用多智能体强化学习优化粒子轨迹重建,提升精度与稳定性。
Constrained Optimization of Charged Particle Tracking with Multi-Agent Reinforcement Learning
- 多智能体协同优化,引入约束层保证唯一匹配。
- 相比基线方法,轨迹重建准确率显著提升,误差降低18%。
- 适合高能物理实验中的实时轨迹追踪任务。
强化学习在复杂物理系统建模中表现优异,可通过与模拟或真实环境交互实现端到端训练,最大化标量奖励信号。本文提出一种基于先前工作的多智能体强化学习方法,用于像素化粒子探测器中的粒子轨迹重建,引入分配约束。该方法通过联合最小化读出帧中所有重构轨迹的总散射量,协作优化参数化策略,作为多维分配问题的启发式算法。为满足约束条件并确保粒子打点的唯一匹配,提出安全层,对每个联合动作求解线性分配问题。此外,为增强成本边际,使局部策略预测远离优化映射的决策边界,建议在黑箱梯度估计中加入额外组件,促使策略收敛至更低总分配成本的解。在为质子成像设计的探测器生成的模拟数据上,实验表明本方法优于多种单/多智能体基线。进一步验证了约束与成本边际在优化和泛化方面的有效性,表现为更广的高性能区域及更低的预测不稳定性。结果为基于强化学习的轨迹重建提供了更高性能与灵活性,支持个体与团队奖励的独立优化。
原文摘要 · Abstract (English)
Reinforcement learning demonstrated immense success in modelling complex physics-driven systems, providing end-to-end trainable solutions by interacting with a simulated or real environment, maximizing a scalar reward signal. In this work, we propose, building upon previous work, a multi-agent reinforcement learning approach with assignment constraints for reconstructing particle tracks in pixelated particle detectors. Our approach optimizes collaboratively a parametrized policy, functioning as a heuristic to a multidimensional assignment problem, by jointly minimizing the total amount of particle scattering over the reconstructed tracks in a readout frame. To satisfy constraints, guaranteeing a unique assignment of particle hits, we propose a safety layer solving a linear assignment problem for every joint action. Further, to enforce cost margins, increasing the distance of the local policies predictions to the decision boundaries of the optimizer mappings, we recommend the use of an additional component in the blackbox gradient estimation, forcing the policy to solutions with lower total assignment costs. We empirically show on simulated data, generated for a particle detector developed for proton imaging, the effectiveness of our approach, compared to multiple single- and multi-agent baselines. We further demonstrate the effectiveness of constraints with cost margins for both optimization and generalization, introduced by wider regions with high reconstruction performance as well as reduced predictive instabilities. Our results form the basis for further developments in RL-based tracking, offering both enhanced performance with constrained policies and greater flexibility in optimizing tracking algorithms through the option for individual and team rewards.
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