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most citedBorn to Learn: the Inspiration, Progress, and Future of Evolved Plastic Artificial Neural Networks

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cs.LG2026

How to Find and Reuse Policies for Continuous Adaptation in Lifelong Reinforcement Learning

Saptarshi Nath, Inish M. D'Souza, Antonio Carta +2

In lifelong reinforcement learning, retaining previously learned policies is not sufficient for effective transfer to a new task. Useful knowledge may be distributed across several…

cs.LG2025

Policy Search, Retrieval, and Composition via Task Similarity in Collaborative Agentic Systems

Saptarshi Nath, Christos Peridis, Eseoghene Benjamin +7

Agentic AI aims to create systems that set their own goals, adapt proactively to change, and refine behavior through continuous experience. Recent advances suggest that, when facin…

cs.LG2024

Statistical Context Detection for Deep Lifelong Reinforcement Learning

Jeffery Dick, Saptarshi Nath, Christos Peridis +3

Context detection involves labeling segments of an online stream of data as belonging to different tasks. Task labels are used in lifelong learning algorithms to perform consolidat…

cs.LG2023★ 1 cited

Sharing Lifelong Reinforcement Learning Knowledge via Modulating Masks

Saptarshi Nath, Christos Peridis, Eseoghene Ben-Iwhiwhu +5

Lifelong learning agents aim to learn multiple tasks sequentially over a lifetime. This involves the ability to exploit previous knowledge when learning new tasks and to avoid forg…

cs.LG2023

The configurable tree graph (CT-graph): measurable problems in partially observable and distal reward environments for lifelong reinforcement learning

Andrea Soltoggio, Eseoghene Ben-Iwhiwhu, Christos Peridis +4

This paper introduces a set of formally defined and transparent problems for reinforcement learning algorithms with the following characteristics: (1) variable degrees of observabi…

cs.LG2023★ 17 cited

A Domain-Agnostic Approach for Characterization of Lifelong Learning Systems

Megan M. Baker, Alexander New, Mario Aguilar-Simon +44

Despite the advancement of machine learning techniques in recent years, state-of-the-art systems lack robustness to "real world" events, where the input distributions and tasks enc…

cs.LG2022★ 6 cited

Lifelong Reinforcement Learning with Modulating Masks

Eseoghene Ben-Iwhiwhu, Saptarshi Nath, Praveen K. Pilly +2

Lifelong learning aims to create AI systems that continuously and incrementally learn during a lifetime, similar to biological learning. Attempts so far have met problems, includin…

cs.LG2022★ 3 cited

Wasserstein Task Embedding for Measuring Task Similarities

Xinran Liu, Yikun Bai, Yuzhe Lu +2

Measuring similarities between different tasks is critical in a broad spectrum of machine learning problems, including transfer, multi-task, continual, and meta-learning. Most curr…

cs.LG2021★ 2 cited

SLOSH: Set LOcality Sensitive Hashing via Sliced-Wasserstein Embeddings

Yuzhe Lu, Xinran Liu, Andrea Soltoggio +1

Learning from set-structured data is an essential problem with many applications in machine learning and computer vision. This paper focuses on non-parametric and data-independent…

cs.LG2019

Deep Reinforcement Learning with Modulated Hebbian plus Q Network Architecture

Pawel Ladosz, Eseoghene Ben-Iwhiwhu, Jeffery Dick +6

This paper presents a new neural architecture that combines a modulated Hebbian network (MOHN) with DQN, which we call modulated Hebbian plus Q network architecture (MOHQA). The hy…