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Multi-Objective Optimization Using Adaptive Distributed Reinforcement Learning

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Jing Tan *
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Ramin Khalili
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Holger Karl
DOI:10.1109/TITS.2024.3378007delete
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Abstract

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The Intelligent Transportation System (ITS) environment is known to be dynamic and distributed, where participants (vehicle users, operators, etc.) have multiple, changing and possibly conflicting objectives. Although Reinforcement Learning (RL) algorithms are commonly applied to optimize ITS applications such as resource management and offloading, most RL algorithms focus on single objectives. In many situations, converting a multi-objective problem into a single-objective one is impossible, intractable or insufficient, making such RL algorithms inapplicable. We propose a multi-objective, multi-agent reinforcement learning (MARL) algorithm with high learning efficiency and low computational requirements, which automatically triggers adaptive few-shot learning in a dynamic, distributed and noisy environment with sparse and delayed reward. We test our algorithm in an ITS environment with edge cloud computing. Empirical results show that the algorithm is quick to adapt to new environments and performs better in all individual and system metrics compared to the state-of-the-art benchmark. Our algorithm also addresses various practical concerns with its modularized and asynchronous online training method. In addition to the cloud simulation, we test our algorithm on a single-board computer and show that it can make inference in 6 milliseconds.
Keywords:
Heuristic algorithms
Computational modeling
Vehicle dynamics
Resource management
Optimization
Inference algorithms
Complexity theory
V2X
distributed systems
reinforcement learning
multi-objective

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IEEE Transactions on Intelligent Transportation Systems cover
IEEE Transactions on Intelligent Transportation Systems
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University of Potsdam
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