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Optimal cost almost-sure reachability in POMDPs

Chatterjee K, Chmelik M, Gupta R, Kanodia A. 2015. Optimal cost almost-sure reachability in POMDPs. Proceedings of the Twenty-Ninth AAAI Conference on Artificial Intelligence . IAAI: Innovative Applications of Artificial Intelligence, Artifical Intelligence, vol. 5, 3496–3502.

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Chatterjee, KrishnenduISTA ; Chmelik, MartinISTA; Gupta, Raghav; Kanodia, Ayush
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Artifical Intelligence
Abstract
We consider partially observable Markov decision processes (POMDPs) with a set of target states and every transition is associated with an integer cost. The optimization objec- tive we study asks to minimize the expected total cost till the target set is reached, while ensuring that the target set is reached almost-surely (with probability 1). We show that for integer costs approximating the optimal cost is undecidable. For positive costs, our results are as follows: (i) we establish matching lower and upper bounds for the optimal cost and the bound is double exponential; (ii) we show that the problem of approximating the optimal cost is decidable and present ap- proximation algorithms developing on the existing algorithms for POMDPs with finite-horizon objectives. While the worst- case running time of our algorithm is double exponential, we present efficient stopping criteria for the algorithm and show experimentally that it performs well in many examples.
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2015-06-01
Proceedings Title
Proceedings of the Twenty-Ninth AAAI Conference on Artificial Intelligence
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AAAI Press
Acknowledgement
The research was partly supported by Austrian Science Fund (FWF) Grant No P23499-N23, FWF NFN Grant No S11407-N23 (RiSE), ERC Start grant (279307: Graph Games), and Microsoft faculty fellows award.
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5
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3496-3502
Conference
IAAI: Innovative Applications of Artificial Intelligence
Conference Location
Austin, TX, USA
Conference Date
2015-01-25 – 2015-01-30
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Chatterjee K, Chmelik M, Gupta R, Kanodia A. Optimal cost almost-sure reachability in POMDPs. In: Proceedings of the Twenty-Ninth AAAI Conference on Artificial Intelligence . Vol 5. AAAI Press; 2015:3496-3502.
Chatterjee, K., Chmelik, M., Gupta, R., & Kanodia, A. (2015). Optimal cost almost-sure reachability in POMDPs. In Proceedings of the Twenty-Ninth AAAI Conference on Artificial Intelligence (Vol. 5, pp. 3496–3502). Austin, TX, USA: AAAI Press.
Chatterjee, Krishnendu, Martin Chmelik, Raghav Gupta, and Ayush Kanodia. “Optimal Cost Almost-Sure Reachability in POMDPs.” In Proceedings of the Twenty-Ninth AAAI Conference on Artificial Intelligence , 5:3496–3502. AAAI Press, 2015.
K. Chatterjee, M. Chmelik, R. Gupta, and A. Kanodia, “Optimal cost almost-sure reachability in POMDPs,” in Proceedings of the Twenty-Ninth AAAI Conference on Artificial Intelligence , Austin, TX, USA, 2015, vol. 5, pp. 3496–3502.
Chatterjee K, Chmelik M, Gupta R, Kanodia A. 2015. Optimal cost almost-sure reachability in POMDPs. Proceedings of the Twenty-Ninth AAAI Conference on Artificial Intelligence . IAAI: Innovative Applications of Artificial Intelligence, Artifical Intelligence, vol. 5, 3496–3502.
Chatterjee, Krishnendu, et al. “Optimal Cost Almost-Sure Reachability in POMDPs.” Proceedings of the Twenty-Ninth AAAI Conference on Artificial Intelligence , vol. 5, AAAI Press, 2015, pp. 3496–502.
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