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Deploying continual object detection on microcontrollers (MCUs) with under 100KB memory requires efficient feature compression that can adapt to evolving task distributions. Existing approaches rely on fixed compression strategies (e.g.,…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2026-04-14 Bibin Wilson

Large language model (LLM) agents have recently demonstrated strong capabilities in interactive decision-making, yet they remain fundamentally limited in long-horizon tasks that require structured planning and reliable execution. Existing…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2026-05-06 Hongbo Jin , Rongpeng Zhu , Jiayu Ding , Guibo Luo , Ge Li

Neural Radiance Fields (NeRF) have achieved photorealistic novel view synthesis but suffer from computational inefficiency due to dense ray sampling during volume rendering. We propose SAC-NeRF, a reinforcement learning framework that…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-03-18 Chenyu Ge

This paper implements deep reinforcement learning (DRL) with a safety filter for spacecraft reorientation control with a single pointing keep-out zone. A new state space representation is designed which includes a compact representation of…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2026-05-20 Juntang Yang , Mohamed Khalil Ben-Larbi

In this letter, we investigate learning forward dynamics models and multi-step prediction of state variables (long-term prediction) for contact-rich manipulation. The problems are formulated in the context of model-based reinforcement…

Robotics · Computer Science 2020-09-29 Shahbaz Abdul Khader , Hang Yin , Pietro Falco , Danica Kragic

Model-free deep reinforcement learning (RL) algorithms have been successfully applied to a range of challenging sequential decision making and control tasks. However, these methods typically suffer from two major challenges: high sample…

Gradient-based meta-learners such as Model-Agnostic Meta-Learning (MAML) have shown strong few-shot performance in supervised and reinforcement learning settings. However, specifically in the case of meta-reinforcement learning (meta-RL),…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-02-20 Bhairav Mehta , Tristan Deleu , Sharath Chandra Raparthy , Chris J. Pal , Liam Paull

Autonomous highway driving demands a critical balance between proactive, efficiency-seeking behavior and robust safety guarantees. This paper proposes Language Action-guided Reinforcement Learning (LA-RL) with Safety Guarantees, a novel…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-12-08 Yiming Shu , Jiahui Xu , Jiwei Tang , Ruiyang Gao , Chen Sun

Multi-fidelity Reinforcement Learning (RL) frameworks significantly enhance the efficiency of engineering design by leveraging analysis models with varying levels of accuracy and computational costs. The prevailing methodologies,…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-11-19 Akash Agrawal , Christopher McComb

Meta-Reinforcement Learning (MRL) is a promising framework for training agents that can quickly adapt to new environments and tasks. In this work, we study the MRL problem under the policy gradient formulation, where we propose a novel…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-05-23 Mohammad Taha Toghani , Sebastian Perez-Salazar , César A. Uribe

Multi-task reinforcement learning (MTRL) has shown great promise in many real-world applications. Existing MTRL algorithms often aim to learn a policy that optimizes individual objective functions simultaneously with a given prior…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-12-24 Yudan Wang , Peiyao Xiao , Hao Ban , Kaiyi Ji , Shaofeng Zou

The Intelligent decision of the unmanned combat aerial vehicle (UCAV) has long been a challenging problem. The conventional search method can hardly satisfy the real-time demand during high dynamics air combat scenarios. The reinforcement…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-12-03 Yiwen Zhu , Zhou Fang , Yuan Zheng , Wenya Wei

Actor-critic methods constitute a central paradigm in reinforcement learning (RL), coupling policy evaluation with policy improvement. While effective across many domains, these methods rely on separate actor and critic networks, which…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-09-26 Donghyeon Ki , Hee-Jun Ahn , Kyungyoon Kim , Byung-Jun Lee

Federated reinforcement learning (RL) enables collaborative decision making of multiple distributed agents without sharing local data trajectories. In this work, we consider a multi-task setting, in which each agent has its own private…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-08-19 Tong Yang , Shicong Cen , Yuting Wei , Yuxin Chen , Yuejie Chi

Reinforcement learning (RL) is a technique to learn the control policy for an agent that interacts with a stochastic environment. In any given state, the agent takes some action, and the environment determines the probability distribution…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-07-30 Gaurav Gupta , Chenzhong Yin , Jyotirmoy V. Deshmukh , Paul Bogdan

This study focuses on a crucial task in the field of autonomous driving, autonomous lane change. Autonomous lane change plays a pivotal role in improving traffic flow, alleviating driver burden, and reducing the risk of traffic accidents.…

Robotics · Computer Science 2024-04-02 Yuan Lin , Xiao Liu , Zishun Zheng

By using an parametric value function to replace the Monte-Carlo rollouts for value estimation, the actor-critic (AC) algorithms can reduce the variance of stochastic policy gradient so that to improve the convergence rate. While existing…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-08-19 Yanjie Dong , Haijun Zhang , Gang Wang , Shisheng Cui , Xiping Hu

Deep reinforcement learning (RL) has proven a powerful technique in many sequential decision making domains. However, Robotics poses many challenges for RL, most notably training on a physical system can be expensive and dangerous, which…

Robotics · Computer Science 2017-10-19 Lerrel Pinto , Marcin Andrychowicz , Peter Welinder , Wojciech Zaremba , Pieter Abbeel

Inferring reward functions from demonstrations and pairwise preferences are auspicious approaches for aligning Reinforcement Learning (RL) agents with human intentions. However, state-of-the art methods typically focus on learning a single…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-01-04 Markus Peschl , Arkady Zgonnikov , Frans A. Oliehoek , Luciano C. Siebert

Single-model systems often suffer from deficiencies in tasks such as speaker verification (SV) and image classification, relying heavily on partial prior knowledge during decision-making, resulting in suboptimal performance. Although…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-04-25 Zuheng Kang , Yayun He , Jianzong Wang , Junqing Peng , Jing Xiao