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Robots moving safely and in a socially compliant manner in dynamic human environments is an essential benchmark for long-term robot autonomy. However, it is not feasible to learn and benchmark social navigation behaviors entirely in the…

Robotics · Computer Science 2022-08-03 Jarrett Holtz , Joydeep Biswas

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

Combinatorial optimization (CO) is fundamental to several real-world applications, from logistics and scheduling to hardware design and resource allocation. Deep reinforcement learning (RL) has recently shown significant benefits in solving…

Reinforcement learning (RL) has shown promising results in active flow control (AFC), yet progress in the field remains difficult to assess as existing studies rely on heterogeneous observation and actuation schemes, numerical setups, and…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-05-28 Jannis Becktepe , Aleksandra Franz , Nils Thuerey , Sebastian Peitz

Reinforcement learning has recently experienced increased prominence in the machine learning community. There are many approaches to solving reinforcement learning problems with new techniques developed constantly. When solving problems…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-12-14 Belinda Stapelberg , Katherine M. Malan

Search agents have emerged as a pivotal paradigm for solving open-ended, knowledge-intensive reasoning tasks. However, training these agents via Reinforcement Learning (RL) faces a critical dilemma: interacting with live commercial Web APIs…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2026-01-22 Xichen Zhang , Ziyi He , Yinghao Zhu , Sitong Wu , Shaozuo Yu , Meng Chu , Wenhu Zhang , Haoru Tan , Jiaya Jia

While Vision-Language Models (VLMs) have achieved remarkable progress in static visual understanding, their deployment in complex 3D embodied environments remains severely limited. Existing benchmarks suffer from four critical deficiencies:…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-04-10 Ruizhi Zhang , Ye Huang , Yuangang Pan , Chuanfu Shen , Zhilin Liu , Ting Xie , Wen Li , Lixin Duan

Autonomous agents operating in domains such as robotics or video game simulations must adapt to changing tasks without forgetting about the previous ones. This process called Continual Reinforcement Learning poses non-trivial difficulties,…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-02-02 Anthony Kobanda , Odalric-Ambrym Maillard , Rémy Portelas

The deployment of Reinforcement Learning (RL) in real-world applications is constrained by its failure to satisfy safety criteria. Existing Safe Reinforcement Learning (SafeRL) methods, which rely on cost functions to enforce safety, often…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-08-09 Weidong Huang , Jiaming Ji , Chunhe Xia , Borong Zhang , Yaodong Yang

Resource-constrained robots often suffer from energy inefficiencies, underutilized computational abilities due to inadequate task allocation, and a lack of robustness in dynamic environments, all of which strongly affect their performance.…

Robotics · Computer Science 2023-10-02 Dipam Patel , Phu Pham , Kshitij Tiwari , Aniket Bera

Evaluating the scientific discovery capabilities of large language model based agents, particularly how they cope with varying environmental complexity and utilize prior knowledge, requires specialized benchmarks currently lacking in the…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-10-28 Yimeng Chen , Piotr Piȩkos , Mateusz Ostaszewski , Firas Laakom , Jürgen Schmidhuber

In the research area of reinforcement learning (RL), frequently novel and promising methods are developed and introduced to the RL community. However, although many researchers are keen to apply their methods on real-world problems,…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2022-11-28 Daniel Hein , Stefan Depeweg , Michel Tokic , Steffen Udluft , Alexander Hentschel , Thomas A. Runkler , Volkmar Sterzing

In this study, we analyze and compare the performance of state-of-the-art deep reinforcement learning algorithms for solving the supply chain inventory management problem. This complex sequential decision-making problem consists of…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-01-07 Francesco Stranieri , Fabio Stella

We present WebGym, the largest-to-date open-source environment for training realistic visual web agents. Real websites are non-stationary and diverse, making artificial or small-scale task sets insufficient for robust policy learning.…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-05-05 Hao Bai , Alexey Taymanov , Tong Zhang , Aviral Kumar , Spencer Whitehead

It has been arduous to assess the progress of a policy learning algorithm in the domain of hierarchical task with high dimensional action space due to the lack of a commonly accepted benchmark. In this work, we propose a new light-weight…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-07-14 Siwei Chen , Xiao Ma , David Hsu

The rapid growth of Retrieval-Augmented Generation (RAG) has created a proliferation of toolkits, yet a fundamental gap remains between experimental prototypes and robust, production-ready systems. We present SearchGym, a modular…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2026-03-06 Jerome Tze-Hou Hsu

This study presents a benchmark for evaluating action-constrained reinforcement learning (RL) algorithms. In action-constrained RL, each action taken by the learning system must comply with certain constraints. These constraints are crucial…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-06-30 Kazumi Kasaura , Shuwa Miura , Tadashi Kozuno , Ryo Yonetani , Kenta Hoshino , Yohei Hosoe

In this work, we augment reinforcement learning with an inference-time collision model to ensure safe and efficient container management in a waste-sorting facility with limited processing capacity. Each container has two optimal emptying…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-03-24 Abhijeet Pendyala , Tobias Glasmachers

In order to practically implement the door opening task, a policy ought to be robust to a wide distribution of door types and environment settings. Reinforcement Learning (RL) with Domain Randomization (DR) is a promising technique to…

Robotics · Computer Science 2022-05-25 Yusuke Urakami , Alec Hodgkinson , Casey Carlin , Randall Leu , Luca Rigazio , Pieter Abbeel

Recommender Systems are especially challenging for marketplaces since they must maximize user satisfaction while maintaining the healthiness and fairness of such ecosystems. In this context, we observed a lack of resources to design, train,…