Policy Optimization with Sparse Global Contrastive Explanations

Citation:

Yao J, Parbhoo S, Pan W, Doshi-Velez F. Policy Optimization with Sparse Global Contrastive Explanations. Preprint. 2022.
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Abstract:

We develop a Reinforcement Learning (RL) framework for improving an existing behavior policy via sparse, user-interpretable changes. Our goal is to make minimal changes while gaining as much benefit as possible. We define a minimal change as having a sparse, global contrastive explanation between the original and proposed policy. We improve the current policy with the constraint of keeping that global contrastive explanation short. We demonstrate our framework with a discrete MDP and a continuous 2D navigation domain.

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arXiv:2207.06269 [cs]

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