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As rapidly growing AI computational demands accelerate the need for new hardware installation and maintenance, this work explores optimal data center resource management by balancing operational efficiency with fault tolerance through…

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Hierarchical Reinforcement Learning (HRL) enhances the scalability of decision-making in long-horizon tasks by introducing temporal abstraction through options-policies that span multiple timesteps. Despite its theoretical appeal, the…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-10-30 Hemanath Arumugam , Falong Fan , Bo Liu

The model-based power allocation algorithm has been investigated for decades, but it requires the mathematical models to be analytically tractable and it usually has high computational complexity. Recently, the data-driven model-free…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2019-01-23 Fan Meng , Peng Chen , Lenan Wu , Julian Cheng

This paper aims to balance performance and cost in a two-hop wireless cooperative communication network where the source and relays have contradictory optimization goals and make decisions in a distributed manner. This differs from most…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-06-18 Yuanzhe Geng , Erwu Liu , Wei Ni , Rui Wang , Yan Liu , Hao Xu , Chen Cai , Abbas Jamalipour

The power grid is a complex and vital system that necessitates careful reliability management. Managing the grid is a difficult problem with multiple time scales of decision making and stochastic behavior due to renewable energy…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2016-03-08 Gal Dalal , Elad Gilboa , Shie Mannor

Reward design is a fundamental, yet challenging aspect of reinforcement learning (RL). Researchers typically utilize feedback signals from the environment to handcraft a reward function, but this process is not always effective due to the…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-06-11 Alexander Bukharin , Yixiao Li , Pengcheng He , Tuo Zhao

Machine learning applied to architecture design presents a promising opportunity with broad applications. Recent deep reinforcement learning (DRL) techniques, in particular, enable efficient exploration in vast design spaces where…

Hardware Architecture · Computer Science 2019-05-14 Ting-Ru Lin , Drew Penney , Massoud Pedram , Lizhong Chen

A new, fair relay selection scheme is proposed for a dual-hop decode-and-forward network with randomly-distributed relays. Most of the reported works in the literature achieve fairness at the expense of degrading the outage probability…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2016-11-30 Masoumeh Sadeghi , Amirmasoud Rabiei

Automatic decision-making approaches, such as reinforcement learning (RL), have been applied to (partially) solve the resource allocation problem adaptively in the cloud computing system. However, a complete cloud resource allocation…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2017-08-15 Ning Liu , Zhe Li , Zhiyuan Xu , Jielong Xu , Sheng Lin , Qinru Qiu , Jian Tang , Yanzhi Wang

We consider a half-duplex wireless relay network with hybrid-automatic retransmission request (HARQ) and Rayleigh fading channels. In this paper, we analyze the outage probability of the multi-relay delay-limited HARQ system with…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2012-02-14 Behrouz Maham , Aydin Behnad , Merouane Debbah

Network slicing is born as an emerging business to operators, by allowing them to sell the customized slices to various tenants at different prices. In order to provide better-performing and cost-efficient services, network slicing involves…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2018-11-22 Rongpeng Li , Zhifeng Zhao , Qi Sun , Chi-Lin I , Chenyang Yang , Xianfu Chen , Minjian Zhao , Honggang Zhang

Reinforcement learning (RL) plays a major role in solving complex sequential decision-making tasks. Hierarchical and goal-conditioned RL are promising methods for dealing with two major problems in RL, namely sample inefficiency and…

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The increasing complexity of modern applications demands wireless networks capable of real time adaptability and efficient resource management. The Open Radio Access Network (O-RAN) architecture, with its RAN Intelligent Controller (RIC)…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2025-12-17 Fatemeh Lotfi , Fatemeh Afghah

A key strategy in societal adaptation to climate change is using alert systems to prompt preventative action and reduce the adverse health impacts of extreme heat events. This paper implements and evaluates reinforcement learning (RL) as a…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-04-15 Ellen M. Considine , Rachel C. Nethery , Gregory A. Wellenius , Francesca Dominici , Mauricio Tec

In the forthcoming 6G era, extend reality (XR) has been regarded as an emerging application for ultra-reliable and low latency communications (URLLC) with new traffic characteristics and more stringent requirements. In addition to the…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2025-04-08 Luyuan Zhang , An Liu , Kexuan Wang

Collaborative transportation, where multiple robots collaboratively transport a payload, has garnered significant attention in recent years. While ensuring safe and high-performance inter-robot collaboration is critical for effective task…

Robotics · Computer Science 2026-02-19 Zhezhi Lei , Zhihai Bi , Wenxin Wang , Jun Ma

Buildings with Heating, Ventilation, and Air Conditioning (HVAC) systems play a crucial role in ensuring indoor comfort and efficiency. While traditionally governed by physics-based models, the emergence of big data has enabled data-driven…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-03-26 Gautham Udayakumar Bekal , Ahmed Ghareeb , Ashish Pujari

Cooperative air-ground delivery has emerged as a promising logistics paradigm by leveraging the complementary strengths of UAVs and ground carriers. However, effective dispatching in such heterogeneous systems faces two critical challenges:…

Computers and Society · Computer Science 2026-02-16 Songxin Lei , Chunming Ma , Haomin Wen , Yexin Li , Lizhenghe Chen , Qianyu Yang , Fugee Tsung , Lei Chen , Sijie Ruan , Yuxuan Liang

In this study, a real-time dispatching algorithm based on reinforcement learning is proposed and for the first time, is deployed in large scale. Current dispatching methods in ridehailing platforms are dominantly based on myopic or…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-02-11 Soheil Sadeghi Eshkevari , Xiaocheng Tang , Zhiwei Qin , Jinhan Mei , Cheng Zhang , Qianying Meng , Jia Xu

With the rapid development of distributed renewable energy, multi-microgrids play an increasingly important role in improving the flexibility and reliability of energy supply. Reinforcement learning has shown great potential in coordination…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-12-22 Rongxiang Zhang , Bo Li , Jinghua Li , Yuguang Song , Ziqing Zhu , Wentao Yang , Zhengmao Li , Edris Pouresmaeil , Joshua Y. Kim