An empirical investigation of the challenges of real-world reinforcement learning

G Dulac-Arnold, N Levine, DJ Mankowitz, J Li… - arXiv preprint arXiv …, 2020 - arxiv.org
Reinforcement learning (RL) has proven its worth in a series of artificial domains, and is
beginning to show some successes in real-world scenarios. However, much of the research …

[HTML][HTML] Challenges of real-world reinforcement learning: definitions, benchmarks and analysis

G Dulac-Arnold, N Levine, DJ Mankowitz, J Li… - Machine Learning, 2021 - Springer
Reinforcement learning (RL) has proven its worth in a series of artificial domains, and is
beginning to show some successes in real-world scenarios. However, much of the research …

Challenges of real-world reinforcement learning

G Dulac-Arnold, D Mankowitz, T Hester - arXiv preprint arXiv:1904.12901, 2019 - arxiv.org
Reinforcement learning (RL) has proven its worth in a series of artificial domains, and is
beginning to show some successes in real-world scenarios. However, much of the research …

[PDF][PDF] Policy learning with constraints in model-free reinforcement learning: A survey

Y Liu, A Halev, X Liu - The 30th international joint conference on artificial …, 2021 - par.nsf.gov
Reinforcement Learning (RL) algorithms have had tremendous success in simulated
domains. These algorithms, however, often cannot be directly applied to physical systems …

Time limits in reinforcement learning

F Pardo, A Tavakoli, V Levdik… - … on Machine Learning, 2018 - proceedings.mlr.press
In reinforcement learning, it is common to let an agent interact for a fixed amount of time with
its environment before resetting it and repeating the process in a series of episodes. The …

A gentle introduction to reinforcement learning and its application in different fields

M Naeem, STH Rizvi, A Coronato - IEEE access, 2020 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Due to the recent progress in Deep Neural Networks, Reinforcement Learning (RL) has
become one of the most important and useful technology. It is a learning method where a …

On the importance of hyperparameter optimization for model-based reinforcement learning

B Zhang, R Rajan, L Pineda… - International …, 2021 - proceedings.mlr.press
Abstract Model-based Reinforcement Learning (MBRL) is a promising framework for
learning control in a data-efficient manner. MBRL algorithms can be fairly complex due to …

[HTML][HTML] Robust reinforcement learning: A review of foundations and recent advances

J Moos, K Hansel, H Abdulsamad, S Stark… - Machine Learning and …, 2022 - mdpi.com
Reinforcement learning (RL) has become a highly successful framework for learning in
Markov decision processes (MDP). Due to the adoption of RL in realistic and complex …

Natural environment benchmarks for reinforcement learning

A Zhang, Y Wu, J Pineau - arXiv preprint arXiv:1811.06032, 2018 - arxiv.org
While current benchmark reinforcement learning (RL) tasks have been useful to drive
progress in the field, they are in many ways poor substitutes for learning with real-world …

Overcoming model bias for robust offline deep reinforcement learning

P Swazinna, S Udluft, T Runkler - Engineering Applications of Artificial …, 2021 - Elsevier
State-of-the-art reinforcement learning algorithms mostly rely on being allowed to directly
interact with their environment to collect millions of observations. This makes it hard to …