Sample efficiency is a central challenge in reinforcement learning (RL), particularly in image-based domains where agents must learn from high-dimensional visual inputs. Traditional sampling often relies on random or suboptimal experience selection, leading to redundant updates and slow learning.
arXiv:2608. 17373v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Sample efficiency is a central challenge in reinforcement learning (RL), particularly in image-based domains where agents must learn from high-dimensional visual inputs.
arXiv:2607. 29419v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: In reinforcement learning, exploration with sparse and delayed rewards presents a significant challenge due to the limited feedback available for guiding the learning process.
arXiv:2608. 17347v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Repetition is a fundamental mechanism in human learning, where revisiting successful experiences strengthens memory, consolidates skills, and improves future performance.
arXiv:2606. 00151v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: In reinforcement learning (RL), agents benefit from exploration only because they repeatedly encounter similar states: trying different actions can improve performance or reduce uncertainty; without such retries, a greedy policy is optimal.
arXiv:2607. 17760v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Inverse reinforcement learning (IRL) provides a powerful framework for learning from demonstrations.
arXiv:2606. 29820v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: In complex continuous-control reinforcement learning tasks, multimodal optimal actions often coincide with uncertain, multimodal return distributions, making reliable value estimation and multimodal exploration challenging.
arXiv:2606. 04492v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Cooperative Multi-Agent Reinforcement Learning (MARL) frequently suffers from severe reward sparsity and exploration bottlenecks.
Inverse reinforcement learning (IRL) provides a powerful framework for learning from demonstrations. However, real-world tasks often exhibit substantial natural variations (e.
arXiv:2607. 17981v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Representation learning has enabled classical exploration strategies to be extended to deep Reinforcement Learning (RL), but often makes algorithms more complex and theoretical guarantees harder to establish.
arXiv:2607. 02291v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Conventional reinforcement learning strategies for visual generation typically employ sample-wise reward functions, yet this practice frequently results in reward hacking that degrades image diversity and introduces visual anomalies.
arXiv:2606. 30192v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Sim-to-real transfer remains a major obstacle for reinforcement learning (RL), especially for vision-based control where image observations exacerbate the state-distribution shift between simulation and the real world.
arXiv:2607. 00796v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Visual Reinforcement Learning (VRL) has achieved considerable success in solving control tasks.