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  • Artificial Intelligence
  • Operations Research
  • Machine Learning

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  • Reinforcement learning (RL) faces challenges in high-dimensional state spaces and unstable training for combinatorial optimization problems.
  • Applications in operations research (OR) and smart manufacturing require robust decision-making frameworks.

Purpose of the Study:

  • To introduce Information Bottleneck-Enhanced Reinforcement Learning (IBE), a novel framework designed to improve RL performance in structured combinatorial optimization.
  • To enhance representation learning and exploration efficiency in RL for complex industrial decision-making.

Main Methods:

  • IBE integrates information-theoretic regularization into attention-based RL architectures.
  • It employs two bottleneck objectives: a state representation bottleneck for compact data representation and a policy bottleneck for exploration bonus.
  • The framework utilizes mutual information between states and actions for policy regularization.

Main Results:

  • IBE demonstrated superior performance and stability compared to established RL baselines (PPO, REINFORCE, AM, NeuOpt).
  • Evaluations on routing and scheduling problems in logistics and manufacturing showed consistent outperformance.
  • Ablation studies validated the synergistic effect of the two bottleneck components.

Conclusions:

  • IBE offers a principled and generalizable approach to enhance RL for combinatorial optimization and Industry 4.0 environments.
  • The framework effectively addresses challenges in representation learning and exploration for complex decision spaces.
  • IBE provides a robust solution for real-world industrial decision-making applications.