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Learning from visual observations is a fundamental yet challenging problem in Reinforcement Learning (RL). Although algorithmic advances combined with convolutional neural networks have proved to be a recipe for success, current methods are…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-11-06 Michael Laskin , Kimin Lee , Adam Stooke , Lerrel Pinto , Pieter Abbeel , Aravind Srinivas

In reinforcement learning (RL), Q-learning is a fundamental algorithm whose convergence is guaranteed in the tabular setting. However, this convergence guarantee does not hold under linear function approximation. To overcome this…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-02-04 Hyukjun Yang , Han-Dong Lim , Donghwan Lee

Neural networks allow Q-learning reinforcement learning agents such as deep Q-networks (DQN) to approximate complex mappings from state spaces to value functions. However, this also brings drawbacks when compared to other function…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2018-06-21 Jack Shannon , Marek Grzes

While agents trained by Reinforcement Learning (RL) can solve increasingly challenging tasks directly from visual observations, generalizing learned skills to novel environments remains very challenging. Extensive use of data augmentation…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-12-10 Nicklas Hansen , Hao Su , Xiaolong Wang

Reinforcement Learning (RL) has recently been incorporated into diffusion models, e.g., tasks such as text-to-image. However, directly applying existing RL methods to diffusion-based image restoration models is suboptimal, as the objective…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-11-04 Xiaogang Xu , Ruihang Chu , Jian Wang , Kun Zhou , Wenjie Shu , Harry Yang , Ser-Nam Lim , Hao Chen , Liang Lin

Reinforcement learning (RL) is one of the most practical ways to learn from real-life use-cases. Motivated from the cognitive methods used by humans makes it a widely acceptable strategy in the field of artificial intelligence. Most of the…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2026-04-14 Abhishek Sawaika , Samuel Yen-Chi Chen , Udaya Parampalli , Rajkumar Buyya

Reinforcement learning (RL) methods with a high replay ratio (RR) and regularization have gained interest due to their superior sample efficiency. However, these methods have mainly been developed for dense-reward tasks. In this paper, we…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-12-12 Takuya Hiraoka

Reinforcement learning is concerned with identifying reward-maximizing behaviour policies in environments that are initially unknown. State-of-the-art reinforcement learning approaches, such as deep Q-networks, are model-free and learn to…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2017-08-18 Felix Leibfried , Nate Kushman , Katja Hofmann

Recurrent off-policy deep reinforcement learning models achieve state-of-the-art performance but are often sidelined due to their high computational demands. In response, we introduce RISE (Recurrent Integration via Simplified Encodings), a…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-12-24 Tyler Clark , Christine Evers , Jonathon Hare

Reinforcement Learning can be applied to various tasks, and environments. Many of these environments have a similar shared structure, which can be exploited to improve RL performance on other tasks. Transfer learning can be used to take…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-08-02 Ashrya Agrawal , Priyanshi Shah , Sourabh Prakash

Sample efficiency and performance in the offline setting have emerged as significant challenges of deep reinforcement learning. We introduce Q-Value Weighted Regression (QWR), a simple RL algorithm that excels in these aspects. QWR is an…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-02-16 Piotr Kozakowski , Łukasz Kaiser , Henryk Michalewski , Afroz Mohiuddin , Katarzyna Kańska

Distributed Distributional DrQ is a model-free and off-policy RL algorithm for continuous control tasks based on the state and observation of the agent, which is an actor-critic method with the data-augmentation and the distributional…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-04-17 Zehao Zhou

We methodologically address the problem of Q-value overestimation in deep reinforcement learning to handle high-dimensional state spaces efficiently. By adapting concepts from information theory, we introduce an intrinsic penalty signal…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2018-11-21 Felix Leibfried , Jordi Grau-Moya , Haitham Bou-Ammar

We leverage the fast physics simulator, MuJoCo to run tasks in a continuous control environment and reveal details like the observation space, action space, rewards, etc. for each task. We benchmark value-based methods for continuous…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-07-24 Vaddadi Sai Rahul , Debajyoti Chakraborty

Reinforcement learning (RL) for continuous control often requires large amounts of online interaction data. Value-based RL methods can mitigate this burden by offering relatively high sample efficiency. Some studies further enhance sample…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-05-30 Jijia Liu , Feng Gao , Qingmin Liao , Chao Yu , Yu Wang

The deep reinforcement learning method usually requires a large number of training images and executing actions to obtain sufficient results. When it is extended a real-task in the real environment with an actual robot, the method will be…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-06-05 Daiki Kimura

Using a high Update-To-Data (UTD) ratio, model-based methods have recently achieved much higher sample efficiency than previous model-free methods for continuous-action DRL benchmarks. In this paper, we introduce a simple model-free…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-03-19 Xinyue Chen , Che Wang , Zijian Zhou , Keith Ross

Double Q-learning is a classical control algorithm that mitigates the maximization bias of Q-learning. To do so, it explicitly trains two independent action-value functions and uses them to decouple action-selection and action-evaluation…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-05-18 Prabhat Nagarajan , Martha White , Marlos C. Machado

Sample efficiency is a crucial problem in deep reinforcement learning. Recent algorithms, such as REDQ and DroQ, found a way to improve the sample efficiency by increasing the update-to-data (UTD) ratio to 20 gradient update steps on the…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-03-26 Aditya Bhatt , Daniel Palenicek , Boris Belousov , Max Argus , Artemij Amiranashvili , Thomas Brox , Jan Peters

The use of quadratic discriminant analysis (QDA) or its regularized version (R-QDA) for classification is often not recommended, due to its well-acknowledged high sensitivity to the estimation noise of the covariance matrix. This becomes…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2020-09-15 Amine Bejaoui , Khalil Elkhalil , Abla Kammoun , Mohamed Slim Alouni , Tarek Al-Naffouri