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In the past few years, DRL has become a valuable solution to automatically learn efficient resource management strategies in complex networks with time-varying statistics. However, the increased complexity of 5G and Beyond networks requires…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2023-06-07 Seyyidahmed Lahmer , Federico Mason , Federico Chiariotti , Andrea Zanella

Deep reinforcement learning (DRL) has become a popular approach in traffic signal control (TSC) due to its ability to learn adaptive policies from complex traffic environments. Within DRL-based TSC methods, two primary control paradigms are…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-09-04 Hankang Gu , Yuli Zhang , Chengming Wang , Ruiyuan Jiang , Ziheng Qiao , Pengfei Fan , Dongyao Jia

Feature transformation enhances downstream task performance by generating informative features through mathematical feature crossing. Despite the advancements in deep learning, feature transformation remains essential for structured data,…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-03-02 Tao Zhe , Huazhen Fang , Kunpeng Liu , Qian Lou , Tamzidul Hoque , Dongjie Wang

Efficient resource (re-)allocation is a critical challenge in optimizing productivity and sustainability within multi-party supply networks. In this work, we introduce the \textsc{Red-Blue Reinforcement} (R-BR) problem, where a service…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2026-02-24 Arun Kumar Das , Sandip Das , Sweta Das , Foivos Fioravantes , Nikolaos Melissinos

As one of the key communication scenarios in the 5th and also the 6th generation (6G) of mobile communication networks, ultra-reliable and low-latency communications (URLLC) will be central for the development of various emerging…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-01-21 Changyang She , Chengjian Sun , Zhouyou Gu , Yonghui Li , Chenyang Yang , H. Vincent Poor , Branka Vucetic

Reinforcement learning (RL) holds significant promise for adaptive traffic signal control. While existing RL-based methods demonstrate effectiveness in reducing vehicular congestion, their predominant focus on vehicle-centric optimization…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-07-24 Bibek Poudel , Xuan Wang , Weizi Li , Lei Zhu , Kevin Heaslip

In this paper, we deal with the problem of jointly determining the optimal coding strategy and the scheduling decisions when receivers obtain layered data from multiple servers. The layered data is encoded by means of Prioritized Random…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2016-11-18 Nikolaos Thomos , Eymen Kurdoglu , Pascal Frossard , Mihaela Van der Schaar

Multi-agent Deep Reinforcement Learning (MADRL) based traffic signal control becomes a popular research topic in recent years. To alleviate the scalability issue of completely centralized RL techniques and the non-stationarity issue of…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2023-09-08 Hankang Gu , Shangbo Wang , Xiaoguang Ma , Dongyao Jia , Guoqiang Mao , Eng Gee Lim , Cheuk Pong Ryan Wong

With the rapid development of deep learning, deep reinforcement learning (DRL) began to appear in the field of resource scheduling in recent years. Based on the previous research on DRL in the literature, we introduce online resource…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2018-06-22 Yufei Ye , Xiaoqin Ren , Jin Wang , Lingxiao Xu , Wenxia Guo , Wenqiang Huang , Wenhong Tian

The Maximum k-plex Problem is an important combinatorial optimization problem with increasingly wide applications. Due to its exponential time complexity, many heuristic methods have been proposed which can return a good-quality solution in…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2019-06-07 Peilin Chen , Hai Wan , Shaowei Cai , Weilin Luo , Jia Li

We introduce Heterogeneous Agent Collaborative Reinforcement Learning (HACRL), a new Reinforcement Learning from Verifiable Reward (RLVR) problem that addresses the inefficiencies of isolated multi-agent on-policy optimization. HACRL…

Deep reinforcement learning (DRL) has been used to learn effective heuristics for solving complex combinatorial optimisation problem via policy networks and have demonstrated promising performance. Existing works have focused on solving…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-12-25 Nasrin Sultana , Jeffrey Chan , A. K. Qin , Tabinda Sarwar

Solving robotic navigation tasks via reinforcement learning (RL) is challenging due to their sparse reward and long decision horizon nature. However, in many navigation tasks, high-level (HL) task representations, like a rough floor plan,…

Robotics · Computer Science 2021-11-08 Jan Wöhlke , Felix Schmitt , Herke van Hoof

Autonomous mobile robots operating in complex, dynamic environments face the dual challenge of navigating large-scale, structurally diverse spaces with static obstacles while safely interacting with various moving agents. Traditional…

Robotics · Computer Science 2026-01-01 Yury Kolomeytsev , Dmitry Golembiovsky

The complex transmission mechanism of cross-packet hybrid automatic repeat request (XP-HARQ) hinders its optimal system design. To overcome this difficulty, this letter attempts to use the deep reinforcement learning (DRL) to solve the rate…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2023-08-07 Da Wu , Jiahui Feng , Zheng Shi , Hongjiang Lei , Guanghua Yang , Shaodan Ma

While federated learning (FL) improves the generalization of end-to-end autonomous driving by model aggregation, the conventional single-hop FL (SFL) suffers from slow convergence rate due to long-range communications among vehicles and…

Robotics · Computer Science 2024-05-09 Wei-Bin Kou , Shuai Wang , Guangxu Zhu , Bin Luo , Yingxian Chen , Derrick Wing Kwan Ng , Yik-Chung Wu

Collaborative edge computing uses edge nodes in different locations to execute tasks, necessitating dynamic task offloading decisions to maintain low latency and high reliability, especially under unpredictable node failures. Although deep…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2026-05-08 Hao Guo , Kaixiang Xv , Ziwu Ge , Lei Yang

High Performance Computing (HPC) systems are used across a wide range of disciplines for both large and complex computations. HPC systems often receive many thousands of computational tasks at a time, colloquially referred to as jobs. These…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2024-04-16 Elliot Kolker-Hicks , Di Zhang , Dong Dai

In the last decade, Reinforcement Learning (RL) has achieved remarkable success in the control and decision-making of complex dynamical systems. However, most RL algorithms rely on the Markov Decision Process assumption, which is violated…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2026-02-03 Armando Alves Neto

Efficient data transfers over high-speed, long-distance shared networks require proper utilization of available network bandwidth. Using parallel TCP streams enables an application to utilize network parallelism and can improve transfer…

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