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Francesco Boccardo^1,2, Olivier Pierre-Louis¹

¹<a href="https://ror.org/0323bey33">Institut Lumière Matière</a>, UMR5306, Université Lyon 1 - CNRS, Villeurbanne, France.

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Reinforcement learning struggles at the nanoscale due to Brownian motion. Optimal control is limited, but learning at lower temperatures can improve system control.

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Area of Science:

Physics
Chemistry
Computer Science

Background:

Reinforcement learning (RL) is a powerful control framework.
Brownian fluctuations at the nanoscale limit precise control of nanomachines and molecular systems.

Purpose of the Study:

To analyze nanoscale control limitations within the Markov decision process framework.
To investigate the efficiency of reinforcement learning at the nanoscale.

Main Methods:

Analysis using the general framework of Markov decision processes.
Simulations of controlling small particle cluster shapes.

Main Results:

Optimal nanoscale control improvement is proportional to (force * length) / temperature.
Learned control improvement is proportional to the square of this ratio, reducing learning efficiency.
Learning efficiency approaches zero at the nanoscale.

Conclusions:

Nanoscale Brownian fluctuations significantly reduce reinforcement learning efficiency.
Using actions learned at lower temperatures can circumvent these limitations.
Effective nanoscale control strategies require accounting for thermal noise.