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Q-learning is a popular Reinforcement Learning (RL) algorithm which is widely used in practice with function approximation (Mnih et al., 2015). In contrast, existing theoretical results are pessimistic about Q-learning. For example, (Baird,…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-10-20 Naman Agarwal , Syomantak Chaudhuri , Prateek Jain , Dheeraj Nagaraj , Praneeth Netrapalli

This paper studies reduced-order modeling of dynamic networks with strongly connected topology. Given a graph clustering of an original complex network, we construct a quotient graph with less number of vertices, where the edge weights are…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2020-03-10 Xiaodong Cheng , Lanlin Yu , Dingchao Ren , Jacquelien M. A. Scherpen

Network quantification (NQ) is the problem of estimating the proportions of nodes belonging to each class in subsets of unlabelled graph nodes. When prior probability shift is at play, this task cannot be effectively addressed by first…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-11-14 Alessio Micheli , Alejandro Moreo , Marco Podda , Fabrizio Sebastiani , William Simoni , Domenico Tortorella

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

An important tool in analyzing complex social and information networks is s-t simple path counting, which is known to be #P-complete. In this paper, we study efficient s-t simple path counting in directed graphs. For a given pair of…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2022-07-01 Mostafa Haghir Chehreghani

This correspondence considers the resource allocation problem in wireless interference channel (IC) under link outage constraints. Since the optimization problem is non-convex in nature, existing approaches to find the optimal power…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2022-03-08 Saniul Alam , Sadia Islam , Muhammad R. A. Khandaker , Risala T. Khan , Faisal Tariq , Apriana Toding

This paper addresses the use of Big Data and machine learning based analytics to the real-time management of Internet scale Quality-of-Service Route Optimisation with the help of an overlay network. Based on the collection of large amounts…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2015-12-29 Olivier Brun , Lan Wang , Erol Gelenbe

Machine Learning algorithms and Neural Networks are widely applied to many different areas such as stock market prediction, face recognition and population analysis. This paper will introduce a strategy based on the classic Deep…

Portfolio Management · Quantitative Finance 2020-03-16 Ziming Gao , Yuan Gao , Yi Hu , Zhengyong Jiang , Jionglong Su

We consider a group of computation units trying to cooperatively solve a distributed optimization problem with shared linear equality and inequality constraints. Assuming that the computation units are communicating over a network whose…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2019-06-06 Simon Michalowsky , Bahman Gharesifard , Christian Ebenbauer

We propose an optimal algorithm for solving the longest path problem in undirected weighted graphs. By using graph partitioning and dynamic programming, we obtain an algorithm that is significantly faster than other state-of-the-art…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2017-02-15 Tomas Balyo , Kai Fieger , Christian Schulz

The problem of efficiently delivering data within networks is very important nowadays, especially in the context of the large volumes of data which are being produced each year and of the increased data access needs of the users. Efficient…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2009-12-07 Mugurel Ionut Andreica , Nicolae Tapus

Data-driven algorithm design is a paradigm that uses statistical and machine learning techniques to select from a class of algorithms for a computational problem an algorithm that has the best expected performance with respect to some…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-06-05 Hongyu Cheng , Sammy Khalife , Barbara Fiedorowicz , Amitabh Basu

In Reinforcement Learning the Q-learning algorithm provably converges to the optimal solution. However, as others have demonstrated, Q-learning can also overestimate the values and thereby spend too long exploring unhelpful states. Double…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-03-16 David Barber

The emerging paradigm of distributed quantum computing promises a potential solution to scaling quantum computing to currently unfeasible dimensions. While this approach itself is still in its infancy, and many obstacles must still be…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-01-26 Leo Sünkel , Jonas Stein , Maximilian Zorn , Thomas Gabor , Claudia Linnhoff-Popien

Corporations today collect data at an unprecedented and accelerating scale, making the need to run queries on large datasets increasingly important. Technologies such as columnar block-based data organization and compression have become…

Consider the following distributed optimization scenario. A worker has access to training data that it uses to compute the gradients while a server decides when to stop iterative computation based on its target accuracy or delay…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-04-28 Chung-Yi Lin , Victoria Kostina , Babak Hassibi

Q-learning, which seeks to learn the optimal Q-function of a Markov decision process (MDP) in a model-free fashion, lies at the heart of reinforcement learning. When it comes to the synchronous setting (such that independent samples for all…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2025-03-18 Gen Li , Changxiao Cai , Yuxin Chen , Yuting Wei , Yuejie Chi

Dynamic decision-making under distributional shifts is of fundamental interest in theory and applications of reinforcement learning: The distribution of the environment in which the data is collected can differ from that of the environment…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-09-05 Shengbo Wang , Nian Si , Jose Blanchet , Zhengyuan Zhou

We consider a decentralized stochastic learning problem where data points are distributed among computing nodes communicating over a directed graph. As the model size gets large, decentralized learning faces a major bottleneck that is the…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2024-12-23 Hossein Taheri , Aryan Mokhtari , Hamed Hassani , Ramtin Pedarsani

We give efficient deterministic algorithms for converting randomized query algorithms into deterministic ones. We first give an algorithm that takes as input a randomized $q$-query algorithm $R$ with description length $N$ and a parameter…

Computational Complexity · Computer Science 2019-12-09 Guy Blanc , Jane Lange , Li-Yang Tan