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A core aspect of human intelligence is the ability to learn new tasks quickly and switch between them flexibly. Here, we describe a modular continual reinforcement learning paradigm inspired by these abilities. We first introduce a visual…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2017-12-13 Kevin T. Feigelis , Blue Sheffer , Daniel L. K. Yamins

Reinforcement learning (RL) is a framework to optimize a control policy using rewards that are revealed by the system as a response to a control action. In its standard form, RL involves a single agent that uses its policy to accomplish a…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-11-24 Juan Cervino , Juan Andres Bazerque , Miguel Calvo-Fullana , Alejandro Ribeiro

Deep reinforcement learning has proven to be a great success in allowing agents to learn complex tasks. However, its application to actual robots can be prohibitively expensive. Furthermore, the unpredictability of human behavior in…

Robotics · Computer Science 2019-08-16 Mohammad Thabet , Massimiliano Patacchiola , Angelo Cangelosi

Deep Reinforcement Learning (DRL) algorithms have been successfully applied to a range of challenging control tasks. However, these methods typically suffer from three core difficulties: temporal credit assignment with sparse rewards, lack…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2018-10-30 Shauharda Khadka , Kagan Tumer

While reinforcement learning algorithms can learn effective policies for complex tasks, these policies are often brittle to even minor task variations, especially when variations are not explicitly provided during training. One natural…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-12-09 Saurabh Kumar , Aviral Kumar , Sergey Levine , Chelsea Finn

Evolutionary Algorithms and Deep Reinforcement Learning have both successfully solved control problems across a variety of domains. Recently, algorithms have been proposed which combine these two methods, aiming to leverage the strengths…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2023-06-21 Adam Callaghan , Karl Mason , Patrick Mannion

Photonic reservoir computing is an emergent technology toward beyond-Neumann computing. Although photonic reservoir computing provides superior performance in environments whose characteristics are coincident with the training datasets for…

Emerging Technologies · Computer Science 2020-04-28 Kazutaka Kanno , Makoto Naruse , Atsushi Uchida

Reinforcement learning (RL) algorithms aim to learn optimal decisions in unknown environments through experience of taking actions and observing the rewards gained. In some cases, the environment is not influenced by the actions of the RL…

Reservoir computing (RC) is a state-of-the-art machine learning method that makes use of the power of dynamical systems (the reservoir) for real-time inference. When using biological complex systems as reservoir substrates, it serves as a…

Adaptation and Self-Organizing Systems · Physics 2026-03-03 Mario U. Gaimann , Miriam Klopotek

Multi-task reinforcement learning employs a single policy to complete various tasks, aiming to develop an agent with generalizability across different scenarios. Given the shared characteristics of tasks, the agent's learning efficiency can…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2025-02-20 Yan Yu , Wengang Zhou , Yaodong Yang , Wanxuan Lu , Yingyan Hou , Houqiang Li

The ability to exploit prior experience to solve novel problems rapidly is a hallmark of biological learning systems and of great practical importance for artificial ones. In the meta reinforcement learning literature much recent work has…

Learned models of the environment provide reinforcement learning (RL) agents with flexible ways of making predictions about the environment. In particular, models enable planning, i.e. using more computation to improve value functions or…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-10-26 Gregory Farquhar , Kate Baumli , Zita Marinho , Angelos Filos , Matteo Hessel , Hado van Hasselt , David Silver

Humans and animals can learn complex predictive models that allow them to accurately and reliably reason about real-world phenomena, and they can adapt such models extremely quickly in the face of unexpected changes. Deep neural network…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2019-01-30 Anusha Nagabandi , Chelsea Finn , Sergey Levine

Reinforcement learning (RL) solves sequential decision-making problems via a trial-and-error process interacting with the environment. While RL achieves outstanding success in playing complex video games that allow huge trial-and-error,…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-06-22 Fan-Ming Luo , Tian Xu , Hang Lai , Xiong-Hui Chen , Weinan Zhang , Yang Yu

Learning to cooperate is crucially important in multi-agent environments. The key is to understand the mutual interplay between agents. However, multi-agent environments are highly dynamic, where agents keep moving and their neighbors…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-02-12 Jiechuan Jiang , Chen Dun , Tiejun Huang , Zongqing Lu

Machine learning algorithms learn to solve a task, but are unable to improve their ability to learn. Meta-learning methods learn about machine learning algorithms and improve them so that they learn more quickly. However, existing…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-01-28 Calarina Muslimani , Alex Lewandowski , Dale Schuurmans , Matthew E. Taylor , Jun Luo

Machine Learning for graphs is nowadays a research topic of consolidated relevance. Common approaches in the field typically resort to complex deep neural network architectures and demanding training algorithms, highlighting the need for…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-05-12 Claudio Gallicchio , Alessio Micheli

Evolutionary algorithms (EA), a class of stochastic search methods based on the principles of natural evolution, have received widespread acclaim for their exceptional performance in various real-world optimization problems. While…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2024-01-30 Yanjie Song , Yutong Wu , Yangyang Guo , Ran Yan , P. N. Suganthan , Yue Zhang , Witold Pedrycz , Swagatam Das , Rammohan Mallipeddi , Oladayo Solomon Ajani. Qiang Feng

This work developed a meta-learning approach that adapts the control policy on the fly to different changing conditions for robust locomotion. The proposed method constantly updates the interaction model, samples feasible sequences of…

Robotics · Computer Science 2021-01-20 Timothée Anne , Jack Wilkinson , Zhibin Li

Recurrent neural policies are widely used in partially observable control and meta-RL tasks. Their abilities to maintain internal memory and adapt quickly to unseen scenarios have offered them unparalleled performance when compared to…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-02-03 Jin Li , Yue Wu , Mengsha Huang , Yuhao Sun , Hao He , Xianyuan Zhan