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most citedThe Utility of Sparse Representations for Control in Reinforcement Learning

8 citations · 20 across the 10 of their papers we have counts for

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10 papers

cs.AI2026

Coachable agents for interactive gameplay

Roberto Capobianco, Harm van Seijen, Nolan D. Bard +38

Reinforcement learning has proven to be a valuable tool in the creation of advanced AI and robotic systems, contributing to everything from game playing to robotics to foundation m…

cs.LG2026

Value Bonuses using Ensemble Errors for Exploration in Reinforcement Learning

Abdul Wahab, Raksha Kumaraswamy, Martha White

Optimistic value estimates provide one mechanism for directed exploration in reinforcement learning (RL). The agent acts greedily with respect to an estimate of the value plus what…

cs.LG2024★ 1 cited

The Cross-environment Hyperparameter Setting Benchmark for Reinforcement Learning

Andrew Patterson, Samuel Neumann, Raksha Kumaraswamy +2

This paper introduces a new empirical methodology, the Cross-environment Hyperparameter Setting Benchmark, that compares RL algorithms across environments using a single hyperparam…

cs.LG2022★ 1 cited

Investigating the Properties of Neural Network Representations in Reinforcement Learning

Han Wang, Erfan Miahi, Martha White +5

In this paper we investigate the properties of representations learned by deep reinforcement learning systems. Much of the early work on representations for reinforcement learning…

cs.LG2022★ 2 cited

Continual Auxiliary Task Learning

Matthew McLeod, Chunlok Lo, Matthew Schlegel +4

Learning auxiliary tasks, such as multiple predictions about the world, can provide many benefits to reinforcement learning systems. A variety of off-policy learning algorithms hav…

cs.LG2021★ 1 cited

Off-Policy Actor-Critic with Emphatic Weightings

Eric Graves, Ehsan Imani, Raksha Kumaraswamy +1

A variety of theoretically-sound policy gradient algorithms exist for the on-policy setting due to the policy gradient theorem, which provides a simplified form for the gradient. T…

cs.AI2020

From Eye-blinks to State Construction: Diagnostic Benchmarks for Online Representation Learning

Banafsheh Rafiee, Zaheer Abbas, Sina Ghiassian +4

We present three new diagnostic prediction problems inspired by classical-conditioning experiments to facilitate research in online prediction learning. Experiments in classical co…

cs.LG2018★ 8 cited

The Utility of Sparse Representations for Control in Reinforcement Learning

Vincent Liu, Raksha Kumaraswamy, Lei Le +1

We investigate sparse representations for control in reinforcement learning. While these representations are widely used in computer vision, their prevalence in reinforcement learn…

cs.LG2018★ 2 cited

Context-Dependent Upper-Confidence Bounds for Directed Exploration

Raksha Kumaraswamy, Matthew Schlegel, Adam White +1

Directed exploration strategies for reinforcement learning are critical for learning an optimal policy in a minimal number of interactions with the environment. Many algorithms use…

cs.AI2017★ 5 cited

Learning Sparse Representations in Reinforcement Learning with Sparse Coding

Lei Le, Raksha Kumaraswamy, Martha White

A variety of representation learning approaches have been investigated for reinforcement learning; much less attention, however, has been given to investigating the utility of spar…