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Existence of variational solutions to nonlocal evolution equations via convex minimization
Harsh Prasad, Vivek Tewary
We prove existence of variational solutions for a class of nonlocal evolution equations whose prototype is the double phase equation \begin{align*} \partial_t u &+ \text{P.V.}\int_…
A constrained optimization perspective on actor critic algorithms and application to network routing
Prashanth L. A., H. L. Prasad, Shalabh Bhatnagar +1
We propose a novel actor-critic algorithm with guaranteed convergence to an optimal policy for a discounted reward Markov decision process. The actor incorporates a descent directi…
A Study of Gradient Descent Schemes for General-Sum Stochastic Games
H. L. Prasad, Shalabh Bhatnagar
Zero-sum stochastic games are easy to solve as they can be cast as simple Markov decision processes. This is however not the case with general-sum stochastic games. A fairly genera…
Actor-Critic Algorithms for Learning Nash Equilibria in N-player General-Sum Games
H. L Prasad, L. A. Prashanth, Shalabh Bhatnagar
We consider the problem of finding stationary Nash equilibria (NE) in a finite discounted general-sum stochastic game. We first generalize a non-linear optimization problem from Fi…
Simultaneous Perturbation Methods for Adaptive Labor Staffing in Service Systems
L. A. Prashanth, H. L. Prasad, Nirmit Desai +2
Service systems are labor intensive due to the large variation in the tasks required to address service requests from multiple customers. Aligning the staffing levels to the foreca…