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most citedModel-Free Active Exploration in Reinforcement Learning

2 citations · 2 across the 10 of their papers we have counts for

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12 papers

cs.LG2026

ICMAPE: In-Context Multiagent Pure Exploration

Xinyi Hu, Alessio Russo, Aldo Pacchiano

In some multi-agent systems, the quantity to be optimized is not an externally specified reward but the information acquired about unknown properties of the environment as done in…

cs.LG2026

Future Information-Directed Sampling for Bayesian Nonstationary Bandits

Yichen Song, Alessio Russo, Aldo Pacchiano

Exploration--exploitation is a central trade-off in bandit learning. While classical algorithms such as upper confidence bound methods and Thompson Sampling effectively balance thi…

stat.ML2026

Non-Asymptotic Best Policy Identification Guarantees in Online Reinforcement Learning

Joseph Lazzaro, Alessio Russo, Aldo Pacchiano

In this work we study the Best Policy Identification (BPI) problem in online, tabular Reinforcement Learning. This is an active sequential hypothesis testing problem in which the l…

cs.AI2026

Receding-Horizon Control via Drifting Models

Daniele Foffano, Alessio Russo, Alexandre Proutiere

We study the problem of trajectory optimization in settings where the system dynamics are unknown and it is not possible to simulate trajectories through a surrogate model. When an…

cs.LG2026

In-Context Pure Exploration in Continuous Decision Spaces

Alessio Russo, Yin-Ching Lee, Ryan Welch +1

In active sequential testing, also termed pure exploration, a learner is tasked with the goal to adaptively acquire information so as to identify an unknown ground-truth hypothesis…

cs.LG2025

Gym4ReaL: A Suite for Benchmarking Real-World Reinforcement Learning

Davide Salaorni, Vincenzo De Paola, Samuele Delpero +9

In recent years, \emph{Reinforcement Learning} (RL) has made remarkable progress, achieving superhuman performance in a wide range of simulated environments. As research moves towa…

cs.LG2025

In-Context Learning for Pure Exploration

Alessio Russo, Ryan Welch, Aldo Pacchiano

We study the problem active sequential hypothesis testing, also known as pure exploration: given a new task, the learner adaptively collects data from the environment to efficientl…

stat.ML2025

Pure Exploration with Feedback Graphs

Alessio Russo, Yichen Song, Aldo Pacchiano

We study the sample complexity of pure exploration in an online learning problem with a feedback graph. This graph dictates the feedback available to the learner, covering scenario…

cs.LG2025

Adaptive Exploration for Multi-Reward Multi-Policy Evaluation

Alessio Russo, Aldo Pacchiano

We study the policy evaluation problem in an online multi-reward multi-policy discounted setting, where multiple reward functions must be evaluated simultaneously for different pol…

cs.LG2025

Achieving Regret in Average-Reward POMDPs with Known Observation Models

Alessio Russo, Alberto Maria Metelli, Marcello Restelli

We tackle average-reward infinite-horizon POMDPs with an unknown transition model but a known observation model, a setting that has been previously addressed in two limiting ways:…

cs.LG2024

Efficient Learning of POMDPs with Known Observation Model in Average-Reward Setting

Alessio Russo, Alberto Maria Metelli, Marcello Restelli

Dealing with Partially Observable Markov Decision Processes is notably a challenging task. We face an average-reward infinite-horizon POMDP setting with an unknown transition model…

cs.LG2024★ 2 cited

Model-Free Active Exploration in Reinforcement Learning

Alessio Russo, Alexandre Proutiere

We study the problem of exploration in Reinforcement Learning and present a novel model-free solution. We adopt an information-theoretical viewpoint and start from the instance-spe…