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Deep reinforcement learning (DRL), leveraging Deep Learning (DL) in reinforcement learning, has shown significant potential in achieving human-level autonomy in a wide range of domains, including robotics, computer vision, and computer…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-08-25 Ahmed Haj Yahmed , Altaf Allah Abbassi , Amin Nikanjam , Heng Li , Foutse Khomh

Recent advances in parallel computing and GPU acceleration have created new opportunities for computation-intensive learning problems such as Active SLAM -- where actions are selected to reduce uncertainty and improve joint mapping and…

Robotics · Computer Science 2026-03-30 Martín Arce Llobera , Julio A. Placed , Mariano De Paula , Pablo De Cristóforis

Robotic surgery is a rapidly developing field that can greatly benefit from the automation of surgical tasks. However, training techniques such as Reinforcement Learning (RL) require a high number of task repetitions, which are generally…

Robotics · Computer Science 2025-06-04 Diego Dall'Alba , Michał Naskręt , Sabina Kaminska , Przemysław Korzeniowski

Reinforcement learning (RL) is rapidly reaching and surpassing human-level control capabilities. However, state-of-the-art RL algorithms often require timesteps and reaction times significantly faster than human capabilities, which is…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-07-29 Devdhar Patel , Hava Siegelmann

CleanRL is an open-source library that provides high-quality single-file implementations of Deep Reinforcement Learning algorithms. It provides a simpler yet scalable developing experience by having a straightforward codebase and…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-11-18 Shengyi Huang , Rousslan Fernand Julien Dossa , Chang Ye , Jeff Braga

With deep reinforcement learning (RL) methods achieving results that exceed human capabilities in games, robotics, and simulated environments, continued scaling of RL training is crucial to its deployment in solving complex real-world…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-12-09 Ahmet Inci , Evgeny Bolotin , Yaosheng Fu , Gal Dalal , Shie Mannor , David Nellans , Diana Marculescu

Deep Reinforcement Learning (DRL) is vital in various AI applications. DRL algorithms comprise diverse compute kernels, which may not be simultaneously optimized using a homogeneous architecture. However, even with available heterogeneous…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2023-11-17 Yuan Meng , Michael Kinsner , Deshanand Singh , Mahesh A Iyer , Viktor Prasanna

Reinforcement Learning (RL) bears the promise of being a game-changer in many applications. However, since most of the literature in the field is currently focused on opaque models, the use of RL in high-stakes scenarios, where…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-01-22 Leonardo Lucio Custode , Giovanni Iacca

Reinforcement learning (RL) offers a principled way to enhance the reasoning capabilities of large language models, yet its effectiveness hinges on training signals that remain informative as models evolve. In practice, RL progress often…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2026-05-05 Caijun Xu , Changyi Xiao , Zhongyuan Peng , Xinrun Wang , Yixin Cao

Reinforcement learning (RL) has become the dominant paradigm for improving the performance of language models on complex reasoning tasks. Despite the substantial empirical gains demonstrated by RL-based training methods like GRPO, a…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2025-10-27 Jiayu Wang , Yifei Ming , Zixuan Ke , Caiming Xiong , Shafiq Joty , Aws Albarghouthi , Frederic Sala

In this paper, we introduce ChainerRL, an open-source deep reinforcement learning (DRL) library built using Python and the Chainer deep learning framework. ChainerRL implements a comprehensive set of DRL algorithms and techniques drawn from…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-04-13 Yasuhiro Fujita , Prabhat Nagarajan , Toshiki Kataoka , Takahiro Ishikawa

One problem with researching cognitive modeling and reinforcement learning (RL) is that researchers spend too much time on setting up an appropriate computational framework for their experiments. Many open source implementations of current…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-01-29 Jan Dohmen , Frank Röder , Manfred Eppe

Reinforcement Learning (RL) has achieved significant success in application domains such as robotics, games and health care. However, training RL agents is very time consuming. Current implementations exhibit poor performance due to…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-12-24 Chi Zhang , Sanmukh Rao Kuppannagari , Viktor K Prasanna

Reinforcement learning (RL) has proven its worth in a series of artificial domains, and is beginning to show some successes in real-world scenarios. However, much of the research advances in RL are hard to leverage in real-world systems due…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-03-05 Gabriel Dulac-Arnold , Nir Levine , Daniel J. Mankowitz , Jerry Li , Cosmin Paduraru , Sven Gowal , Todd Hester

We describe a system for deep reinforcement learning of robotic manipulation skills applied to a large-scale real-world task: sorting recyclables and trash in office buildings. Real-world deployment of deep RL policies requires not only…

The integration of deep learning to reinforcement learning (RL) has enabled RL to perform efficiently in high-dimensional environments. Deep RL methods have been applied to solve many complex real-world problems in recent years. However,…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-02-24 Ngoc Duy Nguyen , Thanh Thi Nguyen , Hai Nguyen , Doug Creighton , Saeid Nahavandi

The integration of distributed energy resources (DER) has escalated the challenge of voltage magnitude regulation in distribution networks. Traditional model-based approaches, which rely on complex sequential mathematical formulations,…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-11-05 Shengren Hou , Peter Palensky , Pedro P. Vergara

Reinforcement learning (RL) has achieved remarkable success in real-world decision-making across diverse domains, including gaming, robotics, online advertising, public health, and natural language processing. Despite these advances, a…

Applications · Statistics 2026-01-23 Asim H. Gazi , Yongyi Guo , Daiqi Gao , Ziping Xu , Kelly W. Zhang , Susan A. Murphy

Reinforcement Learning (RL) has emerged as a powerful paradigm in Artificial Intelligence (AI), enabling agents to learn optimal behaviors through interactions with their environments. Drawing from the foundations of trial and error, RL…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2025-02-04 Majid Ghasemi , Amir Hossein Moosavi , Dariush Ebrahimi

Reinforcement learning (RL) problems can be challenging without well-shaped rewards. Prior work on provably efficient RL methods generally proposes to address this issue with dedicated exploration strategies. However, another way to tackle…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-06-21 Qiyang Li , Yuexiang Zhai , Yi Ma , Sergey Levine