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Publication type:	Conference paper
Type of review:	Peer review (publication)
Title:	Improving sample efficiency and multi-agent communication in RL-based train rescheduling
Authors:	Roost, Dano Meier, Ralph Huschauer, Stephan Nygren, Erik Egli, Adrian Weiler, Andreas Stadelmann, Thilo
et. al:	No
DOI:	10.21256/zhaw-19978
Proceedings:	2020 7th Swiss Conference on Data Science (SDS)
Conference details:	7th Swiss Conference on Data Science, Lucerne, Switzerland, 26 June 2020
Issue Date:	26-Jun-2020
Publisher / Ed. Institution:	IEEE
Language:	English
Subjects:	Multi-agent deep reinforcement learning
Subject (DDC):	004: Computer science
Abstract:	We present preliminary results from our sixth placed entry to the Flatland international competition for train rescheduling, including two improvements for optimized reinforcement learning (RL) training efficiency, and two hypotheses with respect to the prospect of deep RL for complex real-world control tasks: first, that current state of the art policy gradient methods seem inappropriate in the domain of high-consequence environments; second, that learning explicit communication actions (an emerging machine-to-machine language, so to speak) might offer a remedy. These hypotheses need to be confirmed by future work. If confirmed, they hold promises with respect to optimizing highly efficient logistics ecosystems like the Swiss Federal Railways railway network.
URI:	https://digitalcollection.zhaw.ch/handle/11475/19978
Fulltext version:	Accepted version
License (according to publishing contract):	Licence according to publishing contract
Departement:	School of Engineering
Organisational Unit:	Institute of Applied Information Technology (InIT)
Appears in Collections:	Publikationen School of Engineering

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