Interpretable Concept Bottlenecks to Align Reinforcement Learning Agents
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| author | Delfosse, Quentin Sztwiertnia, Sebastian Rothermel, Mark Stammer, Wolfgang Kersting, Kristian |
| author_facet | Delfosse, Quentin Sztwiertnia, Sebastian Rothermel, Mark Stammer, Wolfgang Kersting, Kristian |
| contents | Goal misalignment, reward sparsity and difficult credit assignment are only a few of the many issues that make it difficult for deep reinforcement learning (RL) agents to learn optimal policies. Unfortunately, the black-box nature of deep neural networks impedes the inclusion of domain experts for inspecting the model and revising suboptimal policies. To this end, we introduce *Successive Concept Bottleneck Agents* (SCoBots), that integrate consecutive concept bottleneck (CB) layers. In contrast to current CB models, SCoBots do not just represent concepts as properties of individual objects, but also as relations between objects which is crucial for many RL tasks. Our experimental results provide evidence of SCoBots' competitive performances, but also of their potential for domain experts to understand and regularize their behavior. Among other things, SCoBots enabled us to identify a previously unknown misalignment problem in the iconic video game, Pong, and resolve it. Overall, SCoBots thus result in more human-aligned RL agents. Our code is available at https://github.com/k4ntz/SCoBots . |
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| spellingShingle | Interpretable Concept Bottlenecks to Align Reinforcement Learning Agents Delfosse, Quentin Sztwiertnia, Sebastian Rothermel, Mark Stammer, Wolfgang Kersting, Kristian Machine Learning Symbolic Computation Goal misalignment, reward sparsity and difficult credit assignment are only a few of the many issues that make it difficult for deep reinforcement learning (RL) agents to learn optimal policies. Unfortunately, the black-box nature of deep neural networks impedes the inclusion of domain experts for inspecting the model and revising suboptimal policies. To this end, we introduce *Successive Concept Bottleneck Agents* (SCoBots), that integrate consecutive concept bottleneck (CB) layers. In contrast to current CB models, SCoBots do not just represent concepts as properties of individual objects, but also as relations between objects which is crucial for many RL tasks. Our experimental results provide evidence of SCoBots' competitive performances, but also of their potential for domain experts to understand and regularize their behavior. Among other things, SCoBots enabled us to identify a previously unknown misalignment problem in the iconic video game, Pong, and resolve it. Overall, SCoBots thus result in more human-aligned RL agents. Our code is available at https://github.com/k4ntz/SCoBots . |
| title | Interpretable Concept Bottlenecks to Align Reinforcement Learning Agents |
| topic | Machine Learning Symbolic Computation |
| url | https://arxiv.org/abs/2401.05821 |