarkable success in sequential decision-making tasks across diverse domains, yet its reliance on black-box neural architectures hinders interpretability, trust, and deployment in high-stakes…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-02-12 Zelei Cheng , Jiahao Yu , Xinyu Xing

Recent advancements in reinforcement learning have made significant impacts across various domains, yet they often struggle in complex multi-agent environments due to issues like algorithm instability, low sampling efficiency, and the…

Multiagent Systems · Computer Science 2024-08-22 Cheng Xu , Changtian Zhang , Yuchen Shi , Ran Wang , Shihong Duan , Yadong Wan , Xiaotong Zhang

Sequence models in reinforcement learning require task knowledge to estimate the task policy. This paper presents a hierarchical algorithm for learning a sequence model from demonstrations. The high-level mechanism guides the low-level…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-09-22 André Correia , Luís A. Alexandre

Classical deep neural network models struggle to represent data uncertainty and capture dependencies between features simultaneously, especially under fuzzy or noisy conditions. Although a quantum-assisted hierarchical fuzzy neural network…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-12-16 Wenwei Zhang , Jintao Wang , Tianyu Ye , Changgeng Liao

Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder (ADHD) is a neurodevelopmental disorder that is challenging to diagnose and requires advanced approaches for reliable and transparent identification and classification. It is characterized by a…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-02-04 Abdul Rehman , Ilona Heldal , Jerry Chun-Wei Lin

Methods of deep machine learning enable to to reuse low-level representations efficiently for generating more abstract high-level representations. Originally, deep learning has been applied passively (e.g., for classification purposes).…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2014-12-22 Mark Wernsdorfer , Ute Schmid

Progress in deep learning has spawned great successes in many engineering applications. As a prime example, convolutional neural networks, a type of feedforward neural networks, are now approaching -- and sometimes even surpassing -- human…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-06-12 Drew Linsley , Junkyung Kim , Vijay Veerabadran , Thomas Serre

Learning hierarchical structures in sequential data -- from simple algorithmic patterns to natural language -- in a reliable, generalizable way remains a challenging problem for neural language models. Past work has shown that recurrent…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2022-12-01 Brian DuSell , David Chiang

Syntactic rules in natural language typically need to make reference to hierarchical sentence structure. However, the simple examples that language learners receive are often equally compatible with linear rules. Children consistently…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2018-06-11 R. Thomas McCoy , Robert Frank , Tal Linzen

Learning both hierarchical and temporal representation has been among the long-standing challenges of recurrent neural networks. Multiscale recurrent neural networks have been considered as a promising approach to resolve this issue, yet…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2017-03-10 Junyoung Chung , Sungjin Ahn , Yoshua Bengio

Deep reinforcement learning provides a promising approach for text-based games in studying natural language communication between humans and artificial agents. However, the generalization still remains a big challenge as the agents depend…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2021-09-22 Yunqiu Xu , Meng Fang , Ling Chen , Yali Du , Chengqi Zhang