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Identifiability and Generalizability in Constrained Inverse Reinforcement Learning

Schlaginhaufen, Andreas  
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Kamgarpour, Maryam  
2023
International Conference on Machine Learning

Two main challenges in Reinforcement Learning (RL) are designing appropriate reward functions and ensuring the safety of the learned policy. To address these challenges, we present a theoretical framework for Inverse Reinforcement Learning (IRL) in constrained Markov decision processes. From a convex-analytic perspective, we extend prior results on reward identifiability and generalizability to both the constrained setting and a more general class of regularizations. In particular, we show that identifiability up to potential shaping [Cao et al., 2021] is a consequence of entropy regularization and may generally no longer hold for other regularizations or in the presence of safety constraints. We also show that to ensure generalizability to new transition laws and constraints, the true reward must be identified up to a constant. Additionally, we derive a finite sample guarantee for the suboptimality of the learned rewards, and validate our results in a gridworld environment.

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conference paper not in proceedings
Author(s)
Schlaginhaufen, Andreas  
Kamgarpour, Maryam  
Date Issued

2023

Subjects

Reinforcement learning

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Inverse reinforcement learning

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Safe reinforcement learning

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EPFL

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SYCAMORE  
Event nameEvent placeEvent date
International Conference on Machine Learning

Honolulu, Hawaï

July 23-29, 2023

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April 28, 2023
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https://infoscience.epfl.ch/handle/20.500.14299/197205
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