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Poster
in
Workshop: Safe and Robust Control of Uncertain Systems

Learning Behavioral Soft Constraints from Demonstrations

Arie Glazier · Andrea Loreggia · Nicholas Mattei · Taher Rahgooy · Francesca Rossi · Brent Venable


Abstract:

Many real-life scenarios require humans to make difficult trade-offs: do we always follow all the traffic rules or do we violate the speed limit in an emergency? These scenarios force us to evaluate the trade-off between collective norms and our own personal objectives. To this end, we propose a novel inverse reinforcement learning (IRL) method for learning implicit hard and soft constraints from demonstrations, enabling agents to quickly adapt to new settings. In addition, learning soft constraints over states, actions, and state features allows agents to transfer this knowledge to new domains that share similar aspects.