A Game-Theoretic Spatio-Temporal Reinforcement Learning Framework for Collaborative Public Resource Allocation

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Autori principali: Lei, Songxin, Wang, Qiongyan, Zhu, Yanchen, Yao, Hanyu, Ruan, Sijie, Ruan, Weilin, Luo, Yuyu, Wu, Huaming, Liang, Yuxuan
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author Lei, Songxin
Wang, Qiongyan
Zhu, Yanchen
Yao, Hanyu
Ruan, Sijie
Ruan, Weilin
Luo, Yuyu
Wu, Huaming
Liang, Yuxuan
author_facet Lei, Songxin
Wang, Qiongyan
Zhu, Yanchen
Yao, Hanyu
Ruan, Sijie
Ruan, Weilin
Luo, Yuyu
Wu, Huaming
Liang, Yuxuan
contents Public resource allocation involves the efficient distribution of resources, including urban infrastructure, energy, and transportation, to effectively meet societal demands. However, existing methods focus on optimizing the movement of individual resources independently, without considering their capacity constraints. To address this limitation, we propose a novel and more practical problem: Collaborative Public Resource Allocation (CPRA), which explicitly incorporates capacity constraints and spatio-temporal dynamics in real-world scenarios. We propose a new framework called Game-Theoretic Spatio-Temporal Reinforcement Learning (GSTRL) for solving CPRA. Our contributions are twofold: 1) We formulate the CPRA problem as a potential game and demonstrate that there is no gap between the potential function and the optimal target, laying a solid theoretical foundation for approximating the Nash equilibrium of this NP-hard problem; and 2) Our designed GSTRL framework effectively captures the spatio-temporal dynamics of the overall system. We evaluate GSTRL on two real-world datasets, where experiments show its superior performance. Our source codes are available in the supplementary materials.
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spellingShingle A Game-Theoretic Spatio-Temporal Reinforcement Learning Framework for Collaborative Public Resource Allocation
Lei, Songxin
Wang, Qiongyan
Zhu, Yanchen
Yao, Hanyu
Ruan, Sijie
Ruan, Weilin
Luo, Yuyu
Wu, Huaming
Liang, Yuxuan
Machine Learning
Computers and Society
Public resource allocation involves the efficient distribution of resources, including urban infrastructure, energy, and transportation, to effectively meet societal demands. However, existing methods focus on optimizing the movement of individual resources independently, without considering their capacity constraints. To address this limitation, we propose a novel and more practical problem: Collaborative Public Resource Allocation (CPRA), which explicitly incorporates capacity constraints and spatio-temporal dynamics in real-world scenarios. We propose a new framework called Game-Theoretic Spatio-Temporal Reinforcement Learning (GSTRL) for solving CPRA. Our contributions are twofold: 1) We formulate the CPRA problem as a potential game and demonstrate that there is no gap between the potential function and the optimal target, laying a solid theoretical foundation for approximating the Nash equilibrium of this NP-hard problem; and 2) Our designed GSTRL framework effectively captures the spatio-temporal dynamics of the overall system. We evaluate GSTRL on two real-world datasets, where experiments show its superior performance. Our source codes are available in the supplementary materials.
title A Game-Theoretic Spatio-Temporal Reinforcement Learning Framework for Collaborative Public Resource Allocation
topic Machine Learning
Computers and Society
url https://arxiv.org/abs/2510.26184