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In this paper, we consider the source of Deep Reinforcement Learning (DRL)'s sample complexity, asking how much derives from the requirement of learning useful representations of environment states and how much is due to the sample…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-02-25 Jacob Tyo , Zachary Lipton

Deep reinforcement learning (DRL) has been successfully used to design forwarding strategies for multi-hop mobile wireless networks. While such strategies can be used directly for networks with varied connectivity and dynamic conditions,…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2025-09-30 Cheonjin Park , Victoria Manfredi , Xiaolan Zhang , Chengyi Liu , Alicia P Wolfe , Dongjin Song , Sarah Tasneem , Bing Wang

Many reinforcement learning (RL) algorithms are too costly to use in practice due to the large sizes $S, A$ of the problem's state and action space. To resolve this issue, we study transfer RL with latent low rank structure. We consider the…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-10-30 Tyler Sam , Yudong Chen , Christina Lee Yu

In recent years, Reinforcement Learning (RL) has been applied to real-world problems with increasing success. Such applications often require to put constraints on the agent's behavior. Existing algorithms for constrained RL (CRL) rely on…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-03-07 Ted Moskovitz , Brendan O'Donoghue , Vivek Veeriah , Sebastian Flennerhag , Satinder Singh , Tom Zahavy

The goal of task transfer in reinforcement learning is migrating the action policy of an agent to the target task from the source task. Given their successes on robotic action planning, current methods mostly rely on two requirements:…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2019-02-19 Mingxuan Jing , Xiaojian Ma , Wenbing Huang , Fuchun Sun , Huaping Liu

Recently, researchers have made significant progress combining the advances in deep learning for learning feature representations with reinforcement learning. Some notable examples include training agents to play Atari games based on raw…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2016-05-30 Yan Duan , Xi Chen , Rein Houthooft , John Schulman , Pieter Abbeel

Model-free deep reinforcement learning (RL) algorithms have been successfully applied to a range of challenging sequential decision making and control tasks. However, these methods typically suffer from two major challenges: high sample…

We consider the transfer of experience samples (i.e., tuples < s, a, s', r >) in reinforcement learning (RL), collected from a set of source tasks to improve the learning process in a given target task. Most of the related approaches focus…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2018-05-29 Andrea Tirinzoni , Andrea Sessa , Matteo Pirotta , Marcello Restelli

Meta-reinforcement learning algorithms can enable robots to acquire new skills much more quickly, by leveraging prior experience to learn how to learn. However, much of the current research on meta-reinforcement learning focuses on task…

Existing research on continual learning (CL) of a sequence of tasks focuses mainly on dealing with catastrophic forgetting (CF) to balance the learning plasticity of new tasks and the memory stability of old tasks. However, an ideal CL…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-01-12 Zhi Wang , Zhongbin Wu , Yanni Li , Bing Liu , Guangxi Li , Yuping Wang

In this paper, we leverage ideas from model-based control to address the sample efficiency problem of reinforcement learning (RL) algorithms. Accelerating learning is an active field of RL highly relevant in the context of time-varying…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-05-23 Ibrahim Ahmed , Marcos Quinones-Grueiro , Gautam Biswas

An agent that efficiently accumulates knowledge to develop increasingly sophisticated skills over a long lifetime could advance the frontier of artificial intelligence capabilities. The design of such agents, which remains a long-standing…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-06-27 Saurabh Kumar , Henrik Marklund , Ashish Rao , Yifan Zhu , Hong Jun Jeon , Yueyang Liu , Benjamin Van Roy

In this paper, we present a new approach to Transfer Learning (TL) in Reinforcement Learning (RL) for cross-domain tasks. Many of the available techniques approach the transfer architecture as a method of speeding up the target task…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2018-01-23 Girish Joshi , Girish Chowdhary

Reinforcement learning (RL) is a framework to optimize a control policy using rewards that are revealed by the system as a response to a control action. In its standard form, RL involves a single agent that uses its policy to accomplish a…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-11-24 Juan Cervino , Juan Andres Bazerque , Miguel Calvo-Fullana , Alejandro Ribeiro

The size and the computational load of fine-tuning large-scale pre-trained neural network are becoming two major obstacles in adopting machine learning in many applications. Continual learning (CL) can serve as a remedy through enabling…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-03-28 Yuliang Cai , Jesse Thomason , Mohammad Rostami

In this paper, we consider a point-to-point integrated sensing and communication (ISAC) system, where a transmitter conveys a message to a receiver over a channel with memory and simultaneously estimates the state of the channel through the…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2024-12-03 Homa Nikbakht , Michèle Wigger , Shlomo Shamai , H. Vincent Poor

The goal of continual learning (CL) is to train a model that can solve multiple tasks presented sequentially. Recent CL approaches have achieved strong performance by leveraging large pre-trained models that generalize well to downstream…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-05-20 Liangzu Peng , Juan Elenter , Joshua Agterberg , Alejandro Ribeiro , René Vidal

Quadruped robots have emerged as an evolving technology that currently leverages simulators to develop a robust controller capable of functioning in the real-world without the need for further training. However, since it is impossible to…

Robotics · Computer Science 2023-11-14 Giovanni Minelli , Vassilis Vassiliades

Skills have become the de facto way to enable LLM agents to perform complex real-world tasks with customized instructions, workflows, and tools, but how to learn them automatically and effectively remains unclear. We introduce…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2026-04-23 Shanshan Zhong , Yi Lu , Jingjie Ning , Yibing Wan , Lihan Feng , Yuyi Ao , Leonardo F. R. Ribeiro , Markus Dreyer , Sean Ammirati , Chenyan Xiong

With wireless devices increasingly forming a unified smart network for seamless, user-friendly operations, random access (RA) medium access control (MAC) design is considered a key solution for handling unpredictable data traffic from…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2025-08-12 Myeung Suk Oh , Zhiyao Zhang , FNU Hairi , Alvaro Velasquez , Jia Liu