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Cost-Sensitive Trees for Interpretable Reinforcement Learning

Cost-Sensitive Trees for Interpretable Reinforcement Learning

Date12th Jul 2023

Time12:00 PM

Venue MR - I (SSB 233, First Floor)

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Trees have emerged as the most popular choice of intrinsically interpretable models to represent policies in reinforcement learning. However, directly learning a tree policy poses challenges, prompting existing approaches to employ neural network policies to generate datasets for training tree-based models in a supervised manner. Nonetheless, these approaches treat all misclassifications equally, assuming that there is one optimal action while considering all other actions equally sub-optimal. This work presents a novel perspective by associating different costs with various misclassifications. By adopting a cost-sensitive approach to tree construction, we demonstrate that policies generated using this methodology exhibit improved performance. To validate our findings, we develop cost-sensitive variants of two established methods, VIPER and MoET, and provide empirical evidence showcasing their superiority over the original methods across diverse environments.

Speakers

Mr. Nishtala Siddharth (CS20S022)

Computer Science and Engineering