Summary of Safe-rl: Saliency-aware Counterfactual Explainer For Deep Reinforcement Learning Policies, by Amir Samadi et al.
SAFE-RL: Saliency-Aware Counterfactual Explainer for Deep Reinforcement Learning Policies
by Amir Samadi, Konstantinos Koufos, Kurt Debattista, Mehrdad Dianati
First submitted to arxiv on: 28 Apr 2024
Categories
- Main: Machine Learning (cs.LG)
- Secondary: Artificial Intelligence (cs.AI)
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| High | Paper authors | High Difficulty Summary Read the original abstract here |
| Medium | GrooveSquid.com (original content) | Medium Difficulty Summary The proposed framework utilizes a saliency map to identify influential input pixels in DRL agents, enabling the generation of plausible counterfactual explanations. By focusing on salient regions, the deep generative model creates constrained modifications that can be applied to the input data. This approach is evaluated across various domains, including ADS, Atari Pong, Pacman, and space-invaders games, using traditional performance metrics like validity, proximity, and sparsity. The results demonstrate that the framework generates more informative and plausible CFs compared to state-of-the-art methods in a wide range of environments and DRL agents. |
| Low | GrooveSquid.com (original content) | Low Difficulty Summary The paper proposes a new way to understand how Deep Reinforcement Learning (DRL) works. Right now, it’s hard to figure out why a DRL agent makes certain decisions. To solve this problem, the authors created a special map that shows which parts of the input data are most important for the agent’s actions. Then, they used this map to generate new examples that show what would have happened if something had been different in the input data. This helps us understand how the DRL agent makes decisions and why it might make mistakes. |
Keywords
» Artificial intelligence » Generative model » Reinforcement learning
