Mission-driven Exploration for Accelerated Deep Reinforcement Learning with Temporal Logic Task Specifications

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Autores principales: Wang, Jun, Hasanbeig, Hosein, Tan, Kaiyuan, Sun, Zihe, Kantaros, Yiannis
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Publicado: 2023
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author Wang, Jun
Hasanbeig, Hosein
Tan, Kaiyuan
Sun, Zihe
Kantaros, Yiannis
author_facet Wang, Jun
Hasanbeig, Hosein
Tan, Kaiyuan
Sun, Zihe
Kantaros, Yiannis
contents This paper addresses the problem of designing control policies for agents with unknown stochastic dynamics and control objectives specified using Linear Temporal Logic (LTL). Recent Deep Reinforcement Learning (DRL) algorithms have aimed to compute policies that maximize the satisfaction probability of LTL formulas, but they often suffer from slow learning performance. To address this, we introduce a novel Deep Q-learning algorithm that significantly improves learning speed. The enhanced sample efficiency stems from a mission-driven exploration strategy that prioritizes exploration towards directions likely to contribute to mission success. Identifying these directions relies on an automaton representation of the LTL task as well as a learned neural network that partially models the agent-environment interaction. We provide comparative experiments demonstrating the efficiency of our algorithm on robot navigation tasks in unseen environments.
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spellingShingle Mission-driven Exploration for Accelerated Deep Reinforcement Learning with Temporal Logic Task Specifications
Wang, Jun
Hasanbeig, Hosein
Tan, Kaiyuan
Sun, Zihe
Kantaros, Yiannis
Robotics
Artificial Intelligence
Machine Learning
This paper addresses the problem of designing control policies for agents with unknown stochastic dynamics and control objectives specified using Linear Temporal Logic (LTL). Recent Deep Reinforcement Learning (DRL) algorithms have aimed to compute policies that maximize the satisfaction probability of LTL formulas, but they often suffer from slow learning performance. To address this, we introduce a novel Deep Q-learning algorithm that significantly improves learning speed. The enhanced sample efficiency stems from a mission-driven exploration strategy that prioritizes exploration towards directions likely to contribute to mission success. Identifying these directions relies on an automaton representation of the LTL task as well as a learned neural network that partially models the agent-environment interaction. We provide comparative experiments demonstrating the efficiency of our algorithm on robot navigation tasks in unseen environments.
title Mission-driven Exploration for Accelerated Deep Reinforcement Learning with Temporal Logic Task Specifications
topic Robotics
Artificial Intelligence
Machine Learning
url https://arxiv.org/abs/2311.17059