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most citedTowards Improving Reward Design in RL: A Reward Alignment Metric for RL Practitioners

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cs.LG2026

The Trajectory Alignment Coefficient in Two Acts: From Reward Tuning to Reward Learning

Calarina Muslimani, Yunshu Du, Kenta Kawamoto +3

The success of reinforcement learning (RL) is fundamentally tied to having a reward function that accurately reflects the task objective. Yet, designing reward functions is notorio…

cs.LG2026

Reward Learning through Ranking Mean Squared Error

Chaitanya Kharyal, Calarina Muslimani, Matthew E. Taylor

Reward design remains a significant bottleneck in applying reinforcement learning (RL) to real-world problems. A popular alternative is reward learning, where reward functions are…

cs.LG2025★ 1 cited

Towards Improving Reward Design in RL: A Reward Alignment Metric for RL Practitioners

Calarina Muslimani, Kerrick Johnstonbaugh, Suyog Chandramouli +3

Reinforcement learning agents are fundamentally limited by the quality of the reward functions they learn from, yet reward design is often overlooked under the assumption that a we…

cs.LG2024

Boosting Robustness in Preference-Based Reinforcement Learning with Dynamic Sparsity

Calarina Muslimani, Bram Grooten, Deepak Ranganatha Sastry Mamillapalli +3

To integrate into human-centered environments, autonomous agents must learn from and adapt to humans in their native settings. Preference-based reinforcement learning (PbRL) can en…

cs.LG2024

Leveraging Sub-Optimal Data for Human-in-the-Loop Reinforcement Learning

Calarina Muslimani, Matthew E. Taylor

To create useful reinforcement learning (RL) agents, step zero is to design a suitable reward function that captures the nuances of the task. However, reward engineering can be a d…

cs.LG2022★ 1 cited

Reinforcement Teaching

Calarina Muslimani, Alex Lewandowski, Dale Schuurmans +2

Machine learning algorithms learn to solve a task, but are unable to improve their ability to learn. Meta-learning methods learn about machine learning algorithms and improve them…