What matters in on-policy reinforcement learning? a large-scale empirical study

M Andrychowicz, A Raichuk, P Stańczyk… - arXiv preprint arXiv …, 2020 - arxiv.org
… We consider the standard reinforcement learning formalism consisting of an agent
interacting with an environment. To simplify the exposition we assume in this section that the …

Explaining reinforcement learning to mere mortals: An empirical study

A Anderson, J Dodge, A Sadarangani… - arXiv preprint arXiv …, 2019 - arxiv.org
We present a user study to investigate the impact of explanations on non-experts' understanding
of reinforcement learning (RL) agents. We investigate both a common RL visualization, …

Informing sequential clinical decision-making through reinforcement learning: an empirical study

SM Shortreed, E Laber, DJ Lizotte, TS Stroup… - Machine learning, 2011 - Springer
… the role that reinforcement learning can play in the optimization of treatment policies for
chronic illnesses. Before applying any off-the-shelf reinforcement learning methods in this setting…

Empirical study of off-policy policy evaluation for reinforcement learning

C Voloshin, HM Le, N Jiang, Y Yue - arXiv preprint arXiv:1911.06854, 2019 - arxiv.org
… and empirical study for off-policy policy evaluation (OPE) in reinforcement learning, which is
a … Given the increasing interest in deploying learning-based methods, there has been a flurry …

An empirical study of crop yield prediction using reinforcement learning

MP Vaishnnave, R Manivannan - … Intelligent Techniques for …, 2022 - Wiley Online Library
… More specifically, reinforcement learning methods, including multiple regressions, random …
crucial aspect of machine learning models. In addition, reinforcement learning is analogous to …

An empirical study of representation learning for reinforcement learning in healthcare

TW Killian, H Zhang, J Subramanian, M Fatemi… - arXiv preprint arXiv …, 2020 - arxiv.org
… In this paper, we perform an empirical study of several information encoding architectures
using data from septic patients in the MIMIC-III dataset to form representations of a patient state…

[PDF][PDF] Transfer deep reinforcement learning in 3d environments: An empirical study

DS Chaplot, G Lample, KM Sathyendra… - NIPS Deep …, 2016 - cs.cmu.edu
… critical for an agent to rapidly adapt to different environments and effectively learn new tasks.
In this paper we conduct an empirical study of Deep Q-Networks (DQNs) where the agent is …

Common challenges of deep reinforcement learning applications development: an empirical study

MM Morovati, F Tambon, M Taraghi, A Nikanjam… - Empirical Software …, 2024 - Springer
… To fill this gap, in this paper, we conduct a large-scale empirical study of 927 DRL-related
posts extracted from Stack Overflow, the most popular Q &A platform in the software community…

[PDF][PDF] Reinforcement Learning for Automatic Online Algorithm Selection-an Empirical Study.

H Degroote, B Bischl, L Kotthoff, P De Causmaecker - ITAT, 2016 - ceur-ws.org
… Abstract: In this paper a reinforcement learning methodology for automatic online algorithm
selection is introduced and empirically tested. It is applicable to automatic algorithm selection …

Average reward reinforcement learning: Foundations, algorithms, and empirical results

S Mahadevan - Machine learning, 1996 - Springer
… finite reward to absorbing goal states This paper also presents a detailed empirical study
of Rilearning, an average reward rt-infarcenitvnt learning method, using two empiiacal l1l'.‘5I[…