English
Related papers

Related papers: APF+: Boosting adaptive-potential function reinfor…

200 papers

While reinforcement learning has achieved considerable successes in recent years, state-of-the-art models are often still limited by the size of state and action spaces. Model-free reinforcement learning approaches use some form of state…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-08-23 Paul J. Pritz , Liang Ma , Kin K. Leung

Recent advances in artificial neural networks for machine learning, and language modeling in particular, have established a family of recurrent neural network (RNN) architectures that, unlike conventional RNNs with vector-form hidden…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-03-19 Kazuki Irie , Samuel J. Gershman

Reinforcement learning has exceeded human-level performance in game playing AI with deep learning methods according to the experiments from DeepMind on Go and Atari games. Deep learning solves high dimension input problems which stop the…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2019-09-12 Yue Zheng

Procedural Content Generation (PCG) is widely used to create scalable and diverse environments in games. However, existing methods, such as the Wave Function Collapse (WFC) algorithm, are often limited to static scenarios and lack the…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2025-03-14 Aniruddha Srinivas Joshi

Understanding atomic structures is crucial, yet amorphous materials remain challenging due to their irregular and non-periodic nature. The Wavelet Transform Radial Distribution Function (WT-RDF) offers a physics-based framework for…

Materials Science · Physics 2026-03-17 Deriyan Senjaya , Stephen Ekaputra Limantoro

A growing body of evidence suggests that neural networks employed in deep reinforcement learning (RL) gradually lose their plasticity, the ability to learn from new data; however, the analysis and mitigation of this phenomenon is hampered…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-10-05 Evgenii Nikishin , Junhyuk Oh , Georg Ostrovski , Clare Lyle , Razvan Pascanu , Will Dabney , André Barreto

Graph anomaly detection (GAD) has garnered increasing attention in recent years, yet remains challenging due to two key factors: (1) label scarcity stemming from the high cost of annotations and (2) homophily disparity at node and class…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-01-30 Yunhui Liu , Jiashun Cheng , Yiqing Lin , Qizhuo Xie , Jia Li , Fugee Tsung , Hongzhi Yin , Tao Zheng , Jianhua Zhao , Tieke He

Deep neural networks are easily fooled by small perturbations known as adversarial attacks. Adversarial Training (AT) is a technique that approximately solves a robust optimization problem to minimize the worst-case loss and is widely…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-03-28 Theodoros Tsiligkaridis , Jay Roberts

Face Super-Resolution (FSR) aims to recover high-resolution (HR) face images from low-resolution (LR) ones. Despite the progress made by convolutional neural networks in FSR, the results of existing approaches are not ideal due to their low…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-06-25 Hao Liu , Yang Yang , Yunxia Liu

Terrain, representing features of an earth surface, plays a crucial role in many applications such as simulations, route planning, analysis of surface dynamics, computer graphics-based games, entertainment, films, to name a few. With recent…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-10-06 Ashish Kubade , Diptiben Patel , Avinash Sharma , K. S. Rajan

Deep reinforcement learning agents have achieved state-of-the-art results by directly maximising cumulative reward. However, environments contain a much wider variety of possible training signals. In this paper, we introduce an agent that…

Cognitive science and psychology suggest that object-centric representations of complex scenes are a promising step towards enabling efficient abstract reasoning from low-level perceptual features. Yet, most deep reinforcement learning…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-02-28 Quentin Delfosse , Jannis Blüml , Bjarne Gregori , Sebastian Sztwiertnia , Kristian Kersting

Phase-field models have been widely used to investigate the phase transformation phenomena. However, it is difficult to solve the problems numerically due to their strong nonlinearities and higher-order terms. This work is devoted to…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2024-07-23 Gang Bao , Chang Ma , Yuxuan Gong

Reinforcement learning (RL) is attracting attention as an effective way to solve sequential optimization problems that involve high dimensional state/action space and stochastic uncertainties. Many such problems involve constraints…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-04-01 Haeun Yoo , Victor M. Zavala , Jay H. Lee

Neural network architectures have a large impact in machine learning. In reinforcement learning, network architectures have remained notably simple, as changes often lead to small gains in performance. This work introduces a novel encoder…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-05-26 Jacob E. Kooi , Zhao Yang , Vincent François-Lavet

Recent deep reinforcement learning (DRL) successes rely on end-to-end learning from fixed-size observational inputs (e.g. image, state-variables). However, many challenging and interesting problems in decision making involve observations or…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-06-08 Vince Jankovics , Michael Garcia Ortiz , Eduardo Alonso

Nonlinear system identification (NL-SI) has proven to be effective in obtaining accurate models for highly complex systems. In particular, recent encoder-based methods for artificial neural networks state-space (ANN-SS) models have achieved…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-08-21 Jan H. Hoekstra , Chris Verhoek , Roland Tóth , Maarten Schoukens

In recent years there is a growing interest in using deep representations for reinforcement learning. In this paper, we present a methodology and tools to analyze Deep Q-networks (DQNs) in a non-blind matter. Moreover, we propose a new…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2017-04-25 Tom Zahavy , Nir Ben Zrihem , Shie Mannor

In real-world applications with large state and action spaces, reinforcement learning (RL) typically employs function approximations to represent core components like the policies, value functions, and dynamics models. Although powerful…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-01-29 Chenxiao Gao , Haotian Sun , Na Li , Dale Schuurmans , Bo Dai

Continual reinforcement learning challenges agents to acquire new skills while retaining previously learned ones with the goal of improving performance in both past and future tasks. Most existing approaches rely on model-free methods with…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-05-19 Abdulaziz Alyahya , Abdallah Al Siyabi , Markus R. Ernst , Luke Yang , Levin Kuhlmann , Gideon Kowadlo