Affiliation:
1. The University of Tokyo
Abstract
Photonic accelerators have attracted increasing attention for use in artificial intelligence applications. The multi-armed bandit problem is a fundamental problem of decision making using reinforcement learning. However, to the best of our knowledge, the scalability of photonic decision making has not yet been demonstrated in experiments because of the technical difficulties in the physical realization. We propose a parallel photonic decision-making system to solve large-scale multi-armed bandit problems using optical spatiotemporal chaos. We solved a 512-armed bandit problem online, which is larger than those in previous experiments by two orders of magnitude. The scaling property for correct decision making is examined as a function of the number of slot machines, evaluated as an exponent of 0.86. This exponent is smaller than that in previous studies, indicating the superiority of the proposed parallel principle. This experimental demonstration facilitates photonic decision making to solve large-scale multi-armed bandit problems for future photonic accelerators.
Funder
Japan Society for the Promotion of Science
Core Research for Evolutional Science and Technology
Telecommunications Advancement Foundation
Subject
Atomic and Molecular Physics, and Optics,Electronic, Optical and Magnetic Materials
Cited by
2 articles.
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