The TWIML AI Podcast (formerly This Week in Machine Learning & Artificial Intelligence) Inverse Reinforcement Learning Without RL with Gokul Swamy - #643
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Aug 21, 2023 Gokul Swamy, a Ph.D. student at Carnegie Mellon’s Robotics Institute, dives into the intriguing world of inverse reinforcement learning. He unpacks the challenges of mimicking human decision-making without direct reinforcement signals. Topics include streamlining AI learning through expert guidance and the complexities of medical decision-making with missing data. Gokul also discusses safety in multitask learning, emphasizing the balance between efficiency and safety in AI systems. His insights pave the way for future research in enhancing AI’s learning capabilities.
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Inverse Reinforcement Learning
- Inverse reinforcement learning (IRL) helps learn an agent's objective function from its behavior.
- This is useful when explicitly defining reward functions is difficult, like balancing multiple driving priorities.
IRL Without RL
- Traditional IRL is computationally expensive, requiring repeated reinforcement learning.
- This new approach improves efficiency by constraining exploration to expert-visited states.
Constrained Exploration
- Imagine an agent navigating a binary tree where only one leaf node has a reward.
- Instead of exploring the whole tree, focus optimization on the expert's path, like the leftmost branch if they always went left.