Title
Sensitivity-based nested partitions for solving finite-horizon Markov decision processes.
Abstract
In this paper, we propose a heuristic for solving finite-horizon Markov decision processes. The heuristic uses the nested partitions (NP) framework to guide an iterative search for the optimal policy. NP focuses the search on certain promising subregions, flexibly determined by the sampling weight of each action branch. Within each subregion, an effective local policy optimization is developed using sensitivity-based approach, which optimizes the sampling weights based on estimated gradient information. Numerical results show the effectiveness of the proposed heuristic.
Year
DOI
Venue
2017
10.1016/j.orl.2017.07.006
Operations Research Letters
Keywords
Field
DocType
Approximate dynamic programming,Markov decision processes,Nested partitions,Sensitivity-based approach
Mathematical optimization,Heuristic,Combinatorics,Iterative search,Markov decision process,Sampling (statistics),Finite horizon,Mathematics
Journal
Volume
Issue
ISSN
45
5
0167-6377
Citations 
PageRank 
References 
0
0.34
7
Authors
1
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Weiwei Chen112512.21