Learning Neuro-Symbolic Skills for Bilevel Planning
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Athalye, Ashay
Advisor(s)
Kaelbling, Leslie P.
Silver, Tom
Date Issued
September 2023
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Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Abstract
It is challenging for robots to solve tasks in environments with continuous state and action spaces, long horizons, and sparse feedback. Hierarchical approaches such as task and motion planning (TAMP) address this challenge, enabling efficient problem solving by decomposing decision-making into two or more levels of abstraction. In a setting where expert demonstrations, symbolic predicates for state abstraction, and manually designed parameterized policies are given, prior work has shown how to learn symbolic operators and neural samplers for TAMP. But Manually designing parameterized policies can be difficult and impractical, so we would instead like our agent to learn them. In this work, we develop a method for learning parameterized polices in combination with operators and samplers from demonstrations. These components are packaged into modular neuro-symbolic skills and sequenced together with search-then-sample TAMP to solve new tasks. In experiments in four robotics domains, we show that our approach – bilevel planning with neuro-symbolic skills – can solve a wide range of tasks with varying initial states, objects, and goals, outperforming six baselines and ablations.
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Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science
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