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Poster
Bayesian Inference of Temporal Task Specifications from Demonstrations
Ankit Shah · Pritish Kamath · Julie A Shah · Shen Li

Tue Dec 04 02:00 PM -- 04:00 PM (PST) @ Room 517 AB #107
in Tue Poster Session B »

When observing task demonstrations, human apprentices are able to identify whether a given task is executed correctly long before they gain expertise in actually performing that task. Prior research into learning from demonstrations (LfD) has failed to capture this notion of the acceptability of an execution; meanwhile, temporal logics provide a flexible language for expressing task specifications. Inspired by this, we present Bayesian specification inference, a probabilistic model for inferring task specification as a temporal logic formula. We incorporate methods from probabilistic programming to define our priors, along with a domain-independent likelihood function to enable sampling-based inference. We demonstrate the efficacy of our model for inferring true specifications with over 90% similarity between the inferred specification and the ground truth, both within a synthetic domain and a real-world table setting task.

Keywords: Probabilistic Methods · Applications

Author Information

Ankit Shah (Massachusetts Institute of Technology)
Pritish Kamath (MIT)
Julie A Shah (MIT)
Shen Li (MIT)

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