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The endeavor of artificial intelligence (AI) is to design autonomous agents capable of achieving complex tasks. Namely, reinforcement learning (RL) proposes a theoretical background to learn optimal behaviors. In practice, RL algorithms…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-09-27 Firas Jarboui , Ahmed Akakzia

This work proposes a control-informed reinforcement learning (CIRL) framework that integrates proportional-integral-derivative (PID) control components into the architecture of deep reinforcement learning (RL) policies. The proposed…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-08-28 Maximilian Bloor , Akhil Ahmed , Niki Kotecha , Mehmet Mercangöz , Calvin Tsay , Ehecactl Antonio Del Rio Chanona

Despite some successful applications of goal-driven navigation, existing deep reinforcement learning (DRL)-based approaches notoriously suffers from poor data efficiency issue. One of the reasons is that the goal information is decoupled…

Robotics · Computer Science 2023-11-09 Wenhui Huang , Yanxin Zhou , Xiangkun He , Chen Lv

We introduce a physics-informed neural framework for modeling static and time-dependent galactic gravitational potentials. The method combines data-driven learning with embedded physical constraints to capture complex, small-scale features…

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A promising paradigm for offline reinforcement learning (RL) is to constrain the learned policy to stay close to the dataset behaviors, known as policy constraint offline RL. However, existing works heavily rely on the purity of the data,…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-10-20 Chengqian Gao , Ke Xu , Liu Liu , Deheng Ye , Peilin Zhao , Zhiqiang Xu

Two main challenges in Reinforcement Learning (RL) are designing appropriate reward functions and ensuring the safety of the learned policy. To address these challenges, we present a theoretical framework for Inverse Reinforcement Learning…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-06-02 Andreas Schlaginhaufen , Maryam Kamgarpour

Cyber-physical systems (CPS) require the joint optimization of discrete cyber actions and continuous physical parameters under stringent safety logic constraints. However, existing hierarchical approaches often compromise global optimality,…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-11-04 Guangxi Wan , Peng Zeng , Xiaoting Dong , Chunhe Song , Shijie Cui , Dong Li , Qingwei Dong , Yiyang Liu , Hongfei Bai

Offline inverse reinforcement learning (Offline IRL) aims to recover the structure of rewards and environment dynamics that underlie observed actions in a fixed, finite set of demonstrations from an expert agent. Accurate models of…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-03-01 Siliang Zeng , Chenliang Li , Alfredo Garcia , Mingyi Hong

Most offline reinforcement learning (RL) methods suffer from the trade-off between improving the policy to surpass the behavior policy and constraining the policy to limit the deviation from the behavior policy as computing $Q$-values using…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-03-29 Haoran Xu , Li Jiang , Jianxiong Li , Zhuoran Yang , Zhaoran Wang , Victor Wai Kin Chan , Xianyuan Zhan

Horizon reduction is a common design strategy in offline reinforcement learning (RL), used to mitigate long-horizon credit assignment, improve stability, and enable scalable learning through truncated rollouts, windowed training, or…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-01-06 Uday Kumar Nidadala , Venkata Bhumika Guthi

A primary challenge of physics-informed machine learning (PIML) is its generalization beyond the training domain, especially when dealing with complex physical problems represented by partial differential equations (PDEs). This paper aims…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-12-19 Taniya Kapoor , Abhishek Chandra , Daniel M. Tartakovsky , Hongrui Wang , Alfredo Nunez , Rolf Dollevoet

Offline goal-conditioned RL (GCRL) offers a way to train general-purpose agents from fully offline datasets. In addition to being conservative within the dataset, the generalization ability to achieve unseen goals is another fundamental…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-06-05 Rui Yang , Yong Lin , Xiaoteng Ma , Hao Hu , Chongjie Zhang , Tong Zhang

Offline reinforcement learning (RL) defines a sample-efficient learning paradigm, where a policy is learned from static and previously collected datasets without additional interaction with the environment. The major obstacle to offline RL…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-11-16 Yunfan Zhou , Xijun Li , Qingyu Qu

Deep reinforcement learning (DRL) has been demonstrated to be effective for several complex decision-making applications such as autonomous driving and robotics. However, DRL is notoriously limited by its high sample complexity and its lack…

Robotics · Computer Science 2022-05-19 Raphael Chekroun , Marin Toromanoff , Sascha Hornauer , Fabien Moutarde

Goal-conditioned hierarchical reinforcement learning (HRL) decomposes complex reaching tasks into a sequence of simple subgoal-conditioned tasks, showing significant promise for addressing long-horizon planning in large-scale environments.…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-04-15 Haoran Wang , Yaoru Sun , Zeshen Tang , Haibo Shi , Chenyuan Jiao

A limitation of model-based reinforcement learning (MBRL) is the exploitation of errors in the learned models. Black-box models can fit complex dynamics with high fidelity, but their behavior is undefined outside of the data…

Robotics · Computer Science 2020-11-04 Michael Lutter , Johannes Silberbauer , Joe Watson , Jan Peters

Effectively leveraging large, previously collected datasets in reinforcement learning (RL) is a key challenge for large-scale real-world applications. Offline RL algorithms promise to learn effective policies from previously-collected,…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-08-20 Aviral Kumar , Aurick Zhou , George Tucker , Sergey Levine

Contrastive Reinforcement Learning (CRL) provides a promising framework for extracting useful structured representations from unlabeled interactions. By pulling together state-action pairs and their corresponding future states, while…

Robotics · Computer Science 2025-07-23 Arsh Tangri , Nichols Crawford Taylor , Haojie Huang , Robert Platt

The integration of graphs with Goal-conditioned Hierarchical Reinforcement Learning (GCHRL) has recently gained attention, as intermediate goals (subgoals) can be effectively sampled from graphs that naturally represent the overall task…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-11-17 Shuyuan Zhang , Zihan Wang , Xiao-Wen Chang , Doina Precup