A practical guide to multi-objective reinforcement learning and planning

CF Hayes, R Rădulescu, E Bargiacchi… - Autonomous Agents and …, 2022 - Springer
Real-world sequential decision-making tasks are generally complex, requiring trade-offs
between multiple, often conflicting, objectives. Despite this, the majority of research in …

Multi-task learning as multi-objective optimization

O Sener, V Koltun - Advances in neural information …, 2018 - proceedings.neurips.cc
In multi-task learning, multiple tasks are solved jointly, sharing inductive bias between them.
Multi-task learning is inherently a multi-objective problem because different tasks may …

Prediction-guided multi-objective reinforcement learning for continuous robot control

J Xu, Y Tian, P Ma, D Rus, S Sueda… - … on machine learning, 2020 - proceedings.mlr.press
Many real-world control problems involve conflicting objectives where we desire a dense
and high-quality set of control policies that are optimal for different objective preferences …

A distributional view on multi-objective policy optimization

A Abdolmaleki, S Huang… - International …, 2020 - proceedings.mlr.press
Many real-world problems require trading off multiple competing objectives. However, these
objectives are often in different units and/or scales, which can make it challenging for …

Deep reinforcement learning versus evolution strategies: A comparative survey

AY Majid, S Saaybi, V Francois-Lavet… - … on Neural Networks …, 2023 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Deep reinforcement learning (DRL) and evolution strategies (ESs) have surpassed human-
level control in many sequential decision-making problems, yet many open challenges still …

Multi-objective graph heuristic search for terrestrial robot design

J Xu, A Spielberg, A Zhao, D Rus… - 2021 IEEE international …, 2021 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
We present methods for co-designing rigid robots over control and morphology (including
discrete topology) over multiple objectives. Previous work has addressed problems in single …

Meta-learning for multi-objective reinforcement learning

X Chen, A Ghadirzadeh, M Björkman… - 2019 IEEE/RSJ …, 2019 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Multi-objective reinforcement learning (MORL) is the generalization of standard
reinforcement learning (RL) approaches to solve sequential decision making problems that …

Pareto conditioned networks

M Reymond, E Bargiacchi, A Nowé - arxiv preprint arxiv:2204.05036, 2022 - arxiv.org
In multi-objective optimization, learning all the policies that reach Pareto-efficient solutions is
an expensive process. The set of optimal policies can grow exponentially with the number of …

Multi-objective reinforcement learning through continuous pareto manifold approximation

S Parisi, M Pirotta, M Restelli - Journal of Artificial Intelligence Research, 2016 - jair.org
Many real-world control applications, from economics to robotics, are characterized by the
presence of multiple conflicting objectives. In these problems, the standard concept of …

Multi-objective reinforcement learning with continuous pareto frontier approximation

M Pirotta, S Parisi, M Restelli - Proceedings of the AAAI conference on …, 2015 - ojs.aaai.org
This paper is about learning a continuous approximation of the Pareto frontier in Multi-
Objective Markov Decision Problems (MOMDPs). We propose a policy-based approach that …