Information Particle Filter Tree: An Online Algorithm for POMDPs with Belief-Based Rewards on Continuous Domains
Johannes Fischer*, Ömer Şahin Taş*
ICML, 2020
paper / supplemental / code / video

IPFT solves continuous ρPOMDPs by combining MCTS with particle-based belief updates. It integrates an information-theoretic shaping term to accelerate search in problems where gathering information is crucial for optimal decision making.

Efficient Sampling in POMDPs with Lipschitz Bandits for Motion Planning in Continuous Spaces
Ömer Şahin Taş, Felix Hauser, Martin Lauer
IEEE Intelligent Vehicles Symposium (IV), 2021
arXiv / slides / video

Lipschitz-based bandits exploit the continuity of Q-values. We harness this smoothness in sampling-based POMDPs to accelerate search in large discrete action sets. Furthermore, we refine the bandits with variance-based updates to handle local discontinuities.

* equal contribution.