3 papers
cs.AI2026
Deadline-Aware, Energy-Efficient Control of Domestic Immersion Hot Water Heater
Muhammad Ibrahim Khan, Bivin Pradeep, James Brusey
Typical domestic immersion water heater systems are often operated continuously during winter, heating quickly rather than efficiently and ignoring predictable demand windows and a…
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…