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Using Action-Policy Testing in RL to Reduce the Number of Bugs

Year: 2025
Type: conference-paper
Abstract: Reinforcement learning is becoming ever more prominent in solving combinatorial search problems, in particular ones where states are images. Prior work has devised action-policy testing methodology, that identifies so-called bug states where policy performance is sub-optimal. