MCRL2: Multi-resource Cross-attention-based Representation Learning-augmented Reinforcement Learning for Cloud Microservice Scheduling

arXiv:2609.13048 · cs.LG · Submitted 2026-09-11 · Read on arXiv

cs.LG

Submitted: 2026-09-11

Updated: 2026-09-11

Comments: 15 pages, 14 figures

License: http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/

Terminology

• Reinforcement Learning — 4× in this paper · explained in 4 episodes
• Representation Learning — 3× in this paper · explained in 2 episodes
• Actor — 1× in this paper · explained in 3 episodes
• Actor-Critic Architecture — 1× in this paper · explained in 1 episode
• Attention Mechanism — 1× in this paper · explained in 3 episodes
• Cross-Attention Mechanism — 1× in this paper · explained in 2 episodes
• Trace — 1× in this paper · explained in 2 episodes

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