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This paper introduces a novel data-driven approach to design a linear quadratic regulator (LQR) using a reinforcement learning (RL) algorithm that does not require a system model. The key contribution is to perform policy iteration (PI) by…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-11-20 Soroush Asri , Luis Rodrigues

Value decomposition is widely used in cooperative multi-agent reinforcement learning, however, its implicit credit assignment mechanism is not yet fully understood due to black-box networks. In this work, we study an interpretable value…

Multiagent Systems · Computer Science 2024-01-30 Zichuan Liu , Yuanyang Zhu , Chunlin Chen

Due to its training stability and strong expression, the diffusion model has attracted considerable attention in offline reinforcement learning. However, several challenges have also come with it: 1) The demand for a large number of…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-01-25 Yuhui Chen , Haoran Li , Dongbin Zhao

In this article, we sketch an algorithm that extends the Q-learning algorithms to the continuous action space domain. Our method is based on the discretization of the action space. Despite the commonly used discretization methods, our…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2018-07-25 Peyman Tavallali , Gary B. Doran , Lukas Mandrake

This paper investigates the resilience and robustness of Deep Reinforcement Learning (DRL) policies to adversarial perturbations in the state space. We first present an approach for the disentanglement of vulnerabilities caused by…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-09-23 Vahid Behzadan , William Hsu

This paper explores the performance of fitted neural Q iteration for reinforcement learning in several partially observable environments, using three recurrent neural network architectures: Long Short-Term Memory, Gated Recurrent Unit and…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2015-12-18 Denis Steckelmacher , Peter Vrancx

Federated learning (FL) is a decentralized approach, enabling multiple participants to collaboratively train a model while ensuring the protection of data privacy. The transmission of updates from numerous edge clusters to the server…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2024-08-20 Haowei Li , Weiying Xie , Hangyu Ye , Jitao Ma , Shuran Ma , Yunsong Li

Deep reinforcement learning (DRL) has demonstrated impressive performance in various gaming simulators and real-world applications. In practice, however, a DRL agent may receive faulty observation by abrupt interferences such as black-out,…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-01-26 Chao-Han Huck Yang , I-Te Danny Hung , Yi Ouyang , Pin-Yu Chen

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

Existing neural networks are memory-consuming and computationally intensive, making deploying them challenging in resource-constrained environments. However, there are various methods to improve their efficiency. Two such methods are…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-11-10 Anastasiia Prutianova , Alexey Zaytsev , Chung-Kuei Lee , Fengyu Sun , Ivan Koryakovskiy

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

Hybrid classical quantum learning is often bottlenecked by communication overhead and approximation error from generic variational ansatzes. In this study, we introduce Neural Native Quantum Arithmetic (NNQA), which compiles classically…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-03-31 Ziqing Guo , Jie Li , Yong Chen , Ziwen Pan

Multi-Agent Reinforcement Learning (MARL) is useful in many problems that require the cooperation and coordination of multiple agents. Learning optimal policies using reinforcement learning in a multi-agent setting can be very difficult as…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-05-31 Rafael Pina , Varuna De Silva , Joosep Hook , Ahmet Kondoz

Reinforcement learning (RL) algorithms have made huge progress in recent years by leveraging the power of deep neural networks (DNN). Despite the success, deep RL algorithms are known to be sample inefficient, often requiring many rounds of…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2018-05-22 Zichuan Lin , Tianqi Zhao , Guangwen Yang , Lintao Zhang

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 propose Tabular Q-Learning (TabQL), a reinforcement learning framework that replaces the conventional parametric Q-network in Deep Q-Learning (DQN) with a tabular foundation model endowed with in-context learning capabilities. The key…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-05-20 Qisai Liu , Zhanhong Jiang , Timilehin Ayanlade , Ashutosh Kumar Nirala , Yang Li , Aditya Balu , Soumik Sarkar

In dynamic decision-making scenarios across business and healthcare, leveraging sample trajectories from diverse populations can significantly enhance reinforcement learning (RL) performance for specific target populations, especially when…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2025-04-15 Jinhang Chai , Elynn Chen , Jianqing Fan

Quantum embedding is a fundamental prerequisite for applying quantum machine learning techniques to classical data, and has substantial impacts on performance outcomes. In this study, we present Neural Quantum Embedding (NQE), a method that…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2024-08-12 Tak Hur , Israel F. Araujo , Daniel K. Park

This paper investigates the integration of quantum computing into offline reinforcement learning and the deployment of the resulting quantum policy in a real-time control hardware realization of the cart-pole system. Variational Quantum…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-08-12 Yize Sun , Mohamad Hagog , Marc Weber , Daniel Hein , Steffen Udluft , Volker Tresp , Yunpu Ma

A deep learning approach to reinforcement learning led to a general learner able to train on visual input to play a variety of arcade games at the human and superhuman levels. Its creators at the Google DeepMind's team called the approach:…

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