Contextual Bandit Learning With Reward Oracles and Sampling Guidance in Multi-Agent Environments

Autor: Mike Li, Quang Dang Nguyen
Jazyk: angličtina
Rok vydání: 2021
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Zdroj: IEEE Access, Vol 9, Pp 96641-96657 (2021)
Druh dokumentu: article
ISSN: 2169-3536
DOI: 10.1109/ACCESS.2021.3094623
Popis: Learning action policy for autonomous agents in a decentralized multi-agent environment has remained an interesting but difficult research problem. We propose to model this problem in a contextual bandit setting with delayed reward signals, in particular an individual short-term reward signal and a shared long-term reward signal. Our algorithm utilizes an approach with reward oracles to directly model these delayed reward signals and also relies on a learning scheme benefiting from the sampling guidance of an expert-designed policy. This algorithm is expected to apply to a wide range of problems, including those with constraints on accessing state transitions and those with implicit reward information. A demonstration, deployed by deep learning regressors, shows the effectiveness of the proposed algorithm in learning offensive action policy in the RoboCup Soccer 2D Simulation (RCSS) environment against a well-known adversary benchmark team compared to a baseline policy.
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