Skill Machines: Temporal Logic Skill Composition in Reinforcement Learning

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Autores principales: Tasse, Geraud Nangue, Jarvis, Devon, James, Steven, Rosman, Benjamin
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author Tasse, Geraud Nangue
Jarvis, Devon
James, Steven
Rosman, Benjamin
author_facet Tasse, Geraud Nangue
Jarvis, Devon
James, Steven
Rosman, Benjamin
contents It is desirable for an agent to be able to solve a rich variety of problems that can be specified through language in the same environment. A popular approach towards obtaining such agents is to reuse skills learned in prior tasks to generalise compositionally to new ones. However, this is a challenging problem due to the curse of dimensionality induced by the combinatorially large number of ways high-level goals can be combined both logically and temporally in language. To address this problem, we propose a framework where an agent first learns a sufficient set of skill primitives to achieve all high-level goals in its environment. The agent can then flexibly compose them both logically and temporally to provably achieve temporal logic specifications in any regular language, such as regular fragments of linear temporal logic. This provides the agent with the ability to map from complex temporal logic task specifications to near-optimal behaviours zero-shot. We demonstrate this experimentally in a tabular setting, as well as in a high-dimensional video game and continuous control environment. Finally, we also demonstrate that the performance of skill machines can be improved with regular off-policy reinforcement learning algorithms when optimal behaviours are desired.
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spellingShingle Skill Machines: Temporal Logic Skill Composition in Reinforcement Learning
Tasse, Geraud Nangue
Jarvis, Devon
James, Steven
Rosman, Benjamin
Machine Learning
Logic in Computer Science
It is desirable for an agent to be able to solve a rich variety of problems that can be specified through language in the same environment. A popular approach towards obtaining such agents is to reuse skills learned in prior tasks to generalise compositionally to new ones. However, this is a challenging problem due to the curse of dimensionality induced by the combinatorially large number of ways high-level goals can be combined both logically and temporally in language. To address this problem, we propose a framework where an agent first learns a sufficient set of skill primitives to achieve all high-level goals in its environment. The agent can then flexibly compose them both logically and temporally to provably achieve temporal logic specifications in any regular language, such as regular fragments of linear temporal logic. This provides the agent with the ability to map from complex temporal logic task specifications to near-optimal behaviours zero-shot. We demonstrate this experimentally in a tabular setting, as well as in a high-dimensional video game and continuous control environment. Finally, we also demonstrate that the performance of skill machines can be improved with regular off-policy reinforcement learning algorithms when optimal behaviours are desired.
title Skill Machines: Temporal Logic Skill Composition in Reinforcement Learning
topic Machine Learning
Logic in Computer Science
url https://arxiv.org/abs/2205.12532