Survey of RL algorithms for dynamic environments.
problem Handling changing operating conditions in RL.
method Survey of algorithms developed for non-stationary environments.
result Methods to adapt to varying operating conditions.
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User response prediction makes a crucial contribution to the rapid development of online advertising system and recommendation system. The importance of learning feature interactions has been emphasized by many works. Many deep models are proposed to automatically learn high-order feature interactions. Since most featu…
Autoencoder neural networks reconstruct missing indoor environment data.
problem Missing data in building operation data sets.
method Three different autoencoder neural networks trained to reconstruct missing data.
result Reconstructing variables with average RMSEs of 0.42 °C, 1.30 % and 78.41 ppm.
To meet the Basel II regulatory requirements for the Advanced Measurement Approaches, the bank's internal model must include the use of internal data, relevant external data, scenario analysis and factors reflecting the business environment and internal control systems. Quantification of operational risk cannot be base…
The capability to learn and adapt to changes in the driving environment is crucial for developing autonomous driving systems that are scalable beyond geo-fenced operational design domains. Deep Reinforcement Learning (RL) provides a promising and scalable framework for developing adaptive learning based solutions. Deep…
Reinforcement learning agents have been mostly developed and evaluated under the assumption that they will operate in a fully autonomous manner -- they will take all actions. In this work, our goal is to develop algorithms that, by learning to switch control between agents, allow existing reinforcement learning agents …
FADE adapts machine learning models to evolving data efficiently.
problem Sequential covariate shift in dynamic environments.
method FADE uses Fisher information geometry for robust learning under SCS.
result FADE achieves up to 19% higher accuracy under severe shifts.
The behavioral dynamics of multi-agent systems have a rich and orderly structure, which can be leveraged to understand these systems, and to improve how artificial agents learn to operate in them. Here we introduce Relational Forward Models (RFM) for multi-agent learning, networks that can learn to make accurate predic…
A new memory system handles non-stationary environments by self-sizing and retaining memories.
problem Non-stationary environments where memories arrive over time and must be distinguished from noise.
method A self-sizing continual associative memory that generalizes Hopfield's network, handling adaptation and novelty.
result The memory system grows to the intrinsic memory demand of the environment and retains memories without forgetting.
While model-based deep reinforcement learning (RL) holds great promise for sample efficiency and generalization, learning an accurate dynamics model is often challenging and requires substantial interaction with the environment. A wide variety of domains have dynamics that share common foundations like the laws of clas…
Success stories of applied machine learning can be traced back to the datasets and environments that were put forward as challenges for the community. The challenge that the community sets as a benchmark is usually the challenge that the community eventually solves. The ultimate challenge of reinforcement learning rese…
AAMDRL uses DRL to manage assets in noisy, changing environments.
problem Learning in noisy, self-adapting environments with sequential data.
method Augmented state information, one-period lag, walk forward analysis.
result AAMDRL outperforms traditional methods in asset management.
Safe-FinRL uses DRL for high-frequency stock trading, reducing bias and variance.
problem Challenges in applying DRL to high-frequency stock trading, especially bias and variance issues.
method Safe-FinRL separates financial time series into near-stationary short environments and uses Trace-SAC with a general retrace operator.
result Safe-FinRL reduces bias and variance significantly in near-stationary financial environments.
In this paper we target the problem of transferring policies across multiple environments with different dynamics parameters and motor noise variations, by introducing a framework that decouples the processes of policy learning and system identification. Efficiently transferring learned policies to an unknown environme…
Observation of the workings of productive organizations shows that the characteristics of a trade, backed by nature given to a technological environment, determine the productive combination implemented by the decision maker, and the structure of the operating cycle which is related. The choice of the production functi…
Study proposes new methods to calculate probabilistic benchmarks in noisy data.
problem Identifying opportunities for improvement in comparable units with noisy data.
method 2-step methodology involving undersampling and relevance vector machine.
result Higher discrimination power achieved with macro-economic environment variables.
