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Diffusion models have been successfully applied in areas such as image, video, and audio generation. Recent works show their promise for sequential decision-making and dexterous manipulation, leveraging their ability to model complex action…

Robotics · Computer Science 2026-03-17 Maria Makarova , Qian Liu , Dzmitry Tsetserukou

Humans are masters at quickly learning many complex tasks, relying on an approximate understanding of the dynamics of their environments. In much the same way, we would like our learning agents to quickly adapt to new tasks. In this paper,…

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…

The dynamic nature of driving environments and the presence of diverse road users pose significant challenges for decision-making in autonomous driving. Deep reinforcement learning (DRL) has emerged as a popular approach to tackle this…

Robotics · Computer Science 2025-09-29 Iman Sharifi , Mustafa Yildirim , Saber Fallah

We apply reinforcement learning (RL) to robotics tasks. One of the drawbacks of traditional RL algorithms has been their poor sample efficiency. One approach to improve the sample efficiency is model-based RL. In our model-based RL…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-05-16 Adithya Ramesh , Balaraman Ravindran

Lane change decision-making for autonomous vehicles is a complex but high-reward behavior. In this paper, we propose a hybrid input based deep reinforcement learning (DRL) algorithm, which realizes abstract lane change decisions and lane…

Robotics · Computer Science 2025-09-03 Ziteng Gao , Jiaqi Qu , Chaoyu Chen

The popularity of deep reinforcement learning (DRL) methods in economics have been exponentially increased. DRL through a wide range of capabilities from reinforcement learning (RL) and deep learning (DL) for handling sophisticated dynamic…

Statistical Finance · Quantitative Finance 2020-04-06 Amir Mosavi , Pedram Ghamisi , Yaser Faghan , Puhong Duan

Data-efficient reinforcement learning (RL) in continuous state-action spaces using very high-dimensional observations remains a key challenge in developing fully autonomous systems. We consider a particularly important instance of this…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2015-10-12 John-Alexander M. Assael , Niklas Wahlström , Thomas B. Schön , Marc Peter Deisenroth

The advent of tactile sensors in robotics has sparked many ideas on how robots can leverage direct contact measurements of their environment interactions to improve manipulation tasks. An important line of research in this regard is that of…

Robotics · Computer Science 2023-11-14 Luca Lach , Robert Haschke , Davide Tateo , Jan Peters , Helge Ritter , Júlia Borràs , Carme Torras

In order for robots to perform mission-critical tasks, it is essential that they are able to quickly adapt to changes in their environment as well as to injuries and or other bodily changes. Deep reinforcement learning has been shown to be…

Robotics · Computer Science 2017-10-19 Ayaka Kume , Eiichi Matsumoto , Kuniyuki Takahashi , Wilson Ko , Jethro Tan

Deep reinforcement learning (RL) has been successfully applied to a variety of game-like environments. However, the application of deep RL to visual navigation with realistic environments is a challenging task. We propose a novel learning…

Robotics · Computer Science 2019-11-12 Jonáš Kulhánek , Erik Derner , Tim de Bruin , Robert Babuška

State-of-the-art reinforcement learning algorithms predominantly learn a policy from either a numerical state vector or images. Both approaches generally do not take structural knowledge of the task into account, which is especially…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-03-14 Marco Oliva , Soubarna Banik , Josip Josifovski , Alois Knoll

Autonomous Ground Vehicles (AGVs) are essential tools for a wide range of applications stemming from their ability to operate in hazardous environments with minimal human operator input. Effective motion planning is paramount for successful…

Robotics · Computer Science 2023-09-04 Shathushan Sivashangaran , Azim Eskandarian

Deep Reinforcement Learning (DRL) is a viable solution for automating repetitive surgical subtasks due to its ability to learn complex behaviours in a dynamic environment. This task automation could lead to reduced surgeon's cognitive…

Reinforcement learning (RL) holds great promise for enabling autonomous acquisition of complex robotic manipulation skills, but realizing this potential in real-world settings has been challenging. We present a human-in-the-loop…

Robotics · Computer Science 2025-03-21 Jianlan Luo , Charles Xu , Jeffrey Wu , Sergey Levine

Deep learning and reinforcement learning methods have recently been used to solve a variety of problems in continuous control domains. An obvious application of these techniques is dexterous manipulation tasks in robotics which are…

We focus on reinforcement learning (RL) in relational problems that are naturally defined in terms of objects, their relations, and object-centric actions. These problems are characterized by variable state and action spaces, and finding a…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-08-28 Jaromír Janisch , Tomáš Pevný , Viliam Lisý

Deep Reinforcement Learning (RL) has shown great success in learning complex control policies for a variety of applications in robotics. However, in most such cases, the hardware of the robot has been considered immutable, modeled as part…

Robotics · Computer Science 2020-11-10 Tianjian Chen , Zhanpeng He , Matei Ciocarlie

Studies that broaden drone applications into complex tasks require a stable control framework. Recently, deep reinforcement learning (RL) algorithms have been exploited in many studies for robot control to accomplish complex tasks.…

Embodied artificial intelligence (AI) tasks shift from tasks focusing on internet images to active settings involving embodied agents that perceive and act within 3D environments. In this paper, we investigate the target-driven visual…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-05-06 Yunlian Lv , Ning Xie , Yimin Shi , Zijiao Wang , Heng Tao Shen