Relational-Grid-World: A Novel Relational Reasoning Environment and An Agent Model for Relational Information Extraction

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2020-07-01

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Kucuksubasi, Faruk
Sürer, Elif

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Reinforcement learning (RL) agents are often designed specifically for a particular problem and they generally have uninterpretable working processes. Statistical methods-based agent algorithms can be improved in terms of generalizability and interpretability using symbolic Artificial Intelligence (AI) tools such as logic programming. In this study, we present a model-free RL architecture that is supported with explicit relational representations of the environmental objects. For the first time, we use the PrediNet network architecture in a dynamic decision-making problem rather than image-based tasks, and Multi-Head Dot-Product Attention Network (MHDPA) as a baseline for performance comparisons. We tested two networks in two environments ---i.e., the baseline Box-World environment and our novel environment, Relational-Grid-World (RGW). With the procedurally generated RGW environment, which is complex in terms of visual perceptions and combinatorial selections, it is easy to measure the relational representation performance of the RL agents. The experiments were carried out using different configurations of the environment so that the presented module and the environment were compared with the baselines. We reached similar policy optimization performance results with the PrediNet architecture and MHDPA; additionally, we achieved to extract the propositional representation explicitly ---which makes the agent's statistical policy logic more interpretable and tractable. This flexibility in the agent's policy provides convenience for designing non-task-specific agent architectures. The main contributions of this study are two-fold ---an RL agent that can explicitly perform relational reasoning, and a new environment that measures the relational reasoning capabilities of RL agents.

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https://arxiv.org/abs/2007.05961
https://hdl.handle.net/11511/70900

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F. Kucuksubasi and E. Sürer, “Relational-Grid-World: A Novel Relational Reasoning Environment and An Agent Model for Relational Information Extraction,” 2020, Accessed: 00, 2021. [Online]. Available: https://arxiv.org/abs/2007.05961.