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 …

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 …

Exploring safer behaviors for deep reinforcement learning

E Marchesini, D Corsi, A Farinelli - … of the AAAI Conference on Artificial …, 2022 - ojs.aaai.org
Abstract We consider Reinforcement Learning (RL) problems where an agent attempts to
maximize a reward signal while minimizing a cost function that models unsafe behaviors …

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 …

Combining evolution and deep reinforcement learning for policy search: A survey

O Sigaud - ACM Transactions on Evolutionary Learning, 2023 - dl.acm.org
Deep neuroevolution and deep Reinforcement Learning have received a lot of attention
over the past few years. Some works have compared them, highlighting their pros and cons …

Benchmarking safe deep reinforcement learning in aquatic navigation

E Marchesini, D Corsi, A Farinelli - 2021 IEEE/RSJ International …, 2021 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
We propose a novel benchmark environment for Safe Reinforcement Learning focusing on
aquatic navigation. Aquatic navigation is an extremely challenging task due to the non …

Enhancing deep reinforcement learning approaches for multi-robot navigation via single-robot evolutionary policy search

E Marchesini, A Farinelli - 2022 International Conference on …, 2022 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Recent Multi-Agent Deep Reinforcement Learning approaches factorize a global action-
value to address non-stationarity and favor cooperation. These methods, however, hinder …

Partially Observable Monte Carlo Planning with state variable constraints for mobile robot navigation

A Castellini, E Marchesini, A Farinelli - Engineering Applications of Artificial …, 2021 - Elsevier
Autonomous mobile robots employed in industrial applications often operate in complex and
uncertain environments. In this paper we propose an approach based on an extension of …

Online safety property collection and refinement for safe deep reinforcement learning in mapless navigation

L Marzari, E Marchesini… - 2023 IEEE International …, 2023 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Safety is essential for deploying Deep Reinforcement Learning (DRL) algorithms in real-
world scenarios. Recently, verification approaches have been proposed to allow quantifying …

A surrogate-assisted controller for expensive evolutionary reinforcement learning

Y Wang, T Zhang, Y Chang, X Wang, B Liang… - Information Sciences, 2022 - Elsevier
Abstract The integration of Reinforcement Learning (RL) and Evolutionary Algorithms (EAs)
aims at simultaneously exploiting the sample efficiency as well as the diversity and …