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This paper studies Reinforcement Learning (RL) techniques to enable team coordination behaviors in graph environments with support actions among teammates to reduce the costs of traversing certain risky edges in a centralized manner. While…

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Traditional Graph Neural Network (GNN), as a graph representation learning method, is constrained by label information. However, Graph Contrastive Learning (GCL) methods, which tackle the label problem effectively, mainly focus on the…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-08-08 Kai Yang , Yuan Liu , Zijuan Zhao , Peijin Ding , Wenqian Zhao

Deep reinforcement learning (DRL) has been widely used for dynamic algorithm configuration, particularly in evolutionary computation, which benefits from the adaptive update of parameters during the algorithmic execution. However, applying…

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We present a graph neural network model for solving graph-to-graph learning problems. Most deep learning on graphs considers ``simple'' problems such as graph classification or regressing real-valued graph properties. For such tasks, the…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-06-08 Guan Wang , Francois Bernard Lauze , Aasa Feragen

Designing rewards for Reinforcement Learning (RL) is challenging because it needs to convey the desired task, be efficient to optimize, and be easy to compute. The latter is particularly problematic when applying RL to robotics, where…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-05-28 Yiming Ding , Carlos Florensa , Mariano Phielipp , Pieter Abbeel

In this work, we take a first step toward elucidating the mechanisms behind emergent exploration in unsupervised reinforcement learning. We study Single-Goal Contrastive Reinforcement Learning (SGCRL), a self-supervised algorithm capable of…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-10-17 Mahsa Bastankhah , Grace Liu , Dilip Arumugam , Thomas L. Griffiths , Benjamin Eysenbach

Graph contrastive learning (GCL) aims to align the positive features while differentiating the negative features in the latent space by minimizing a pair-wise contrastive loss. As the embodiment of an outstanding discriminative unsupervised…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-12-27 Jiangmeng Li , Yifan Jin , Hang Gao , Wenwen Qiang , Changwen Zheng , Fuchun Sun

Goal representation affects the performance of Hierarchical Reinforcement Learning (HRL) algorithms by decomposing the complex learning problem into easier subtasks. Recent studies show that representations that preserve temporally abstract…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-12-24 Mehdi Zadem , Sergio Mover , Sao Mai Nguyen

Learning to reach goal states and learning diverse skills through mutual information (MI) maximization have been proposed as principled frameworks for self-supervised reinforcement learning, allowing agents to acquire broadly applicable…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-06-04 Jongwook Choi , Archit Sharma , Honglak Lee , Sergey Levine , Shixiang Shane Gu

Over the past few years, graph representation learning (GRL) has been a powerful strategy for analyzing graph-structured data. Recently, GRL methods have shown promising results by adopting self-supervised learning methods developed for…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-09-05 Namkyeong Lee , Dongmin Hyun , Junseok Lee , Chanyoung Park

Reinforcement learning (RL) exhibits remarkable potential in addressing autonomous driving tasks. However, it is difficult to train a sample-efficient and safe policy in complex scenarios. In this article, we propose a novel hierarchical…

Robotics · Computer Science 2025-06-23 Yiou Huang

Hierarchical reinforcement learning (HRL) learns to make decisions on multiple levels of temporal abstraction. A key challenge in HRL is that the low-level policy changes over time, making it difficult for the high-level policy to generate…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-05-29 Vivienne Huiling Wang , Tinghuai Wang , Joni Pajarinen

While Graph Neural Networks (GNNs) recently became powerful tools in graph learning tasks, considerable efforts have been spent on improving GNNs' structural encoding ability. A particular line of work proposed subgraph GNNs that use…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-10-31 Lecheng Kong , Jiarui Feng , Hao Liu , Dacheng Tao , Yixin Chen , Muhan Zhang

Reinforcement learning is well known for its ability to model sequential tasks and learn latent data patterns adaptively. Deep learning models have been widely explored and adopted in regression and classification tasks. However, deep…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-06-17 Thanveer Shaik , Xiaohui Tao , Haoran Xie , Lin Li , Jianming Yong , Yuefeng Li

Offline goal-conditioned reinforcement learning (GCRL) is a practical reinforcement learning paradigm that aims to learn goal-conditioned policies from reward-free offline data. Despite recent advances in hierarchical architectures such as…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-04-13 Zhiqiang Dong , Teng Pang , Rongjian Xu , Guoqiang Wu

Continual Graph Learning (CGL) enables models to incrementally learn from streaming graph-structured data without forgetting previously acquired knowledge. Experience replay is a common solution that reuses a subset of past samples during…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-03-31 Qiao Yuan , Sheng-Uei Guan , Pin Ni , Tianlun Luo , Ka Lok Man , Prudence Wong , Victor Chang

We present a novel two-layer hierarchical reinforcement learning approach equipped with a Goals Relational Graph (GRG) for tackling the partially observable goal-driven task, such as goal-driven visual navigation. Our GRG captures the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-03-31 Xin Ye , Yezhou Yang

Deep RL approaches build much of their success on the ability of the deep neural network to generate useful internal representations. Nevertheless, they suffer from a high sample-complexity and starting with a good input representation can…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-02-17 Vikram Waradpande , Daniel Kudenko , Megha Khosla

This paper investigates the multi-agent navigation problem, which requires multiple agents to reach the target goals in a limited time. Multi-agent reinforcement learning (MARL) has shown promising results for solving this issue. However,…

Robotics · Computer Science 2023-02-09 Xinyi Yang , Shiyu Huang , Yiwen Sun , Yuxiang Yang , Chao Yu , Wei-Wei Tu , Huazhong Yang , Yu Wang