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20222026
most citedUnsupervised Representation Learning in Deep Reinforcement Learning: A Review

4 citations · 8 across the 15 of their papers we have counts for

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16 papers

math.NA2026

Spatio-temporal Latent Denoising Diffusion Probabilistic Models for Reduced-order Modeling of Parametrized Dynamical Systems

Michiel Nikken, Nicolò Botteghi, Federico Califano +1

Many scientific problems require accurate modeling of complex physical phenomena, such as fluid dynamics or climate modeling. These phenomena often result in high-dimensional and t…

cs.RO2026

CAVEAT: Recurrent Multimodal Diffusion Planning for Mapless Aerial Exploration

Steven Visch, Nicolò Botteghi, Antonio Franchi +1

Can exploratory UAV waypoint sequences be generated from multimodal onboard observations and a fixed-dimensional recurrent internal state without maintaining a persistent global ma…

cs.LG2026

HypEMBER: Hypernetwork-based Ensemble for Robust Policy Learning of Parametrized Dynamical Systems

Nicolò Botteghi, Gabriele Pascali, Urban Fasel +1

In this work we investigate reinforcement learning (RL) as a framework for the robust control of parametrized dynamical systems in presence of measurements and model uncertainties.…

cs.LG2026

Physics-enhanced reinforcement learning for real-time optimal control of dynamical systems

Matteo Tomasetto, Nicolò Botteghi, Gabriele Bruni +1

Reinforcement learning (RL) has recently emerged as a promising feedback control strategy for nonlinear and complex dynamical systems. However, RL algorithms are sample inefficient…

cs.RO2026

Flow-aware Optimal Navigation in Unsteady Flows through Reinforcement Learning

Andrea Maria Braghin, Nicolò Botteghi, Matteo Tomasetto +2

Autonomous robotic navigation in nonstationary time-varying fluid flows remains a fundamental challenge due to partial observability and the unpredictability of realistic environme…

cs.LG2026

Deep Invertible Autoencoders for Dimensionality Reduction of Dynamical Systems

Nicolò Botteghi, Silke Glas, Christoph Brune

Constructing reduced-order models (ROMs) capable of efficiently predicting the evolution of parameter-dependent high-dimensional dynamical systems is crucial in many applications i…

cs.RO2026

Robust Co-design Optimisation for Agile Fixed-Wing UAVs

Adrian Andrei Buda, Xavier Chen, Nicolò Botteghi +1

Co-design optimisation of autonomous systems has emerged as a powerful alternative to sequential approaches by jointly optimising physical design and control strategies. However, e…

cs.RO2026

Interconnection and Damping Assignment Passivity-Based Control using Sparse Neural ODEs

Nicolò Botteghi, Owen Brook, Urban Fasel +1

Interconnection and Damping Assignment Passivity-Based Control (IDA-PBC) is a nonlinear control technique that assigns a port-Hamiltonian (pH) structure to a controlled system usin…

cs.LG2025

HypeMARL: Multi-Agent Reinforcement Learning For High-Dimensional, Parametric, and Distributed Systems

Nicolò Botteghi, Matteo Tomasetto, Urban Fasel +2

Deep reinforcement learning has recently emerged as a promising feedback control strategy for complex dynamical systems governed by partial differential equations (PDEs). When deal…

cs.LG2025

HypeRL: Hypernetwork-Based Reinforcement Learning for Control of Parametrized Dynamical Systems

Nicolò Botteghi, Stefania Fresca, Mengwu Guo +1

In this work, we devise a new, general-purpose reinforcement learning strategy for the optimal control of parametric dynamical systems. Such problems frequently arise in applied sc…

cs.LG2024

Interpretable and Efficient Data-driven Discovery and Control of Distributed Systems

Florian Wolf, Nicolò Botteghi, Urban Fasel +1

Effectively controlling systems governed by Partial Differential Equations (PDEs) is crucial in several fields of Applied Sciences and Engineering. These systems usually yield sign…

cs.LG2024

Sparsifying Parametric Models with L0 Regularization

Nicolò Botteghi, Urban Fasel

This document contains an educational introduction to the problem of sparsifying parametric models with L0 regularization. We utilize this approach together with dictionary learnin…

cs.RO2024★ 1 cited

Invisible Servoing: a Visual Servoing Approach with Return-Conditioned Latent Diffusion

Bishoy Gerges, Barbara Bazzana, Nicolò Botteghi +2

In this paper, we present a novel visual servoing (VS) approach based on latent Denoising Diffusion Probabilistic Models (DDPMs), that explores the application of generative models…

cs.LG2024★ 3 cited

Parametric PDE Control with Deep Reinforcement Learning and Differentiable L0-Sparse Polynomial Policies

Nicolò Botteghi, Urban Fasel

Optimal control of parametric partial differential equations (PDEs) is crucial in many applications in engineering and science. In recent years, the progress in scientific machine…

cs.LG2024

CORE: Towards Scalable and Efficient Causal Discovery with Reinforcement Learning

Andreas W. M. Sauter, Nicolò Botteghi, Erman Acar +1

Causal discovery is the challenging task of inferring causal structure from data. Motivated by Pearl's Causal Hierarchy (PCH), which tells us that passive observations alone are no…

cs.LG2022★ 4 cited

Unsupervised Representation Learning in Deep Reinforcement Learning: A Review

Nicolò Botteghi, Mannes Poel, Christoph Brune

This review addresses the problem of learning abstract representations of the measurement data in the context of Deep Reinforcement Learning (DRL). While the data are often ambiguo…