用强化学习的值函数生成概率系统的验证证书
Value Functions as Supermartingale Certificates
- 将满足ω-正则性质的策略值函数转化为超鞅证书
- 在有限、可数无限和连续状态空间均有效
- 适合需要形式化保证的强化学习研究者
针对随机系统的形式化验证方法基于实值超鞅证书,可充分证明ω-正则性质(进而线性时序逻辑)在一般状态空间(包括可数无限与连续状态)下的几乎必然满足。相反,尽管ω-正则任务的强化学习方法备受关注,但通常缺乏对所学策略满足规范的形式化保证,仅在有限状态与动作空间下例外。本文建立新理论联系:在适当奖励设定下,几乎必然满足ω-正则性质的策略对应的值函数,编码了该规范的Streett超鞅证书。实验在有限马尔可夫决策过程上验证了结果,且理论适用于有限、可数无限及连续状态空间,提示通过强化学习合成证书的可行路径。
原文摘要 · Abstract (English)
Certification methods for stochastic systems provide sufficient proof rules, based on real-valued supermartingale certificates, to determine the almost-sure satisfaction of $ω$-regular properties (and therefore of linear temporal logic) over general state spaces, encompassing both countably infinite and continuous state spaces. Conversely, reinforcement learning (RL) methods for $ω$-regular tasks have received considerable attention, but they typically lack formal guarantees that the learned policy satisfies the specification, except possibly for finite state and action spaces. We bridge these two lines of research by establishing a novel theoretical connection: under an appropriate reward, the value function associated to a policy that almost surely satisfies an $ω$-regular property encodes a Streett supermartingale certificate for that specification. Our results, validated experimentally on finite Markov decision processes, hold for finite, countably infinite, and continuous state spaces, suggesting a principled route to certificate synthesis via RL.
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