NVIDIA Corporation
PERFORMING NETWORK CONGESTION CONTROL UTILIZING REINFORCEMENT LEARNING

Abstract:

A reinforcement learning agent learns a congestion control policy using a deep neural network and a distributed training component. The training component enables the agent to interact with a vast set of environments in parallel. These environments simulate real world benchmarks and real hardware. During a learning process, the agent learns how maximize an objective function. A simulator may enable parallel interaction with various scenarios. As the trained agent encounters a diverse set of problems it is more likely to generalize well to new and unseen environments. In addition, an operating point can be selected during training which may enable configuration of the required behavior of the agent.