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Symmetry is pervasive in robotics and has been widely exploited to improve sample efficiency in deep reinforcement learning (DRL). However, existing approaches primarily focus on spatial symmetries, such as reflection, rotation, and…

Robotics · Computer Science 2025-10-22 Yunpeng Jiang , Jianshu Hu , Paul Weng , Yutong Ban

Reinforcement learning (RL) agents improve through trial-and-error, but when reward is sparse and the agent cannot discover successful action sequences, learning stagnates. This has been a notable problem in training deep RL agents to…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2018-02-27 Evan Zheran Liu , Kelvin Guu , Panupong Pasupat , Tianlin Shi , Percy Liang

Introducing cooperative coded caching into small cell networks is a promising approach to reducing traffic loads. By encoding content via maximum distance separable (MDS) codes, coded fragments can be collectively cached at small-cell base…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2020-06-25 Xiongwei Wu , Jun Li , Ming Xiao , P. C. Ching , H. Vincent Poor

Pretrained foundation models have exhibited extraordinary in-context learning performance, allowing zero-shot generalization to new tasks not encountered during pretraining. In the case of reinforcement learning (RL), in-context RL (ICRL)…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-05-05 Weiqin Chen , Santiago Paternain

Collision avoidance is a crucial task in vision-guided autonomous navigation. Solutions based on deep reinforcement learning (DRL) has become increasingly popular. In this work, we proposed several novel agent state and reward function…

Robotics · Computer Science 2022-10-13 Sirui Song , Kirk Saunders , Ye Yue , Jundong Liu

Network slicing is born as an emerging business to operators, by allowing them to sell the customized slices to various tenants at different prices. In order to provide better-performing and cost-efficient services, network slicing involves…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2018-11-22 Rongpeng Li , Zhifeng Zhao , Qi Sun , Chi-Lin I , Chenyang Yang , Xianfu Chen , Minjian Zhao , Honggang Zhang

As a form of artificial intelligence (AI) technology based on interactive learning, deep reinforcement learning (DRL) has been widely applied across various fields and has achieved remarkable accomplishments. However, DRL faces certain…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-02-18 Geng Sun , Wenwen Xie , Dusit Niyato , Fang Mei , Jiawen Kang , Hongyang Du , Shiwen Mao

Resource allocation plays a critical role in minimizing cycle time and improving the efficiency of business processes. Recently, Deep Reinforcement Learning (DRL) has emerged as a powerful technique to optimize resource allocation policies…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-09-03 Jeroen Middelhuis , Zaharah Bukhsh , Ivo Adan , Remco Dijkman

Deep Reinforcement Learning (DRL) has been highly effective in learning from and adapting to RF environments and thus detecting and mitigating jamming effects to facilitate reliable wireless communications. However, traditional DRL methods…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-10-15 Kemal Davaslioglu , Sastry Kompella , Tugba Erpek , Yalin E. Sagduyu

This research gauges the ability of deep reinforcement learning (DRL) techniques to assist the optimization and control of fluid mechanical systems. It combines a novel, "degenerate" version of the proximal policy optimization (PPO)…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2021-05-19 H. Ghraieb , J. Viquerat , A. Larcher , P. Meliga , E. Hachem

A long-standing problem in online reinforcement learning (RL) is of ensuring sample efficiency, which stems from an inability to explore environments efficiently. Most attempts at efficient exploration tackle this problem in a setting where…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-07-08 Aman Mehra , Alexandre Capone , Jeff Schneider

Current image-based reinforcement learning (RL) algorithms typically operate on the whole image without performing object-level reasoning. This leads to inefficient goal sampling and ineffective reward functions. In this paper, we improve…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-11-16 Yufei Wang , Gautham Narayan Narasimhan , Xingyu Lin , Brian Okorn , David Held

Offline reinforcement learning algorithms hold the promise of enabling data-driven RL methods that do not require costly or dangerous real-world exploration and benefit from large pre-collected datasets. This in turn can facilitate…

Network slicing-based communication systems can dynamically and efficiently allocate resources for diversified services. However, due to the limitation of the network interface on channel access and the complexity of the resource…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2023-11-29 Zhengming Zhang , Yongming Huang , Cheng Zhang , Qingbi Zheng , Luxi Yang , Xiaohu You

Cloud computing has revolutionized the provisioning of computing resources, offering scalable, flexible, and on-demand services to meet the diverse requirements of modern applications. At the heart of efficient cloud operations are job…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2025-01-03 Yan Gu , Zhaoze Liu , Shuhong Dai , Cong Liu , Ying Wang , Shen Wang , Georgios Theodoropoulos , Long Cheng

Flow control is key to maximize energy efficiency in a wide range of applications. However, traditional flow-control methods face significant challenges in addressing non-linear systems and high-dimensional data, limiting their application…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-10-28 Joongoo Jeon , Jean Rabault , Joel Vasanth , Francisco Alcántara-Ávila , Shilaj Baral , Ricardo Vinuesa

Wireless network optimization has been becoming very challenging as the problem size and complexity increase tremendously, due to close couplings among network entities with heterogeneous service and resource requirements. By continuously…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2020-01-29 Shimin Gong , Yutong Xie , Jing Xu , Dusit Niyato , Ying-Chang Liang

Deep Reinforcement Learning (DRL) is a quickly evolving research field rooted in operations research and behavioural psychology, with potential applications extending across various domains, including robotics. This thesis delineates the…

Robotics · Computer Science 2023-12-11 Luca Renna

This paper presents the first model extraction attack against Deep Reinforcement Learning (DRL), which enables an external adversary to precisely recover a black-box DRL model only from its interaction with the environment. Model extraction…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-12-23 Kangjie Chen , Shangwei Guo , Tianwei Zhang , Xiaofei Xie , Yang Liu

Deep reinforcement learning (DRL) algorithms have recently gained wide attention in the wireless networks domain. They are considered promising approaches for solving dynamic radio resource management (RRM) problems in next-generation…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2022-09-29 Ahmad M. Nagib , Hatem Abou-zeid , Hossam S. Hassanein