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Reinforcement learning (RL) is an effective framework for solving sequential decision-making tasks. However, applying RL methods in medical care settings is challenging in part due to heterogeneity in treatment response among patients. Some…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-05-12 Aishwarya Mandyam , Andrew Jones , Jiayu Yao , Krzysztof Laudanski , Barbara Engelhardt

It is known that reinforcement learning (RL) is data-hungry. To improve sample-efficiency of RL, it has been proposed that the learning algorithm utilize data from 'approximately similar' processes. However, since the process models are…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-11-24 Vinay Kanakeri , Shivam Bajaj , Ashwin Verma , Vijay Gupta , Aritra Mitra

We propose training fitted Q-iteration with log-loss (FQI-log) for batch reinforcement learning (RL). We show that the number of samples needed to learn a near-optimal policy with FQI-log scales with the accumulated cost of the optimal…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-08-02 Alex Ayoub , Kaiwen Wang , Vincent Liu , Samuel Robertson , James McInerney , Dawen Liang , Nathan Kallus , Csaba Szepesvári

In this study, we consider the application of max-plus-linear approximators for Q-function in offline reinforcement learning of discounted Markov decision processes. In particular, we incorporate these approximators to propose novel fitted…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2025-03-11 Y. Liu , M. A. S. Kolarijani

Offline Reinforcement Learning (RL) focuses on learning policies solely from a batch of previously collected data. offering the potential to leverage such datasets effectively without the need for costly or risky active exploration. While…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-06-06 Riccardo Zamboni , Enrico Brunetti , Marcello Restelli

We study offline multitask reinforcement learning in settings where multiple tasks share a low-rank representation of their action-value functions. In this regime, a learner is provided with fixed datasets collected from several related…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-04-28 Kausthubh Manda , Raghuram Bharadwaj Diddigi

We formulate an efficient approximation for multi-agent batch reinforcement learning, the approximated multi-agent fitted Q iteration (AMAFQI). We present a detailed derivation of our approach. We propose an iterative policy search and show…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-04-06 Antoine Lesage-Landry , Duncan S. Callaway

While reinforcement learning (RL) promises to revolutionize the control of complex nonlinear robotic systems, a profound gap persists between the heuristic success of model-free off-policy deep RL and the underlying theory, which remains…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-05-08 Manuel Haussmann , Mustafa Mert Çelikok , Melih Kandemir

Motivated by the episodic version of the classical inventory control problem, we propose a new Q-learning-based algorithm, Elimination-Based Half-Q-Learning (HQL), that enjoys improved efficiency over existing algorithms for a wide variety…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-10-06 Xiao-Yue Gong , David Simchi-Levi

We address the problem of federated learning (FL) where users are distributed and partitioned into clusters. This setup captures settings where different groups of users have their own objectives (learning tasks) but by aggregating their…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2021-06-10 Avishek Ghosh , Jichan Chung , Dong Yin , Kannan Ramchandran

Human decision-making often involves combining similar states into categories and reasoning at the level of the categories rather than the actual states. Guided by this intuition, we propose a novel method for clustering state features in…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-11-15 Liang Zhang , Justin Lieffers , Adarsh Pyarelal

Many reinforcement learning (RL) applications have combinatorial action spaces, where each action is a composition of sub-actions. A standard RL approach ignores this inherent factorization structure, resulting in a potential failure to…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-05-04 Shengpu Tang , Maggie Makar , Michael W. Sjoding , Finale Doshi-Velez , Jenna Wiens

Personalization is very powerful in improving the effectiveness of health interventions. Reinforcement learning (RL) algorithms are suitable for learning these tailored interventions from sequential data collected about individuals.…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2020-05-22 Ali el Hassouni , Mark Hoogendoorn , Martijn van Otterlo , A. E. Eiben , Vesa Muhonen , Eduardo Barbaro

Reinforcement learning algorithms have been widely used for decision-making tasks in various domains. However, the performance of these algorithms can be impacted by high variance and instability, particularly in environments with noise or…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2026-03-31 Saunak Kumar Panda , Tong Li , Ruiqi Liu , Yisha Xiang

Reinforcement learning has recently gained unprecedented popularity, yet it still grapples with sample inefficiency. Addressing this challenge, federated reinforcement learning (FedRL) has emerged, wherein agents collaboratively learn a…

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Deep Q Network (DQN) firstly kicked the door of deep reinforcement learning (DRL) via combining deep learning (DL) with reinforcement learning (RL), which has noticed that the distribution of the acquired data would change during the…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-01-11 Jiajun Fan , Changnan Xiao , Yue Huang

The optimal implementation of federated learning (FL) in practical edge computing systems has been an outstanding problem. In this paper, we propose an optimization-based quantized FL algorithm, which can appropriately fit a general edge…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-11-21 Yangchen Li , Ying Cui , Vincent Lau

The core challenge of offline reinforcement learning (RL) is dealing with the (potentially catastrophic) extrapolation error induced by the distribution shift between the history dataset and the desired policy. A large portion of prior work…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-07-27 Laixi Shi , Robert Dadashi , Yuejie Chi , Pablo Samuel Castro , Matthieu Geist

We propose Q-Policy, a hybrid quantum-classical reinforcement learning (RL) framework that mathematically accelerates policy evaluation and optimization by exploiting quantum computing primitives. Q-Policy encodes value functions in quantum…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-06-10 Kalyan Cherukuri , Aarav Lala , Yash Yardi

We consider the problem of personalized federated learning when there are known cluster structures within users. An intuitive approach would be to regularize the parameters so that users in the same cluster share similar model weights. The…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-04-29 Boxiang Lyu , Filip Hanzely , Mladen Kolar
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