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Reinforcement learning (rl) is a popular paradigm for sequential decision making problems. The past decade's advances in rl have led to breakthroughs in many challenging domains such as video games, board games, robotics, and chip design.…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-11-01 Yanick Schraner

Designing effective task sequences is crucial for curriculum reinforcement learning (CRL), where agents must gradually acquire skills by training on intermediate tasks. A key challenge in CRL is to identify tasks that promote exploration,…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-07-08 Geonwoo Cho , Jaegyun Im , Doyoon Kim , Sundong Kim

In curriculum reinforcement learning (CRL), an agent incrementally accumulates knowledge over a sequence of tasks (i.e., a curriculum), and the learning process is aimed at using the accumulated knowledge to finally solve a challenging…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-05-25 Yongyan Wen , Siyuan Li , Mingjian Fu , Yiqin Yang , Xun Wang , Peng Liu

A significant bottleneck in applying current reinforcement learning algorithms to real-world scenarios is the need to reset the environment between every episode. This reset process demands substantial human intervention, making it…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-02-20 Sang-Hyun Lee , Seung-Woo Seo

Reinforcement learning has shown great promise in the training of robot behavior due to the sequential decision making characteristics. However, the required enormous amount of interactive and informative training data provides the major…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2020-12-22 Sha Luo , Hamidreza Kasaei , Lambert Schomaker

The Reinforcement Learning (RL) paradigm has been an essential tool for automating robotic tasks. Despite the advances in RL, it is still not widely adopted in the industry due to the need for an expensive large amount of robot interaction…

Achieving robust performance is crucial when applying deep reinforcement learning (RL) in safety critical systems. Some of the state of the art approaches try to address the problem with adversarial agents, but these agents often require…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-02-18 Yeeho Song , Jeff Schneider

In principle, meta-reinforcement learning algorithms leverage experience across many tasks to learn fast reinforcement learning (RL) strategies that transfer to similar tasks. However, current meta-RL approaches rely on manually-defined…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2019-12-10 Allan Jabri , Kyle Hsu , Ben Eysenbach , Abhishek Gupta , Sergey Levine , Chelsea Finn

A major challenge in the Deep RL (DRL) community is to train agents able to generalize over unseen situations, which is often approached by training them on a diversity of tasks (or environments). A powerful method to foster diversity is to…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-04-08 Rémy Portelas , Katja Hofmann , Pierre-Yves Oudeyer

Curriculum learning in reinforcement learning is used to shape exploration by presenting the agent with increasingly complex tasks. The idea of curriculum learning has been largely applied in both animal training and pedagogy. In…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2019-06-14 Francesco Foglino , Christiano Coletto Christakou , Matteo Leonetti

Reinforcement Learning is a mature technology, often suggested as a potential route towards Artificial General Intelligence, with the ambitious goal of replicating the wide range of abilities found in natural and artificial intelligence,…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-11-25 Markus D. Solbach , John K. Tsotsos

A major challenge in the Deep RL (DRL) community is to train agents able to generalize their control policy over situations never seen in training. Training on diverse tasks has been identified as a key ingredient for good generalization,…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-09-02 Rémy Portelas , Clément Romac , Katja Hofmann , Pierre-Yves Oudeyer

Autonomous driving faces challenges in navigating complex real-world traffic, requiring safe handling of both common and critical scenarios. Reinforcement learning (RL), a prominent method in end-to-end driving, enables agents to learn…

Robotics · Computer Science 2026-03-09 Ahmed Abouelazm , Johannes Ratz , Philip Schörner , J. Marius Zöllner

Reinforcement Learning (RL) is a promising approach for solving various control, optimization, and sequential decision making tasks. However, designing reward functions for complex tasks (e.g., with multiple objectives and safety…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2021-07-23 Xuan Zhao , Marcos Campos

Self-paced reinforcement learning (RL) aims to improve the data efficiency of learning by automatically creating sequences, namely curricula, of probability distributions over contexts. However, existing techniques for self-paced RL fail in…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-05-29 Cevahir Koprulu , Ufuk Topcu

Deep reinforcement learning (RL) has shown great empirical successes, but suffers from brittleness and sample inefficiency. A potential remedy is to use a previously-trained policy as a source of supervision. In this work, we refer to these…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-09-16 Daniel Seita , Abhinav Gopal , Zhao Mandi , John Canny

Humans are good at learning on the job: We learn how to solve the tasks we face as we go along. Can a model do the same? We propose an agent that assembles a task-specific curriculum, called test-time curriculum (TTC-RL), and applies…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-10-07 Jonas Hübotter , Leander Diaz-Bone , Ido Hakimi , Andreas Krause , Moritz Hardt

Navigating and understanding complex and unknown environments autonomously demands more than just basic perception and movement from embodied agents. Truly effective exploration requires agents to possess higher-level cognitive abilities,…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2025-09-12 Abdel Hakim Drid , Vincenzo Suriani , Daniele Nardi , Abderrezzak Debilou

In this paper, we investigate a new form of automated curriculum learning based on adaptive selection of accuracy requirements, called accuracy-based curriculum learning. Using a reinforcement learning agent based on the Deep Deterministic…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2018-09-24 Pierre Fournier , Olivier Sigaud , Mohamed Chetouani , Pierre-Yves Oudeyer

For reinforcement learning (RL), it is challenging for an agent to master a task that requires a specific series of actions due to sparse rewards. To solve this problem, reverse curriculum generation (RCG) provides a reverse expansion…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-08-05 Zih-Yun Chiu , Yi-Lin Tuan , Hung-yi Lee , Li-Chen Fu