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In many real-world scenarios, an autonomous agent often encounters various tasks within a single complex environment. We propose to build a graph abstraction over the environment structure to accelerate the learning of these tasks. Here,…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2019-07-02 Wenling Shang , Alex Trott , Stephan Zheng , Caiming Xiong , Richard Socher

In reinforcement learning (RL), an agent learns to perform a task by interacting with an environment and receiving feedback (a numerical reward) for its actions. However, the assumption that rewards are always observable is often not…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-02-15 Simone Parisi , Montaser Mohammedalamen , Alireza Kazemipour , Matthew E. Taylor , Michael Bowling

This study examines the problem of hopping robot navigation planning to achieve simultaneous goal-directed and environment exploration tasks. We consider a scenario in which the robot has mandatory goal-directed tasks defined using Linear…

Robotics · Computer Science 2024-07-10 Jesse Jiang , Samuel Coogan , Ye Zhao

Within the context of autonomous driving a model-based reinforcement learning algorithm is proposed for the design of neural network-parameterized controllers. Classical model-based control methods, which include sampling- and lattice-based…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2018-08-03 Mogens Graf Plessen

World models learn the consequences of actions in vision-based interactive systems. However, in practical scenarios like autonomous driving, noncontrollable dynamics that are independent or sparsely dependent on action signals often exist,…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-11-20 Minting Pan , Xiangming Zhu , Yitao Zheng , Yunbo Wang , Xiaokang Yang

Reinforcement learning (RL) agents often suffer from high sample complexity in sparse or delayed reward settings due to limited prior structure. Large language models (LLMs) can provide subgoal decompositions, plausible trajectories, and…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-02-23 Narjes Nourzad , Carlee Joe-Wong

Deliberating on large or continuous state spaces have been long standing challenges in reinforcement learning. Temporal Abstraction have somewhat made this possible, but efficiently planing using temporal abstraction still remains an issue.…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2017-03-21 Peeyush Kumar , Doina Precup

This paper proposes a new principled multi-task representation learning framework (InfoMTL) to extract noise-invariant sufficient representations for all tasks. It ensures sufficiency of shared representations for all tasks and mitigates…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-03-07 Dou Hu , Lingwei Wei , Wei Zhou , Songlin Hu

Recent advancements in Model-Based Reinforcement Learning (MBRL) have made it a powerful tool for visual control tasks. Despite improved data efficiency, it remains challenging to train MBRL agents with generalizable perception. Training in…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-10-15 Kyungmin Kim , JB Lanier , Pierre Baldi , Charless Fowlkes , Roy Fox

Real-world congestion problems (e.g. traffic congestion) are typically very complex and large-scale. Multiagent reinforcement learning (MARL) is a promising candidate for dealing with this emerging complexity by providing an autonomous and…

Multiagent Systems · Computer Science 2020-09-02 Kleanthis Malialis , Sam Devlin , Daniel Kudenko

In constrained reinforcement learning (RL), a learning agent seeks to not only optimize the overall reward but also satisfy the additional safety, diversity, or budget constraints. Consequently, existing constrained RL solutions require…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-07-13 Sobhan Miryoosefi , Chi Jin

Abstraction of Markov Decision Processes is a useful tool for solving complex problems, as it can ignore unimportant aspects of an environment, simplifying the process of learning an optimal policy. In this paper, we propose a new algorithm…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-04-20 Ondrej Biza , Robert Platt

Teaching robots novel skills with demonstrations via human-in-the-loop data collection techniques like kinesthetic teaching or teleoperation puts a heavy burden on human supervisors. In contrast to this paradigm, it is often significantly…

Robotics · Computer Science 2024-04-24 Daniel Yang , Davin Tjia , Jacob Berg , Dima Damen , Pulkit Agrawal , Abhishek Gupta

The visual world provides an abundance of information, but many input pixels received by agents often contain distracting stimuli. Autonomous agents need the ability to distinguish useful information from task-irrelevant perceptions,…

One of the inherent limitations of current AI systems, stemming from the passive learning mechanisms (e.g., supervised learning), is that they perform well on labeled datasets but cannot deduce knowledge on their own. To tackle this…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2021-01-28 Kwanyoung Park , Junseok Park , Hyunseok Oh , Byoung-Tak Zhang , Youngki Lee

Random delays weaken the temporal correspondence between actions and subsequent state feedback, making it difficult for agents to identify the true propagation process of action effects. In cross-task scenarios, changes in task objectives…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-05-13 Chenran Zhao , Dianxi Shi , Yaowen Zhang , Chunping Qiu , Shaowu Yang

Diverse instruction data is vital for effective instruction tuning of large language models, as it enables the model to generalize across different types of inputs . Building such diversified instruction dataset is an essential step in this…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2025-08-29 Simin Ma , Shujian Liu , Jun Tan , Yebowen Hu , Song Wang , Sathish Reddy Indurthi , Sanqiang Zhao , Liwei Wu , Jianbing Han , Kaiqiang Song

Model-based methods have significantly contributed to distinguishing task-irrelevant distractors for visual control. However, prior research has primarily focused on heterogeneous distractors like noisy background videos, leaving…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-06-06 Yucen Wang , Shenghua Wan , Le Gan , Shuai Feng , De-Chuan Zhan

We introduce a Transformer-based Reinforcement Learning framework for autonomous orbital collision avoidance that explicitly models the effects of partial observability and imperfect monitoring in space operations. The framework combines a…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-03-26 Thomas Georges , Adam Abdin

We study pre-training representations for decision-making using video data, which is abundantly available for tasks such as game agents and software testing. Even though significant empirical advances have been made on this problem, a…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-03-21 Dipendra Misra , Akanksha Saran , Tengyang Xie , Alex Lamb , John Langford