Search and Explore: Symbiotic Policy Synthesis in POMDPs

Result code in IS VaVaI

<a href="https://www.isvavai.cz/riv?ss=detail&h=RIV%2F00216305%3A26230%2F23%3APU149417" target="_blank" >RIV/00216305:26230/23:PU149417 - isvavai.cz</a>

Result on the web

<a href="http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-37709-9_6" target="_blank" >http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-37709-9_6</a>

DOI - Digital Object Identifier

<a href="http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-37709-9_6" target="_blank" >10.1007/978-3-031-37709-9_6</a>

Result language

angličtina

Original language name

Search and Explore: Symbiotic Policy Synthesis in POMDPs

Original language description

This paper marries two state-of-the-art controller synthesis methods for partially observable Markov decision processes (POMDPs), a prominent model in sequential decision making under uncertainty. A central issue is to find a POMDP controller - that solely decides based on the observations seen so far - to achieve a total expected reward objective. As finding optimal controllers is undecidable, we concentrate on synthesising good finite-state controllers (FSCs). We do so by tightly integrating two modern, orthogonal methods for POMDP controller synthesis: a belief-based and an inductive approach. The former method obtains an FSC from a finite fragment of the so-called belief MDP, an MDP that keeps track of the probabilities of equally observable POMDP states. The latter is an inductive search technique over a set of FSCs, e.g., controllers with a fixed memory size. The key result of this paper is a symbiotic anytime algorithm that tightly integrates both approaches such that each profits from the controllers constructed by the other. Experimental results indicate a substantial improvement in the value of the controllers while significantly reducing the synthesis time and memory footprint.

Czech name

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Czech description

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Type

D - Article in proceedings

CEP classification

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OECD FORD branch

10201 - Computer sciences, information science, bioinformathics (hardware development to be 2.2, social aspect to be 5.8)

Project

<a href="/en/project/GA23-06963S" target="_blank" >GA23-06963S: VESCAA: Verifiable and Efficient Synthesis of Controllers for Autonomous Agents</a><br>

Continuities

P - Projekt vyzkumu a vyvoje financovany z verejnych zdroju (s odkazem do CEP)

Publication year

2023

Confidentiality

S - Úplné a pravdivé údaje o projektu nepodléhají ochraně podle zvláštních právních předpisů

Article name in the collection

Computer Aided Verification

ISBN

978-3-031-37708-2

ISSN

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e-ISSN

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Number of pages

23

Pages from-to

113-135

Publisher name

Springer Verlag

Place of publication

Cham

Event location

Paříž

Event date

Jul 17, 2023

Type of event by nationality

WRD - Celosvětová akce

UT code for WoS article

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