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Parallel Bootstrap-Based On-Policy Deep Reinforcement Learning for Continuous Fluid Flow Control Applications

Elie Hachem

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The coupling of deep reinforcement learning to numerical flow control problems has recently received considerable attention, leading to groundbreaking results and opening new perspectives for the domain. Due to the usually high computational cost of fluid dynamics solvers, the use of parallel environments during the learning process represents an essential ingredient to attain efficient control in a reasonable time. Yet, most of the deep reinforcement learning literature for flow control relies on on-policy algorithms, for which the massively parallel transition collection may break theoretical assumptions and lead to suboptimal control models. To overcome this issue, we propose a parallelism pattern relying on partial-trajectory buffers terminated by a return bootstrapping step, allowing a flexible use of parallel environments while preserving the on-policiness of the updates. This approach is illustrated on a CPU-intensive continuous flow control problem from the literature.

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hal-04328631 , version 1 (07-12-2023)

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Jonathan Viquerat, Elie Hachem. Parallel Bootstrap-Based On-Policy Deep Reinforcement Learning for Continuous Fluid Flow Control Applications. Fluids, 2023, 8 (7), pp.208. ⟨10.3390/fluids8070208⟩. ⟨hal-04328631⟩
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