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Efficient Batch-Mode Reinforcement Learning Using Extreme Learning Machines

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Jiahang Liu
左磊 (Lei Zuo)
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徐鑫 (Xin Xu) *
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Xinglong Zhang
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Junkai Ren
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Qiang Fang
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Xinwang Liu
DOI:10.1109/TSMC.2019.2926806delete
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As a class of batch-mode reinforcement learning (RL) methods for Markov decision problems with large or continuous state spaces, approximate policy iteration (API) has received increasing attention in the past decades. One open problem in the design of API algorithms is how to construct the basis functions or features for value function approximation (VFA). In this paper, we propose a novel batch-mode RL approach with randomly projected features for VFA. The proposed approach can be viewed as an extension of extreme learning machines (ELMs) to RL problems so it can be called ELM-API. The ELMs have been popularly studied in supervised learning problems, but there is not much work on the extension of ELMs to learning control problems. The proposed approach has advantages over the previous API algorithms in that the features for VFA can be quickly generated without complex parameter selection and the performance will be adaptive to different sample sets in batch-mode RL. In particular, the ELM-API approach can realize fast and efficient feature reconstruction when training sample sets are relatively small. Comprehensive simulation studies on two benchmark learning control problems were carried out to test the performance of API algorithms with different feature construction methods. It is shown that the ELM-API algorithm can obtain comparable or better performance than the previous API approaches. To further show the effectiveness of ELM-API in real-world applications, the simulation results on a more challenging high-dimensional lane-changing decision problem in dynamic traffic environment are also reported, which show the capability of the ELM-API algorithm in learning satisfactory lane-changing policies with high data efficiency.
Keywords:
Heuristic algorithms
Approximation algorithms
Kernel
Computer architecture
Prediction algorithms
Task analysis
Markov processes
Approximate policy iteration (API)
extreme learning machines (ELMs)
learning control
reinforcement learning (RL)
value function approximation (VFA)
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IEEE Transactions on Cybernetics
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national university of defense technology - china
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