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Adversarial training is wildly considered as one of the most effective way to defend against adversarial examples. However, existing adversarial training methods consume unbearable time, due to the fact that they need to generate…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-03-10 Yaguan Qian , Qiqi Shao , Tengteng Yao , Bin Wang , Shouling Ji , Shaoning Zeng , Zhaoquan Gu , Wassim Swaileh

Developing controllers for agile locomotion is a long-standing challenge for legged robots. Reinforcement learning (RL) and Evolution Strategy (ES) hold the promise of automating the design process of such controllers. However, dedicated…

Robotics · Computer Science 2020-08-04 Yujin Tang , Jie Tan , Tatsuya Harada

Adversarial nets have proved to be powerful in various domains including generative modeling (GANs), transfer learning, and fairness. However, successfully training adversarial nets using first-order methods remains a major challenge.…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-02-02 Hussein Hazimeh , Natalia Ponomareva

A reinforcement learning environment with adversary agents is proposed in this work for pursuit-evasion game in the presence of fog of war, which is of both scientific significance and practical importance in aerospace applications. One of…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-08-26 X. Huang

Unsupervised Environment Design (UED) seeks to automatically generate training curricula for reinforcement learning (RL) agents, with the goal of improving generalisation and zero-shot performance. However, designing effective curricula…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-01-22 Harry Mead , Bruno Lacerda , Jakob Foerster , Nick Hawes

In unsupervised environment design, reinforcement learning agents are trained on environment configurations (levels) generated by an adversary that maximises some objective. Regret is a commonly used objective that theoretically results in…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-06-11 Michael Beukman , Samuel Coward , Michael Matthews , Mattie Fellows , Minqi Jiang , Michael Dennis , Jakob Foerster

This work presents a thorough review concerning recent studies and text generation advancements using Generative Adversarial Networks. The usage of adversarial learning for text generation is promising as it provides alternatives to…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2022-12-22 Gustavo Henrique de Rosa , João Paulo Papa

Exploration is crucial for training the optimal reinforcement learning (RL) policy, where the key is to discriminate whether a state visiting is novel. Most previous work focuses on designing heuristic rules or distance metrics to check…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-01-28 Weijun Hong , Menghui Zhu , Minghuan Liu , Weinan Zhang , Ming Zhou , Yong Yu , Peng Sun

The development of autonomous web agents, powered by Large Language Models (LLMs) and reinforcement learning (RL), represents a significant step towards general-purpose AI assistants. However, training these agents is severely hampered by…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2026-04-21 Hang Ding , Peidong Liu , Junqiao Wang , Ziwei Ji , Meng Cao , Rongzhao Zhang , Lynn Ai , Eric Yang , Tianyu Shi , Lei Yu

Generative adversarial networks (GAN) have been effective for learning generative models for real-world data. However, existing GANs (GAN and its variants) tend to suffer from training problems such as instability and mode collapse. In this…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2018-03-05 Chaoyue Wang , Chang Xu , Xin Yao , Dacheng Tao

Two key challenges within Reinforcement Learning involve improving (a) agent learning within environments with sparse extrinsic rewards and (b) the explainability of agent actions. We describe a curious subgoal focused agent to address both…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-04-20 Connor van Rossum , Candice Feinberg , Adam Abu Shumays , Kyle Baxter , Benedek Bartha

Generative Adversarial Networks (GANs) have experienced a recent surge in popularity, performing competitively in a variety of tasks, especially in computer vision. However, GAN training has shown limited success in natural language…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2019-01-03 David Donahue , Anna Rumshisky

We consider the problem of training generative models with a Generative Adversarial Network (GAN). Although GANs can accurately model complex distributions, they are known to be difficult to train due to instabilities caused by a difficult…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2017-06-13 Paulina Grnarova , Kfir Y. Levy , Aurelien Lucchi , Thomas Hofmann , Andreas Krause

This paper presents a controlled study of adversarial reinforcement learning in network security through a custom OpenAI Gym environment that models brute-force attacks and reactive defenses on multi-port services. The environment captures…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-10-08 Abrar Shahid , Ibteeker Mahir Ishum , AKM Tahmidul Haque , M Sohel Rahman , A. B. M. Alim Al Islam

Recent deep neural networks based techniques, especially those equipped with the ability of self-adaptation in the system level such as deep reinforcement learning (DRL), are shown to possess many advantages of optimizing robot learning…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-10-11 Chao-Han Huck Yang , Jun Qi , Pin-Yu Chen , Yi Ouyang , I-Te Danny Hung , Chin-Hui Lee , Xiaoli Ma

Deriving robust control policies for realistic urban navigation scenarios is not a trivial task. In an end-to-end approach, these policies must map high-dimensional images from the vehicle's cameras to low-level actions such as steering and…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-09-06 Gustavo Claudio Karl Couto , Eric Aislan Antonelo

Real-world digital environments are highly diverse and dynamic. These characteristics cause agents to frequently encounter unseen environments and distribution shifts, making continual learning in such environments essential for…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2026-05-12 Tianci Xue , Zeyi Liao , Tianneng Shi , Zilu Wang , Kai Zhang , Dawn Song , Yu Su , Huan Sun

Applying deep reinforcement learning (RL) on real systems suffers from slow data sampling. We propose an enhanced generative adversarial network (EGAN) to initialize an RL agent in order to achieve faster learning. The EGAN utilizes the…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2017-05-30 Vincent Huang , Tobias Ley , Martha Vlachou-Konchylaki , Wenfeng Hu

We study a Stackelberg game between one attacker and one defender in a configurable environment. The defender picks a specific environment configuration. The attacker observes the configuration and attacks via Reinforcement Learning (RL…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2023-04-11 Diksha Goel , Aneta Neumann , Frank Neumann , Hung Nguyen , Mingyu Guo

The natural language generation (NLG) module in a task-oriented dialogue system produces user-facing utterances conveying required information. Thus, it is critical for the generated response to be natural and fluent. We propose to…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2020-05-07 Chenguang Zhu