[HTML][HTML] Applications of reinforcement learning in energy systems

ATD Perera, P Kamalaruban - Renewable and Sustainable Energy …, 2021 - Elsevier
Energy systems undergo major transitions to facilitate the large-scale penetration of
renewable energy technologies and improve efficiencies, leading to the integration of many …

Neural approaches to conversational AI

J Gao, M Galley, L Li - The 41st international ACM SIGIR conference on …, 2018 - dl.acm.org
This tutorial surveys neural approaches to conversational AI that were developed in the last
few years. We group conversational systems into three categories:(1) question answering …

Recent advances and challenges in task-oriented dialog systems

Z Zhang, R Takanobu, Q Zhu, ML Huang… - Science China …, 2020 - Springer
Due to the significance and value in human-computer interaction and natural language
processing, task-oriented dialog systems are attracting more and more attention in both …

Recsim: A configurable simulation platform for recommender systems

E Ie, C Hsu, M Mladenov, V Jain, S Narvekar… - arxiv preprint arxiv …, 2019 - arxiv.org
We propose RecSim, a configurable platform for authoring simulation environments for
recommender systems (RSs) that naturally supports sequential interaction with users …

Comparative study of model-based and model-free reinforcement learning control performance in HVAC systems

C Gao, D Wang - Journal of Building Engineering, 2023 - Elsevier
Reinforcement learning (RL) shows the potential to address drawbacks of rule-based control
and model predictive control and exhibits great effectiveness in heating, ventilation and air …

Pseudo Dyna-Q: A reinforcement learning framework for interactive recommendation

L Zou, L **a, P Du, Z Zhang, T Bai, W Liu… - Proceedings of the 13th …, 2020 - dl.acm.org
Applying reinforcement learning (RL) in recommender systems is attractive but costly due to
the constraint of the interaction with real customers, where performing online policy learning …

Model-based reinforcement learning for biological sequence design

C Angermueller, D Dohan, D Belanger… - International …, 2019 - openreview.net
The ability to design biological structures such as DNA or proteins would have considerable
medical and industrial impact. Doing so presents a challenging black-box optimization …

Query resolution for conversational search with limited supervision

N Voskarides, D Li, P Ren, E Kanoulas… - Proceedings of the 43rd …, 2020 - dl.acm.org
In this work we focus on multi-turn passage retrieval as a crucial component of
conversational search. One of the key challenges in multi-turn passage retrieval comes from …

Large sequence models for sequential decision-making: a survey

M Wen, R Lin, H Wang, Y Yang, Y Wen, L Mai… - Frontiers of Computer …, 2023 - Springer
Transformer architectures have facilitated the development of large-scale and general-
purpose sequence models for prediction tasks in natural language processing and computer …

Evaluating conversational recommender systems via user simulation

S Zhang, K Balog - Proceedings of the 26th acm sigkdd international …, 2020 - dl.acm.org
Conversational information access is an emerging research area. Currently, human
evaluation is used for end-to-end system evaluation, which is both very time and resource …