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Crowdsourcing Probabilistic Planning Based on Monte-Carlo Tree Search

Rao Dong-ning, Yi Shan-zhen   

  1. School of Computer Science and Technology, Guangdong University of Technology, Guangzhou 510006, China
  • Received:2022-02-22 Online:2022-07-10 Published:2022-06-29

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Abstract: Probabilistic planning is a Markov decision process (MDP) in which actions are parallel and probabilistic. However, both state and action spaces of probabilistic planning problems are exponential, and excessive state space can reduce the efficiency of the planner and increase the difficulty of solving problems. Therefore, a crowdsourcing probabilistic planning is proposed based on Monte-Carlo tree search, which allocates planning tasks to multiple planners to solve probabilistic planning problems. The Monte-Carlo tree search algorithm is used to build a lookahead tree and evaluate the quality of the actions returned by different planners through the lookahead tree. Experimental results show that, with the relaxation of resource restrictions, the quality of the solution obtained by the algorithm continues to improve. Even in the same condition, the proposed method has better performance in solution efficiency and standard deviations.

Key words: probabilistic planning, Markov decision process (MDP), Monte-Carlo tree search, lookahead tree, crowdsourcing

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