Neuro-Symbolic World Models for Adapting to Open World Novelty

• URL: http://arxiv.org/abs/2301.06294v1
• Date: Mon, 16 Jan 2023 07:49:12 GMT
• Title: Neuro-Symbolic World Models for Adapting to Open World Novelty
• Authors: Jonathan Balloch and Zhiyu Lin and Robert Wright and Xiangyu Peng and Mustafa Hussain and Aarun Srinivas and Julia Kim and Mark O. Riedl
• Abstract summary: We introduce WorldCloner, an end-to-end trainable neuro-symbolic world model for rapid novelty adaptation. WorldCloner learns an efficient symbolic representation of the pre-novelty environment transitions. WorldCloner augments the policy learning process using imagination-based adaptation.
• Score: 9.707805250772129
• License: http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/
• Abstract: Open-world novelty--a sudden change in the mechanics or properties of an environment--is a common occurrence in the real world. Novelty adaptation is an agent's ability to improve its policy performance post-novelty. Most reinforcement learning (RL) methods assume that the world is a closed, fixed process. Consequentially, RL policies adapt inefficiently to novelties. To address this, we introduce WorldCloner, an end-to-end trainable neuro-symbolic world model for rapid novelty adaptation. WorldCloner learns an efficient symbolic representation of the pre-novelty environment transitions, and uses this transition model to detect novelty and efficiently adapt to novelty in a single-shot fashion. Additionally, WorldCloner augments the policy learning process using imagination-based adaptation, where the world model simulates transitions of the post-novelty environment to help the policy adapt. By blending ''imagined'' transitions with interactions in the post-novelty environment, performance can be recovered with fewer total environment interactions. Using environments designed for studying novelty in sequential decision-making problems, we show that the symbolic world model helps its neural policy adapt more efficiently than model-based and model-based neural-only reinforcement learning methods.

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