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Fairness in Preference-based Reinforcement Learning

Machine Learning 2023-09-04 v2 Artificial Intelligence Computers and Society Systems and Control Systems and Control

Abstract

In this paper, we address the issue of fairness in preference-based reinforcement learning (PbRL) in the presence of multiple objectives. The main objective is to design control policies that can optimize multiple objectives while treating each objective fairly. Toward this objective, we design a new fairness-induced preference-based reinforcement learning or FPbRL. The main idea of FPbRL is to learn vector reward functions associated with multiple objectives via new welfare-based preferences rather than reward-based preference in PbRL, coupled with policy learning via maximizing a generalized Gini welfare function. Finally, we provide experiment studies on three different environments to show that the proposed FPbRL approach can achieve both efficiency and equity for learning effective and fair policies.

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@article{arxiv.2306.09995,
  title  = {Fairness in Preference-based Reinforcement Learning},
  author = {Umer Siddique and Abhinav Sinha and Yongcan Cao},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2306.09995},
  year   = {2023}
}

Comments

Accepted to The Many Facets of Preference Learning Workshop at the International Conference on Machine Learning (ICML)

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