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Clustered Policy Decision Ranking

Machine Learning 2024-04-30 v2 Artificial Intelligence

Abstract

Policies trained via reinforcement learning (RL) are often very complex even for simple tasks. In an episode with n time steps, a policy will make n decisions on actions to take, many of which may appear non-intuitive to the observer. Moreover, it is not clear which of these decisions directly contribute towards achieving the reward and how significant their contribution is. Given a trained policy, we propose a black-box method based on statistical covariance estimation that clusters the states of the environment and ranks each cluster according to the importance of decisions made in its states. We compare our measure against a previous statistical fault localization based ranking procedure.

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@article{arxiv.2311.12970,
  title  = {Clustered Policy Decision Ranking},
  author = {Mark Levin and Hana Chockler},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2311.12970},
  year   = {2024}
}

Comments

4 pages, 4 figures. arXiv admin note: text overlap with arXiv:2111.08415

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