Self-Improving Logic from Experimental Observations

Authors: Max PONT
Primary area: interpretability and explainable AI
Keywords: self-improving logic, reinforcement learning, hierarchical learning, second-order logic, markov decision process, group representations, tokenisation, model-based learning, dynamics models, machine understanding, unsupervised learning, computational learning theory, non-convex optimisation, wahba's problem, skill-based reinforcement learning, skills pruning, transfer learning

Abstract:
Learning relevant, transferable representations of actions to drive model-based reinforcement learning processes stands as a major challenge in robotics on the path to general-purpose autonomous agents, equivalent in their reasoning power to Large Language Models. To this end, we introduce a novel framework which allows autonomous agents to learn how to represent their actions as high-dimensional rotations over the system’s observations. We then show how such representations may be considered optimal under the assumption that actions are distance-preserving, and present how these representations of low-level actions can be composed to represent sequences of actions and allow for multi-scale hierarchical learning and long-horizon planning. We finally discuss schemes to compare such representations in order to allow for a better informed transfer of skills across tasks and better understand the agent’s behaviour, before conducting experiments using a modified TD-MPC2 agent to better quantify $in$ $concreto$ the limitations of our framework.

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