We consider the problem of online learning of optimal control for repeatedly operated systems in the presence of parametric uncertainty. During each round of operation, environment selects system parameters according to a fixed but unknown probability distribution. These parameters govern the dynamics of a plant. An ag…
A method for self-supervised representation learning in partially observable environments.
problem Sparse rewards and stochasticity in partially observable environments.
method World model in latent space for estimating missing information.
result Significant improvement in exploration compared to prior work.
The enactive approach to cognition is typically proposed as a viable alternative to traditional cognitive science. Enactive cognition displaces the explanatory focus from the internal representations of the agent to the direct sensorimotor interaction with its environment. In this paper, we investigate enactive learnin…
FlexServe simplifies deployment of PyTorch models as REST endpoints.
problem Lack of control over model evolution and strict security requirements in operational environments.
method Developed FlexServe, a library to deploy multi-model ensembles with flexible batching.
result Rapid deployment of PyTorch models without intermediate transformations.
The standard risk minimization paradigm of machine learning is brittle when operating in environments whose test distributions are different from the training distribution due to spurious correlations. Training on data from many environments and finding invariant predictors reduces the effect of spurious features by co…
Learning Time-Inhomogeneous Markov Dynamics in Financial Time Series via Neural Parameterizationcs.LG
Neural networks parameterize time-varying Markov dynamics in financial time series.
problem Estimating Markov transition matrices in high-resolution, high-noise financial data.
method Introduces a neural network framework to generate explicit, time-varying Markov transition matrices, constraining neural outputs to formal stochastic operators.
result Learned operators capture regime shifts, with high-volatility regimes homogenizing transition dynamics.
Reinforcement Learning (RL) has achieved impressive performance in many complex environments due to the integration with Deep Neural Networks (DNNs). At the same time, Genetic Algorithms (GAs), often seen as a competing approach to RL, had limited success in scaling up to the DNNs required to solve challenging tasks. C…
A new method for learning policies in multiple environments.
problem Learning policies that work in different but related environments.
method Decentralized entropy-regularized policy gradient method.
result The method can learn effective policies in multiple environments.
New method detects anomalies in systems influenced by their environment.
problem Detecting anomalies in systems under environmental influence.
method Adversarial learning and time series representation learning.
result Successfully addresses label sparsity and subjectivity in anomaly detection.
To meet the Basel II regulatory requirements for the Advanced Measurement Approaches in operational risk, the bank's internal model should make use of the internal data, relevant external data, scenario analysis and factors reflecting the business environment and internal control systems. One of the unresolved challeng…
Adversarial attacks have exposed a significant security vulnerability in state-of-the-art machine learning models. Among these models include deep reinforcement learning agents. The existing methods for attacking reinforcement learning agents assume the adversary either has access to the target agent's learned paramete…
We present a broad agenda for meaningful banking regulation reform aiming the creation of evolutive competitive environment to maximize the effectiveness of international financial system through the introduction of fair competition process among the banks in free market capitalism. We assume that the international fin…
New AI method improves anomaly detection across different IIoT sensors.
problem Poor performance of anomaly detection models when applied to different machines.
method Robust AI method using pre-processing and multiple models on different pumps.
result Models perform well across different environments and types of pumps.
Efficiently adapting to new environments and changes in dynamics is critical for agents to successfully operate in the real world. Reinforcement learning (RL) based approaches typically rely on external reward feedback for adaptation. However, in many scenarios this reward signal might not be readily available for the …
A new RL algorithm POWR learns world models to estimate action-values.
problem Inaccessibility of explicit action-value functions in RL.
method Learning a world model using conditional mean embeddings and deriving action-value function via matrix operations.
result POWR algorithm converges to global optimum with proven rates.
New algorithms accelerate value function convergence in MDPs.
problem Accelerating convergence of value functions in Markov Decision Processes (MDPs).
method Operator Splitting Value Iteration (OS-VI) and OS-Dyna.
result Achieves much faster convergence rate with accurate models.
Enhances graph neural networks by creating virtual data examples.
problem Lack of examples to identify optimal graph rationales in graph applications.
method Introduces environment replacement to create virtual data examples and proposes a framework for rationale-environment separation and representation learning.
result Demonstrates the effectiveness and efficiency of the augmentation-based graph rationalization framework on molecular and polymer datasets.
