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20202023
most citedt-Soft Update of Target Network for Deep Reinforcement Learning

70 citations · 213 across the 23 of their papers we have counts for

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23 papers

cs.RO2023★ 1 cited

Intentionally-underestimated Value Function at Terminal State for Temporal-difference Learning with Mis-designed Reward

Taisuke Kobayashi

Robot control using reinforcement learning has become popular, but its learning process generally terminates halfway through an episode for safety and time-saving reasons. This stu…

cs.LG2023★ 2 cited

Soft Actor-Critic Algorithm with Truly-satisfied Inequality Constraint

Taisuke Kobayashi

Soft actor-critic (SAC) in reinforcement learning is expected to be one of the next-generation robot control schemes. Its ability to maximize policy entropy would make a robotic co…

cs.LG2022★ 5 cited

Reward Bonuses with Gain Scheduling Inspired by Iterative Deepening Search

Taisuke Kobayashi

This paper introduces a novel method of adding intrinsic bonuses to task-oriented reward function in order to efficiently facilitate reinforcement learning search. While various bo…

cs.RO2022★ 4 cited

Real-time Sampling-based Model Predictive Control based on Reverse Kullback-Leibler Divergence and Its Adaptive Acceleration

Taisuke Kobayashi, Kota Fukumoto

Sampling-based model predictive control (MPC) has the potential for use in a wide variety of robotic systems. However, its unstable updates and poor convergence render it unsuitabl…

cs.LG2022★ 7 cited

Sparse Representation Learning with Modified q-VAE towards Minimal Realization of World Model

Taisuke Kobayashi, Ryoma Watanuki

Extraction of low-dimensional latent space from high-dimensional observation data is essential to construct a real-time robot controller with a world model on the extracted latent…

cs.LG2022★ 9 cited

Proximal Policy Optimization with Adaptive Threshold for Symmetric Relative Density Ratio

Taisuke Kobayashi

Deep reinforcement learning (DRL) is one of the promising approaches for introducing robots into complicated environments. The recent remarkable progress of DRL stands on regulariz…

cs.LG2022★ 3 cited

Consolidated Adaptive T-soft Update for Deep Reinforcement Learning

Taisuke Kobayashi

Demand for deep reinforcement learning (DRL) is gradually increased to enable robots to perform complex tasks, while DRL is known to be unstable. As a technique to stabilize its le…

cs.RO2022★ 14 cited

L2C2: Locally Lipschitz Continuous Constraint towards Stable and Smooth Reinforcement Learning

Taisuke Kobayashi

This paper proposes a new regularization technique for reinforcement learning (RL) towards making policy and value functions smooth and stable. RL is known for the instability of t…

cs.LG2022★ 26 cited

AdaTerm: Adaptive T-Distribution Estimated Robust Moments for Noise-Robust Stochastic Gradient Optimization

Wendyam Eric Lionel Ilboudo, Taisuke Kobayashi, Takamitsu Matsubara

With the increasing practicality of deep learning applications, practitioners are inevitably faced with datasets corrupted by noise from various sources such as measurement errors,…

cs.LG2021★ 1 cited

Impact of GPU uncertainty on the training of predictive deep neural networks

Maciej Pietrowski, Andrzej Gajda, Takuto Yamamoto +3

[retracted] We found out that the difference was dependent on the Chainer library, and does not replicate with another library (pytorch) which indicates that the results are probab…

cs.LG2021

Adaptive t-Momentum-based Optimization for Unknown Ratio of Outliers in Amateur Data in Imitation Learning

Wendyam Eric Lionel Ilboudo, Taisuke Kobayashi, Kenji Sugimoto

Behavioral cloning (BC) bears a high potential for safe and direct transfer of human skills to robots. However, demonstrations performed by human operators often contain noise or i…

cs.RO2021★ 11 cited

Latent Representation in Human-Robot Interaction with Explicit Consideration of Periodic Dynamics

Taisuke Kobayashi, Shingo Murata, Tetsunari Inamura

This paper presents a new data-driven framework for analyzing periodic physical human-robot interaction (pHRI) in latent state space. To elaborate human understanding and/or robot…

cs.LG2021

Hyperbolically-Discounted Reinforcement Learning on Reward-Punishment Framework

Taisuke Kobayashi

This paper proposes a new reinforcement learning with hyperbolic discounting. Combining a new temporal difference error with the hyperbolic discounting in recursive manner and rewa…

cs.LG2021★ 21 cited

Optimistic Reinforcement Learning by Forward Kullback-Leibler Divergence Optimization

Taisuke Kobayashi

This paper addresses a new interpretation of the traditional optimization method in reinforcement learning (RL) as optimization problems using reverse Kullback-Leibler (KL) diverge…

cs.LG2021★ 4 cited

Optimization Algorithm for Feedback and Feedforward Policies towards Robot Control Robust to Sensing Failures

Taisuke Kobayashi, Kenta Yoshizawa

Model-free or learning-based control, in particular, reinforcement learning (RL), is expected to be applied for complex robotic tasks. Traditional RL requires a policy to be optimi…

cs.RO2021★ 3 cited

Sample-efficient Gear-ratio Optimization for Biomechanical Energy Harvester

Taisuke Kobayashi, Yutaro Ikawa, Takamitsu Matsubara

The biomechanical energy harvester is expected to harvest the electric energies from human motions. A tradeoff between harvesting energy and keeping the user's natural movements sh…

cs.RO2021

Mirror-Descent Inverse Kinematics for Box-constrained Joint Space

Taisuke Kobayashi, Takanori Jin

To control humanoid robots, the reference pose of end effector(s) is planned in task space, then mapped into the reference joints by IK. By viewing that problem as approximate quad…

eess.SY2020

Deep unfolding-based output feedback control design for linear systems with input saturation

Koki Kobayashi, Masaki Ogura, Taisuke Kobayashi +1

In this paper, we propose a deep unfolding-based framework for the output feedback control of systems with input saturation. Although saturation commonly arises in several practica…

cs.LG2020★ 10 cited

Proximal Policy Optimization with Relative Pearson Divergence

Taisuke Kobayashi

The recent remarkable progress of deep reinforcement learning (DRL) stands on regularization of policy for stable and efficient learning. A popular method, named proximal policy op…

cs.LG2020★ 70 cited

t-Soft Update of Target Network for Deep Reinforcement Learning

Taisuke Kobayashi, Wendyam Eric Lionel Ilboudo

This paper proposes a new robust update rule of target network for deep reinforcement learning (DRL), to replace the conventional update rule, given as an exponential moving averag…

cs.RO2020★ 10 cited

Adaptive and Multiple Time-scale Eligibility Traces for Online Deep Reinforcement Learning

Taisuke Kobayashi

Deep reinforcement learning (DRL) is one promising approach to teaching robots to perform complex tasks. Because methods that directly reuse the stored experience data cannot follo…

cs.LG2020★ 4 cited

Towards Deep Robot Learning with Optimizer applicable to Non-stationary Problems

Taisuke Kobayashi

This paper proposes a new optimizer for deep learning, named d-AmsGrad. In the real-world data, noise and outliers cannot be excluded from dataset to be used for learning robot ski…

cs.LG2020★ 8 cited

TAdam: A Robust Stochastic Gradient Optimizer

Wendyam Eric Lionel Ilboudo, Taisuke Kobayashi, Kenji Sugimoto

Machine learning algorithms aim to find patterns from observations, which may include some noise, especially in robotics domain. To perform well even with such noise, we expect the…