A survey of reinforcement learning algorithms for dynamically varying environments

S Padakandla - ACM Computing Surveys (CSUR), 2021 - dl.acm.org
Reinforcement learning (RL) algorithms find applications in inventory control, recommender
systems, vehicular traffic management, cloud computing, and robotics. The real-world …

Towards optimal HVAC control in non-stationary building environments combining active change detection and deep reinforcement learning

X Deng, Y Zhang, H Qi - Building and environment, 2022 - Elsevier
Energy consumption for heating, ventilation and air conditioning (HVAC) has increased
significantly and accounted for a large proportion of building energy growth. Advanced …

Reinforcement learning algorithm for non-stationary environments

S Padakandla, P KJ, S Bhatnagar - Applied Intelligence, 2020 - Springer
Reinforcement learning (RL) methods learn optimal decisions in the presence of a stationary
environment. However, the stationary assumption on the environment is very restrictive. In …

[HTML][HTML] A statistically based fault detection and diagnosis approach for non-residential building water distribution systems

H Hashim, P Ryan, E Clifford - Advanced Engineering Informatics, 2020 - Elsevier
Large non-residential buildings can contain complex and often inefficient water distribution
systems. As requirements for water increase due to water scarcity and industrialization, it …

Deep reinforcement learning in nonstationary environments with unknown change points

Z Liu, J Lu, J Xuan, G Zhang - IEEE Transactions on …, 2024 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Deep reinforcement learning (DRL) is a powerful tool for learning from interactions within a
stationary environment where state transition and reward distributions remain constant …

A self-supervised contrastive change point detection method for industrial time series

X Bao, L Chen, J Zhong, D Wu, Y Zheng - Engineering Applications of …, 2024 - Elsevier
Manufacturing process monitoring is crucial to ensure production quality. This paper
formulates the detection problem of abnormal changes in the manufacturing process as the …

WATCH: Wasserstein change point detection for high-dimensional time series data

K Faber, R Corizzo, B Sniezynski… - … Conference on Big …, 2021 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Detecting relevant changes in dynamic time series data in a timely manner is crucially
important for many data analysis tasks in real-world settings. Change point detection …

A meta–reinforcement learning algorithm for traffic signal control to automatically switch different reward functions according to the saturation level of traffic flows

G Kim, J Kang, K Sohn - Computer‐Aided Civil and …, 2023 - Wiley Online Library
Reinforcement learning (RL) algorithms have been widely applied in solving traffic signal
control problems. Traffic environments, however, are intrinsically nonstationary, which …

Predictive reinforcement learning in non-stationary environments using weighted mixture policy

H Pourshamsaei, A Nobakhti - Applied Soft Computing, 2024 - Elsevier
Reinforcement Learning (RL) within non-stationary environments presents a formidable
challenge. In some applications, anticipating abrupt alterations in the environment model …

Reactive exploration to cope with non-stationarity in lifelong reinforcement learning

CA Steinparz, T Schmied, F Paischer… - Conference on …, 2022 - proceedings.mlr.press
In lifelong learning an agent learns throughout its entire life without resets, in a constantly
changing environment, as we humans do. Consequently, lifelong learning comes with a …