Hamid Eghbal-Zadeh, Florian Henkel, Gerhard Widmer,
"Learning to Infer Unseen Contexts inCausal Contextual Reinforcement Learning"
: Proceedings of the Self-Supervision for Reinforcement Learning Workshop - ICLR 2021, 2021
Original Titel:
Learning to Infer Unseen Contexts inCausal Contextual Reinforcement Learning
Sprache des Titels:
Englisch
Original Buchtitel:
Proceedings of the Self-Supervision for Reinforcement Learning Workshop - ICLR 2021
Original Kurzfassung:
In Contextual Reinforcement Learning (CRL), a change in the context variable can cause a change in the distribution of the states. Hence contextual agents must
be able to learn adaptive policies that can change when a context changes. Furthermore, in certain scenarios agents have to deal with unseen contexts, and be able to
choose suitable actions. In order to generalise onto unseen contexts, agents need to not only detect and adapt to previously observed contexts, but also reason about
how a context is constructed, and what are the causal factors of context variables.
In this paper, we propose a new task and environment for Causal Contextual Reinforcement Learning (CCRL), where the performance of different agents can be
compared in a causal reasoning task. Furthermore, we introduce a Contextual Attention Module that allows the agent to incorporate disentangled features as the
contextual factors, which results in performance improvement of the agent in unseen contexts. Finally, we demonstrate that non-causal agents fail to generalise
onto unseen contexts, while the agents incorporating the proposed module can achieve better performance in unseen contexts"