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arXiv Machine Learning By Syed Izhan Khilji, Alireza Furutanpey, Schahram Dustdar

Incentives and Evidence in Learned Service Orchestration

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arXiv:2606. 16555v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Reinforcement learning for service orchestration has been the subject of sustained research for over a decade, yet it is not used in production at scale.

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