Deep neural networks, and in particular recurrent networks, are promising candidates to control autonomous agents that interact in real-time with the physical world. However, this requires a seamless integration of temporal features into the network's architecture. For the training of and inference with recurrent neura…
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Paper proposes a forecasting solution for network-rollout planning.
BASIS improves LLM reasoning by sharing batchwise rollout info, reducing MSE by 69%.
A new method reduces compounding errors in model-based reinforcement learning.
Bayesian optimization (BO) is a class of sample-efficient global optimization methods, where a probabilistic model conditioned on previous observations is used to determine future evaluations via the optimization of an acquisition function. Most acquisition functions are myopic, meaning that they only consider the impa…
A new estimator combines bootstrapping and rollout methods in RL.
Sequence generation models are commonly refined with reinforcement learning over user-defined metrics. However, high gradient variance hinders the practical use of this method. To stabilize this method, we adapt to contextual generation of categorical sequences a policy gradient estimator, which evaluates a set of corr…
Lookahead, also known as non-myopic, Bayesian optimization (BO) aims to find optimal sampling policies through solving a dynamic program (DP) that maximizes a long-term reward over a rolling horizon. Though promising, lookahead BO faces the risk of error propagation through its increased dependence on a possibly mis-sp…
There are two halves to RL systems: experience collection time and policy learning time. For a large number of samples in rollouts, experience collection time is the major bottleneck. Thus, it is necessary to speed up the rollout generation time with multi-process architecture support. Our work, dubbed WALL-E, utilizes…
AIS corrects rollout-training mismatch in quantized RL, improving speed and stability.
We propose probabilistic models that can extrapolate learning curves of iterative machine learning algorithms, such as stochastic gradient descent for training deep networks, based on training data with variable-length learning curves. We study instantiations of this framework based on random forests and Bayesian recur…
Study on indexability of restless multi-armed bandits and rollout policy performance.
The decision to rollout a vehicle is critical to fleet management companies as wrong decisions can lead to additional cost of maintenance and failures during journey. With the availability of large amount of data and advancement of machine learning techniques, the rollout decisions of a supervisor can be effectively au…
Optimal sample complexity for autoregressive chain-of-thought learning proven.
SFPO optimizes LLM reasoning by repositioning before updating, improving stability and efficiency.
Model-based reinforcement learning (MBRL) aims to learn a dynamic model to reduce the number of interactions with real-world environments. However, due to estimation error, rollouts in the learned model, especially those of long horizons, fail to match the ones in real-world environments. This mismatching has seriously…
Thermalizer stabilizes autoregressive models for long-term predictions in chaotic systems.
CoDistill-GRPO improves small models in GRPO by distilling knowledge from a larger model.
Study examines how COVID-19 vaccine companies' popularity affects their stock prices.
New method finds unseen states for RL, improving performance.
Theory for RLHF generalization under reward shift and clipped KL.
Improves data efficiency in multi-agent control tasks using model-based reinforcement learning.
This paper proposes a novel deep reinforcement learning architecture that was inspired by previous tree structured architectures which were only useable in discrete action spaces. Policy Prediction Network offers a way to improve sample complexity and performance on continuous control problems in exchange for extra com…
InfoTree improves reinforcement learning by optimizing tool use with a greedy submodular approach.
This paper introduces a simple, general framework for likelihood-free Bayesian reinforcement learning, through Approximate Bayesian Computation (ABC). The main advantage is that we only require a prior distribution on a class of simulators (generative models). This is useful in domains where an analytical probabilistic…
UK's rapid vaccine rollout linked to reduced COVID-19 mortality.
sGPO optimizes RLVR training by balancing inference FLOPs and training efficiency.
Several approximate policy iteration schemes without value functions, which focus on policy representation using classifiers and address policy learning as a supervised learning problem, have been proposed recently. Finding good policies with such methods requires not only an appropriate classifier, but also reliable e…
Optimizing news headlines is important for publishers and media sites. A compelling headline will increase readership, user engagement and social shares. At Yahoo Front Page, headline testing is carried out using a test-rollout strategy: we first allocate equal proportion of the traffic to each headline variation for a…
We present an approach to identify concise equations from data using a shallow neural network approach. In contrast to ordinary black-box regression, this approach allows understanding functional relations and generalizing them from observed data to unseen parts of the parameter space. We show how to extend the class o…
New method optimizes language model performance for test-time strategies.
New RL algorithm explains why deep learning works in stochastic environments.
This paper optimizes sampling policies for Bayesian optimization to improve exploration and exploitation.
UWM-JEPA predicts future scenarios in belief space, improving accuracy in partially observed environments.
Bayesian inference models failure distributions in autonomous systems.
SyMetric evaluates learned Hamiltonian dynamics from images, improving model stability and interpretability.
New framework for learning policies that converge in out-of-sample regions.
Improved neural PDEs trained on augmented data enhance model accuracy and efficiency.
Monte Carlo Tree Search (MCTS) algorithms have achieved great success on many challenging benchmarks (e.g., Computer Go). However, they generally require a large number of rollouts, making their applications costly. Furthermore, it is also extremely challenging to parallelize MCTS due to its inherent sequential nature:…
The Hamiltonian formalism plays a central role in classical and quantum physics. Hamiltonians are the main tool for modelling the continuous time evolution of systems with conserved quantities, and they come equipped with many useful properties, like time reversibility and smooth interpolation in time. These properties…
Energy based models (EBMs) are appealing due to their generality and simplicity in likelihood modeling, but have been traditionally difficult to train. We present techniques to scale MCMC based EBM training on continuous neural networks, and we show its success on the high-dimensional data domains of ImageNet32x32, Ima…
Policy gradient methods are powerful reinforcement learning algorithms and have been demonstrated to solve many complex tasks. However, these methods are also data-inefficient, afflicted with high variance gradient estimates, and frequently get stuck in local optima. This work addresses these weaknesses by combining re…
Retro* uses neural networks to efficiently find high-quality synthetic routes in organic chemistry.
Noise-robust Koopman operator framework for control with improved stability and performance.
A new method predicts non-Markovian closure terms for complex systems.
Deep learning solves EV routing with time windows for EV fleets.
In the past few years, off-policy reinforcement learning methods have shown promising results in their application for robot control. Deep Q-learning, however, still suffers from poor data-efficiency and is susceptible to stochasticity in the environment or reward functions which is limiting with regard to real-world a…
The recently presented idea to learn heuristics for combinatorial optimization problems is promising as it can save costly development. However, to push this idea towards practical implementation, we need better models and better ways of training. We contribute in both directions: we propose a model based on attention …