A locally-built, LLM-digested index of recent arXiv papers in quant finance, geometry/topology, and statistical ML — keyword search served straight from SQLite on this machine.
RL research overhypes potential but lacks deployable solutions.
MiniHack simplifies creation of complex RL environments.
This article provides the first survey of computational models of emotion in reinforcement learning (RL) agents. The survey focuses on agent/robot emotions, and mostly ignores human user emotions. Emotions are recognized as functional in decision-making by influencing motivation and action selection. Therefore, computa…
Reincarnating RL reuses prior work to accelerate RL progress.
This paper surveys RL methods for quantitative trading.
Catalyst.RL accelerates RL research with efficient training.
RL Unplugged benchmarks offline RL methods across diverse domains.
Paper connects RL and non-equilibrium statistical mechanics for entropy-regularized RL.
Despite the recent progress in deep reinforcement learning field (RL), and, arguably because of it, a large body of work remains to be done in reproducing and carefully comparing different RL algorithms. We present catalyst.RL, an open source framework for RL research with a focus on reproducibility and flexibility. Ma…
Survey of RL methods for optimizing power grid topologies.
MushroomRL is an open-source Python library developed to simplify the process of implementing and running Reinforcement Learning (RL) experiments. Compared to other available libraries, MushroomRL has been created with the purpose of providing a comprehensive and flexible framework to minimize the effort in implementin…
Survey of challenges and future directions in applying RL to real-world settings.
This chapter reviews statistical tools for reinforcement learning.
Interactive tool helps RL researchers debug and understand their models.
This paper argues for more realistic human models in RL.
TorchBeast is a platform for reinforcement learning (RL) research in PyTorch. It implements a version of the popular IMPALA algorithm for fast, asynchronous, parallel training of RL agents. Additionally, TorchBeast has simplicity as an explicit design goal: We provide both a pure-Python implementation ("MonoBeast") as …
Since the inception of Deep Reinforcement Learning (DRL) algorithms, there has been a growing interest in both research and industrial communities in the promising potentials of this paradigm. The list of current and envisioned applications of deep RL ranges from autonomous navigation and robotics to control applicatio…
This paper uses RL for better financial trading.
NetHack Learning Environment (NLE) tests RL algorithms, offering scalable, complex, and challenging gameplay.
RL improves combinatorial optimization by automating heuristic search.
Advocates for user-friendly RL problem descriptions to improve usability and generalization.
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 advances in RL are often hard to leverage in real-world systems due to a series of assumptions that are rarely satisfied in practice. We pres…
Unified RL survey for healthcare AI interventions.
Study shows effectiveness of offline RL in online RL tasks.
Research in deep reinforcement learning (RL) has coalesced around improving performance on benchmarks like the Arcade Learning Environment. However, these benchmarks conspicuously miss important characteristics like abrupt context-dependent shifts in strategy and temporal sensitivity that are often present in real-worl…
This paper explores how RL enhances HFT strategies in volatile markets.
RL applied to finance tasks, highlighting challenges and future directions.
As reinforcement learning (RL) achieves more success in solving complex tasks, more care is needed to ensure that RL research is reproducible and that algorithms herein can be compared easily and fairly with minimal bias. RL results are, however, notoriously hard to reproduce due to the algorithms' intrinsic variance, …
Rapid advances of hardware-based technologies during the past decades have opened up new possibilities for Life scientists to gather multimodal data in various application domains (e.g., Omics, Bioimaging, Medical Imaging, and [Brain/Body]-Machine Interfaces), thus generating novel opportunities for development of dedi…
This paper reviews off-policy evaluation methods in reinforcement learning.
This thesis improves practical reinforcement learning methods with robustness, scalability, and efficiency.
Survey on offline RL methods for real-world applications.
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 data. By testing increasingly complex RL algorithms on low-complexity simulation environments, we often end up with brittle RL policies that gene…
HTMRL uses HTM for RL, adapting faster to changing environments.
Model-based reinforcement learning (MBRL) is widely seen as having the potential to be significantly more sample efficient than model-free RL. However, research in model-based RL has not been very standardized. It is fairly common for authors to experiment with self-designed environments, and there are several separate…
Paper uses RL for better credit scoring and underwriting.
We introduce SLM Lab, a software framework for reproducible reinforcement learning (RL) research. SLM Lab implements a number of popular RL algorithms, provides synchronous and asynchronous parallel experiment execution, hyperparameter search, and result analysis. RL algorithms in SLM Lab are implemented in a modular w…
Lack of reliability is a well-known issue for reinforcement learning (RL) algorithms. This problem has gained increasing attention in recent years, and efforts to improve it have grown substantially. To aid RL researchers and production users with the evaluation and improvement of reliability, we propose a set of metri…
Effective network congestion control strategies are key to keeping the Internet (or any large computer network) operational. Network congestion control has been dominated by hand-crafted heuristics for decades. Recently, ReinforcementLearning (RL) has emerged as an alternative to automatically optimize such control str…
Survey of RL methods for control systems with time delays.
Recent years have witnessed significant progresses in deep Reinforcement Learning (RL). Empowered with large scale neural networks, carefully designed architectures, novel training algorithms and massively parallel computing devices, researchers are able to attack many challenging RL problems. However, in machine learn…
Survey of RL algorithms for dynamic environments.
Deep reinforcement learning is the combination of reinforcement learning (RL) and deep learning. This field of research has been able to solve a wide range of complex decision-making tasks that were previously out of reach for a machine. Thus, deep RL opens up many new applications in domains such as healthcare, roboti…
New benchmarks for offline RL from diverse datasets.
Survey of deep RL in intelligent transportation systems.
Modular RL modules solve complex 3D Sokoban tasks.
Portfolio management is the art and science in fiance that concerns continuous reallocation of funds and assets across financial instruments to meet the desired returns to risk profile. Deep reinforcement learning (RL) has gained increasing interest in portfolio management, where RL agents are trained base on financial…
The risks and perils of overfitting in machine learning are well known. However most of the treatment of this, including diagnostic tools and remedies, was developed for the supervised learning case. In this work, we aim to offer new perspectives on the characterization and prevention of overfitting in deep Reinforceme…