Using Reward Machines for High-Level Task Specification and Decomposition in Reinforcement Learning.

Rodrigo Toro Icarte, Toryn Q. Klassen, Richard Anthony Valenzano, Sheila A. McIlraith

Abstract: In this paper we propose Reward Machines {—} a type of finite state machine that supports the specification of reward functions while exposing reward function structure to the learner and supportin...