在不确定环境里用少量策略最小化最坏情况下的损失表现。
Optimizing Minimax Regret in Uncertain MDPs with Small Sets of Policies

- 设计一种可选策略集的优化方法,动态选择最优策略应对不确定性
- 从1个策略增至2个时,悔悟值下降最显著,后续提升有限
- 算法能保证最优解,适合需严格控制策略数量的场景
现实应用中的序列决策常面临环境模型不确定的问题。不确定马尔可夫决策过程(UMDP)将可能环境表示为共享状态和动作但转移概率与奖励不同的多组MDP。对所有可能的MDP优化单一策略会牺牲性能,而为每个MDP分别优化又可能违反运营、监管或可解释性对策略数量的限制。我们考虑模型不确定性在执行前短时间内被确定的情况,允许从预先准备的有限策略集中选择最合适的策略。本文提出k-自适应策略合成,以最小化最大悔悟为目标优化一组共k个策略。证明该问题是NP-hard,并开发了KAPS——一种带问题特异性界和启发式的精确嵌套分支定界算法。KAPS联合优化哪些MDP共享同一策略以及策略本身。在多个UMDP基准测试中,从1个策略增至2个时,悔悟值的减少最为显著。在单策略设置下,KAPS在解质量上与现有方法相当,且更频繁地证明最优性。
原文摘要 · Abstract (English)
Sequential decision-making in real-world applications often involves uncertainty about the environment's model. Uncertain Markov decision processes (UMDPs) represent the possible environments as a set of MDPs with shared states and actions but potentially different transition probabilities and rewards. Optimizing a single policy across all possible MDPs may sacrifice performance, while preparing an individually optimized policy for every MDP may violate operational, regulatory, or interpretability constraints on the number of policies that can be prepared and deployed. We consider settings in which model uncertainty is resolved shortly before execution, allowing the most suitable policy to be selected from a limited set prepared in advance. We introduce $k$-adaptable policy synthesis, which optimizes such a set of $k$ policies under a minimax-regret objective. We prove that the problem is NP-hard and develop KAPS, an exact nested branch-and-bound algorithm with problem-specific bounds and heuristics. KAPS jointly optimizes which MDPs share a policy and the policies themselves. Experiments across various UMDP benchmarks show that the largest reduction in regret consistently occurs when increasing from one to two policies. In the single-policy setting, KAPS is competitive with existing methods in solution quality and proves optimality substantially more often.
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