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Main Authors: Tuyen, Le Pham, Vien, Ngo Anh, Layek, Abu, Chung, TaeChoong
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Published: 2018
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Online Access:https://arxiv.org/abs/1805.04419
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author Tuyen, Le Pham
Vien, Ngo Anh
Layek, Abu
Chung, TaeChoong
author_facet Tuyen, Le Pham
Vien, Ngo Anh
Layek, Abu
Chung, TaeChoong
contents In recent years, reinforcement learning has achieved many remarkable successes due to the growing adoption of deep learning techniques and the rapid growth in computing power. Nevertheless, it is well-known that flat reinforcement learning algorithms are often not able to learn well and data-efficient in tasks having hierarchical structures, e.g. consisting of multiple subtasks. Hierarchical reinforcement learning is a principled approach that is able to tackle these challenging tasks. On the other hand, many real-world tasks usually have only partial observability in which state measurements are often imperfect and partially observable. The problems of RL in such settings can be formulated as a partially observable Markov decision process (POMDP). In this paper, we study hierarchical RL in POMDP in which the tasks have only partial observability and possess hierarchical properties. We propose a hierarchical deep reinforcement learning approach for learning in hierarchical POMDP. The deep hierarchical RL algorithm is proposed to apply to both MDP and POMDP learning. We evaluate the proposed algorithm on various challenging hierarchical POMDP.
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spellingShingle Deep Hierarchical Reinforcement Learning Algorithm in Partially Observable Markov Decision Processes
Tuyen, Le Pham
Vien, Ngo Anh
Layek, Abu
Chung, TaeChoong
Artificial Intelligence
In recent years, reinforcement learning has achieved many remarkable successes due to the growing adoption of deep learning techniques and the rapid growth in computing power. Nevertheless, it is well-known that flat reinforcement learning algorithms are often not able to learn well and data-efficient in tasks having hierarchical structures, e.g. consisting of multiple subtasks. Hierarchical reinforcement learning is a principled approach that is able to tackle these challenging tasks. On the other hand, many real-world tasks usually have only partial observability in which state measurements are often imperfect and partially observable. The problems of RL in such settings can be formulated as a partially observable Markov decision process (POMDP). In this paper, we study hierarchical RL in POMDP in which the tasks have only partial observability and possess hierarchical properties. We propose a hierarchical deep reinforcement learning approach for learning in hierarchical POMDP. The deep hierarchical RL algorithm is proposed to apply to both MDP and POMDP learning. We evaluate the proposed algorithm on various challenging hierarchical POMDP.
title Deep Hierarchical Reinforcement Learning Algorithm in Partially Observable Markov Decision Processes
topic Artificial Intelligence
url https://arxiv.org/abs/1805.04419