Adaptive Thompson Sampling Stacks for Memory Bounded Open-Loop Planning

Adaptive Thompson Sampling Stacks for Memory Bounded Open-Loop Planning

Thomy Phan, Thomas Gabor, Robert Müller, Christoph Roch, Claudia Linnhoff-Popien

Proceedings of the Twenty-Eighth International Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence
Main track. Pages 5607-5613. https://doi.org/10.24963/ijcai.2019/778

We propose Stable Yet Memory Bounded Open-Loop (SYMBOL) planning, a general memory bounded approach to partially observable open-loop planning. SYMBOL maintains an adaptive stack of Thompson Sampling bandits, whose size is bounded by the planning horizon and can be automatically adapted according to the underlying domain without any prior domain knowledge beyond a generative model. We empirically test SYMBOL in four large POMDP benchmark problems to demonstrate its effectiveness and robustness w.r.t. the choice of hyperparameters and evaluate its adaptive memory consumption. We also compare its performance with other open-loop planning algorithms and POMCP.
Keywords:
Planning and Scheduling: Planning Algorithms
Planning and Scheduling: Planning under Uncertainty
Planning and Scheduling: POMDPs