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Despite the empirical success of the deep Q network (DQN) reinforcement learning algorithm and its variants, DQN is still not well understood and it does not guarantee convergence. In this work, we show that DQN can indeed diverge and cease…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-05-04 Zhikang T. Wang , Masahito Ueda

Squared Wasserstein distance is a frequently used tool to measure discrepancy between probability distributions. This distance is typically computed between empirical measures of size $n$ from two underlying random samples. Unfortunately,…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2026-05-20 Peter Matthew Jacobs , Jeff M. Phillips

Learning accurate low-dimensional embeddings for a network is a crucial task as it facilitates many downstream network analytics tasks. For large networks, the trained embeddings often require a significant amount of space to store, making…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-03-22 Tao He , Lianli Gao , Jingkuan Song , Yuan-Fang Li

Deep Q-Learning is an important reinforcement learning algorithm, which involves training a deep neural network, called Deep Q-Network (DQN), to approximate the well-known Q-function. Although wildly successful under laboratory conditions,…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-04-13 Arunselvan Ramaswamy , Eyke Hüllermeier

Network slicing promises to provision diversified services with distinct requirements in one infrastructure. Deep reinforcement learning (e.g., deep $\mathcal{Q}$-learning, DQL) is assumed to be an appropriate algorithm to solve the…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2019-06-12 Chen Qi , Yuxiu Hua , Rongpeng Li , Zhifeng Zhao , Honggang Zhang

Deep Q-Networks (DQNs) estimate future returns by learning from transitions sampled from a replay buffer. However, the target updates in DQN often rely on next states generated by actions from past, potentially suboptimal, policy. As a…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-11-07 Lipeng Zu , Hansong Zhou , Xiaonan Zhang

We analyze the DQN reinforcement learning algorithm as a stochastic approximation scheme using the o.d.e. (for 'ordinary differential equation') approach and point out certain theoretical issues. We then propose a modified scheme called…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-05-05 K. E. Avrachenkov , V. S. Borkar , H. P. Dolhare , K. Patil

It is critical yet challenging for deep learning models to properly characterize uncertainty that is pervasive in real-world environments. Although a lot of efforts have been made, such as heteroscedastic neural networks (HNNs), little work…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-03-30 Peng Cui , Zhijie Deng , Wenbo Hu , Jun Zhu

Low-bit deep neural networks (DNNs) become critical for embedded applications due to their low storage requirement and computing efficiency. However, they suffer much from the non-negligible accuracy drop. This paper proposes the stochastic…

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We study quantum neural networks where the generated function is the expectation value of the sum of single-qubit observables across all qubits. In [Girardi \emph{et al.}, arXiv:2402.08726], it is proven that the probability distributions…

We are interested in the following two $\mathbb{R}^d$-valued stochastic differential equations (SDEs): \begin{gather*} d X_t=b(X_t)\,d t + \sigma\,d L_t, \quad X_0=x, %\label{BM-SDE} d Y_t=b(Y_t)\,d t + \sigma\,d B_t, \quad Y_0=y,…

Probability · Mathematics 2024-03-06 Changsong Deng , Rene L. Schilling , Lihu Xu

The approximation capabilities of Deep Q-Networks (DQNs) are commonly justified by general Universal Approximation Theorems (UATs) that do not leverage the intrinsic structural properties of the optimal Q-function, the solution to a Bellman…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-05-12 Qian Qi

Deep Q-Networks (DQN) is one of the most well-known methods of deep reinforcement learning, which uses deep learning to approximate the action-value function. Solving numerous Deep reinforcement learning challenges such as moving targets…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-08-18 S. Amirreza Badran , Mansoor Rezghi

The Wasserstein distance received a lot of attention recently in the community of machine learning, especially for its principled way of comparing distributions. It has found numerous applications in several hard problems, such as domain…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2017-10-23 Nicolas Courty , Rémi Flamary , Mélanie Ducoffe

Uncertainty quantification is a fundamental yet unsolved problem for deep learning. The Bayesian framework provides a principled way of uncertainty estimation but is often not scalable to modern deep neural nets (DNNs) that have a large…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-08-25 Lingkai Kong , Jimeng Sun , Chao Zhang

Routing in multi-hop wireless networks is a complex problem, especially in heterogeneous networks where multiple wireless communication technologies coexist. Reinforcement learning (RL) methods, such as Q-learning, have been introduced for…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-08-21 Brian Kim , Justin H. Kong , Terrence J. Moore , Fikadu T. Dagefu

We propose a new equilibrium enforcing method paired with a loss derived from the Wasserstein distance for training auto-encoder based Generative Adversarial Networks. This method balances the generator and discriminator during training.…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2017-06-02 David Berthelot , Thomas Schumm , Luke Metz

Tennis strategy optimization is a challenging sequential decision-making problem involving hierarchical scoring, stochastic outcomes, long-horizon credit assignment, physical fatigue, and adaptation to opponent skill. I present a…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-12-30 Vishnu Mohan

Neural Stochastic Differential Equations (NSDEs) model the drift and diffusion functions of a stochastic process as neural networks. While NSDEs are known to make accurate predictions, their uncertainty quantification properties have been…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-09-13 Andreas Look , Melih Kandemir , Barbara Rakitsch , Jan Peters

Developing efficient numerical algorithms for the solution of high dimensional random Partial Differential Equations (PDEs) has been a challenging task due to the well-known curse of dimensionality. We present a new solution framework for…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2019-10-17 Mohammad Amin Nabian , Hadi Meidani