Summary of Multi-agent Reinforcement Learning For Joint Police Patrol and Dispatch, by Matthew Repasky et al.
Multi-Agent Reinforcement Learning for Joint Police Patrol and Dispatch
by Matthew Repasky, He Wang, Yao Xie
First submitted to arxiv on: 3 Sep 2024
Categories
- Main: Machine Learning (cs.LG)
- Secondary: Optimization and Control (math.OC)
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| High | Paper authors | High Difficulty Summary Read the original abstract here |
| Medium | GrooveSquid.com (original content) | Medium Difficulty Summary This paper presents a novel approach to optimizing police operations by jointly considering patrol and dispatch decisions. The proposed method uses multi-agent reinforcement learning to learn policies that improve efficiency and reduce response time to emergency calls. By treating each patroller as an independent agent with shared deep Q-networks, the model learns to make decisions that balance preventive patrol and emergency incident responses. The results show that this heterogeneous approach outperforms separate optimization of patrol or dispatch decisions, leading to more effective service and demonstrably flexible objectives. |
| Low | GrooveSquid.com (original content) | Low Difficulty Summary Police researchers have been trying to figure out how to get police cars to respond quickly to emergencies while also making sure they’re patrolling the right areas. Right now, people usually study these two things separately, but this paper says we should do them together! They came up with a new way of using computer algorithms to make decisions about where the police cars go and when they get dispatched. It’s like having a team working together to get the job done. This approach actually works better than just focusing on one thing or the other. |
Keywords
» Artificial intelligence » Optimization » Reinforcement learning
