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Deep reinforcement learning (DRL) agents are trained through trial-and-error interactions with the environment. This leads to a long training time for dense neural networks to achieve good performance. Hence, prohibitive computation and…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-05-09 Ghada Sokar , Elena Mocanu , Decebal Constantin Mocanu , Mykola Pechenizkiy , Peter Stone

Model-based reinforcement learning (RL) algorithms can attain excellent sample efficiency, but often lag behind the best model-free algorithms in terms of asymptotic performance. This is especially true with high-capacity parametric…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2018-11-05 Kurtland Chua , Roberto Calandra , Rowan McAllister , Sergey Levine

Autonomous agents, which perceive environments and take actions to achieve goals, have become increasingly feasible with the advancements in large language models (LLMs). However, current powerful agents often depend on sophisticated prompt…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-05-27 Yihan Chen , Benfeng Xu , Xiaorui Wang , Yongdong Zhang , Zhendong Mao

Recently, DARPA launched the ShELL program, which aims to explore how experience sharing can benefit distributed lifelong learning agents in adapting to new challenges. In this paper, we address this issue by conducting both theoretical and…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-07-13 Sanae Amani , Khushbu Pahwa , Vladimir Braverman , Lin F. Yang

Interference among concurrent transmissions in a wireless network is a key factor limiting the system performance. One way to alleviate this problem is to manage the radio resources in order to maximize either the average or the worst-case…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2019-06-24 Navid Naderializadeh , Jaroslaw Sydir , Meryem Simsek , Hosein Nikopour , Shilpa Talwar

Deep reinforcement learning (RL) algorithms can learn complex policies to optimize agent operation over time. RL algorithms have shown promising results in solving complicated problems in recent years. However, their application on…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-09-29 Hamed Khorasgani , Haiyan Wang , Chetan Gupta , Susumu Serita

This paper establishes directionality reinforcement learning (DRL) technique to propose the complete decentralized multi-agent reinforcement learning method which can achieve cooperation based on each agent's learning: no communication and…

Multiagent Systems · Computer Science 2021-10-13 Fumito Uwano , Keiki Takadama

This paper introduces a novel approach, Decision Theory-guided Deep Reinforcement Learning (DT-guided DRL), to address the inherent cold start problem in DRL. By integrating decision theory principles, DT-guided DRL enhances agents' initial…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-02-12 Zelin Wan , Jin-Hee Cho , Mu Zhu , Ahmed H. Anwar , Charles Kamhoua , Munindar P. Singh

Large language models (LLMs) are increasingly used as interactive agents, but optimizing them for long-horizon decision making remains difficult because current methods are largely purely reactive, which weakens both exploration and credit…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2026-05-08 Xiangyuan Xue , Yifan Zhou , Zidong Wang , Shengji Tang , Philip Torr , Wanli Ouyang , Lei Bai , Zhenfei Yin

In previous research, we developed methods to train decision trees (DT) as agents for reinforcement learning tasks, based on deep reinforcement learning (DRL) networks. The samples from which the DTs are built, use the environment's state…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-12-09 Raphael C. Engelhardt , Marcel J. Meinen , Moritz Lange , Laurenz Wiskott , Wolfgang Konen

Reinforcement Learning (RL) enables an intelligent agent to optimise its performance in a task by continuously taking action from an observed state and receiving a feedback from the environment in form of rewards. RL typically uses tables…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2025-01-28 Alberto Castagna

Deep reinforcement learning (DRL) has been demonstrated to provide promising results in several challenging decision making and control tasks. However, the required inference costs of deep neural networks (DNNs) could prevent DRL from being…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2021-06-01 Chin-Jui Chang , Yu-Wei Chu , Chao-Hsien Ting , Hao-Kang Liu , Zhang-Wei Hong , Chun-Yi Lee

Large Language Models (LLMs) consistently benefit from scaled Chain-of-Thought (CoT) reasoning, but also suffer from heavy computational overhead. To address this issue, efficient reasoning aims to incentivize short yet accurate thinking…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2026-03-23 Taiqiang Wu , Zenan Xu , Bo Zhou , Ngai Wong

Reinforcement learning (RL) has shown promise in training agentic models that move beyond static benchmarks to engage in dynamic, multi-turn interactions. Yet, the ultimate value of such agents lies in their ability to assist users, a…

In recent years, there has been significant progress in applying deep reinforcement learning (RL) for solving challenging problems across a wide variety of domains. Nevertheless, convergence of various methods has been shown to suffer from…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-08-19 Pranav Khanna , Guy Tennenholtz , Nadav Merlis , Shie Mannor , Chen Tessler

Many fear that future artificial agents will resist shutdown. I present an idea - the POST-Agents Proposal - for ensuring that doesn't happen. I propose that we train agents to satisfy Preferences Only Between Same-Length Trajectories…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2026-01-06 Elliott Thornley

Deep Reinforcement Learning (RL) is remarkably effective in addressing sequential resource allocation problems in domains such as healthcare, public policy, and resource management. However, deep RL policies often lack transparency and…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-02-18 Mauricio Tec , Guojun Xiong , Haichuan Wang , Francesca Dominici , Milind Tambe

This article proposes a collision risk anticipation method based on short-term prediction of the agents position. A Long Short-Term Memory (LSTM) model, trained on past trajectories, is used to estimate the next position of each robot. This…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2025-08-12 Olivier Poulet , Frédéric Guinand , François Guérin

Existing LLM-based agents have achieved strong performance on held-in tasks, but their generalizability to unseen tasks remains poor. Hence, some recent work focus on fine-tuning the policy model with more diverse tasks to improve the…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-02-26 Yu Xia , Jingru Fan , Weize Chen , Siyu Yan , Xin Cong , Zhong Zhang , Yaxi Lu , Yankai Lin , Zhiyuan Liu , Maosong Sun

Reinforcement learning (RL) has recently become the dominant paradigm for strengthening the reasoning abilities of large language models (LLMs). Yet the rule-based reward functions commonly used on mathematical or programming benchmarks…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2025-09-09 Haoyang He , Zihua Rong , Kun Ji , Chenyang Li , Qing Huang , Chong Xia , Lan Yang , Honggang Zhang