학술논문

Quantum Multi-Agent Reinforcement Learning for Autonomous Mobility Cooperation
Document Type
Periodical
Source
IEEE Communications Magazine IEEE Commun. Mag. Communications Magazine, IEEE. 62(6):106-112 Jun, 2024
Subject
Power, Energy and Industry Applications
Signal Processing and Analysis
Computing and Processing
Communication, Networking and Broadcast Technologies
Artificial neural networks
Quantum computing
Qubit
Training
Reinforcement learning
Machine learning algorithms
Convergence
Fourth Industrial Revolution
Autonomous systems
Multi-agent systems
Language
ISSN
0163-6804
1558-1896
Abstract
For Industry 4.0 Revolution, cooperative autonomous mobility systems are widely used based on multi-agent reinforcement learning (MARL). However, the MARL-based algorithms suffer from huge parameter utilization and convergence difficulties with many agents. To tackle these problems, a quantum MARL (QMARL) algorithm based on the concept of actor-critic network is proposed, which is beneficial in terms of scalability, to deal with the limitations in the noisy intermediate-scale quantum (NISQ) era. Additionally, our QMARL is also beneficial in terms of efficient parameter utilization and fast convergence due to quantum supremacy. Note that the reward in our QMARL is defined as task precision over computation time in multiple agents, thus, multi-agent cooperation can be realized. For further improvement, an additional technique for scalability is proposed, which is called projection value measure (PVM). Based on PVM, our proposed QMARL can achieve the highest reward by reducing the action dimension into a logarithmic-scale. Finally, we can conclude that our proposed QMARL with PVM outperforms the other algorithms in terms of efficient parameter utilization, fast convergence, and scalability.