Conditional Diffusion Model with OOD Mitigation as High-Dimensional Offline Resource Allocation Planner in Clustered Ad Hoc Networks

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Auteurs principaux: Meng, Kechen, Zhang, Sinuo, Li, Rongpeng, Wang, Chan, Lei, Ming, Zhao, Zhifeng
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author Meng, Kechen
Zhang, Sinuo
Li, Rongpeng
Wang, Chan
Lei, Ming
Zhao, Zhifeng
author_facet Meng, Kechen
Zhang, Sinuo
Li, Rongpeng
Wang, Chan
Lei, Ming
Zhao, Zhifeng
contents Due to network delays and scalability limitations, clustered ad hoc networks widely adopt Reinforcement Learning (RL) for on-demand resource allocation. Albeit its demonstrated agility, traditional Model-Free RL (MFRL) solutions struggle to tackle the huge action space, which generally explodes exponentially along with the number of resource allocation units, enduring low sampling efficiency and high interaction cost. In contrast to MFRL, Model-Based RL (MBRL) offers an alternative solution to boost sample efficiency and stabilize the training by explicitly leveraging a learned environment model. However, establishing an accurate dynamic model for complex and noisy environments necessitates a careful balance between model accuracy and computational complexity $\&$ stability. To address these issues, we propose a Conditional Diffusion Model Planner (CDMP) for high-dimensional offline resource allocation in clustered ad hoc networks. By leveraging the astonishing generative capability of Diffusion Models (DMs), our approach enables the accurate modeling of high-quality environmental dynamics while leveraging an inverse dynamics model to plan a superior policy. Beyond simply adopting DMs in offline RL, we further incorporate the CDMP algorithm with a theoretically guaranteed, uncertainty-aware penalty metric, which theoretically and empirically manifests itself in mitigating the Out-of-Distribution (OOD)-induced distribution shift issue underlying scarce training data. Extensive experiments also show that our model outperforms MFRL in average reward and Quality of Service (QoS) while demonstrating comparable performance to other MBRL algorithms.
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spellingShingle Conditional Diffusion Model with OOD Mitigation as High-Dimensional Offline Resource Allocation Planner in Clustered Ad Hoc Networks
Meng, Kechen
Zhang, Sinuo
Li, Rongpeng
Wang, Chan
Lei, Ming
Zhao, Zhifeng
Networking and Internet Architecture
Due to network delays and scalability limitations, clustered ad hoc networks widely adopt Reinforcement Learning (RL) for on-demand resource allocation. Albeit its demonstrated agility, traditional Model-Free RL (MFRL) solutions struggle to tackle the huge action space, which generally explodes exponentially along with the number of resource allocation units, enduring low sampling efficiency and high interaction cost. In contrast to MFRL, Model-Based RL (MBRL) offers an alternative solution to boost sample efficiency and stabilize the training by explicitly leveraging a learned environment model. However, establishing an accurate dynamic model for complex and noisy environments necessitates a careful balance between model accuracy and computational complexity $\&$ stability. To address these issues, we propose a Conditional Diffusion Model Planner (CDMP) for high-dimensional offline resource allocation in clustered ad hoc networks. By leveraging the astonishing generative capability of Diffusion Models (DMs), our approach enables the accurate modeling of high-quality environmental dynamics while leveraging an inverse dynamics model to plan a superior policy. Beyond simply adopting DMs in offline RL, we further incorporate the CDMP algorithm with a theoretically guaranteed, uncertainty-aware penalty metric, which theoretically and empirically manifests itself in mitigating the Out-of-Distribution (OOD)-induced distribution shift issue underlying scarce training data. Extensive experiments also show that our model outperforms MFRL in average reward and Quality of Service (QoS) while demonstrating comparable performance to other MBRL algorithms.
title Conditional Diffusion Model with OOD Mitigation as High-Dimensional Offline Resource Allocation Planner in Clustered Ad Hoc Networks
topic Networking and Internet Architecture
url https://arxiv.org/abs/2503.17693