Publication Type

Conference Proceeding Article

Version

publishedVersion

Publication Date

6-2015

Abstract

Partially observable MDPs provide an elegant framework forsequential decision making. Finite-state controllers (FSCs) are often used to represent policies for infinite-horizon problems as they offer a compact representation, simple-to-execute plans, and adjustable tradeoff between computational complexityand policy size. We develop novel connections between optimizing FSCs for POMDPs and the dual linear programfor MDPs. Building on that, we present a dual mixed integer linear program (MIP) for optimizing FSCs. To assign well-defined meaning to FSC nodes as well as aid in policy search, we show how to associate history-based features with each FSC node. Using this representation, we address another challenging problem, that of iteratively deciding which nodes to add to FSC to get a better policy. Using an efficient off-the-shelf MIP solver, we show that this new approach can find compact near-optimal FSCs for severallarge benchmark domains, and is competitive with previous best approaches.

Discipline

Artificial Intelligence and Robotics | Computer Sciences | Operations Research, Systems Engineering and Industrial Engineering

Research Areas

Intelligent Systems and Optimization

Publication

Proceedings of the Twenty-Fifth International Conference on Automated Planning and Scheduling: Jerusalem, Israel, June 7-11, 2015

First Page

156

Last Page

164

Publisher

AAAI Press

City or Country

Menlo Park, CA

Additional URL

http://www.aaai.org/ocs/index.php/ICAPS/ICAPS15/paper/view/10622

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