3 papers
cs.LG2026
Learning to Modulate, Not to Cycle: Soft Actor---Critic Recovers Inverter-Style Heat-Pump Control
Faizan Ahmed, Aniket Dixit, James Brusey
On--off cycling is the main cause of compressor wear in residential heat pumps, yet reinforcement learning (RL) controllers for buildings typically optimise only energy cost and th…
cs.AI2026
Higher-Order Action Regularization in Deep Reinforcement Learning: From Continuous Control to Building Energy Management
Faizan Ahmed, Aniket Dixit, James Brusey
Deep reinforcement learning agents often exhibit erratic, high-frequency control behaviors that hinder real-world deployment due to excessive energy consumption and mechanical wear…
cs.LG2025
Learning from Less: SINDy Surrogates in RL
Aniket Dixit, Muhammad Ibrahim Khan, Faizan Ahmed +1
This paper introduces an approach for developing surrogate environments in reinforcement learning (RL) using the Sparse Identification of Nonlinear Dynamics (SINDy) algorithm. We d…