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20202026
most citedWD3: Taming the Estimation Bias in Deep Reinforcement Learning

29 citations · 43 across the 13 of their papers we have counts for

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13 papers

cs.LG2026

One Model for All: Multi-Objective Controllable Language Models

Qiang He, Yucheng Yang, Tianyi Zhou +3

Aligning large language models (LLMs) with human preferences is critical for enhancing LLMs' safety, helpfulness, humor, faithfulness, etc. Current reinforcement learning from huma…

cs.LG2025

Scaling Behaviors of LLM Reinforcement Learning Post-Training: An Empirical Study in Mathematical Reasoning

Zelin Tan, Hejia Geng, Xiaohang Yu +14

While scaling laws for large language models (LLMs) during pre-training have been extensively studied, their behavior under reinforcement learning (RL) post-training remains largel…

cs.LG2025

Pareto Multi-Objective Alignment for Language Models

Qiang He, Setareh Maghsudi

Large language models (LLMs) are increasingly deployed in real-world applications that require careful balancing of multiple, often conflicting, objectives, such as informativeness…

cs.LG2025

Task Adaptation from Skills: Information Geometry, Disentanglement, and New Objectives for Unsupervised Reinforcement Learning

Yucheng Yang, Tianyi Zhou, Qiang He +3

Unsupervised reinforcement learning (URL) aims to learn general skills for unseen downstream tasks. Mutual Information Skill Learning (MISL) addresses URL by maximizing the mutual…

cs.AI2024★ 1 cited

Advancing DRL Agents in Commercial Fighting Games: Training, Integration, and Agent-Human Alignment

Chen Zhang, Qiang He, Zhou Yuan +4

Deep Reinforcement Learning (DRL) agents have demonstrated impressive success in a wide range of game genres. However, existing research primarily focuses on optimizing DRL compete…

cs.LG2024

Adaptive Regularization of Representation Rank as an Implicit Constraint of Bellman Equation

Qiang He, Tianyi Zhou, Meng Fang +1

Representation rank is an important concept for understanding the role of Neural Networks (NNs) in Deep Reinforcement learning (DRL), which measures the expressive capacity of valu…

cs.LG2023

Keep Various Trajectories: Promoting Exploration of Ensemble Policies in Continuous Control

Chao Li, Chen Gong, Qiang He +1

The combination of deep reinforcement learning (DRL) with ensemble methods has been proved to be highly effective in addressing complex sequential decision-making problems. This su…

cs.LG2023★ 2 cited

Eigensubspace of Temporal-Difference Dynamics and How It Improves Value Approximation in Reinforcement Learning

Qiang He, Tianyi Zhou, Meng Fang +1

We propose a novel value approximation method, namely Eigensubspace Regularized Critic (ERC) for deep reinforcement learning (RL). ERC is motivated by an analysis of the dynamics o…

cs.LG2022★ 3 cited

Frustratingly Easy Regularization on Representation Can Boost Deep Reinforcement Learning

Qiang He, Huangyuan Su, Jieyu Zhang +1

Deep reinforcement learning (DRL) gives the promise that an agent learns good policy from high-dimensional information, whereas representation learning removes irrelevant and redun…

cs.LG2021

The -Divergence Reinforcement Learning Framework

Chen Gong, Qiang He, Yunpeng Bai +6

The framework of deep reinforcement learning (DRL) provides a powerful and widely applicable mathematical formalization for sequential decision-making. This paper present a novel D…

cs.LG2021★ 6 cited

MEPG: A Minimalist Ensemble Policy Gradient Framework for Deep Reinforcement Learning

Qiang He, Huangyuan Su, Chen Gong +1

During the training of a reinforcement learning (RL) agent, the distribution of training data is non-stationary as the agent's behavior changes over time. Therefore, there is a ris…

cs.LG2021★ 2 cited

POPO: Pessimistic Offline Policy Optimization

Qiang He, Xinwen Hou

Offline reinforcement learning (RL), also known as batch RL, aims to optimize policy from a large pre-recorded dataset without interaction with the environment. This setting offers…

cs.LG2020★ 29 cited

WD3: Taming the Estimation Bias in Deep Reinforcement Learning

Qiang He, Xinwen Hou

The overestimation phenomenon caused by function approximation is a well-known issue in value-based reinforcement learning algorithms such as deep Q-networks and DDPG, which could…