Policy Reinforcement Learning
Policy reinforcement learning aims to train agents to make optimal decisions in sequential environments by learning effective policies from data, often overcoming challenges like sparse rewards and high-dimensional state spaces. Current research emphasizes improving sample efficiency and robustness through techniques like off-policy learning with importance sampling adjustments, the development of novel algorithms (e.g., actor-critic methods, GFlowNets), and incorporating advanced model architectures (e.g., recurrent neural networks, diffusion models) to handle complex data and environments. These advancements hold significant promise for diverse applications, including robotics, personalized medicine, and resource management, by enabling more efficient and reliable learning from limited or complex data.
Papers
Offline-Boosted Actor-Critic: Adaptively Blending Optimal Historical Behaviors in Deep Off-Policy RL
Yu Luo, Tianying Ji, Fuchun Sun, Jianwei Zhang, Huazhe Xu, Xianyuan Zhan
Highway Reinforcement Learning
Yuhui Wang, Miroslav Strupl, Francesco Faccio, Qingyuan Wu, Haozhe Liu, Michał Grudzień, Xiaoyang Tan, Jürgen Schmidhuber