Combining Counterfactual Regret Minimization with Information Gain to Solve Extensive Games with Unknown Environments

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Autori principali: Qiu, Chen, Wang, Xuan, Ma, Tianzi, Wen, Yaojun, Zhang, Jiajia
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author Qiu, Chen
Wang, Xuan
Ma, Tianzi
Wen, Yaojun
Zhang, Jiajia
author_facet Qiu, Chen
Wang, Xuan
Ma, Tianzi
Wen, Yaojun
Zhang, Jiajia
contents Counterfactual regret minimization (CFR) is an effective algorithm for solving extensive games with imperfect information (IIEGs). However, CFR is only allowed to be applied in known environments, where the transition function of the chance player and the reward function of the terminal node in IIEGs are known. In uncertain situations, such as reinforcement learning (RL) problems, CFR is not applicable. Thus, applying CFR in unknown environments is a significant challenge that can also address some difficulties in the real world. Currently, advanced solutions require more interactions with the environment and are limited by large single-sampling variances to narrow the gap with the real environment. In this paper, we propose a method that combines CFR with information gain to compute the Nash equilibrium (NE) of IIEGs with unknown environments. We use a curiosity-driven approach to explore unknown environments and minimize the discrepancy between uncertain and real environments. Additionally, by incorporating information into the reward, the average strategy calculated by CFR can be directly implemented as the interaction policy with the environment, thereby improving the exploration efficiency of our method in uncertain environments. Through experiments on standard testbeds such as Kuhn poker and Leduc poker, our method significantly reduces the number of interactions with the environment compared to the different baselines and computes a more accurate approximate NE within the same number of interaction rounds.
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spellingShingle Combining Counterfactual Regret Minimization with Information Gain to Solve Extensive Games with Unknown Environments
Qiu, Chen
Wang, Xuan
Ma, Tianzi
Wen, Yaojun
Zhang, Jiajia
Computer Science and Game Theory
Counterfactual regret minimization (CFR) is an effective algorithm for solving extensive games with imperfect information (IIEGs). However, CFR is only allowed to be applied in known environments, where the transition function of the chance player and the reward function of the terminal node in IIEGs are known. In uncertain situations, such as reinforcement learning (RL) problems, CFR is not applicable. Thus, applying CFR in unknown environments is a significant challenge that can also address some difficulties in the real world. Currently, advanced solutions require more interactions with the environment and are limited by large single-sampling variances to narrow the gap with the real environment. In this paper, we propose a method that combines CFR with information gain to compute the Nash equilibrium (NE) of IIEGs with unknown environments. We use a curiosity-driven approach to explore unknown environments and minimize the discrepancy between uncertain and real environments. Additionally, by incorporating information into the reward, the average strategy calculated by CFR can be directly implemented as the interaction policy with the environment, thereby improving the exploration efficiency of our method in uncertain environments. Through experiments on standard testbeds such as Kuhn poker and Leduc poker, our method significantly reduces the number of interactions with the environment compared to the different baselines and computes a more accurate approximate NE within the same number of interaction rounds.
title Combining Counterfactual Regret Minimization with Information Gain to Solve Extensive Games with Unknown Environments
topic Computer Science and Game Theory
url https://arxiv.org/abs/2110.07892