Conventional reinforcement learning (RL) allows an agent to learn policies via environmental rewards only, with a long and slow learning curve, especially at the beginning stage. On the contrary, human learning is usually much faster because prior and general knowledge and multiple information resources are utilized. In this paper, we propose a PlannerActor-Critic architecture for huMAN-centered planning and
learning (PACMAN), where an agent uses prior, high-level, deterministic symbolic knowledge to plan for goal-directed actions. PACMAN integrates Actor-Critic algorithm of RL to fine-tune its behavior towards both environmental rewards
and human feedback. To the best our knowledge, This is the first unified framework where knowledge-based planning, RL, and human teaching jointly contribute to the policy learning of an agent. Our experiments demonstrate that PACMAN leads to a significant jump-start at the early stage of learning, converges rapidly and with small variance, and is robust to inconsistent, infrequent, and misleading feedback.
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A Human-Centered Data-Driven Planner-Actor-Critic Architecture via Logic Programming
Recent successes of Reinforcement Learning (RL) allow an agent to learn policies that surpass human experts but suffers from being time-hungry and data-hungry. By contrast, human learning is significantly faster because prior and general knowledge and multiple information resources are utilized. In this paper, we propose a Planner-Actor-Critic architecture for huMAN-centered planning and learning (PACMAN), where an agent uses its prior, high-level, deterministic symbolic knowledge to plan for goal-directed actions, and also integrates the Actor-Critic algorithm of RL to fine-tune its behavior towards both environmental rewards and human feedback. This work is the first unified framework
where knowledge-based planning, RL, and human teaching jointly contribute to the policy learning of an agent. Our experiments demonstrate that PACMAN leads to a significant jump-start at the early stage of learning, converges rapidly and with small variance, and is robust to inconsistent, infrequent, and misleading feedback.
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- Award ID(s):
- 1910794
- PAR ID:
- 10169406
- Date Published:
- Journal Name:
- 35th International Conference on Logic Programming
- Format(s):
- Medium: X
- Sponsoring Org:
- National Science Foundation
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