Bayesian Constraint Inference from User Demonstrations Based on Margin-Respecting Preference Models

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Hauptverfasser: Papadimitriou, Dimitris, Brown, Daniel S.
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author Papadimitriou, Dimitris
Brown, Daniel S.
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Brown, Daniel S.
contents It is crucial for robots to be aware of the presence of constraints in order to acquire safe policies. However, explicitly specifying all constraints in an environment can be a challenging task. State-of-the-art constraint inference algorithms learn constraints from demonstrations, but tend to be computationally expensive and prone to instability issues. In this paper, we propose a novel Bayesian method that infers constraints based on preferences over demonstrations. The main advantages of our proposed approach are that it 1) infers constraints without calculating a new policy at each iteration, 2) uses a simple and more realistic ranking of groups of demonstrations, without requiring pairwise comparisons over all demonstrations, and 3) adapts to cases where there are varying levels of constraint violation. Our empirical results demonstrate that our proposed Bayesian approach infers constraints of varying severity, more accurately than state-of-the-art constraint inference methods.
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spellingShingle Bayesian Constraint Inference from User Demonstrations Based on Margin-Respecting Preference Models
Papadimitriou, Dimitris
Brown, Daniel S.
Robotics
It is crucial for robots to be aware of the presence of constraints in order to acquire safe policies. However, explicitly specifying all constraints in an environment can be a challenging task. State-of-the-art constraint inference algorithms learn constraints from demonstrations, but tend to be computationally expensive and prone to instability issues. In this paper, we propose a novel Bayesian method that infers constraints based on preferences over demonstrations. The main advantages of our proposed approach are that it 1) infers constraints without calculating a new policy at each iteration, 2) uses a simple and more realistic ranking of groups of demonstrations, without requiring pairwise comparisons over all demonstrations, and 3) adapts to cases where there are varying levels of constraint violation. Our empirical results demonstrate that our proposed Bayesian approach infers constraints of varying severity, more accurately than state-of-the-art constraint inference methods.
title Bayesian Constraint Inference from User Demonstrations Based on Margin-Respecting Preference Models
topic Robotics
url https://arxiv.org/abs/2403.02431