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Towards designing a generic and comprehensive deep reinforcement learning framework

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posted on 2022-01-01, 00:00 authored by N D Nguyen, Thanh Thi NguyenThanh Thi Nguyen, N T Pham, H Nguyen, D T Nguyen, T D Nguyen, Chee Peng LimChee Peng Lim, Michael JohnstoneMichael Johnstone, Asim BhattiAsim Bhatti, Douglas CreightonDouglas Creighton, Saeid Nahavandi
AbstractReinforcement learning (RL) has emerged as an effective approach for building an intelligent system, which involves multiple self-operated agents to collectively accomplish a designated task. More importantly, there has been a renewed focus on RL since the introduction of deep learning that essentially makes RL feasible to operate in high-dimensional environments. However, there are many diversified research directions in the current literature, such as multi-agent and multi-objective learning, and human-machine interactions. Therefore, in this paper, we propose a comprehensive software architecture that not only plays a vital role in designing a connect-the-dots deep RL architecture but also provides a guideline to develop a realistic RL application in a short time span. By inheriting the proposed architecture, software managers can foresee any challenges when designing a deep RL-based system. As a result, they can expedite the design process and actively control every stage of software development, which is especially critical in agile development environments. For this reason, we design a deep RL-based framework that strictly ensures flexibility, robustness, and scalability. To enforce generalization, the proposed architecture also does not depend on a specific RL algorithm, a network configuration, the number of agents, or the type of agents.

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Journal

Applied Intelligence

Pagination

1 - 22

Publisher

Springer

Location

Berlin, Germany

ISSN

0924-669X

eISSN

1573-7497

Language

English

Publication classification

C1 Refereed article in a scholarly journal