Exploiting Abstract Symmetries in Reinforcement Learning for Complex Environments
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Bibliographic record
Abstract
Reinforcement Learning is rapidly establishing itself as the foremost choice for optimization of sequential autonomous decision-making problems. Encumbered by its sample inefficiency, the extension of the field to large state space and dynamic environments remains an open problem. We present a novel concept that exploits abstract spatial symmetry in complex environments for extending the skills of naïvely trained agents in local abstractions of the environment. The concept of EASE (Exploitation of Abstract Symmetry of Environments), when incorporated, improves the sample efficiency of traditional reinforcement learning algorithms. The presented work exemplifies the concept of EASE by presenting three distinct settings; EASE with heuristics-based planning, EASE with learning from demonstrations and EASE with state-space abstraction and proposes a novel algorithm for each setting.
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Full frame distilled prediction
Teacher imitationNot calibrated prevalence, not ground truth. Human validation pending. Learned from the 10,348 direct Codex labels and 10,348 direct Gemma labels. Candidate is the union of thresholded teacher heads; consensus is their intersection. These outputs are machine_predicted_unvalidated and are not human labels or direct frontier model labels.
Codex and Gemma teacher scores by category
| Category | Codex | Gemma |
|---|---|---|
| Metaresearch | 0.001 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (narrow) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (broad) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Bibliometrics | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Science and technology studies | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Scholarly communication | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Open science | 0.001 | 0.000 |
| Research integrity | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Insufficient payload (model declined to judge) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
Machine scores (provisional)
The two teacher heads of the student model, read on this work. A score orders the frame for review; it never asserts a category, and the validation status ships verbatim with every row.
Baseline scores from an immature model (maturity gate not passed, 7 training rounds). Scores rank; they never assert a category.
score_only:v0-immature-baseline · verbatim from the scoring run: score_only means the number may rank works, and no category label ships from it