Deep reinforcement learning for robotics: A survey of real-world successes

C Tang, B Abbatematteo, J Hu… - Annual Review of …, 2024 - annualreviews.org
Reinforcement learning (RL), particularly its combination with deep neural networks,
referred to as deep RL (DRL), has shown tremendous promise across a wide range of …

[HTML][HTML] Deep Learning applications for COVID-19

C Shorten, TM Khoshgoftaar, B Furht - Journal of big Data, 2021 - Springer
This survey explores how Deep Learning has battled the COVID-19 pandemic and provides
directions for future research on COVID-19. We cover Deep Learning applications in Natural …

Ai alignment: A comprehensive survey

J Ji, T Qiu, B Chen, B Zhang, H Lou, K Wang… - arxiv preprint arxiv …, 2023 - arxiv.org
AI alignment aims to make AI systems behave in line with human intentions and values. As
AI systems grow more capable, the potential large-scale risks associated with misaligned AI …

Human-to-robot imitation in the wild

S Bahl, A Gupta, D Pathak - arxiv preprint arxiv:2207.09450, 2022 - arxiv.org
We approach the problem of learning by watching humans in the wild. While traditional
approaches in Imitation and Reinforcement Learning are promising for learning in the real …

Few-shot preference learning for human-in-the-loop rl

DJ Hejna III, D Sadigh - Conference on Robot Learning, 2023 - proceedings.mlr.press
While reinforcement learning (RL) has become a more popular approach for robotics,
designing sufficiently informative reward functions for complex tasks has proven to be …

Inverse preference learning: Preference-based rl without a reward function

J Hejna, D Sadigh - Advances in Neural Information …, 2024 - proceedings.neurips.cc
Reward functions are difficult to design and often hard to align with human intent. Preference-
based Reinforcement Learning (RL) algorithms address these problems by learning reward …

Global optimality guarantees for policy gradient methods

J Bhandari, D Russo - Operations Research, 2024 - pubsonline.informs.org
Policy gradients methods apply to complex, poorly understood, control problems by
performing stochastic gradient descent over a parameterized class of polices. Unfortunately …

Hierarchical reinforcement learning: A survey and open research challenges

M Hutsebaut-Buysse, K Mets, S Latré - Machine Learning and Knowledge …, 2022 - mdpi.com
Reinforcement learning (RL) allows an agent to solve sequential decision-making problems
by interacting with an environment in a trial-and-error fashion. When these environments are …

Genloco: Generalized locomotion controllers for quadrupedal robots

G Feng, H Zhang, Z Li, XB Peng… - … on Robot Learning, 2023 - proceedings.mlr.press
Recent years have seen a surge in commercially-available and affordable quadrupedal
robots, with many of these platforms being actively used in research and industry. As the …

Model-free reinforcement learning from expert demonstrations: a survey

J Ramírez, W Yu, A Perrusquía - Artificial Intelligence Review, 2022 - Springer
Reinforcement learning from expert demonstrations (RLED) is the intersection of imitation
learning with reinforcement learning that seeks to take advantage of these two learning …