Research Publications
Learning programmatically structured representations with preceptor gradients
Svetlin Penkov and Subramanian Ramamoorthy
In Proc. International Conference on Learning Representations (ICLR), 2019
Abstract
We present the perceptor gradients algorithm – a novel approach to learning symbolic representations based on the idea of decomposing an agent’s policy into i) a perceptor network extracting symbols from raw observation data and ii) a task encoding program which maps the input symbols to output actions. We show that the proposed algorithm is able to learn representations that can be directly fed into a Linear-Quadratic Regulator (LQR) or a general purpose A* planner. Our experimental results confirm that the perceptor gradients algorithm is able to efficiently learn transferable symbolic representations as well as generate new observations according to a semantically meaningful specification.
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