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20222024
most citedNovGrid: A Flexible Grid World for Evaluating Agent Response to Novelty

5 citations · 9 across the 7 of their papers we have counts for

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7 papers

cs.AI2024

The Interpretability of Codebooks in Model-Based Reinforcement Learning is Limited

Kenneth Eaton, Jonathan Balloch, Julia Kim +1

Interpretability of deep reinforcement learning systems could assist operators with understanding how they interact with their environment. Vector quantization methods -- also call…

cs.AI2024

External Model Motivated Agents: Reinforcement Learning for Enhanced Environment Sampling

Rishav Bhagat, Jonathan Balloch, Zhiyu Lin +2

Unlike reinforcement learning (RL) agents, humans remain capable multitaskers in changing environments. In spite of only experiencing the world through their own observations and i…

cs.LG2024

Is Exploration All You Need? Effective Exploration Characteristics for Transfer in Reinforcement Learning

Jonathan C. Balloch, Rishav Bhagat, Geigh Zollicoffer +3

In deep reinforcement learning (RL) research, there has been a concerted effort to design more efficient and productive exploration methods while solving sparse-reward problems. Th…

cs.AI2023

Novelty Detection in Reinforcement Learning with World Models

Geigh Zollicoffer, Kenneth Eaton, Jonathan Balloch +4

Reinforcement learning (RL) using world models has found significant recent successes. However, when a sudden change to world mechanics or properties occurs then agent performance…

cs.AI2023★ 3 cited

Neuro-Symbolic World Models for Adapting to Open World Novelty

Jonathan Balloch, Zhiyu Lin, Robert Wright +5

Open-world novelty--a sudden change in the mechanics or properties of an environment--is a common occurrence in the real world. Novelty adaptation is an agent's ability to improve…

cs.LG2022★ 1 cited

The Role of Exploration for Task Transfer in Reinforcement Learning

Jonathan C Balloch, Julia Kim, and Jessica L Inman +1

The exploration--exploitation trade-off in reinforcement learning (RL) is a well-known and much-studied problem that balances greedy action selection with novel experience, and the…

cs.AI2022★ 5 cited

NovGrid: A Flexible Grid World for Evaluating Agent Response to Novelty

Jonathan Balloch, Zhiyu Lin, Mustafa Hussain +5

A robust body of reinforcement learning techniques have been developed to solve complex sequential decision making problems. However, these methods assume that train and evaluation…