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Multi-agent deep reinforcement learning has been applied to address a variety of complex problems with either discrete or continuous action spaces and achieved great success. However, most real-world environments cannot be described by only…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-06-13 Hongzhi Hua , Kaigui Wu , Guixuan Wen

With the help of special neuromorphic hardware, spiking neural networks (SNNs) are expected to realize artificial intelligence (AI) with less energy consumption. It provides a promising energy-efficient way for realistic control tasks by…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2024-01-12 Ding Chen , Peixi Peng , Tiejun Huang , Yonghong Tian

Trajectory Optimization (TO) and Reinforcement Learning (RL) are powerful and complementary tools to solve optimal control problems. On the one hand, TO can efficiently compute locally-optimal solutions, but it tends to get stuck in local…

Model-free deep reinforcement learning (RL) has been successfully applied to challenging continuous control domains. However, poor sample efficiency prevents these methods from being widely used in real-world domains. This paper introduces…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-10-27 Sicen Li , Qinyun Tang , Yiming Pang , Xinmeng Ma , Gang Wang

A computing cluster that interconnects multiple compute nodes is used to accelerate distributed reinforcement learning based on DQN (Deep Q-Network). In distributed reinforcement learning, Actor nodes acquire experiences by interacting with…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2023-03-13 Masaki Furukawa , Hiroki Matsutani

In cooperative stochastic games multiple agents work towards learning joint optimal actions in an unknown environment to achieve a common goal. In many real-world applications, however, constraints are often imposed on the actions that can…

Multiagent Systems · Computer Science 2020-07-14 Raghuram Bharadwaj Diddigi , Sai Koti Reddy Danda , Prabuchandran K. J. , Shalabh Bhatnagar

In this paper, we consider a mobile-edge computing system, where an access point assists a mobile device (MD) to execute an application consisting of multiple tasks following a general task call graph. The objective is to jointly determine…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2020-02-20 Jia Yan , Suzhi Bi , Ying-Jun Angela Zhang

Reusing previously trained models is critical in deep reinforcement learning to speed up training of new agents. However, it is unclear how to acquire new skills when objectives and constraints are in conflict with previously learned…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-02-09 Jaime S. Ide , Daria Mićović , Michael J. Guarino , Kevin Alcedo , David Rosenbluth , Adrian P. Pope

Soft Actor-Critic (SAC) is an off-policy actor-critic deep reinforcement learning (DRL) algorithm based on maximum entropy reinforcement learning. By combining off-policy updates with an actor-critic formulation, SAC achieves…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2019-06-11 Che Wang , Keith Ross

The implementation of a multi-microgrid (MMG) system with multiple renewable energy sources enables the facilitation of electricity trading. To tackle the energy management problem of a MMG system, which consists of multiple renewable…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-04-06 Jiankai Gao , Yang Li , Bin Wang , Haibo Wu

This paper presents a novel deep reinforcement learning-based system for 3D mapless navigation for Unmanned Aerial Vehicles (UAVs). Instead of using a image-based sensing approach, we propose a simple learning system that uses only a few…

With the increasing diversity of 5G service types and the intensifying dynamic fluctuations of network load, achieve differentiated quality of service assurance in a network slicing environment has become a key issue in resource management.…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2026-05-06 Qingyang Li

Beamforming enhances signal strength and quality by focusing energy in specific directions. This capability is particularly crucial in cell-free integrated sensing and communication (ISAC) systems, where multiple distributed access points…

Emerging Technologies · Computer Science 2026-01-21 Jiexin Zhang , Shu Xu , Chunguo Li , Yongming Huang , Luxi Yang

Trajectory Optimization (TO) and Reinforcement Learning (RL) offer complementary strengths for solving optimal control problems. TO efficiently computes locally optimal solutions but can struggle with non-convexity, while RL is more robust…

Robotics · Computer Science 2026-02-24 Elisa Alboni , Pietro Noah Crestaz , Elias Fontanari , Andrea Del Prete

The growing adoption of mmWave frequency bands to realize the full potential of 5G, turns beamforming into a key enabler for current and next-generation wireless technologies. Many mmWave networks rely on beam selection with Grid-of-Beams…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-02-02 Ycaro Dantas , Pedro Enrique Iturria-Rivera , Hao Zhou , Majid Bavand , Medhat Elsayed , Raimundas Gaigalas , Melike Erol-Kantarci

In this work, we build upon the offline reinforcement learning algorithm TD7, which incorporates State-Action Learned Embeddings (SALE) and a prioritized experience replay buffer (LAP). We propose a model-free actor-critic algorithm that…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-01-14 Zheng Chun

We propose a fully distributed actor-critic architecture, named Diff-DAC, with application to multitask reinforcement learning (MRL). During the learning process, agents communicate their value and policy parameters to their neighbours,…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-10-26 Sergio Valcarcel Macua , Ian Davies , Aleksi Tukiainen , Enrique Munoz de Cote

We study robust reinforcement learning (RL) with the goal of determining a well-performing policy that is robust against model mismatch between the training simulator and the testing environment. Previous policy-based robust RL algorithms…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-12-12 Ruida Zhou , Tao Liu , Min Cheng , Dileep Kalathil , P. R. Kumar , Chao Tian

Reinforcement Learning (RL) has shown great potential in complex control tasks, particularly when combined with deep neural networks within the Actor-Critic (AC) framework. However, in practical applications, balancing exploration, learning…

Robotics · Computer Science 2026-02-25 Zhiwei Shang , Xinyi Yuan , Wenjun Huang , Yunduan Cui , Di Chen , Meixin Zhu

Network slicing is a promising technology that allows mobile network operators to efficiently serve various emerging use cases in 5G. It is challenging to optimize the utilization of network infrastructures while guaranteeing the…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2021-10-12 Qiang Liu , Nakjung Choi , Tao Han