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Reinforcement learning (RL) is a machine learning approach that trains agents to maximize cumulative rewards through interactions with environments. The integration of RL with deep learning has recently resulted in impressive achievements…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2023-08-31 Hui Bai , Ran Cheng , Yaochu Jin

Nowadays, cooperative multi-agent systems are used to learn how to achieve goals in large-scale dynamic environments. However, learning in these environments is challenging: from the effect of search space size on learning time to…

Multiagent Systems · Computer Science 2022-01-19 Mahnoosh Mahdavimoghaddam , Amin Nikanjam , Monireh Abdoos

Transfer learning in reinforcement learning (RL) seeks to accelerate learning in new tasks by leveraging knowledge from related sources. Existing neurosymbolic transfer methods, however, typically rely on manually specified task automata,…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2026-05-08 Mahyar Alinejad , Yue Wang , Amrit Singh Bedi , George Atia

Deep reinforcement learning has demonstrated superhuman performance in complex decision-making tasks, but it struggles with generalization and knowledge reuse - key aspects of true intelligence. This article introduces a novel approach that…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-11-12 Marko Ruman , Tatiana V. Guy

Multitasking optimization is a recently introduced paradigm, focused on the simultaneous solving of multiple optimization problem instances (tasks). The goal of multitasking environments is to dynamically exploit existing complementarities…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2020-05-19 Eneko Osaba , Aritz D. Martinez , Jesus L. Lobo , Ibai Laña , Javier Del Ser

In open-ended continuous environments, robots need to learn multiple parameterised control tasks in hierarchical reinforcement learning. We hypothesise that the most complex tasks can be learned more easily by transferring knowledge from…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2021-02-22 Nicolas Duminy , Sao Mai Nguyen , Junshuai Zhu , Dominique Duhaut , Jerome Kerdreux

The idea of reusing or transferring information from previously learned tasks (source tasks) for the learning of new tasks (target tasks) has the potential to significantly improve the sample efficiency of a reinforcement learning agent. In…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2022-09-28 Thommen George Karimpanal , Roland Bouffanais

In this paper, we present a new approach to Transfer Learning (TL) in Reinforcement Learning (RL) for cross-domain tasks. Many of the available techniques approach the transfer architecture as a method of speeding up the target task…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2018-01-23 Girish Joshi , Girish Chowdhary

In this paper, we study the problem of transferring the available Markov Decision Process (MDP) models to learn and plan efficiently in an unknown but similar MDP. We refer to it as \textit{Model Transfer Reinforcement Learning (MTRL)}…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-02-21 Hannes Eriksson , Debabrota Basu , Tommy Tram , Mina Alibeigi , Christos Dimitrakakis

In recent years, Multifactorial Optimization (MFO) has gained a notable momentum in the research community. MFO is known for its inherent capability to efficiently address multiple optimization tasks at the same time, while transferring…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-03-24 Aritz D. Martinez , Eneko Osaba , Javier Del Ser , Francisco Herrera

Deep reinforcement learning (RL) algorithms have achieved great success on a wide variety of sequential decision-making tasks. However, many of these algorithms suffer from high sample complexity when learning from scratch using…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2020-06-15 Michael Wan , Tanmay Gangwani , Jian Peng

In this work, we investigate the potential of improving multi-task training and also leveraging it for transferring in the reinforcement learning setting. We identify several challenges towards this goal and propose a transferring approach…

Robotics · Computer Science 2023-06-06 Lingfeng Sun , Haichao Zhang , Wei Xu , Masayoshi Tomizuka

Multi-task reinforcement learning endeavors to accomplish a set of different tasks with a single policy. To enhance data efficiency by sharing parameters across multiple tasks, a common practice segments the network into distinct modules…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2024-01-26 Jinmin He , Kai Li , Yifan Zang , Haobo Fu , Qiang Fu , Junliang Xing , Jian Cheng

Multi-agent reinforcement learning shines as the pinnacle of multi-agent systems, conquering intricate real-world challenges, fostering collaboration and coordination among agents, and unleashing the potential for intelligent…

Multiagent Systems · Computer Science 2023-12-27 Jiawei Wang , Jian Zhao , Zhengtao Cao , Ruili Feng , Rongjun Qin , Yang Yu

Continual reinforcement learning (CRL) empowers RL agents with the ability to learn a sequence of tasks, accumulating knowledge learned in the past and using the knowledge for problemsolving or future task learning. However, existing…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-06-06 Chaofan Pan , Lingfei Ren , Yihui Feng , Linbo Xiong , Wei Wei , Yonghao Li , Xin Yang

Collective human knowledge has clearly benefited from the fact that innovations by individuals are taught to others through communication. Similar to human social groups, agents in distributed learning systems would likely benefit from…

Order dispatching and driver repositioning (also known as fleet management) in the face of spatially and temporally varying supply and demand are central to a ride-sharing platform marketplace. Hand-crafting heuristic solutions that account…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2019-11-27 John Holler , Risto Vuorio , Zhiwei Qin , Xiaocheng Tang , Yan Jiao , Tiancheng Jin , Satinder Singh , Chenxi Wang , Jieping Ye

Transferring high-level knowledge from a source task to a target task is an effective way to expedite reinforcement learning (RL). For example, propositional logic and first-order logic have been used as representations of such knowledge.…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2019-09-11 Zhe Xu , Ufuk Topcu

Multitask learning, i.e. learning several tasks at once with the same neural network, can improve performance in each of the tasks. Designing deep neural network architectures for multitask learning is a challenge: There are many ways to…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2018-04-19 Jason Liang , Elliot Meyerson , Risto Miikkulainen

Humans are masters at quickly learning many complex tasks, relying on an approximate understanding of the dynamics of their environments. In much the same way, we would like our learning agents to quickly adapt to new tasks. In this paper,…