Explainability in deep reinforcement learning: A review into current methods and applications

T Hickling, A Zenati, N Aouf, P Spencer - ACM Computing Surveys, 2023 - dl.acm.org
The use of Deep Reinforcement Learning (DRL) schemes has increased dramatically since
their first introduction in 2015. Though uses in many different applications are being found …

Statemask: Explaining deep reinforcement learning through state mask

Z Cheng, X Wu, J Yu, W Sun… - Advances in Neural …, 2023 - proceedings.neurips.cc
Despite the promising performance of deep reinforcement learning (DRL) agents in many
challenging scenarios, the black-box nature of these agents greatly limits their applications …

Consistency models as a rich and efficient policy class for reinforcement learning

Z Ding, C Jin - arXiv preprint arXiv:2309.16984, 2023 - arxiv.org
Score-based generative models like the diffusion model have been testified to be effective in
modeling multi-modal data from image generation to reinforcement learning (RL). However …

Measuring interpretability of neural policies of robots with disentangled representation

TH Wang, W Xiao, T Seyde… - Conference on Robot …, 2023 - proceedings.mlr.press
The advancement of robots, particularly those functioning in complex human-centric
environments, relies on control solutions that are driven by machine learning …

DTRL: decision tree-based multi-objective reinforcement learning for runtime task scheduling in domain-specific system-on-chips

T Basaklar, AA Goksoy, A Krishnakumar… - ACM Transactions on …, 2023 - dl.acm.org
Domain-specific systems-on-chip (DSSoCs) combine general-purpose processors and
specialized hardware accelerators to improve performance and energy efficiency for a …

Poetree: Interpretable policy learning with adaptive decision trees

A Pace, AJ Chan, M van der Schaar - arXiv preprint arXiv:2203.08057, 2022 - arxiv.org
Building models of human decision-making from observed behaviour is critical to better
understand, diagnose and support real-world policies such as clinical care. As established …

Enhanced oblique decision tree enabled policy extraction for deep reinforcement learning in power system emergency control

Y Dai, Q Chen, J Zhang, X Wang, Y Chen, T Gao… - Electric Power Systems …, 2022 - Elsevier
Deep reinforcement learning (DRL) algorithms have successfully solved many challenging
problems in various power system control scenarios. However, their decision-making …

[HTML][HTML] On the fusion of soft-decision-trees and concept-based models

DM Rodríguez, MP Cuéllar, DP Morales - Applied Soft Computing, 2024 - Elsevier
In the field of eXplainable Artificial Intelligence (XAI), the generation of interpretable models
that are able to match the performance of state-of-the-art deep learning methods is one of …

Rule reduction for control of a building cooling system using explainable AI

S Cho, CS Park - Journal of Building Performance Simulation, 2022 - Taylor & Francis
Although it is widely acknowledged that reinforcement learning (RL) can be beneficial for
building control, many RL-based control actions remain unexplainable in the daily practice …

Extracting decision tree from trained deep reinforcement learning in traffic signal control

Y Zhu, X Yin, C Chen - IEEE Transactions on Computational …, 2022 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Deep reinforcement learning (DRL) has achieved impressive success in traffic signal control
systems (TSCS). However, since a key component of many DRL models is the complex …