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Quantum reinforcement learning in dynamic environments

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Oliver Sefrin *
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Manuel Radons
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Lars Simon
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Sabine Wölk
DOI:10.1007/s42484-026-00383-8delete
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Combining quantum computing techniques in the form of amplitude amplification with classical reinforcement learning has led to the so-called “hybrid agent for quantum-accessible reinforcement learning”, which achieves a quadratic speedup in sample complexity for certain learning problems. So far, this hybrid agent has only been applied to stationary learning problems, that is, learning problems without any time dependency within components of the Markov decision process. In this work, we investigate the applicability of the hybrid agent to dynamic RL environments and thus to more realistic scenarios. To this end, we enhance the hybrid agent by introducing a dissipation mechanism and, with the resulting learning agent, perform an empirical comparison with a classical RL agent in an RL environment with a time-dependent reward function. Our findings suggest that the modified hybrid agent can adapt its behavior to changes in the environment quickly, leading to a higher average success probability compared to its classical counterpart.
Keywords:
Quantum reinforcement learning
Hybrid algorithm
Continual reinforcement learning
Amplitude amplification
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Quantum Machine Intelligence
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institute of quantum technologies
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