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We present the first massively distributed architecture for deep reinforcement learning. This architecture uses four main components: parallel actors that generate new behaviour; parallel learners that are trained from stored experience; a…

Reinforcement Learning (RL) has opened up new opportunities to enhance existing smart systems that generally include a complex decision-making process. However, modern RL algorithms, e.g., Deep Q-Networks (DQN), are based on deep neural…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-06-22 Yang Ni , Danny Abraham , Mariam Issa , Yeseong Kim , Pietro Mercati , Mohsen Imani

Despite numerous successes in Deep Reinforcement Learning (DRL), the learned policies are not interpretable. Moreover, since DRL does not exploit symbolic relational representations, it has difficulties in coping with structural changes in…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2023-07-17 Rishi Hazra , Luc De Raedt

The operation of future 6th-generation (6G) mobile networks will increasingly rely on the ability of deep reinforcement learning (DRL) to optimize network decisions in real-time. DRL yields demonstrated efficacy in various resource…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2026-01-30 Abhishek Duttagupta , MohammadErfan Jabbari , Claudio Fiandrino , Marco Fiore , Joerg Widmer

This paper presents a Discriminative Deep Dyna-Q (D3Q) approach to improving the effectiveness and robustness of Deep Dyna-Q (DDQ), a recently proposed framework that extends the Dyna-Q algorithm to integrate planning for task-completion…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2018-09-07 Shang-Yu Su , Xiujun Li , Jianfeng Gao , Jingjing Liu , Yun-Nung Chen

One of the major challenges in Deep Reinforcement Learning for control is the need for extensive training to learn the policy. Motivated by this, we present the design of the Control-Tutored Deep Q-Networks (CT-DQN) algorithm, a Deep…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-12-05 Francesco De Lellis , Marco Coraggio , Giovanni Russo , Mirco Musolesi , Mario di Bernardo

Conventional deep reinforcement learning methods are sample-inefficient and usually require a large number of training trials before convergence. Since such methods operate on an unconstrained action set, they can lead to useless actions. A…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2021-03-04 Daiki Kimura , Subhajit Chaudhury , Akifumi Wachi , Ryosuke Kohita , Asim Munawar , Michiaki Tatsubori , Alexander Gray

Deep reinforcement learning techniques have demonstrated superior performance in a wide variety of environments. As improvements in training algorithms continue at a brisk pace, theoretical or empirical studies on understanding what these…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2018-11-16 Raghuram Mandyam Annasamy , Katia Sycara

Deep reinforcement learning (RL) models, despite their efficiency in learning an optimal policy in static environments, easily loses previously learned knowledge (i.e., catastrophic forgetting). It leads RL models to poor performance in…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-09-08 Wonseo Jang , Dongjae Kim

Learning how to act when there are many available actions in each state is a challenging task for Reinforcement Learning (RL) agents, especially when many of the actions are redundant or irrelevant. In such cases, it is sometimes easier to…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2019-02-26 Tom Zahavy , Matan Haroush , Nadav Merlis , Daniel J. Mankowitz , Shie Mannor

We propose Tabular Q-Learning (TabQL), a reinforcement learning framework that replaces the conventional parametric Q-network in Deep Q-Learning (DQN) with a tabular foundation model endowed with in-context learning capabilities. The key…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-05-20 Qisai Liu , Zhanhong Jiang , Timilehin Ayanlade , Ashutosh Kumar Nirala , Yang Li , Aditya Balu , Soumik Sarkar

In deep reinforcement learning (RL), adversarial attacks can trick an agent into unwanted states and disrupt training. We propose a system called Robust Student-DQN (RS-DQN), which permits online robustness training alongside Q networks,…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2019-11-25 Marc Fischer , Matthew Mirman , Steven Stalder , Martin Vechev

Financial market prediction and optimal trading strategy development remain challenging due to market complexity and volatility. Our research in quantum finance and reinforcement learning for decision-making demonstrates the approach of…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-01-24 Siddhant Dutta , Nouhaila Innan , Alberto Marchisio , Sadok Ben Yahia , Muhammad Shafique

Using deep neural nets as function approximator for reinforcement learning tasks have recently been shown to be very powerful for solving problems approaching real-world complexity. Using these results as a benchmark, we discuss the role…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2016-01-21 Vincent François-Lavet , Raphael Fonteneau , Damien Ernst

In this paper, dynamic non-cooperative coexistence between a cognitive pulsed radar and a nearby communications system is addressed by applying nonlinear value function approximation via deep reinforcement learning (Deep RL) to develop a…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-08-28 Charles E. Thornton , Mark A. Kozy , R. Michael Buehrer , Anthony F. Martone , Kelly D. Sherbondy

This paper presents an end-to-end framework for task-oriented dialog systems using a variant of Deep Recurrent Q-Networks (DRQN). The model is able to interface with a relational database and jointly learn policies for both language…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2016-09-19 Tiancheng Zhao , Maxine Eskenazi

Reinforcement Learning (RL) is a well-established framework for sequential decision-making in complex environments. However, state-of-the-art Deep RL (DRL) algorithms typically require large training datasets and often struggle to…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2026-04-13 Celeste Veronese , Alessandro Farinelli , Daniele Meli

We propose a distributed deep learning model to successfully learn control policies directly from high-dimensional sensory input using reinforcement learning. The model is based on the deep Q-network, a convolutional neural network trained…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2015-10-16 Hao Yi Ong , Kevin Chavez , Augustus Hong

The deep Q-network (DQN) and return-based reinforcement learning are two promising algorithms proposed in recent years. DQN brings advances to complex sequential decision problems, while return-based algorithms have advantages in making use…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2019-12-02 Wenjia Meng , Qian Zheng , Long Yang , Pengfei Li , Gang Pan

Over the past decade, remarkable progress has been made in adopting deep neural networks to enhance the performance of conventional reinforcement learning. A notable milestone was the development of Deep Q-Networks (DQN), which achieved…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-07-14 Klinsmann Agyei , Pouria Sarhadi , Daniel Polani