Bridging Evolutionary Algorithms and Reinforcement Learning: A Comprehensive Survey

P Li, J Hao, H Tang, X Fu, Y Zheng, K Tang - arXiv preprint arXiv …, 2024 - arxiv.org
Evolutionary Reinforcement Learning (ERL), which integrates Evolutionary Algorithms (EAs)
and Reinforcement Learning (RL) for optimization, has demonstrated remarkable …

Bridging Evolutionary Algorithms and Reinforcement Learning: A Comprehensive Survey on Hybrid Algorithms

P Li, J Hao, H Tang, X Fu, Y Zhen… - IEEE Transactions on …, 2024 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Evolutionary Reinforcement Learning (ERL), which integrates Evolutionary Algorithms (EAs)
and Reinforcement Learning (RL) for optimization, has demonstrated remarkable …

Adaptive Evolutionary Reinforcement Learning with Policy Direction

C Dong, D Li - Neural Processing Letters, 2024 - Springer
Abstract Evolutionary Reinforcement Learning (ERL) has garnered widespread attention in
recent years due to its inherent robustness and parallelism. However, the integration of …

Reinforcement learning-assisted evolutionary algorithm: A survey and research opportunities

Y Song, Y Wu, Y Guo, R Yan, PN Suganthan… - Swarm and Evolutionary …, 2024 - Elsevier
Evolutionary algorithms (EA), a class of stochastic search methods based on the principles
of natural evolution, have received widespread acclaim for their exceptional performance in …

A survey on evolutionary reinforcement learning algorithms

Q Zhu, X Wu, Q Lin, L Ma, J Li, Z Ming, J Chen - Neurocomputing, 2023 - Elsevier
Reinforcement Learning (RL) has proven to be highly effective in various real-world
applications. However, in certain scenarios, Evolutionary Algorithms (EAs) have been …

Evolutionary reinforcement learning: A survey

H Bai, R Cheng, Y Jin - Intelligent Computing, 2023 - spj.science.org
Reinforcement learning (RL) is a machine learning approach that trains agents to maximize
cumulative rewards through interactions with environments. The integration of RL with deep …

Accelerating reinforcement learning with a directional-gaussian-smoothing evolution strategy

J Zhang, H Tran, G Zhang - arXiv preprint arXiv:2002.09077, 2020 - arxiv.org
Evolution strategy (ES) has been shown great promise in many challenging reinforcement
learning (RL) tasks, rivaling other state-of-the-art deep RL methods. Yet, there are two …

Evolutionary Reinforcement Learning: A Systematic Review and Future Directions

Y Lin, F Lin, G Cai, H Chen, L Zou, P Wu - arXiv preprint arXiv:2402.13296, 2024 - arxiv.org
In response to the limitations of reinforcement learning and evolutionary algorithms (EAs) in
complex problem-solving, Evolutionary Reinforcement Learning (EvoRL) has emerged as a …

Bierl: A meta evolutionary reinforcement learning framework via bilevel optimization

J Wang, Y Zhu, Z Wang, Y Zheng, J Hao… - arXiv preprint arXiv …, 2023 - arxiv.org
Evolutionary reinforcement learning (ERL) algorithms recently raise attention in tackling
complex reinforcement learning (RL) problems due to high parallelism, while they are prone …

Evo-RL: evolutionary-driven reinforcement learning

A Hallawa, T Born, A Schmeink, G Dartmann… - Proceedings of the …, 2021 - dl.acm.org
In this work, we propose a novel approach for reinforcement learning driven by evolutionary
computation. Our algorithm, dubbed as Evolutionary-Driven Reinforcement Learning (Evo …