On the generalization of representations in reinforcement learning

CL Lan, S Tu, A Oberman, R Agarwal… - arXiv preprint arXiv …, 2022 - arxiv.org
… In reinforcement learning, state representations are used to tractably … empirical survey of
classic representation learning methods from the literature and results on the Arcade Learning

Understanding what affects generalization gap in visual reinforcement learning: Theory and empirical evidence

J Lyu, L Wan, X Li, Z Lu - arXiv preprint arXiv:2402.02701, 2024 - arxiv.org
… Recently, there are many efforts attempting to learn useful policies for continuous control
in visual reinforcement learning (RL). In this scenario, it is important to learn a generalizable …

Reinforcement learning in Newcomblike environments

J Bell, L Linsefors, C Oesterheld… - Advances in Neural …, 2021 - proceedings.neurips.cc
reinforcement learning literature. In this paper we study value-based reinforcement learning
… We show that a value-based reinforcement learning agent cannot converge to a policy that …

[HTML][HTML] Reinforcement learning for trading

J Moody, M Saffell - Advances in Neural Information …, 1998 - proceedings.neurips.cc
… In Moody, Wu, Liao & Saffell (1998), we demonstrate that reinforcement learning provides
a more elegant and effective means for training trading systems when transaction costs are …

The impact of task underspecification in evaluating deep reinforcement learning

V Jayawardana, C Tang, S Li… - Advances in Neural …, 2022 - proceedings.neurips.cc
… Overall, this work identifies new challenges for empirical rigor in reinforcement learning, …
An empirical analysis of value function-based and policy search reinforcement learning. In …

The effect of representation and knowledge on goal-directed exploration with reinforcement-learning algorithms

S Koenig, RG Simmons - Machine Learning, 1996 - Springer
… , we view reinforcement learning as a two-player game: The reinliorcenient-learning algorithm
selects … Reinforcement learning in deterministic state spaces is simply a special case of …

[PDF][PDF] Reinforcement Learning for Autonomous Software Agents: Recent Advances and Applications

V Shah - Revista Espanola de Documentacion Cientifica, 2020 - researchgate.net
… development, reinforcement learning theory, and … of reinforcement learning with deep
learning techniques has propelled autonomous systems to new heights, enabling them to learn

Sample efficient reinforcement learning with REINFORCE

J Zhang, J Kim, B O'Donoghue, S Boyd - Proceedings of the AAAI …, 2021 - ojs.aaai.org
… In this paper, we consider the episodic reinforcement learning setting in which the agent
accesses p and r by interacting with the environment over successive episodes, ie, the agent …

Regular Reinforcement Learning

T Dohmen, M Perez, F Somenzi, A Trivedi - International Conference on …, 2024 - Springer
… In reinforcement learning, an agent incrementally refines a … be characterized as explicit
reinforcement learning, as it deals … a symbolic variant of reinforcement learning, in which sets of …

Behavior regularized offline reinforcement learning

Y Wu, G Tucker, O Nachum - arXiv preprint arXiv:1911.11361, 2019 - arxiv.org
In reinforcement learning (RL) research, it is common to assume access to direct online
interactions with the environment. However in many real-world applications, access to the …