Title

A Dynamic-Bayesian Network Framework For Modeling And Evaluating Learning From Observation

Keywords

Dynamic Bayesian Networks; Learning from observation

Abstract

Learning from observation (LfO), also known as learning from demonstration, studies how computers can learn to perform complex tasks by observing and thereafter imitating the performance of a human actor. Although there has been a significant amount of research in this area, there is no agreement on a unified terminology or evaluation procedure. In this paper, we present a theoretical framework based on Dynamic-Bayesian Networks (DBNs) for the quantitative modeling and evaluation of LfO tasks. Additionally, we provide evidence showing that: (1) the information captured through the observation of agent behaviors occurs as the realization of a stochastic process (and often not just as a sample of a state-to-action map); (2) learning can be simplified by introducing dynamic Bayesian models with hidden states for which the learning and model evaluation tasks can be reduced to minimization and estimation of some stochastic similarity measures such as crossed entropy. © 2014 Elsevier Ltd. All rights reserved.

Publication Date

9-1-2014

Publication Title

Expert Systems with Applications

Volume

41

Issue

11

Number of Pages

5212-5226

Document Type

Article

Personal Identifier

scopus

DOI Link

https://doi.org/10.1016/j.eswa.2014.02.049

Socpus ID

84898477717 (Scopus)

Source API URL

https://api.elsevier.com/content/abstract/scopus_id/84898477717

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