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Accelerating Quadratic Optimization with Reinforcement Learning

Jeffrey Ichnowski · Paras Jain · Bartolomeo Stellato · Goran Banjac · Michael Luo · Francesco Borrelli · Joseph Gonzalez · Ion Stoica · Ken Goldberg

Keywords: [ Reinforcement Learning and Planning ] [ Optimization ] [ Machine Learning ]


Abstract:

First-order methods for quadratic optimization such as OSQP are widely used for large-scale machine learning and embedded optimal control, where many related problems must be rapidly solved. These methods face two persistent challenges: manual hyperparameter tuning and convergence time to high-accuracy solutions. To address these, we explore how Reinforcement Learning (RL) can learn a policy to tune parameters to accelerate convergence. In experiments with well-known QP benchmarks we find that our RL policy, RLQP, significantly outperforms state-of-the-art QP solvers by up to 3x. RLQP generalizes surprisingly well to previously unseen problems with varying dimension and structure from different applications, including the QPLIB, Netlib LP and Maros-M{\'e}sz{\'a}ros problems. Code, models, and videos are available at https://berkeleyautomation.github.io/rlqp/.

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