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In this paper, we propose the Quantile Option Architecture (QUOTA) for exploration based on recent advances in distributional reinforcement learning (RL). In QUOTA, decision making is based on quantiles of a value distribution, not only the…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2018-11-09 Shangtong Zhang , Borislav Mavrin , Linglong Kong , Bo Liu , Hengshuai Yao

This paper addresses the problem of qubit routing in first-generation and other near-term quantum computers. In particular, it is asserted that the qubit routing problem can be formulated as a reinforcement learning (RL) problem, and that…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2019-01-29 Steven Herbert , Akash Sengupta

Deep reinforcement learning (DRL) is one of the most powerful tools for synthesizing complex robotic behaviors. But training DRL models is incredibly compute and memory intensive, requiring large training datasets and replay buffers to…

Robotics · Computer Science 2023-04-25 Lev Grossman , Brian Plancher

Quantum Reinforcement Learning (QRL) offers potential advantages over classical Reinforcement Learning, such as compact state space representation and faster convergence in certain scenarios. However, practical benefits require further…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2024-08-05 Michael Kölle , Daniel Seidl , Maximilian Zorn , Philipp Altmann , Jonas Stein , Thomas Gabor

The increasingly challenging task of maintaining power grid security requires innovative solutions. Novel approaches using reinforcement learning (RL) agents have been proposed to help grid operators navigate the massive decision space and…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-06-24 Benjamin M. Peter , Mert Korkali

Reinforcement learning (RL) provides a principled framework for decision-making in partially observable environments, which can be modeled as Markov decision processes and compactly represented through dynamic decision Bayesian networks.…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-07-25 Gilberto Cunha , Alexandra Ramôa , André Sequeira , Michael de Oliveira , Luís Barbosa

The scaling of quantum processors is currently limited by technical challenges such as decoherence and cross-talk. As the number of qubits grows, interference increases the computational noise. Distributed quantum computing addresses these…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-05-27 Víctor Carballo , Júlia López-Closa , Mario Martin

Reinforcement learning (RL) enables agents to learn optimal policies through environmental interaction. However, RL suffers from reduced learning efficiency due to the curse of dimensionality in high-dimensional spaces. Quantum…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-07-02 Seok Bin Son , Joongheon Kim

Executing workflows on volunteer computing resources where individual tasks may be forced to relinquish their resource for the resource's primary use leads to unpredictability and often significantly increases execution time. Task…

Performance · Computer Science 2022-09-28 Andrew Stephen McGough , Matthew Forshaw

Machine learning (ML) has become an attractive tool in information processing, however few ML algorithms have been successfully applied in the quantum domain. We show here how classical reinforcement learning (RL) could be used as a tool…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2020-06-02 Jelena Mackeprang , Durga Bhaktavatsala Rao Dasari , Jörg Wrachtrup

Robotic surgery is a rapidly developing field that can greatly benefit from the automation of surgical tasks. However, training techniques such as Reinforcement Learning (RL) require a high number of task repetitions, which are generally…

Robotics · Computer Science 2025-06-04 Diego Dall'Alba , Michał Naskręt , Sabina Kaminska , Przemysław Korzeniowski

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

In goal-reaching reinforcement learning (RL), the optimal value function has a particular geometry, called quasimetric structure. This paper introduces Quasimetric Reinforcement Learning (QRL), a new RL method that utilizes quasimetric…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-11-28 Tongzhou Wang , Antonio Torralba , Phillip Isola , Amy Zhang

Quantum reinforcement learning (QRL) models augment classical reinforcement learning schemes with quantum-enhanced kernels. Different proposals on how to construct such models empirically show a promising performance. In particular, these…

We propose a computationally efficient approach to safe reinforcement learning (RL) for frequency regulation in power systems with high levels of variable renewable energy resources. The approach draws on set-theoretic control techniques to…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-03-24 Daniel Tabas , Baosen Zhang

The promotion of large-scale applications of reinforcement learning (RL) requires efficient training computation. While existing parallel RL frameworks encompass a variety of RL algorithms and parallelization techniques, the excessively…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-12-12 Jing Hou , Guang Chen , Ruiqi Zhang , Zhijun Li , Shangding Gu , Changjun Jiang

Reinforcement learning (RL) has shown great effectiveness in quadrotor control, enabling specialized policies to develop even human-champion-level performance in single-task scenarios. However, these specialized policies often struggle with…

Robotics · Computer Science 2024-12-18 Jiaxu Xing , Ismail Geles , Yunlong Song , Elie Aljalbout , Davide Scaramuzza

A reinforcement learning (RL) framework is introduced for the efficient synthesis of quantum circuits that generate specified target quantum states from a fixed initial state, addressing a central challenge in both the Noisy…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-02-18 Sara Giordano , Kornikar Sen , Miguel A. Martin-Delgado

Fine-tuning large diffusion models for custom applications demands substantial power and time, which poses significant challenges for efficient implementation on mobile devices. In this paper, we develop a novel training accelerator…

Graphics · Computer Science 2025-04-14 Jinming Lu , Minghao She , Wendong Mao , Zhongfeng Wang

Reinforcement learning (RL) has emerged as a critical paradigm for post-training Vision-Language-Action (VLA) models, enabling embodied agents to adapt and improve through environmental interaction. However, existing RL frameworks for VLAs…