Evolving Policies for Multi-Reward Partially Observable Markov Decision Processes (MR-POMDPs)
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Author(s)
Soh, Harold
Demiris, Yiannis
Type
Conference Paper
Abstract
Plans and decisions in many real-world scenarios are made under uncertainty and to satisfy multiple, possibly conflicting, objectives. In this work, we contribute the multi-reward partially-observable Markov decision process (MR-POMDP) as a general modelling framework. To solve MR-POMDPs, we present two hybrid (memetic) multi-objective evolutionary algorithms that generate non-dominated sets of policies (in the form of stochastic finite state controllers). Performance comparisons between the methods on multi-objective problems in robotics (with 2, 3 and 5 objectives), web-advertising (with 3, 4 and 5 objectives) and infectious disease control (with 3 objectives), revealed that memetic variants outperformed their original counterparts. We anticipate that the MR-POMDP along with multi-objective evolutionary solvers will prove useful in a variety of theoretical and real-world applications.
Editor(s)
Krasnogor, N
Date Issued
2011-07-16
Citation
2011, pp.713-720
Publisher
ACM
Start Page
713
End Page
720
Journal / Book Title
GECCO-2011: PROCEEDINGS OF THE 13TH ANNUAL GENETIC AND EVOLUTIONARY COMPUTATION CONFERENCE
Copyright Statement
© 2011 ACM. This is the author's version of the work. It is posted here by permission of ACM for your personal use. Not for redistribution. The definitive version was published in PROCEEDINGS OF THE GECCO, (2011) http://doi.acm.org/10.1145/10.1145/2001576.2001674
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Source
Genetic and Evolutionary Computation Conference (GECCO)
Subjects
MULTIOBJECTIVE EVOLUTIONARY ALGORITHMS
MEMETIC ALGORITHMS
OPTIMIZATION
SEARCH
Publication Status
Published
Start Date
2011-07-12
Finish Date
2011-07-16
Coverage Spatial
Dublin, Ireland