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Bayesian Strategy Networks Based Soft Actor-Critic Learning

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Qin Yang *
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Ramviyas Parasuraman
DOI:10.1145/3643862delete
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Astrategy refers to the rules that the agent chooses the available actions to achieve goals. Adopting reasonable strategies is challenging but crucial for an intelligent agent with limited resources working in hazardous, unstructured, and dynamic environments to improve the system's utility, decrease the overall cost, and increase mission success probability. This article proposes a novel hierarchical strategy decomposition approach based on Bayesian chaining to separate an intricate policy into several simple sub-policies and organize their relationships as Bayesian strategy networks (BSN). We integrate this approach into the state-of-the-art DRL method-soft actor-critic (SAC), and build the corresponding Bayesian soft actor-critic (BSAC) model by organizing several sub-policies as a joint policy. Our method achieves the state-of-the-art performance on the standard continuous control benchmarks in the OpenAI Gym environment. The results demonstrate that the promising potential of the BSAC method significantly improves training efficiency. Furthermore, we extend the topic to the Multi-Agent systems (MAS), discussing the potential research fields and directions.
Keywords:
Strategy
bayesian networks
deep reinforcement learning
soft actor-critic
utility
expectation

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ACM Transactions on Intelligent Systems and Technology cover
ACM Transactions on Intelligent Systems and Technology
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university system of georgia
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