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Deploying reinforcement learning (RL) in robotics, industry, and health care is blocked by two obstacles: the difficulty of specifying accurate rewards and the risk of unsafe, data-hungry exploration. We address this by proposing a…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2025-10-14 Maël Macuglia , Paul Friedrich , Giorgia Ramponi

In recent years, a variety of tasks have been accomplished by deep reinforcement learning (DRL). However, when applying DRL to tasks in a real-world environment, designing an appropriate reward is difficult. Rewards obtained via actual…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-10-04 Kanata Suzuki , Tetsuya Ogata

The vast majority of Reinforcement Learning methods is largely impacted by the computation effort and data requirements needed to obtain effective estimates of action-value functions, which in turn determine the quality of the overall…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-04-04 Théo Vincent , Daniel Palenicek , Boris Belousov , Jan Peters , Carlo D'Eramo

Increasing demand for algorithms that can learn quickly and efficiently has led to a surge of development within the field of artificial intelligence (AI). An important paradigm within AI is reinforcement learning (RL), where agents…

Multi-step methods such as Retrace($\lambda$) and $n$-step $Q$-learning have become a crucial component of modern deep reinforcement learning agents. These methods are often evaluated as a part of bigger architectures and their evaluations…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2019-02-11 J. Fernando Hernandez-Garcia , Richard S. Sutton

Multi-hop reasoning is an effective approach for query answering (QA) over incomplete knowledge graphs (KGs). The problem can be formulated in a reinforcement learning (RL) setup, where a policy-based agent sequentially extends its…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2018-09-13 Xi Victoria Lin , Richard Socher , Caiming Xiong

Reinforcement learning (RL) algorithms are designed to optimize problem-solving by learning actions that maximize rewards, a task that becomes particularly challenging in random and nonstationary environments. Even advanced RL algorithms…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-10-31 Sebastian Zieglmeier , Niklas Erdmann , Narada D. Warakagoda

When a reinforcement learning (RL) method has to decide between several optional policies by solely looking at the received reward, it has to implicitly optimize a Multi-Armed-Bandit (MAB) problem. This arises the question: are current RL…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-10-22 Refael Vivanti

Model-free reinforcement learning (RL) can be used to learn effective policies for complex tasks, such as Atari games, even from image observations. However, this typically requires very large amounts of interaction -- substantially more,…

Deep Reinforcement Learning (RL) demonstrates excellent performance on tasks that can be solved by trained policy. It plays a dominant role among cutting-edge machine learning approaches using multi-layer Neural networks (NNs). At the same…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2019-08-20 Devdhar Patel , Hananel Hazan , Daniel J. Saunders , Hava Siegelmann , Robert Kozma

We study offline multitask representation learning in reinforcement learning (RL), where a learner is provided with an offline dataset from different tasks that share a common representation and is asked to learn the shared representation.…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-11-01 Haque Ishfaq , Thanh Nguyen-Tang , Songtao Feng , Raman Arora , Mengdi Wang , Ming Yin , Doina Precup

An important component of many Deep Reinforcement Learning algorithms is the Experience Replay which serves as a storage mechanism or memory of made experiences. These experiences are used for training and help the agent to stably find the…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-02-05 Wenzel Baron Pilar von Pilchau , Anthony Stein , Jörg Hähner

The recent breakthroughs of deep reinforcement learning (DRL) technique in Alpha Go and playing Atari have set a good example in handling large state and actions spaces of complicated control problems. The DRL technique is comprised of (i)…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2017-10-12 Hongjia Li , Tianshu Wei , Ao Ren , Qi Zhu , Yanzhi Wang

As reinforcement learning (RL) scales to solve increasingly complex tasks, interest continues to grow in the fields of AI safety and machine ethics. As a contribution to these fields, this paper introduces an extension to Deep Q-Networks…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2019-06-27 Bart Bussmann , Jacqueline Heinerman , Joel Lehman

Reinforcement learning (RL) combines a control problem with statistical estimation: The system dynamics are not known to the agent, but can be learned through experience. A recent line of research casts `RL as inference' and suggests a…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-11-05 Brendan O'Donoghue , Ian Osband , Catalin Ionescu

Autonomous and learning systems based on Deep Reinforcement Learning have firmly established themselves as a foundation for approaches to creating resilient and efficient Cyber-Physical Energy Systems. However, most current approaches…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2024-04-03 Eric MSP Veith , Torben Logemann , Aleksandr Berezin , Arlena Wellßow , Stephan Balduin

The key approaches for machine learning, especially learning in unknown probabilistic environments are new representations and computation mechanisms. In this paper, a novel quantum reinforcement learning (QRL) method is proposed by…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2008-10-22 Daoyi Dong , Chunlin Chen , Hanxiong Li , Tzyh-Jong Tarn

The growing number of applications of Reinforcement Learning (RL) in real-world domains has led to the development of privacy-preserving techniques due to the inherently sensitive nature of data. Most existing works focus on differential…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-09-20 Alberto Jesu , Victor-Alexandru Darvariu , Alessandro Staffolani , Rebecca Montanari , Mirco Musolesi

As the third-generation neural networks, Spiking Neural Networks (SNNs) have great potential on neuromorphic hardware because of their high energy-efficiency. However, Deep Spiking Reinforcement Learning (DSRL), i.e., the Reinforcement…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2023-04-12 Guisong Liu , Wenjie Deng , Xiurui Xie , Li Huang , Huajin Tang

In this paper, we propose a principled deep reinforcement learning (RL) approach that is able to accelerate the convergence rate of general deep neural networks (DNNs). With our approach, a deep RL agent (synonym for optimizer in this work)…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2017-07-14 Jie Fu