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In reinforcement learning (RL), agents continually interact with the environment and use the feedback to refine their behavior. To guide policy optimization, reward models are introduced as proxies of the desired objectives, such that when…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-06-19 Rui Yu , Shenghua Wan , Yucen Wang , Chen-Xiao Gao , Le Gan , Zongzhang Zhang , De-Chuan Zhan

In this paper, hypernetworks are trained to generate behaviors across a range of unseen task conditions, via a novel TD-based training objective and data from a set of near-optimal RL solutions for training tasks. This work relates to meta…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-01-04 Sahand Rezaei-Shoshtari , Charlotte Morissette , Francois Robert Hogan , Gregory Dudek , David Meger

Machine learning algorithms are very sensitive to the hyperparameters, and their evaluations are generally expensive. Users desperately need intelligent methods to quickly optimize hyperparameter settings according to known evaluation…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-05-05 Chunnan Wang , Hongzhi Wang , Chang Zhou , Hanxiao Chen

Incorporating high-level knowledge is an effective way to expedite reinforcement learning (RL), especially for complex tasks with sparse rewards. We investigate an RL problem where the high-level knowledge is in the form of reward machines,…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2022-02-10 Zhe Xu , Ivan Gavran , Yousef Ahmad , Rupak Majumdar , Daniel Neider , Ufuk Topcu , Bo Wu

Deep reinforcement learning (RL) methods generally engage in exploratory behavior through noise injection in the action space. An alternative is to add noise directly to the agent's parameters, which can lead to more consistent exploration…

Reinforcement learning (RL) promises a framework for near-universal problem-solving. In practice however, RL algorithms are often tailored to specific benchmarks, relying on carefully tuned hyperparameters and algorithmic choices. Recently,…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-01-28 Scott Fujimoto , Pierluca D'Oro , Amy Zhang , Yuandong Tian , Michael Rabbat

Reinforcementlearning(RL)folkloresuggeststhathistory-basedfunctionapproximationmethods,suchas recurrent neural nets or history-based state abstraction, perform better than their memory-less counterparts, due to the fact that function…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-11-08 Gandharv Patil , Aditya Mahajan , Doina Precup

In recent years, autonomous networks have been designed with Predictive Quality of Service (PQoS) in mind, as a means for applications operating in the industrial and/or automotive sectors to predict unanticipated Quality of Service (QoS)…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2022-02-07 Federico Mason , Matteo Drago , Tommaso Zugno , Marco Giordani , Mate Boban , Michele Zorzi

In continual RL we want agents capable of never-ending learning, and yet our evaluation methodologies do not reflect this. The standard practice in RL is to assume unfettered access to the deployment environment for the full lifetime of the…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-08-11 Golnaz Mesbahi , Parham Mohammad Panahi , Olya Mastikhina , Steven Tang , Martha White , Adam White

Efficient data transfers over high-speed, long-distance shared networks require proper utilization of available network bandwidth. Using parallel TCP streams enables an application to utilize network parallelism and can improve transfer…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2022-12-02 Hasibul Jamil , Elvis Rodrigues , Jacob Goldverg , Tevfik Kosar

Recent advancements in Retrieval-Augmented Language Models (RALMs) have demonstrated their efficacy in knowledge-intensive tasks. However, existing evaluation benchmarks often assume a single optimal approach to leveraging retrieved…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-05-26 Peilin Wu , Xinlu Zhang , Wenhao Yu , Xingyu Liu , Xinya Du , Zhiyu Zoey Chen

Reformulating the history matching problem from a least-square mathematical optimization problem into a Markov Decision Process introduces a method in which reinforcement learning can be utilized to solve the problem. This method provides a…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-12-26 Omar S. Alolayan , Abdullah O. Alomar , John R. Williams

Hyperparameters are configuration variables controlling the behavior of machine learning algorithms. They are ubiquitous in machine learning and artificial intelligence and the choice of their values determines the effectiveness of systems…

Autonomous robotic systems, like autonomous vehicles and robotic search and rescue, require efficient on-device training for continuous adaptation of Deep Reinforcement Learning (DRL) models in dynamic environments. This research is…

Robotics · Computer Science 2023-09-18 Zexin Li , Aritra Samanta , Yufei Li , Andrea Soltoggio , Hyoseung Kim , Cong Liu

In the past few years, DRL has become a valuable solution to automatically learn efficient resource management strategies in complex networks with time-varying statistics. However, the increased complexity of 5G and Beyond networks requires…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2023-06-07 Seyyidahmed Lahmer , Federico Mason , Federico Chiariotti , Andrea Zanella

For many machine learning algorithms, predictive performance is critically affected by the hyperparameter values used to train them. However, tuning these hyperparameters can come at a high computational cost, especially on larger datasets,…

We introduce Hyperparameter Controller (HyperController), a computationally efficient algorithm for hyperparameter optimization during training of reinforcement learning neural networks. HyperController optimizes hyperparameters quickly…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-04-29 Jonathan Gornet , Yiannis Kantaros , Bruno Sinopoli

Assigning resources in business processes execution is a repetitive task that can be effectively automated. However, different automation methods may give varying results that may not be optimal. Proper resource allocation is crucial as it…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-04-02 Kamil Żbikowski , Michał Ostapowicz , Piotr Gawrysiak

This paper proposes a reinforcement learning-based method for microservice resource scheduling and optimization, aiming to address issues such as uneven resource allocation, high latency, and insufficient throughput in traditional…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2025-07-18 Yujun Zou , Nia Qi , Yingnan Deng , Zhihao Xue , Ming Gong , Wuyang Zhang

Prior research in resource scheduling for machine learning training workloads has largely focused on minimizing job completion times. Commonly, these model training workloads collectively search over a large number of parameter values that…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2020-01-09 Richard Liaw , Romil Bhardwaj , Lisa Dunlap , Yitian Zou , Joseph Gonzalez , Ion Stoica , Alexey Tumanov