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Algorithms, Volume 15, Issue 3

March 2022 - 30 articles

Cover Story: Reinforcement learning (RL) with sparse rewards is still an open challenge. Classic methods rely on learning via extrinsic rewards, and in situations where these are sparse, the agent may not learn at all. Similarly, if the agent gets rewards that create suboptimal modes of the objective function, it will prematurely stop exploring. Recent methods add intrinsic rewards to encourage exploration, but they lead to a non-stationary target for the Q-function. In this paper, we present a novel approach that (1) plans exploration far into the future using a long-term visit count and (2) decouples exploration and exploitation by learning a separate function. We also propose new environments for benchmarking exploration in RL. Results show that our approach outperforms existing methods. View this paper
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Articles (30)

  • Article
  • Open Access
7 Citations
4,092 Views
19 Pages

21 March 2022

In this article, multi-fidelity kriging and sparse polynomial chaos expansion (SPCE) surrogate models are constructed. In addition, a novel combination of the two surrogate approaches into a multi-fidelity SPCE-Kriging model will be presented. Accura...

  • Article
  • Open Access
4 Citations
6,334 Views
21 Pages

Key Concepts, Weakness and Benchmark on Hash Table Data Structures

  • Santiago Tapia-Fernández,
  • Daniel García-García and
  • Pablo García-Hernandez

21 March 2022

Most computer programs or applications need fast data structures. The performance of a data structure is necessarily influenced by the complexity of its common operations; thus, any data-structure that exhibits a theoretical complexity of amortized c...

  • Article
  • Open Access
5 Citations
4,365 Views
16 Pages

19 March 2022

Topology optimization offers a possibility to derive load-compliant structures. These structures tend to be complex, and conventional manufacturing offers only limited possibilities for their production. Additive manufacturing provides a remedy due t...

  • Article
  • Open Access
9 Citations
5,492 Views
18 Pages

Evolutionary Optimization of Spiking Neural P Systems for Remaining Useful Life Prediction

  • Leonardo Lucio Custode,
  • Hyunho Mo,
  • Andrea Ferigo and
  • Giovanni Iacca

19 March 2022

Remaining useful life (RUL) prediction is a key enabler for predictive maintenance. In fact, the possibility of accurately and reliably predicting the RUL of a system, based on a record of its monitoring data, can allow users to schedule maintenance...

  • Article
  • Open Access
2 Citations
2,967 Views
30 Pages

A Dynamic Distributed Deterministic Load-Balancer for Decentralized Hierarchical Infrastructures

  • Spyros Sioutas,
  • Efrosini Sourla,
  • Kostas Tsichlas,
  • Gerasimos Vonitsanos and
  • Christos Zaroliagis

18 March 2022

In this work, we propose D3-Tree, a dynamic distributed deterministic structure for data management in decentralized networks, by engineering and extending an existing decentralized structure. Conducting an extensive experimental study, we verify tha...

  • Article
  • Open Access
17 Citations
7,967 Views
18 Pages

Prediction of Harvest Time of Apple Trees: An RNN-Based Approach

  • Tiago Boechel,
  • Lucas Micol Policarpo,
  • Gabriel de Oliveira Ramos,
  • Rodrigo da Rosa Righi and
  • Dhananjay Singh

18 March 2022

In the field of agricultural research, Machine Learning (ML) has been used to increase agricultural productivity and minimize its environmental impact, proving to be an essential technique to support decision making. Accurate harvest time prediction...

  • Article
  • Open Access
4 Citations
4,041 Views
16 Pages

15 March 2022

Vibration signal analysis is the most common technique used for mechanical vibration monitoring. By using vibration sensors, the fault prognosis of rotating machinery provides a way to detect possible machine damage at an early stage and prevent prop...

  • Article
  • Open Access
21 Citations
4,760 Views
19 Pages

11 March 2022

The COVID-19 epidemic has highlighted the significance of sanitization and maintaining hygienic access to clean water to reduce mortality and morbidity cases worldwide. Diarrhea is one of the prevalent waterborne diseases caused due to contaminated w...

  • Article
  • Open Access
2 Citations
3,418 Views
16 Pages

Mean Estimation on the Diagonal of Product Manifolds

  • Mathias Højgaard Jensen and
  • Stefan Sommer

10 March 2022

Computing sample means on Riemannian manifolds is typically computationally costly, as exemplified by computation of the Fréchet mean, which often requires finding minimizing geodesics to each data point for each step of an iterative optimizat...

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