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Journal of Zhejiang University SCIENCE C 2010 Vol.11 No.9 P.718-723

http://doi.org/10.1631/jzus.C0910486


Modified reward function on abstract features in inverse reinforcement learning


Author(s):  Shen-yi Chen, Hui Qian, Jia Fan, Zhuo-jun Jin, Miao-liang Zhu

Affiliation(s):  School of Computer Science and Technology, Zhejiang University, Hangzhou 310027, China

Corresponding email(s):   charles_csy@zju.edu.cn

Key Words:  Importance rating, Abstract feature, Feature extraction, Inverse reinforcement learning (IRL), Markov decision process (MDP)


Shen-yi Chen, Hui Qian, Jia Fan, Zhuo-jun Jin, Miao-liang Zhu. Modified reward function on abstract features in inverse reinforcement learning[J]. Journal of Zhejiang University Science C, 2010, 11(9): 718-723.

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Abstract: 
We improve inverse reinforcement learning (IRL) by applying dimension reduction methods to automatically extract abstract features from human-demonstrated policies, to deal with the cases where features are either unknown or numerous. The importance rating of each abstract feature is incorporated into the reward function. Simulation is performed on a task of driving in a five-lane highway, where the controlled car has the largest fixed speed among all the cars. Performance is almost 10.6% better on average with than without importance ratings.

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