Title
Resilient Computing With Reinforcement Learning On A Dynamical System: Case Study In Sorting
Abstract
This paper formulates general computation as a feedback-control problem, which allows the agent to autonomously overcome some limitations of standard procedural language programming: resilience to errors and early program termination. Our formulation considers computation to be trajectory generation in the program's variable space. The computing then becomes a sequential decision making problem, solved with reinforcement learning (RL), and analyzed with Lyapunov stability theory to assess the agent's resilience and progression to the goal. We do this through a case study on a quintessential computer science problem, array sorting. Evaluations show that our RL sorting agent makes steady progress to an asymptotically stable goal, is resilient to faulty components, and performs less array manipulations than traditional Quicksort and Bubble sort.
Year
Venue
DocType
2018
2018 IEEE CONFERENCE ON DECISION AND CONTROL (CDC)
Conference
Volume
ISSN
Citations 
abs/1809.09261
0743-1546
0
PageRank 
References 
Authors
0.34
0
4
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Aleksandra Faust16814.83
James B. Aimone21510.69
Conrad D. James3115.57
Lydia Tapia419424.66