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In the past few years, off-policy reinforcement learning methods have shown promising results in their application for robot control. Deep Q-learning, however, still suffers from poor data-efficiency and is susceptible to stochasticity in…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-08-17 Gabriel Kalweit , Maria Huegle , Joschka Boedecker

In this paper we present a new approach to tackle complex routing problems with an improved state representation that utilizes the model complexity better than previous methods. We enable this by training from temporal differences.…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-04-27 Ahmad Bdeir , Simon Boeder , Tim Dernedde , Kirill Tkachuk , Jonas K. Falkner , Lars Schmidt-Thieme

Reinforcement learning (RL) agents have shown remarkable performances in various environments, where they can discover effective policies directly from sensory inputs. However, these agents often exploit spurious correlations in the…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2025-04-11 Elisabeth Dillies , Quentin Delfosse , Jannis Blüml , Raban Emunds , Florian Peter Busch , Kristian Kersting

Multi-Agent Reinforcement Learning (MARL) is useful in many problems that require the cooperation and coordination of multiple agents. Learning optimal policies using reinforcement learning in a multi-agent setting can be very difficult as…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-05-31 Rafael Pina , Varuna De Silva , Joosep Hook , Ahmet Kondoz

Combinatorial optimization (CO) aims to efficiently find the best solution to NP-hard problems ranging from statistical physics to social media marketing. A wide range of CO applications can benefit from local search methods because they…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-04-14 Yuanhang Shao , Tonmoy Dey , Nikola Vuckovic , Luke Van Popering , Alan Kuhnle

We develop a continuous-time reinforcement learning framework for a class of singular stochastic control problems without entropy regularization. The optimal singular control is characterized as the optimal singular control law, which is a…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2026-05-14 Zongxia Liang , Xiaodong Luo , Xiang Yu

We introduce a novel learning and planning framework that replaces traditional reward-based optimisation with constructive logical inference. In our model, actions, transitions, and goals are represented as logical propositions, and…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2025-06-09 Andrei T. Patrascu

Reinforcement learning studies how an agent should interact with an environment to maximize its cumulative reward. A standard way to study this question abstractly is to ask how many samples an agent needs from the environment to learn an…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2021-12-21 Daochen Wang , Aarthi Sundaram , Robin Kothari , Ashish Kapoor , Martin Roetteler

Adaptive robot navigation in dynamic environments requires policies that can reach the target reliably while producing efficient and stable trajectories. This paper presents Q-SpiRL, a quantum spiking reinforcement learning framework for…

Deep reinforcement learning techniques have demonstrated superior performance in a wide variety of environments. As improvements in training algorithms continue at a brisk pace, theoretical or empirical studies on understanding what these…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2018-11-16 Raghuram Mandyam Annasamy , Katia Sycara

Lane-changing decisions, which are crucial for autonomous vehicle path planning, face practical challenges due to rule-based constraints and limited data. Deep reinforcement learning has become a major research focus due to its advantages…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2025-10-27 Xiaojun Bi , Mingjie He , Yiwen Sun

Autonomous driving decision-making is a great challenge due to the complexity and uncertainty of the traffic environment. Combined with the rule-based constraints, a Deep Q-Network (DQN) based method is applied for autonomous driving lane…

Robotics · Computer Science 2019-04-03 Junjie Wang , Qichao Zhang , Dongbin Zhao , Yaran Chen

Reinforcement learning is an essential paradigm for solving sequential decision problems under uncertainty. Despite many remarkable achievements in recent decades, applying reinforcement learning methods in the real world remains…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-11-22 Zhihong Deng , Jing Jiang , Guodong Long , Chengqi Zhang

Accurate estimation of the Q-function is a central challenge in offline reinforcement learning. However, existing approaches often rely on a shared global Q-function, which is inadequate for capturing the compositional structure of tasks…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-03-19 Qiushui Xu , Yuhao Huang , Yushu Jiang , Lei Song , Jinyu Wang , Wenliang Zheng , Jiang Bian

"Qubit routing" refers to the task of modifying quantum circuits so that they satisfy the connectivity constraints of a target quantum computer. This involves inserting SWAP gates into the circuit so that the logical gates only ever occur…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2020-08-03 Matteo G. Pozzi , Steven J. Herbert , Akash Sengupta , Robert D. Mullins

This paper introduces a novel reinforcement learning (RL) framework, termed Reward-Guided Conservative Q-learning (RG-CQL), to enhance coordination between ride-pooling and public transit within a multimodal transportation network. We model…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-01-27 Yulong Hu , Tingting Dong , Sen Li

The optimization of quality of experience (QoE) in multi-user virtual reality (VR) interactions demands a delicate balance between ultra-low latency, high-fidelity motion synchronization, and equitable resource allocation. While adaptive…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-06-26 Ziru Zhang , Jiadong Yu , Danny H. K. Tsang

Complex adaptive agents consistently achieve their goals by solving problems that seem to require an understanding of causal information, information pertaining to the causal relationships that exist among elements of combined…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2024-07-02 Filippo Torresan , Manuel Baltieri

This paper presents a novel approach combining inductive logic programming with reinforcement learning to improve training performance and explainability. We exploit inductive learning of answer set programs from noisy examples to learn a…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2025-01-14 Celeste Veronese , Daniele Meli , Alessandro Farinelli

In this paper, a novel quantum classical hybrid framework is proposed that synergizes quantum with Classical Reinforcement Learning. By leveraging the inherent parallelism of quantum computing, the proposed approach generates robust Q…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-05-21 Sahil Tomar , Shamshe Alam , Sandeep Kumar , Amit Mathur