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We introduce a novel Deep Reinforcement Learning (DRL) algorithm called Deep Quality-Value (DQV) Learning. DQV uses temporal-difference learning to train a Value neural network and uses this network for training a second Quality-value…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2018-10-11 Matthia Sabatelli , Gilles Louppe , Pierre Geurts , Marco A. Wiering

Standard deep reinforcement learning methods such as Deep Q-Networks (DQN) for multiple tasks (domains) face scalability problems. We propose a method for multi-domain dialogue policy learning---termed NDQN, and apply it to an…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2021-05-10 Heriberto Cuayáhuitl , Seunghak Yu , Ashley Williamson , Jacob Carse

Quantum Neural Networks (QNNs) with random structures have poor trainability due to the exponentially vanishing gradient as the circuit depth and the qubit number increase. This result leads to a general belief that a deep QNN will not be…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2022-09-28 Kaining Zhang , Min-Hsiu Hsieh , Liu Liu , Dacheng Tao

In the past few years, deep reinforcement learning has been proven to solve problems which have complex states like video games or board games. The next step of intelligent agents would be able to generalize between tasks, and using prior…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2018-09-05 Shu-Hsuan Hsu , I-Chao Shen , Bing-Yu Chen

In this work, we propose a novel cross Q-learning algorithm, aim at alleviating the well-known overestimation problem in value-based reinforcement learning methods, particularly in the deep Q-networks where the overestimation is exaggerated…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2020-09-30 Xing Wang , Alexander Vinel

The performance of deep reinforcement learning agents is fundamentally constrained by their neural network architecture, a choice traditionally made through expensive hyperparameter searches and then fixed throughout training. This work…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-10-24 Iman Rahmani , Saman Yazdannik , Morteza Tayefi , Jafar Roshanian

We propose a distributed deep learning model to successfully learn control policies directly from high-dimensional sensory input using reinforcement learning. The model is based on the deep Q-network, a convolutional neural network trained…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2015-10-16 Hao Yi Ong , Kevin Chavez , Augustus Hong

Recent works have successfully demonstrated that sparse deep reinforcement learning agents can be competitive against their dense counterparts. This opens up opportunities for reinforcement learning applications in fields where inference…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-06-23 Théo Vincent , Tim Faust , Yogesh Tripathi , Jan Peters , Carlo D'Eramo

Reinforcement Learning (RL) has opened up new opportunities to enhance existing smart systems that generally include a complex decision-making process. However, modern RL algorithms, e.g., Deep Q-Networks (DQN), are based on deep neural…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-06-22 Yang Ni , Danny Abraham , Mariam Issa , Yeseong Kim , Pietro Mercati , Mohsen Imani

Survival analysis is playing a major role in manufacturing sector by analyzing occurrence of any unwanted event based on the input data. Predictive maintenance, which is a part of survival analysis, helps to find any device failure based on…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-05-31 Renith G , Harikrishna Warrier , Yogesh Gupta

Despite significant advances in the field of deep Reinforcement Learning (RL), today's algorithms still fail to learn human-level policies consistently over a set of diverse tasks such as Atari 2600 games. We identify three key challenges…

Deep Q-Learning (DQL), a family of temporal difference algorithms for control, employs three techniques collectively known as the `deadly triad' in reinforcement learning: bootstrapping, off-policy learning, and function approximation.…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2019-03-22 Joshua Achiam , Ethan Knight , Pieter Abbeel

Guided exploration with expert demonstrations improves data efficiency for reinforcement learning, but current algorithms often overuse expert information. We propose a novel algorithm to speed up Q-learning with the help of a limited…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-10-06 Fengdi Che , Xiru Zhu , Doina Precup , David Meger , Gregory Dudek

This paper introduces the QDQN-DPER framework to enhance the efficiency of quantum reinforcement learning (QRL) in solving sequential decision tasks. The framework incorporates prioritized experience replay and asynchronous training into…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2023-04-20 Samuel Yen-Chi Chen

Deep Neural Networks (DNN) have been shown to be vulnerable to adversarial examples. Adversarial training (AT) is a popular and effective strategy to defend against adversarial attacks. Recent works (Benz et al., 2020; Xu et al., 2021; Tian…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-02-09 Boqi Li , Weiwei Liu

State-of-the-art deep neural networks are trained with large amounts (millions or even billions) of data. The expensive computation and memory costs make it difficult to train them on limited hardware resources, especially for recent…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-08-22 Daquan Zhou , Kai Wang , Jianyang Gu , Xiangyu Peng , Dongze Lian , Yifan Zhang , Yang You , Jiashi Feng

In this article, we propose a novel algorithm for deep reinforcement learning named Expert Q-learning. Expert Q-learning is inspired by Dueling Q-learning and aims at incorporating semi-supervised learning into reinforcement learning…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-06-26 Li Meng , Anis Yazidi , Morten Goodwin , Paal Engelstad

Neural networks can achieve excellent results in a wide variety of applications. However, when they attempt to sequentially learn, they tend to learn the new task while catastrophically forgetting previous ones. We propose a model that…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-12-18 Craig Atkinson , Brendan McCane , Lech Szymanski , Anthony Robins

Existing convergence analyses of Q-learning mostly focus on the vanilla stochastic gradient descent (SGD) type of updates. Despite the Adaptive Moment Estimation (Adam) has been commonly used for practical Q-learning algorithms, there has…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2020-07-16 Bowen Weng , Huaqing Xiong , Yingbin Liang , Wei Zhang

Deep Neural Network-based systems are now the state-of-the-art in many robotics tasks, but their application in safety-critical domains remains dangerous without formal guarantees on network robustness. Small perturbations to sensor inputs…

Robotics · Computer Science 2020-03-10 Björn Lütjens , Michael Everett , Jonathan P. How