Gradient bounded dynamic programming with submodular and concave extensible value functions

We consider dynamic programming problems with finite, discrete-time horizons and prohibitively high-dimensional, discrete state-spaces for direct computation of the value function from the Bellman equation. For the case that the value function of the dynamic program is concave extensible and submodu...

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Những tác giả chính: Lebedev, D, Goulart, P, Margellos, K
Định dạng: Conference item
Ngôn ngữ:English
Được phát hành: Elsevier 2021
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Tóm tắt:We consider dynamic programming problems with finite, discrete-time horizons and prohibitively high-dimensional, discrete state-spaces for direct computation of the value function from the Bellman equation. For the case that the value function of the dynamic program is concave extensible and submodular in its state-space, we present a new algorithm that computes deterministic upper and stochastic lower bounds of the value function similar to dual dynamic programming. We then show that the proposed algorithm terminates after a fnite number of iterations. Finally, we demonstrate the efficacy of our approach on a high-dimensional numerical example from delivery slot pricing in attended home delivery.