Summary of Deepltl: Learning to Efficiently Satisfy Complex Ltl Specifications, by Mathias Jackermeier et al.
DeepLTL: Learning to Efficiently Satisfy Complex LTL Specifications
by Mathias Jackermeier, Alessandro Abate
First submitted to arxiv on: 6 Oct 2024
Categories
- Main: Artificial Intelligence (cs.AI)
- Secondary: Machine Learning (cs.LG)
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| High | Paper authors | High Difficulty Summary Read the original abstract here |
| Medium | GrooveSquid.com (original content) | Medium Difficulty Summary This paper addresses the challenge of learning policies in reinforcement learning (RL) that efficiently satisfy complex, temporally extended tasks specified using Linear Temporal Logic (LTL). Existing approaches have limitations, such as being applicable only to finite-horizon fragments or restricted to suboptimal solutions. To overcome these concerns, this work proposes a novel learning approach based on Büchi automata, which represents the semantics of LTL specifications. The method learns policies conditioned on sequences of truth assignments that lead to satisfying desired formulae. Experimental results in various domains demonstrate the approach’s ability to zero-shot satisfy a wide range of finite- and infinite-horizon specifications, outperforming existing methods in terms of satisfaction probability and efficiency. |
| Low | GrooveSquid.com (original content) | Low Difficulty Summary Imagine you’re trying to teach a computer to do something complex, like following a set of rules or making decisions based on what happened before. This paper is about how to make that happen using a special way of describing tasks called Linear Temporal Logic (LTL). Right now, it’s hard to get computers to follow these rules efficiently and safely. The authors of this paper came up with a new way to teach computers to do this by using something called Büchi automata. They tested their method in different scenarios and found that it works well and is better than other approaches. |
Keywords
» Artificial intelligence » Probability » Reinforcement learning » Semantics » Zero shot
