Paper ID: 2211.17132

Targets in Reinforcement Learning to solve Stackelberg Security Games

Saptarashmi Bandyopadhyay, Chenqi Zhu, Philip Daniel, Joshua Morrison, Ethan Shay, John Dickerson

Reinforcement Learning (RL) algorithms have been successfully applied to real world situations like illegal smuggling, poaching, deforestation, climate change, airport security, etc. These scenarios can be framed as Stackelberg security games (SSGs) where defenders and attackers compete to control target resources. The algorithm's competency is assessed by which agent is controlling the targets. This review investigates modeling of SSGs in RL with a focus on possible improvements of target representations in RL algorithms.

Submitted: Nov 30, 2022