Neuro-evolutionary frameworks for generalized learning agents

TG Karimpanal - arXiv preprint arXiv:2002.01088, 2020 - arxiv.org
The recent successes of deep learning and deep reinforcement learning have firmly
established their statuses as state-of-the-art artificial learning techniques. However …

Mural: Meta-learning uncertainty-aware rewards for outcome-driven reinforcement learning

K Li, A Gupta, A Reddy, VH Pong… - International …, 2021 - proceedings.mlr.press
Exploration in reinforcement learning is, in general, a challenging problem. A common
technique to make learning easier is providing demonstrations from a human supervisor, but …

Challenges of real-world reinforcement learning

DJ Mankowitz, G Dulac-Arnold… - ICML workshop on real …, 2019 - research.google
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 …

Population-Based Reinforcement Learning for Combinatorial Optimization Problems

N Grinsztajn, D Furelos-Blanco, TD Barrett - openreview.net
Applying reinforcement learning to combinatorial optimization problems is attractive as it
obviates the need for expert knowledge or pre-solved instances. However, it is unrealistic to …

Alchemy: A benchmark and analysis toolkit for meta-reinforcement learning agents

JX Wang, M King, N Porcel, Z Kurth-Nelson… - arXiv preprint arXiv …, 2021 - arxiv.org
There has been rapidly growing interest in meta-learning as a method for increasing the
flexibility and sample efficiency of reinforcement learning. One problem in this area of …

Reinforcement learning in robotics: Applications and real-world challenges

P Kormushev, S Calinon, DG Caldwell - Robotics, 2013 - mdpi.com
In robotics, the ultimate goal of reinforcement learning is to endow robots with the ability to
learn, improve, adapt and reproduce tasks with dynamically changing constraints based on …

Hierarchical reinforcement learning as creative problem solving

TR Colin, T Belpaeme, A Cangelosi… - Robotics and Autonomous …, 2016 - Elsevier
Although creativity is studied from philosophy to cognitive robotics, a definition has proven
elusive. We argue for emphasizing the creative process (the cognition of the creative agent) …

Improving generalization in meta reinforcement learning using learned objectives

L Kirsch, S van Steenkiste, J Schmidhuber - arXiv preprint arXiv …, 2019 - arxiv.org
Biological evolution has distilled the experiences of many learners into the general learning
algorithms of humans. Our novel meta reinforcement learning algorithm MetaGenRL is …

Mushroomrl: Simplifying reinforcement learning research

C D'Eramo, D Tateo, A Bonarini, M Restelli… - Journal of Machine …, 2021 - jmlr.org
MushroomRL is an open-source Python library developed to simplify the process of
implementing and running Reinforcement Learning (RL) experiments. Compared to other …

A survey on explainable reinforcement learning: Concepts, algorithms, challenges

Y Qing, S Liu, J Song, H Wang, M Song - arXiv preprint arXiv:2211.06665, 2022 - arxiv.org
Reinforcement Learning (RL) is a popular machine learning paradigm where intelligent
agents interact with the environment to fulfill a long-term goal. Driven by the resurgence of …