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2026

Does Latent Context Help? A Controlled Evaluation of Inverse Reinforcement Learning in Arctic Shipping
V. Vaidheeswaran, D. Jayakody, B. Ambaw, J. Kumar, M. M. Alam, G. Spadon
arXiv preprint arXiv:2608.06105, 2026.
arXiv
Towards Combining Task-Independent and Learned Task-Dependent Intrinsic Rewards in Cooperative Multi-Agent Reinforcement Learning
D. Jayakody, D. Rosati, J. Rajendran
2nd Workshop on Advancing AI through Theory of Mind (ToM4AI) at AAAI, 2026.
Proceedings
Replay Buffer with Efficient Local Forgetting for Adaptation to Local Reward Changes in Deep Model-Based Reinforcement Learning
R. MacDonald, D. Jayakody, S. Oore, J. Rajendran
Continual Reinforcement Learning Workshop at RLC, 2026.
OpenReview

2025

Goal-Conditioned Reinforcement Learning for Data-Driven Maritime Navigation
V. Vaidheeswaran, D. Jayakody, S. Mulay, A. Lo, M. M. Alam, G. Spadon
2025 IEEE International Conference on Big Data (BigData), 1194–1203, 2025.
arXiv

2024

Back to the Stats: Rescuing Low Resource Neural Machine Translation with Statistical Methods
M. Velayuthan, D. Jayakody, N. de Silva, A. Fernando, S. Ranathunga
Proceedings of the Ninth Conference on Machine Translation (WMT), 901–907, 2024.
ACL Anthology PDF
Shoulders of Giants: A Look at the Degree and Utility of Openness in NLP Research
S. Ranathunga, N. de Silva, D. Jayakody, A. Fernando
Proceedings of the 62nd Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics (ACL), 2024.
ACL Anthology arXiv
Few-shot Multispectral Segmentation with Representations Generated by Reinforcement Learning
D. Jayakody, T. Ambegoda
British Machine Vision Conference (BMVC), 2024.
Proceedings PDF arXiv Code

2023

Geometric Perception based Efficient Text Recognition
P. N. Deelaka, D. R. Jayakodi, D. Y. Silva
arXiv preprint arXiv:2302.03873, 2023.
arXiv
Optimized Field Sampling of Mars-Analog Serpentine Zones via Machine Learning
D. R. Jayakody, T. D. Ambegoda, S. Karunatillake, E. B. Hughes
54th Lunar and Planetary Science Conference, 2023.
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