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Maximum Entropy Semi-Supervised Inverse Reinforcement Learning

Proceedings of the Twenty-Fourth International Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence (IJCAI-2015), pp. 3315-3321, Buenos Aires, Argentina, 2015.

Publication date: August 1, 2015

Julien Audiffren, Michal Valko, Alessandro Lazaric, Mohammad Ghavamzadeh

A popular approach to apprenticeship learning (AL) is to formulate it as an inverse reinforcement learning (IRL) problem. The MaxEnt-IRL algorithm successfully integrates the maximum entropy principle into IRL and unlike its predecessors, it resolves the ambiguity arising from the fact that a possibly large number of policies could match the expert’s behavior. In this paper, we study an AL setting in which in addition to the expert’s trajectories, a number of unsupervised trajectories is available. We introduce MESSI, a novel algorithm that combines MaxEnt-IRL with principles coming from semi-supervised learning. In particular, MESSI integrates the unsupervised data into the MaxEnt-IRL framework using a pairwise penalty on trajectories. Empirical results in a highway driving and grid-world problems indicate that MESSI is able to take advantage of the unsupervised trajectories and improve the performance of MaxEnt-IRL.

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