Auxiliary Task-based Deep Reinforcement Learning For Quantum Control

Abstract

Due to its property of not requiring prior knowledge of the environment, reinforcement learning has significant potential for quantum control problems. In this work, we investigate the effectiveness of continuous control policies based on deep deterministic policy gradient. To solve the sparse reward signal in quantum learning control problems, we propose an auxiliary task-based deep reinforcement learning (AT-DRL) for quantum control. In particular, we first design a guided reward function based on the fidelity of quantum states that enables incremental fidelity improvement. Then, we introduce the concept of an auxiliary task whose network shares parameters with the main network to predict the reward provided by the environment (called the main task). The auxiliary task learns synchronously with the main task, allowing one to select the most relevant features of the environment, thus aiding the agent in comprehending how to achieve the desired state. The numerical simulations demonstr

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