Observer-Aware Probabilistic Planning Under Partial Observability

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Main Authors: Lepers, Salomé, Thomas, Vincent, Buffet, Olivier
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author Lepers, Salomé
Thomas, Vincent
Buffet, Olivier
author_facet Lepers, Salomé
Thomas, Vincent
Buffet, Olivier
contents In this article, we are interested in planning problems where the agent is aware of the presence of an observer, and where this observer is in a partial observability situation. The agent has to choose its strategy so as to optimize the information transmitted by observations. Building on observer-aware Markov decision processes (OAMDPs), we propose a framework to handle this type of problems and thus formalize properties such as legibility, explicability and predictability. This extension of OAMDPs to partial observability can not only handle more realistic problems, but also permits considering dynamic hidden variables of interest. These dynamic target variables allow, for instance, working with predictability, or with legibility problems where the goal might change during execution. We discuss theoretical properties of PO-OAMDPs and, experimenting with benchmark problems, we analyze HSVI's convergence behavior with dedicated initializations and study the resulting strategies.
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spellingShingle Observer-Aware Probabilistic Planning Under Partial Observability
Lepers, Salomé
Thomas, Vincent
Buffet, Olivier
Artificial Intelligence
In this article, we are interested in planning problems where the agent is aware of the presence of an observer, and where this observer is in a partial observability situation. The agent has to choose its strategy so as to optimize the information transmitted by observations. Building on observer-aware Markov decision processes (OAMDPs), we propose a framework to handle this type of problems and thus formalize properties such as legibility, explicability and predictability. This extension of OAMDPs to partial observability can not only handle more realistic problems, but also permits considering dynamic hidden variables of interest. These dynamic target variables allow, for instance, working with predictability, or with legibility problems where the goal might change during execution. We discuss theoretical properties of PO-OAMDPs and, experimenting with benchmark problems, we analyze HSVI's convergence behavior with dedicated initializations and study the resulting strategies.
title Observer-Aware Probabilistic Planning Under Partial Observability
topic Artificial Intelligence
url https://arxiv.org/abs/2502.10568