Summary of Information-theoretic Safe Exploration with Gaussian Processes, by Alessandro G. Bottero et al.
Information-Theoretic Safe Exploration with Gaussian Processes
by Alessandro G. Bottero, Carlos E. Luis, Julia Vinogradska, Felix Berkenkamp, Jan Peters
First submitted to arxiv on: 9 Dec 2022
Categories
- Main: Machine Learning (cs.LG)
- Secondary: None
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| High | Paper authors | High Difficulty Summary Read the original abstract here |
| Medium | GrooveSquid.com (original content) | Medium Difficulty Summary A novel approach for sequential decision making in unknown environments is proposed, which addresses a common challenge of ensuring safety constraints are not violated. The method employs Gaussian process priors and information-theoretic safe exploration criteria to identify the most informative parameters to evaluate. This allows for efficient and scalable exploration in continuous domains without relying on discretization or introducing additional hyperparameters. |
| Low | GrooveSquid.com (original content) | Low Difficulty Summary Imagine you’re navigating through a maze without knowing what’s ahead. You want to make sure you don’t run into any obstacles, but you also want to learn about the path as quickly as possible. This is similar to a problem that researchers in machine learning are trying to solve. They need to find a way to explore and learn about an unknown environment while avoiding certain dangers or “obstacles”. A new approach has been developed to help with this challenge, which uses special statistical techniques to decide what information to gather first. This allows for more efficient and effective exploration of the unknown environment. |
Keywords
* Artificial intelligence * Machine learning
