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most citedThe Primacy Bias in Deep Reinforcement Learning

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cs.LG2025

Mol-MoE: Training Preference-Guided Routers for Molecule Generation

Diego Calanzone, Pierluca D'Oro, Pierre-Luc Bacon

Recent advances in language models have enabled framing molecule generation as sequence modeling. However, existing approaches often rely on single-objective reinforcement learning…

cs.LG20251 cited

Towards General-Purpose Model-Free Reinforcement Learning

Scott Fujimoto, Pierluca D'Oro, Amy Zhang +2

Reinforcement learning (RL) promises a framework for near-universal problem-solving. In practice however, RL algorithms are often tailored to specific benchmarks, relying on carefu…

cs.LG2024

The Curse of Diversity in Ensemble-Based Exploration

Zhixuan Lin, Pierluca D'Oro, Evgenii Nikishin +1

We uncover a surprising phenomenon in deep reinforcement learning: training a diverse ensemble of data-sharing agents -- a well-established exploration strategy -- can significantl…

cs.LG2024

Maxwell's Demon at Work: Efficient Pruning by Leveraging Saturation of Neurons

Simon Dufort-Labbé, Pierluca D'Oro, Evgenii Nikishin +3

When training neural networks, dying neurons -- units becoming inactive or saturated -- are traditionally seen as harmful. This paper sheds new light on this phenomenon. By explori…

cs.LG2024

Do Transformer World Models Give Better Policy Gradients?

Michel Ma, Tianwei Ni, Clement Gehring +2

A natural approach for reinforcement learning is to predict future rewards by unrolling a neural network world model, and to backpropagate through the resulting computational graph…

cs.LG2023

Policy Optimization in a Noisy Neighborhood: On Return Landscapes in Continuous Control

Nate Rahn, Pierluca D'Oro, Harley Wiltzer +2

Deep reinforcement learning agents for continuous control are known to exhibit significant instability in their performance over time. In this work, we provide a fresh perspective…