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Improved IChOA-Based Reinforcement Learning for Secrecy Rate Optimization in Smart Grid Communications

Mehrdad Shoeibi¹, Mohammad Mehdi Sharifi Nevisi², Sarvenaz Sadat Khatami³, Diego Martín^2,*, Sepehr Soltani⁴, Sina Aghakhani⁵

1 The WPI Business School, Worcester Polytechnic Institute, Worcester, MA 01609-2280, USA
2 Department of Computer Science, Escuela de Ingeniería Informática de Segovia, Universidad de Valladolid, Segovia, 40005, Spain
3 Department of Data Science Engineering, University of Houston, Houston, TX 77204, USA
4 Department of Industrial Engineering, College of Engineering, University of Houston, Houston, TX 77204, USA
5 Department of Industrial and Manufacturing Systems Engineering, Iowa State University, Ames, IA 50011, USA

* Corresponding Author: Diego Martín. Email: