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Hierarchical reinforcement learning deals with the problem of breaking down large tasks into meaningful sub-tasks. Autonomous discovery of these sub-tasks has remained a challenging problem. We propose a novel method of learning sub-tasks…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2019-02-19 Saket Tiwari , M. Prannoy

In reinforcement learning, pre-trained low-level skills have the potential to greatly facilitate exploration. However, prior knowledge of the downstream task is required to strike the right balance between generality (fine-grained control)…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-10-22 Jonas Gehring , Gabriel Synnaeve , Andreas Krause , Nicolas Usunier

This paper proposes a learning algorithm to find a scheduling policy that achieves an optimal delay-power trade-off in communication systems. Reinforcement learning (RL) is used to minimize the expected latency for a given energy constraint…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-06-11 Yu Zhao , Joohyun Lee , Wei Chen

Multicasting in wireless systems is a natural way to exploit the redundancy in user requests in a Content Centric Network. Power control and optimal scheduling can significantly improve the wireless multicast network's performance under…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2021-12-08 Ramkumar Raghu , Mahadesh Panju , Vaneet Aggarwal , Vinod Sharma

Achieving safe and coordinated behavior in dynamic, constraint-rich environments remains a major challenge for learning-based control. Pure end-to-end learning often suffers from poor sample efficiency and limited reliability, while…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-10-10 Max Studt , Georg Schildbach

A key aspect of Safe Reinforcement Learning (Safe RL) involves estimating the constraint condition for the next policy, which is crucial for guiding the optimization of safe policy updates. However, the existing Advantage-based Estimation…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-12-17 Juntao Dai , Yaodong Yang , Qian Zheng , Gang Pan

Reinforcement learning is a machine learning approach based on behavioral psychology. It is focused on learning agents that can acquire knowledge and learn to carry out new tasks by interacting with the environment. However, a problem…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2022-12-15 Hugo Muñoz , Ernesto Portugal , Angel Ayala , Bruno Fernandes , Francisco Cruz

Gradient-based meta-learning techniques aim to distill useful prior knowledge from a set of training tasks such that new tasks can be learned more efficiently with gradient descent. While these methods have achieved successes in various…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-10-16 Mike Huisman , Aske Plaat , Jan N. van Rijn

Recent breakthroughs in generative artificial intelligence have triggered a surge in demand for machine learning training, which poses significant cost burdens and environmental challenges due to its substantial energy consumption.…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2023-04-18 Siyue Zhang , Minrui Xu , Wei Yang Bryan Lim , Dusit Niyato

This work focuses on Hierarchical Inference (HI) in edge intelligence systems, where a compact Local-ML model on an end-device works in conjunction with a high-accuracy Remote-ML model on an edge-server. HI aims to reduce latency, improve…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-12-23 Sameep Chattopadhyay , Vinay Sutar , Jaya Prakash Champati , Sharayu Moharir

This paper presents a machine learning approach for tuning the parameters of a family of stabilizing controllers for orbital tracking. An augmented random search algorithm is deployed, which aims at minimizing a cost function combining…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-08-08 Gianni Bianchini , Andrea Garulli , Antonio Giannitrapani , Mirko Leomanni , Renato Quartullo

Hindsight Experience Replay (HER) is a technique used in reinforcement learning (RL) that has proven to be very efficient for training off-policy RL-based agents to solve goal-based robotic manipulation tasks using sparse rewards. Even…

Reinforcement learning methods as a promising technique have achieved superior results in the motion planning of free-floating space robots. However, due to the increase in planning dimension and the intensification of system dynamics…

Robotics · Computer Science 2022-09-07 Yuxue Cao , Shengjie Wang , Xiang Zheng , Wenke Ma , Xinru Xie , Lei Liu

In edge computing systems, autonomous agents must make fast local decisions while competing for shared resources. Existing MARL methods often resume to centralized critics or frequent communication, which fail under limited observability…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-10-24 Andrea Fox , Francesco De Pellegrini , Eitan Altman

The Agile Earth Observation Satellite Scheduling Problem (AEOSSP) entails finding the subset of observation targets to be scheduled along the satellite's orbit while meeting operational constraints of time, energy and memory. The problem of…

Robotics · Computer Science 2025-06-13 Antonio M. Mercado-Martínez , Beatriz Soret , Antonio Jurado-Navas

In safety-critical domains, reinforcement learning (RL) agents must often satisfy strict, zero-cost safety constraints while accomplishing tasks. Existing model-free methods frequently either fail to achieve near-zero safety violations or…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-05-11 Dominik Wagner , Ankit Kanwar , Luke Ong

In non-geostationary orbit (NGSO) satellite communication systems, effectively utilizing beam hopping (BH) technology is crucial for addressing uneven traffic demands. However, optimizing beam scheduling and resource allocation in…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-01-07 Xia Xie , Kexin Fan , Wenfeng Deng , Nikolaos Pappas , Qinyu Zhang

This paper studies the problem of securing task offloading transmissions from ground users against ground eavesdropping threats. Our study introduces a reconfigurable intelligent surface (RIS)-aided unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV)-mobile edge…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2025-05-19 Aly Sabri Abdalla , Vuk Marojevic

In large-scale problems, standard reinforcement learning algorithms suffer from slow learning speed. In this paper, we follow the framework of using subspaces to tackle this problem. We propose a free-energy minimization framework for…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-12-15 Milad Ghorbani , Reshad Hosseini , Seyed Pooya Shariatpanahi , Majid Nili Ahmadabadi

Sparse-reward domains are challenging for reinforcement learning algorithms since significant exploration is needed before encountering reward for the first time. Hierarchical reinforcement learning can facilitate exploration by reducing…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-11-13 Lorenzo Steccanella , Simone Totaro , Damien Allonsius , Anders Jonsson