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Recently, many researchers have made successful progress in building the AI systems for MOBA-game-playing with deep reinforcement learning, such as on Dota 2 and Honor of Kings. Even though these AI systems have achieved or even exceeded…

Deep Reinforcement Learning (DRL) has become a powerful methodology to solve complex decision-making problems. However, DRL has several limitations when used in real-world problems (e.g., robotics applications). For instance, long training…

Robotics · Computer Science 2019-08-15 Rodrigo Pérez-Dattari , Carlos Celemin , Javier Ruiz-del-Solar , Jens Kober

Reinforcement learning algorithms use correlations between policies and rewards to improve agent performance. But in dynamic or sparsely rewarding environments these correlations are often too small, or rewarding events are too infrequent…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-01-23 Sebastien Racaniere , Andrew K. Lampinen , Adam Santoro , David P. Reichert , Vlad Firoiu , Timothy P. Lillicrap

While Large Language Models (LLMs) have achieved remarkable success in formal learning tasks such as mathematics and code generation, they still struggle with the "practical wisdom" and generalizable intelligence, such as strategic…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2026-01-12 Nuoyan Lyu , Bingbing Xu , Weihao Meng , Yige Yuan , Yang Zhang , Zhiyong Huang , Tat-Seng Chua , Huawei Shen

Deep Reinforcement Learning (DRL) is a paradigm of artificial intelligence where an agent uses a neural network to learn which actions to take in a given environment. DRL has recently gained traction from being able to solve complex…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2025-11-03 Rajdeep Singh Hundal , Yan Xiao , Xiaochun Cao , Jin Song Dong , Manuel Rigger

Deep reinforcement learning includes a broad family of algorithms that parameterise an internal representation, such as a value function or policy, by a deep neural network. Each algorithm optimises its parameters with respect to an…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-07-17 Zhongwen Xu , Hado van Hasselt , Matteo Hessel , Junhyuk Oh , Satinder Singh , David Silver

Autonomous navigation capabilities play a critical role in service robots operating in environments where human interactions are pivotal, due to the dynamic and unpredictable nature of these environments. However, the variability in human…

Robotics · Computer Science 2024-04-09 Mannan Saeed Muhammad , Estrella Montero

Meta-learning algorithms use past experience to learn to quickly solve new tasks. In the context of reinforcement learning, meta-learning algorithms acquire reinforcement learning procedures to solve new problems more efficiently by…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-05-01 Abhishek Gupta , Benjamin Eysenbach , Chelsea Finn , Sergey Levine

Deep reinforcement learning (DRL) has recently shown its success in tackling complex combinatorial optimization problems. When these problems are extended to multiobjective ones, it becomes difficult for the existing DRL approaches to…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2022-02-15 Zizhen Zhang , Zhiyuan Wu , Hang Zhang , Jiahai Wang

The recent advances in reinforcement learning have led to effective methods able to obtain above human-level performances in very complex environments. However, once solved, these environments become less valuable, and new challenges with…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-10-20 Alessandro Palmas

Following the pivotal success of learning strategies to win at tasks, solely by interacting with an environment without any supervision, agents have gained the ability to make sequential decisions in complex MDPs. Yet, reinforcement…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-03-18 Ezgi Korkmaz

Most reinforcement learning algorithms are inefficient for learning multiple tasks in complex robotic systems, where different tasks share a set of actions. In such environments a compound policy may be learnt with shared neural network…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2018-03-01 Parijat Dewangan , S Phaniteja , K Madhava Krishna , Abhishek Sarkar , Balaraman Ravindran

This paper presents a new meta-modeling framework to employ deep reinforcement learning (DRL) to generate mechanical constitutive models for interfaces. The constitutive models are conceptualized as information flow in directed graphs. The…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2019-01-30 Kun Wang , WaiChing Sun

We propose a novel framework for multi-task reinforcement learning (MTRL). Using a variational inference formulation, we learn policies that generalize across both changing dynamics and goals. The resulting policies are parametrized by…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2019-06-24 Janith C. Petangoda , Sergio Pascual-Diaz , Vincent Adam , Peter Vrancx , Jordi Grau-Moya

As machine learning (ML) is more tightly woven into society, it is imperative that we better characterize ML's strengths and limitations if we are to employ it responsibly. Existing benchmark environments for ML, such as board and video…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-07-22 Eric Pulick , Shubham Bharti , Yiding Chen , Vladimir Menkov , Yonatan Mintz , Paul Kantor , Vicki M. Bier

To achieve general intelligence, agents must learn how to interact with others in a shared environment: this is the challenge of multiagent reinforcement learning (MARL). The simplest form is independent reinforcement learning (InRL), where…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2017-11-08 Marc Lanctot , Vinicius Zambaldi , Audrunas Gruslys , Angeliki Lazaridou , Karl Tuyls , Julien Perolat , David Silver , Thore Graepel

Recent successes in Reinforcement Learning have encouraged a fast-growing network of RL researchers and a number of breakthroughs in RL research. As the RL community and the body of RL work grows, so does the need for widely applicable…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2018-12-27 Jacob Menashe , Peter Stone

Deep learning has revolutionized many areas of machine learning, from computer vision to natural language processing, but these high-performance models are generally "black box." Explaining such models would improve transparency and trust…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-05-18 Daniel Lundstrom , Meisam Razaviyayn

In this work we describe a novel deep reinforcement learning architecture that allows multiple actions to be selected at every time-step in an efficient manner. Multi-action policies allow complex behaviours to be learnt that would…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2018-09-07 Jack Harmer , Linus Gisslén , Jorge del Val , Henrik Holst , Joakim Bergdahl , Tom Olsson , Kristoffer Sjöö , Magnus Nordin

Meta-learning researchers face two fundamental issues in their empirical work: prototyping and reproducibility. Researchers are prone to make mistakes when prototyping new algorithms and tasks because modern meta-learning methods rely on…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-08-31 Sébastien M. R. Arnold , Praateek Mahajan , Debajyoti Datta , Ian Bunner , Konstantinos Saitas Zarkias