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In domains such as finance, healthcare, and robotics, managing worst-case scenarios is critical, as failure to do so can lead to catastrophic outcomes. Distributional Reinforcement Learning (DRL) provides a natural framework to incorporate…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-02-13 Mehrdad Moghimi , Hyejin Ku

Deep reinforcement learning (DRL) has recently emerged as a promising tool for Dynamic Algorithm Configuration (DAC), enabling evolutionary algorithms to adapt their parameters online rather than relying on static tuned configurations.…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2026-04-03 Andrea Mencaroni , Robbert Reijnen , Yingqian Zhang , Dieter Claeys

Deep reinforcement learning (DRL) has seen remarkable success in the control of single robots. However, applying DRL to robot swarms presents significant challenges. A critical challenge is non-stationarity, which occurs when two or more…

Robotics · Computer Science 2023-08-29 Joshua Bloom , Pranjal Paliwal , Apratim Mukherjee , Carlo Pinciroli

Reinforcement Learning (RL) has achieved impressive performance in many complex environments due to the integration with Deep Neural Networks (DNNs). At the same time, Genetic Algorithms (GAs), often seen as a competing approach to RL, had…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-07-08 Cristian Bodnar , Ben Day , Pietro Lió

This paper investigates the application of Deep Reinforcement Learning (DRL) to classical inventory management problems, with a focus on practical implementation considerations. We apply a DRL algorithm based on DirectBackprop to several…

Recent studies in using deep reinforcement learning (DRL) to solve Job-shop scheduling problems (JSSP) focus on construction heuristics. However, their performance is still far from optimality, mainly because the underlying graph…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-02-15 Cong Zhang , Zhiguang Cao , Wen Song , Yaoxin Wu , Jie Zhang

In this work, we devise a new, general-purpose reinforcement learning strategy for the optimal control of parametric dynamical systems. Such problems frequently arise in applied sciences and engineering and entail a significant complexity…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-02-12 Nicolò Botteghi , Stefania Fresca , Mengwu Guo , Andrea Manzoni

Deep reinforcement learning (DRL) has been used to learn effective heuristics for solving complex combinatorial optimisation problem via policy networks and have demonstrated promising performance. Existing works have focused on solving…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-12-25 Nasrin Sultana , Jeffrey Chan , A. K. Qin , Tabinda Sarwar

Deep Reinforcement Learning (DRL) has become a popular method for solving control problems in power systems. Conventional DRL encourages the agent to explore various policies encoded in a neural network (NN) with the goal of maximizing the…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-10-28 Tong Wu , Anna Scaglione , Daniel Arnold

Reinforcement Learning (RL) or Deep Reinforcement Learning (DRL) is a powerful approach to solving Markov Decision Processes (MDPs) when the model of the environment is not known a priori. However, RL models are still faced with challenges…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-06-04 Kabirat Olayemi , Mien Van , Luke Maguire , Sean McLoone

Deep reinforcement learning (DRL) has shown remarkable success in complex autonomous driving scenarios. However, DRL models inevitably bring high memory consumption and computation, which hinders their wide deployment in resource-limited…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-02-09 Wensheng Su , Zhenni Li , Minrui Xu , Jiawen Kang , Dusit Niyato , Shengli Xie

The double descent (DD) paradox, where over-parameterized models see generalization improve past the interpolation point, remains largely unexplored in the non-stationary domain of Deep Reinforcement Learning (DRL). We present preliminary…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-11-11 Viktor Veselý , Aleksandar Todorov , Matthia Sabatelli

In dynamic programming (DP) and reinforcement learning (RL), an agent learns to act optimally in terms of expected long-term return by sequentially interacting with its environment modeled by a Markov decision process (MDP). More generally…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-01-03 Mastane Achab , Gergely Neu

Temporal Difference (TD) algorithms are widely used in Deep Reinforcement Learning (RL). Their performance is heavily influenced by the size of the neural network. While in supervised learning, the regime of over-parameterization and its…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-02-20 David Brellmann , Eloïse Berthier , David Filliat , Goran Frehse

This paper addresses the Traveling Salesman Problem with Drone (TSP-D), in which a truck and drone are used to deliver parcels to customers. The objective of this problem is to either minimize the total operational cost (min-cost TSP-D) or…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2019-11-20 Quang Minh Ha , Yves Deville , Quang Dung Pham , Minh Hoàng Hà

Researchers have demonstrated that Deep Reinforcement Learning (DRL) is a powerful tool for finding policies that perform well on complex robotic systems. However, these policies are often unpredictable and can induce highly variable…

Robotics · Computer Science 2022-03-08 Sean Gillen , Asutay Ozmen , Katie Byl

We propose a deep reinforcement learning (DRL) methodology for the tracking, obstacle avoidance, and formation control of nonholonomic robots. By separating vision-based control into a perception module and a controller module, we can train…

Robotics · Computer Science 2019-11-19 Yanlin Zhou , Fan Lu , George Pu , Xiyao Ma , Runhan Sun , Hsi-Yuan Chen , Xiaolin Li , Dapeng Wu

Order picking is a pivotal operation in warehouses that directly impacts overall efficiency and profitability. This study addresses the dynamic order picking problem, a significant concern in modern warehouse management, where real-time…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2025-04-08 Sasan Mahmoudinazlou , Abhay Sobhanan , Hadi Charkhgard , Ali Eshragh , George Dunn

Deep reinforcement learning (DRL) has recently shown its success in tackling complex combinatorial optimization problems. When these problems are extended to multiobjective ones, it becomes difficult for the existing DRL approaches to…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2022-02-15 Zizhen Zhang , Zhiyuan Wu , Hang Zhang , Jiahai Wang

Recently, deep reinforcement learning (DRL) models have shown promising results in solving NP-hard Combinatorial Optimization (CO) problems. However, most DRL solvers can only scale to a few hundreds of nodes for combinatorial optimization…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-10-26 Ruizhong Qiu , Zhiqing Sun , Yiming Yang