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The 2025 PNPL Competition: Speech Detection and Phoneme Classification in the LibriBrain Dataset
Gilad Landau, Miran Özdogan, Gereon Elvers +15
The advance of speech decoding from non-invasive brain data holds the potential for profound societal impact. Among its most promising applications is the restoration of communicat…
Context-Aware Toxicity Detection in Multiplayer Games: Integrating Domain-Adaptive Pretraining and Match Metadata
Adrien Schurger-Foy, Rafal Dariusz Kocielnik, Caglar Gulcehre +1
The detrimental effects of toxicity in competitive online video games are widely acknowledged, prompting publishers to monitor player chat conversations. This is challenging due to…
In Search for Architectures and Loss Functions in Multi-Objective Reinforcement Learning
Mikhail Terekhov, Caglar Gulcehre
Multi-objective reinforcement learning (MORL) is essential for addressing the intricacies of real-world RL problems, which often require trade-offs between multiple utility functio…
PlanDQ: Hierarchical Plan Orchestration via D-Conductor and Q-Performer
Chang Chen, Junyeob Baek, Fei Deng +3
Despite the recent advancements in offline RL, no unified algorithm could achieve superior performance across a broad range of tasks. Offline \textit{value function learning}, in p…
Simple Hierarchical Planning with Diffusion
Chang Chen, Fei Deng, Kenji Kawaguchi +2
Diffusion-based generative methods have proven effective in modeling trajectories with offline datasets. However, they often face computational challenges and can falter in general…
Imagine the Unseen World: A Benchmark for Systematic Generalization in Visual World Models
Yeongbin Kim, Gautam Singh, Junyeong Park +2
Systematic compositionality, or the ability to adapt to novel situations by creating a mental model of the world using reusable pieces of knowledge, remains a significant challenge…
Reinforced Self-Training (ReST) for Language Modeling
Caglar Gulcehre, Tom Le Paine, Srivatsan Srinivasan +11
Reinforcement learning from human feedback (RLHF) can improve the quality of large language model's (LLM) outputs by aligning them with human preferences. We propose a simple algor…
AlphaStar Unplugged: Large-Scale Offline Reinforcement Learning
Michaël Mathieu, Sherjil Ozair, Srivatsan Srinivasan +21
StarCraft II is one of the most challenging simulated reinforcement learning environments; it is partially observable, stochastic, multi-agent, and mastering StarCraft II requires…
Universality of Linear Recurrences Followed by Non-linear Projections: Finite-Width Guarantees and Benefits of Complex Eigenvalues
Antonio Orvieto, Soham De, Caglar Gulcehre +2
Deep neural networks based on linear RNNs interleaved with position-wise MLPs are gaining traction as competitive approaches for sequence modeling. Examples of such architectures i…
Resurrecting Recurrent Neural Networks for Long Sequences
Antonio Orvieto, Samuel L Smith, Albert Gu +4
Recurrent Neural Networks (RNNs) offer fast inference on long sequences but are hard to optimize and slow to train. Deep state-space models (SSMs) have recently been shown to perfo…
Active Offline Policy Selection
Ksenia Konyushkova, Yutian Chen, Tom Le Paine +5
This paper addresses the problem of policy selection in domains with abundant logged data, but with a restricted interaction budget. Solving this problem would enable safe evaluati…
On Instrumental Variable Regression for Deep Offline Policy Evaluation
Yutian Chen, Liyuan Xu, Caglar Gulcehre +4
We show that the popular reinforcement learning (RL) strategy of estimating the state-action value (Q-function) by minimizing the mean squared Bellman error leads to a regression p…
Regularized Behavior Value Estimation
Caglar Gulcehre, Sergio Gómez Colmenarejo, Ziyu Wang +7
Offline reinforcement learning restricts the learning process to rely only on logged-data without access to an environment. While this enables real-world applications, it also pose…
Offline Learning from Demonstrations and Unlabeled Experience
Konrad Zolna, Alexander Novikov, Ksenia Konyushkova +6
Behavior cloning (BC) is often practical for robot learning because it allows a policy to be trained offline without rewards, by supervised learning on expert demonstrations. Howev…
Hyperparameter Selection for Offline Reinforcement Learning
Tom Le Paine, Cosmin Paduraru, Andrea Michi +5
Offline reinforcement learning (RL purely from logged data) is an important avenue for deploying RL techniques in real-world scenarios. However, existing hyperparameter selection m…
Critic Regularized Regression
Ziyu Wang, Alexander Novikov, Konrad Zolna +8
Offline reinforcement learning (RL), also known as batch RL, offers the prospect of policy optimization from large pre-recorded datasets without online environment interaction. It…
RL Unplugged: A Suite of Benchmarks for Offline Reinforcement Learning
Caglar Gulcehre, Ziyu Wang, Alexander Novikov +15
Offline methods for reinforcement learning have a potential to help bridge the gap between reinforcement learning research and real-world applications. They make it possible to lea…
Acme: A Research Framework for Distributed Reinforcement Learning
Matthew W. Hoffman, Bobak Shahriari, John Aslanides +36
Deep reinforcement learning (RL) has led to many recent and groundbreaking advances. However, these advances have often come at the cost of both increased scale in the underlying a…