Meta-learning improves drone trajectory design for dynamic wireless networks.
problem Designing optimal trajectories for energy-constrained drones in dynamic network environments.
method Proposes a meta-learning algorithm to adaptively tune a reinforcement learning solution for trajectory design.
result Meta-tuned RL yields faster convergence and improved communication performance compared to baseline algorithms.
DiffATD efficiently discovers targets in partially observable environments using diffusion dynamics.
problem Efficiently discovering targets in partially observable environments with limited sampling.
method DiffATD uses diffusion dynamics to maintain a belief distribution over unobserved states, balancing exploration and exploitation.
result DiffATD outperforms baselines and supervised methods in diverse domains.
Model-based reinforcement learning algorithms make decisions by building and utilizing a model of the environment. However, none of the existing algorithms attempts to infer the dynamics of any state-action pair from known state-action pairs before meeting it for sufficient times. We propose a new model-based method ca…
Power plant is a complex and nonstationary system for which the traditional machine learning modeling approaches fall short of expectations. The ensemble-based online learning methods provide an effective way to continuously learn from the dynamic environment and autonomously update models to respond to environmental c…
The paper proposes a method to adapt machine learning models to changing conditions.
problem Machine learning models need to adapt to new conditions in a constantly changing environment.
method Reuse knowledge from existing models to train future generations.
result The proposed method allows machine learning models to adapt and survive in a dynamic environment.
Autonomous agents trained via reinforcement learning present numerous safety concerns: reward hacking, negative side effects, and unsafe exploration, among others. In the context of near-future autonomous agents, operating in environments where humans understand the existing dangers, human involvement in the learning p…
GNMC reduces XCSF population size while preserving function approximation and policy accuracy.
problem Population bloat in XCSF compaction.
method Introduced GNMC, a novel compaction algorithm.
result GNMC reduces population size significantly without compromising function approximation or policy accuracy.
New method learns policies from offline data using operator models.
problem Limited understanding of approximation errors in offline reinforcement learning.
method Linking reinforcement learning to Hamilton-Jacobi-Bellman equation, proposing operator-theoretic algorithm.
result Global convergence of the value function and finite-sample guarantees derived.
Hierarchical Deep Reinforcement Learning: Integrating Temporal Abstraction and Intrinsic Motivationcs.LG
Learning goal-directed behavior in environments with sparse feedback is a major challenge for reinforcement learning algorithms. The primary difficulty arises due to insufficient exploration, resulting in an agent being unable to learn robust value functions. Intrinsically motivated agents can explore new behavior for …
Many decision-making problems naturally exhibit pronounced structures inherited from the characteristics of the underlying environment. In a Markov decision process model, for example, two distinct states can have inherently related semantics or encode resembling physical state configurations. This often implies locall…
AIF improves physical AI agents' performance in dynamic environments.
problem Physical AI agents are less capable than biological agents in open-ended real-world environments.
method Developed from probability theory, Bayesian machine learning, variational inference, and Active Inference (AIF), grounded in the Free Energy Principle.
result AIF minimizes variational free energy and is well-suited to physical constraints.
We present the OpenAI Remote Rendering Backend (ORRB), a system that allows fast and customizable rendering of robotics environments. It is based on the Unity3d game engine and interfaces with the MuJoCo physics simulation library. ORRB was designed with visual domain randomization in mind. It is optimized for cloud de…
Data-driven model selection reduces regret in sequential decisions.
problem Optimizing model selection in stochastic environments with bandit feedback.
method Data-driven regret balancing for model selection.
result Meta-learner selects the best base learner based on actual realized regret.
Learning to control an environment without hand-crafted rewards or expert data remains challenging and is at the frontier of reinforcement learning research. We present an unsupervised learning algorithm to train agents to achieve perceptually-specified goals using only a stream of observations and actions. Our agent s…
INTAGS uses interactive simulation to improve realism in multi-agent systems.
problem Challenges in developing realistic agent-based simulators for multi-agent systems.
method INTAGS introduces a novel metric to evaluate the difference between real and synthetic multi-agent systems, optimizing a stochastic policy in reinforcement learning to adapt to interactive sequential decision-making environments.
result INTAGS generates more realistic market data compared to state-of-the-art approaches.