Personalized Federated Reinforcement Learning (PFRL) takes a decentralized approach to storing and accessing information based on past experiences while keeping each client's data private during the learning of each client's policy. Many current methods for PFRL rely heavily on exploiting existing reinforcement learning reward signals to derive an optimal policy for each client, thereby neglecting exploration in non-stationary or sparse-reward environments.
arXiv:2606. 19476v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Effective machine learning depends not only on how we model data, but also on what data we choose to collect.
By Eric Elmoznino, Sangnie Bhardwaj, Johannes von Oswald, Rajai Nasser, Blaise Ag\"uera y Arcas, Jo\~ao Sacramento, Rif A. Saurous, Guillaume Lajoie
Effective machine learning depends not only on how we model data, but also on what data we choose to collect. While large sequence models have revolutionized data modeling, the problem of automated data selection, or "intrinsic curiosity", remains a significant challenge.
The paper introduces ELEMENT, a framework that combines episodic and lifelong entropy maximization to drive reward-free exploration in reinforcement learning. It addresses two key limitations of existing entropy-based methods: the vanishing intrinsic reward after a state is visited and the computational cost of estimating entropy over large datasets. ELEMENT achieves this by deriving an average episodic state entropy reward and employing a k‑NN graph‑based estimator for lifelong entropy, leading to superior state coverage and unsupervised pre‑training performance compared to current baselines.
By Hongming Li, Zhao Yang, Xiaoxuan Liang, Shujian Yu, Jose C. Principe
arXiv:2608. 01556v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Large language models are increasingly aligned to human preferences via reward modeling, but user preference data are sensitive and often cannot be centralized.
By Seongyoon Kim, Boryeong Cho, Jihwan Oh, Seokhyun Chung, Se-Young Yun
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.
By Bumgeun Park, Donghwan Lee
arXiv:2609.05650v1 Announce Type: new
Abstract: We propose a reinforcement learning framework in which exploration is driven by intrinsic curiosity, designed for scenarios where environments are non-...
By Armando Vieira
arXiv:2607. 07693v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Reinforcement learning from human feedback (RLHF) has emerged as a powerful paradigm for aligning generative models with human preferences.
By Eric Zhu, Abhinav Shrivastava, Soumik Mukhopadhyay
arXiv:2608. 15660v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Federated learning (FL) enables privacy-preserving distributed model training but faces challenges from heterogeneous model architectures and limited communication resources at the network edge.
By Chenwang Liu, Yijun Liu, Chang Liu, Xu Zhang, Pengchao Han
arXiv:2606. 03094v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Recent advances in language models have established reinforcement learning as the primary paradigm for eliciting self-correction and long-chain reasoning.
By Pengyu Chen, Shaowei Li, Kai Wang, Yunsheng Yuan, Kai Han, Jun Luo, Feng Li
arXiv:2502. 08829v2 Announce Type: replace Abstract: Federated learning (FL) with non-IID data often degrades client performance below local training baselines.
By Ahmed Elhussein, Florent Pollet, Gamze G\"ursoy
The paper introduces Graph-Guided Quasimetric Dense Reward (G2QDR), a framework that learns a state connectivity model to predict pairwise connectivity strengths in asymmetric environments. These strengths are converted into scalar auxiliary dense rewards, offering continuous guidance across hierarchical levels. G2QDR can be integrated into any existing Goal-Conditioned Hierarchical Reinforcement Learning architecture and shows empirical performance improvements in sparse reward settings with modest computational cost.
By Shuyuan Zhang, Zihan Wang, Xiao-Wen Chang, Doina Precup