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Goal-conditioned reinforcement learning (RL) is a powerful approach for learning general-purpose skills by reaching diverse goals. However, it has limitations when it comes to task-conditioned policies, where goals are specified by temporally extended instructions written in the Linear Temporal Logic (LTL) formal language. Existing approaches for finding LTL-satisfying policies rely on sampling a large set of LTL instructions during training to adapt to unseen tasks at inference time. However, these approaches do not guarantee generalization to out-of-distribution LTL objectives, which may have increased complexity. In this paper, we propose a novel approach to address this challenge. We show that simple goal-conditioned RL agents can be instructed to follow arbitrary LTL specifications without additional training over the LTL task space. Unlike existing approaches that focus on LTL specifications expressible as regular expressions, our technique is unrestricted and generalizes to ω-regular expressions. Experiment results demonstrate the effectiveness of our approach in adapting goal-conditioned RL agents to satisfy complex temporal logic task specifications zero-shot.
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Integrating Symbolic Planning and Reinforcement Learning for Following Temporal Logic Specifications
Teaching a deep reinforcement learning (RL) agent to follow instructions in multi-task environments is a challenging problem. We consider that user defines every task by a linear temporal logic (LTL) formula. However, some causal dependencies in complex environments may be unknown to the user in advance. Hence, when human user is specifying instructions, the robot cannot solve the tasks by simply following the given instructions. In this work, we propose a hierarchical reinforcement learning (HRL) framework in which a symbolic transition model is learned to efficiently produce high-level plans that can guide the agent efficiently solve different tasks. Specifically, the symbolic transition model is learned by inductive logic programming (ILP) to capture logic rules of state transitions. By planning over the product of the symbolic transition model and the automaton derived from the LTL formula, the agent can resolve causal dependencies and break a causally complex problem down into a sequence of simpler low-level sub-tasks. We evaluate the proposed framework on three environments in both discrete and continuous domains, showing advantages over previous representative methods.
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- Award ID(s):
- 1837369
- PAR ID:
- 10404302
- Date Published:
- Journal Name:
- 2022 International Joint Conference on Neural Networks (IJCNN)
- Page Range / eLocation ID:
- 01 to 08
- Format(s):
- Medium: X
- Sponsoring Org:
- National Science Foundation
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Accepted Manuscript1.0
- Conference Paper:
- https://doi.org/10.1109/IJCNN55064.2022.9892304
