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Reinforcement learning with multinomial logistic (MNL) function approximation has become an important framework due to its flexibility and broad applicability. While existing studies have established regret guarantees under worst-case…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2026-05-28 Wonyoung Kim , Min-Hwan Oh , Garud Iyengar , Assaf Zeevi

In the tasks of multi-robot collaborative area search, we propose the unified approach for simultaneous mapping for sensing more targets (exploration) while searching and locating the targets (coverage). Specifically, we implement a…

Robotics · Computer Science 2023-12-05 Lina Zhu , Jiyu Cheng , Hao Zhang , Zhichao Cui , Wei Zhang , Yuehu Liu

Resource balancing within complex transportation networks is one of the most important problems in real logistics domain. Traditional solutions on these problems leverage combinatorial optimization with demand and supply forecasting.…

Multiagent Systems · Computer Science 2019-03-05 Xihan Li , Jia Zhang , Jiang Bian , Yunhai Tong , Tie-Yan Liu

In this paper, we aim to develop a simple and scalable reinforcement learning algorithm that uses standard supervised learning methods as subroutines. Our goal is an algorithm that utilizes only simple and convergent maximum likelihood loss…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2019-10-09 Xue Bin Peng , Aviral Kumar , Grace Zhang , Sergey Levine

Finding optimal policies which maximize long term rewards of Markov Decision Processes requires the use of dynamic programming and backward induction to solve the Bellman optimality equation. However, many real-world problems require…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-01-10 Mridul Agarwal , Vaneet Aggarwal

In this paper, we investigate a computing task scheduling problem in space-air-ground integrated network (SAGIN) for delay-oriented Internet of Things (IoT) services. In the considered scenario, an unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) collects…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-10-06 Conghao Zhou , Wen Wu , Hongli He , Peng Yang , Feng Lyu , Nan Cheng , Xuemin , Shen

In robot planning, tasks can often be achieved through multiple options, each consisting of several actions. This work specifically addresses deadline constraints in task and motion planning, aiming to find a plan that can be executed…

Robotics · Computer Science 2024-10-10 Yoonchang Sung , Shahaf S. Shperberg , Qi Wang , Peter Stone

Traffic optimization challenges, such as load balancing, flow scheduling, and improving packet delivery time, are difficult online decision-making problems in wide area networks (WAN). Complex heuristics are needed for instance to find…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2021-12-01 Shan Sun , Mariam Kiran , Wei Ren

Complex multi-robot missions often require heterogeneous teams to jointly optimize task allocation, scheduling, and path planning to improve team performance under strict constraints. We formalize these complexities into a new class of…

Robotics · Computer Science 2026-01-07 Jiazhen Liu , Glen Neville , Jinwoo Park , Sonia Chernova , Harish Ravichandar

In warehouses, specialized agents need to navigate, avoid obstacles and maximize the use of space in the warehouse environment. Due to the unpredictability of these environments, reinforcement learning approaches can be applied to complete…

Reinforcement Learning (RL) in environments with complex, history-dependent reward structures poses significant challenges for traditional methods. In this work, we introduce a novel approach that leverages automaton-based feedback to guide…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-10-20 Mahyar Alinejad , Alvaro Velasquez , Yue Wang , George Atia

This paper proposes a novel adaptive guidance system developed using reinforcement meta-learning with a recurrent policy and value function approximator. The use of recurrent network layers allows the deployed policy to adapt real time to…

Systems and Control · Computer Science 2020-02-19 Brian Gaudet , Richard Linares , Roberto Furfaro

Safe and efficient co-planning of multiple robots in pedestrian participation environments is promising for applications. In this work, a novel multi-robot social-aware efficient cooperative planner that on the basis of off-policy…

Robotics · Computer Science 2022-11-30 Zichen He , Chunwei Song , Lu Dong

This paper proposes a novel adaptive guidance system developed using reinforcement meta-learning with a recurrent policy and value function approximator. The use of recurrent network layers allows the deployed policy to adapt real time to…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-12-20 Brian Gaudet , Richard Linares

Imitation learning holds tremendous promise in learning policies efficiently for complex decision making problems. Current state-of-the-art algorithms often use inverse reinforcement learning (IRL), where given a set of expert…

Robotics · Computer Science 2023-02-22 Siddhant Haldar , Vaibhav Mathur , Denis Yarats , Lerrel Pinto

Reinforcement learning continuously optimizes decision-making based on real-time feedback reward signals through continuous interaction with the environment, demonstrating strong adaptive and self-learning capabilities. In recent years, it…

Robotics · Computer Science 2024-08-15 Zixiang Wang , Hao Yan , Yining Wang , Zhengjia Xu , Zhuoyue Wang , Zhizhong Wu

As the industry of autonomous driving grows, so does the potential interaction of groups of autonomous cars. Combined with the advancement of Artificial Intelligence and simulation, such groups can be simulated, and safety-critical models…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-02-22 Omar Tanner

To realize effective heterogeneous multi-robot teams, researchers must leverage individual robots' relative strengths and coordinate their individual behaviors. Specifically, heterogeneous multi-robot systems must answer three important…

Robotics · Computer Science 2021-08-06 Glen Neville , Andrew Messing , Harish Ravichandar , Seth Hutchinson , Sonia Chernova

We discuss the problem of decentralized multi-agent reinforcement learning (MARL) in this work. In our setting, the global state, action, and reward are assumed to be fully observable, while the local policy is protected as privacy by each…

Multiagent Systems · Computer Science 2021-11-02 Kuo Li , Qing-Shan Jia

We introduce a new distributed policy gradient algorithm and show that it outperforms existing reward-aware training procedures such as REINFORCE, minimum risk training (MRT) and proximal policy optimization (PPO) in terms of training…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2022-07-19 Domenic Donato , Lei Yu , Wang Ling , Chris Dyer