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cs.AI2020

Learning Optimal Power Flow: Worst-Case Guarantees for Neural Networks

Andreas Venzke, Guannan Qu, Steven Low +1

This paper introduces for the first time a framework to obtain provable worst-case guarantees for neural network performance, using learning for optimal power flow (OPF) problems a…

math.OC2020★ 11 cited

Combining Model-Based and Model-Free Methods for Nonlinear Control: A Provably Convergent Policy Gradient Approach

Guannan Qu, Chenkai Yu, Steven Low +1

Model-free learning-based control methods have seen great success recently. However, such methods typically suffer from poor sample complexity and limited convergence guarantees. T…

math.OC2020★ 23 cited

Scalable Multi-Agent Reinforcement Learning for Networked Systems with Average Reward

Guannan Qu, Yiheng Lin, Adam Wierman +1

It has long been recognized that multi-agent reinforcement learning (MARL) faces significant scalability issues due to the fact that the size of the state and action spaces are exp…

cs.LG2020★ 8 cited

Multi-Agent Reinforcement Learning in Stochastic Networked Systems

Yiheng Lin, Guannan Qu, Longbo Huang +1

We study multi-agent reinforcement learning (MARL) in a stochastic network of agents. The objective is to find localized policies that maximize the (discounted) global reward. In g…

math.OC2020★ 24 cited

Finite-Time Analysis of Asynchronous Stochastic Approximation and -Learning

Guannan Qu, Adam Wierman

We consider a general asynchronous Stochastic Approximation (SA) scheme featuring a weighted infinity-norm contractive operator, and prove a bound on its finite-time convergence ra…