Title
Reinforcement Learning When All Actions Are Not Always Available
Abstract
The Markov decision process (MDP) formulation used to model many real-world sequential decision making problems does not efficiently capture the setting where the set of available decisions (actions) at each time step is stochastic. Recently. the stochastic action set Markov decision process (SAS-MDP) formulation has been proposed. which better captures the concept of a stochastic action set. In this paper we argue that existing RL algorithms for SAS-MDPs can suffer from potential divergence issues, and present new policy gradient algorithms for SAS-MDPs that incorporate variance reduction techniques unique to this setting, and provide conditions for their convergence. We conclude with experiments that demonstrate the practicality of our approaches on tasks inspired by real-life use cases wherein the action set is stochastic.
Year
Venue
DocType
2019
THIRTY-FOURTH AAAI CONFERENCE ON ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE, THE THIRTY-SECOND INNOVATIVE APPLICATIONS OF ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE CONFERENCE AND THE TENTH AAAI SYMPOSIUM ON EDUCATIONAL ADVANCES IN ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE
Journal
Volume
ISSN
Citations 
34
2159-5399
0
PageRank 
References 
Authors
0.34
0
4
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Yash Chandak123.07
Georgios Theocharous2143.23
Blossom Metevier300.68
Philip S. Thomas453.47