Solving uncertain MDPs with objectives that are separable over instantiations of model uncertainty
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Adulyasak, Yossiri
Varakantham, Pradeep
Ahmed, Asrar
Jaillet, Patrick
Date Issued
January 2015
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Proceeding AAAI'15 Proceedings of the Twenty-Ninth AAAI Conference on Artificial Intelligence
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AAAI Press
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Adulyasak, Yossiri, Pradeep Varakantham, Asrar Ahmed and Patrick Jaillet. "Solving uncertain MDPs with objectives that are separable over instantiations of model uncertainty." In Proceeding AAAI'15 Proceedings of the Twenty-Ninth AAAI Conference on Artificial Intelligence, Austin, Texas, January 25-30 2015, AAAI Press, ©2015, pp. 3454-3460.
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Markov Decision Problems, MDPs offer an effective mechanism for planning under uncertainty. However, due to unavoidable uncertainty over models, it is difficult to obtain an exact specification of an MDP. We are interested in solving MDPs, where transition and reward functions are not exactly specified. Existing research has primarily focussed on computing infinite horizon stationary policies when optimizing robustness, regret and percentile based objectives. We focus specifically on finite horizon problems with a special emphasis on objectives that are separable over individual instantiations of model uncertainty (i.e., objectives that can be expressed as a sum over instantiations of model uncertainty): (a) First, we identify two separable objectives for uncertain MDPs: Average Value Maximization (AVM) and Confidence Probability Maximisation (CPM). (b) Second, we provide optimization based solutions to compute policies for uncertain MDPs with such objectives. In particular, we exploit the separability of AVM and CPM objectives by employing Lagrangian dual decomposition (LDD). (c) Finally, we demonstrate the utility of the LDD approach on a benchmark problem from the literature.
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Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering
Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science
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