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Poster

Budgeted Reinforcement Learning in Continuous State Space

Nicolas Carrara · Edouard Leurent · Romain Laroche · Tanguy Urvoy · Odalric-Ambrym Maillard · Olivier Pietquin

East Exhibition Hall B + C #202

Keywords: [ Reinforcement Learning and Planning ] [ Reinforcement Learning ]


Abstract:

A Budgeted Markov Decision Process (BMDP) is an extension of a Markov Decision Process to critical applications requiring safety constraints. It relies on a notion of risk implemented in the shape of an upper bound on a constrains violation signal that -- importantly -- can be modified in real-time. So far, BMDPs could only be solved in the case of finite state spaces with known dynamics. This work extends the state-of-the-art to continuous spaces environments and unknown dynamics. We show that the solution to a BMDP is the fixed point of a novel Budgeted Bellman Optimality operator. This observation allows us to introduce natural extensions of Deep Reinforcement Learning algorithms to address large-scale BMDPs. We validate our approach on two simulated applications: spoken dialogue and autonomous driving.

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