Title
Hierarchical Reinforcement Learning: Approximating Optimal Discounted TSP Using Local Policies.
Abstract
In this work, we provide theoretical guarantees for reward decomposition in deterministic MDPs. Reward decomposition is a special case of Hierarchical Reinforcement Learning, that allows one to learn many policies in parallel and combine them into a composite solution. Our approach builds on mapping this problem into a Reward Discounted Traveling Salesman Problem, and then deriving approximate solutions for it. In particular, we focus on approximate solutions that are local, i.e., solutions that only observe information about the current state. Local policies are easy to implement and do not require substantial computational resources as they do not perform planning. While local deterministic policies, like Nearest Neighbor, are being used in practice for hierarchical reinforcement learning, we propose three stochastic policies that guarantee better performance than any deterministic policy.
Year
Venue
Field
2018
arXiv: Learning
k-nearest neighbors algorithm,Mathematical optimization,Travelling salesman problem,Mathematics,Special case,Reinforcement learning
DocType
Volume
Citations 
Journal
abs/1803.04674
0
PageRank 
References 
Authors
0.34
17
4
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Tom Zahavy153.37
Avinatan Hassidim247550.17
Haim Kaplan33581263.96
Yishay Mansour46211745.95