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We propose Deep Q-Networks (DQN) with model-based exploration, an algorithm combining both model-free and model-based approaches that explores better and learns environments with sparse rewards more efficiently. DQN is a general-purpose,…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2019-03-25 Stephen Zhen Gou , Yuyang Liu

We propose Deep Hierarchical Machine (DHM), a model inspired from the divide-and-conquer strategy while emphasizing representation learning ability and flexibility. A stochastic routing framework as used by recent deep neural…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-12-04 Shichao Li , Xin Yang , Tim Cheng

Despite numerous successes in Deep Reinforcement Learning (DRL), the learned policies are not interpretable. Moreover, since DRL does not exploit symbolic relational representations, it has difficulties in coping with structural changes in…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2023-07-17 Rishi Hazra , Luc De Raedt

Deep learning models based on CNNs are predominantly used in image classification tasks. Such approaches, assuming independence of object categories, normally use a CNN as a feature learner and apply a flat classifier on top of it. Object…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2019-11-19 Jaehoon Koo , Diego Klabjan , Jean Utke

This paper proposes an architecture for deep neural networks with hidden layer branches that learn targets of lower hierarchy than final layer targets. The branches provide a channel for enforcing useful information in hidden layer which…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2016-09-27 Abhinav Tushar

Modern listwise recommendation systems need to consider both long-term user perceptions and short-term interest shifts. Reinforcement learning can be applied on recommendation to study such a problem but is also subject to large search…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2025-07-22 Luo Ji , Gao Liu , Mingyang Yin , Hongxia Yang , Jingren Zhou

Conventional hypernetworks are typically engineered around a specific base-model parameterization, so changing the target architecture often entails redesigning the hypernetwork and retraining it from scratch. We introduce the…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-04-03 Xuanfeng Zhou

Deep Reinforcement Learning (RL) is unquestionably a robust framework to train autonomous agents in a wide variety of disciplines. However, traditional deep and shallow model-free RL algorithms suffer from low sample efficiency and…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-10-05 Per-Arne Andersen , Ole-Christoffer Granmo , Morten Goodwin

Deep networks consume a large amount of memory by their nature. A natural question arises can we reduce that memory requirement whilst maintaining performance. In particular, in this work we address the problem of memory efficient learning…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-04-10 Eunwoo Kim , Chanho Ahn , Philip H. S. Torr , Songhwai Oh

Evolution of visual object recognition architectures based on Convolutional Neural Networks & Convolutional Deep Belief Networks paradigms has revolutionized artificial Vision Science. These architectures extract & learn the real world…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2015-09-08 Atul Laxman Katole , Krishna Prasad Yellapragada , Amish Kumar Bedi , Sehaj Singh Kalra , Mynepalli Siva Chaitanya

The performance of Deep Q-Networks (DQN) is critically dependent on the ability of its underlying neural network to accurately approximate the action-value function. Standard function approximators, such as multi-layer perceptrons, may…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-08-21 Saman Yazdannik , Morteza Tayefi , Shamim Sanisales

We introduce a novel schema for sequence to sequence learning with a Deep Q-Network (DQN), which decodes the output sequence iteratively. The aim here is to enable the decoder to first tackle easier portions of the sequences, and then turn…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2015-11-02 Hongyu Guo

Recent advances in generative models have shown promise in generating behavior plans for long-horizon, sparse reward tasks. While these approaches have achieved promising results, they often lack a principled framework for hierarchical…

Robotics · Computer Science 2026-05-20 Nandiraju Gireesh , Yuanliang Ju , Chaoyi Xu , Weiheng Liu , Yuxuan Wan , He Wang

In reinforcement learning, it is often difficult to automate high-dimensional, rapid decision-making in dynamic environments, especially when domains require real-time online interaction and adaptive strategies such as web-based games. This…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-05-30 Prabhath Reddy Gujavarthy

The current deep neural network algorithm still stays in the end-to-end training supervision method like Image-Label pairs, which makes traditional algorithm is difficult to explain the reason for the results, and the prediction logic is…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-01-10 Yishuang Tian , Ning Wang , Liang Zhang

Deep reinforcement learning agents progressively lose representational capacity during training: neurons become dormant, removing active capacity from the network, and effective rank collapses, leaving surviving neurons redundant. Existing…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-05-26 Jacob E. Kooi , Zhao Yang , Mark Hoogendoorn , Vincent François-Lavet

Deep Reinforcement Learning (RL) involves the use of Deep Neural Networks (DNNs) to make sequential decisions in order to maximize reward. For many tasks the resulting sequence of actions produced by a Deep RL policy can be long and…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2022-07-26 Sam Blakeman , Denis Mareschal

In this paper, we build on advances introduced by the Deep Q-Networks (DQN) approach to extend the multi-objective tabular Reinforcement Learning (RL) algorithm W-learning to large state spaces. W-learning algorithm can naturally solve the…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-06-27 Jernej Hribar , Luke Hackett , Ivana Dusparic

Interpretability of Deep Neural Networks (DNNs) is a growing field driven by the study of vision and language models. Yet, some use cases, like image captioning, or domains like Deep Reinforcement Learning (DRL), require complex modelling,…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2026-01-12 Yoann Poupart

Decision transformers recast reinforcement learning as a conditional sequence generation problem, offering a simple but effective alternative to traditional value or policy-based methods. A recent key development in this area is the…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-12-16 Zhe Wang , Haozhu Wang , Yanjun Qi