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Online Learning Demands in Max-min Fairness
Kirthevasan Kandasamy, Gur-Eyal Sela, Joseph E Gonzalez +2
We describe mechanisms for the allocation of a scarce resource among multiple users in a way that is efficient, fair, and strategy-proof, but when users do not know their resource…
BeBold: Exploration Beyond the Boundary of Explored Regions
Tianjun Zhang, Huazhe Xu, Xiaolong Wang +4
Efficient exploration under sparse rewards remains a key challenge in deep reinforcement learning. To guide exploration, previous work makes extensive use of intrinsic reward (IR).…
Intermittent Visual Servoing: Efficiently Learning Policies Robust to Instrument Changes for High-precision Surgical Manipulation
Samuel Paradis, Minho Hwang, Brijen Thananjeyan +6
Automation of surgical tasks using cable-driven robots is challenging due to backlash, hysteresis, and cable tension, and these issues are exacerbated as surgical instruments must…
Untangling Dense Knots by Learning Task-Relevant Keypoints
Jennifer Grannen, Priya Sundaresan, Brijen Thananjeyan +7
Untangling ropes, wires, and cables is a challenging task for robots due to the high-dimensional configuration space, visual homogeneity, self-occlusions, and complex dynamics. We…
RLlib Flow: Distributed Reinforcement Learning is a Dataflow Problem
Eric Liang, Zhanghao Wu, Michael Luo +3
Researchers and practitioners in the field of reinforcement learning (RL) frequently leverage parallel computation, which has led to a plethora of new algorithms and systems in the…
Resource Allocation in Multi-armed Bandit Exploration: Overcoming Sublinear Scaling with Adaptive Parallelism
Brijen Thananjeyan, Kirthevasan Kandasamy, Ion Stoica +3
We study exploration in stochastic multi-armed bandits when we have access to a divisible resource that can be allocated in varying amounts to arm pulls. We focus in particular on…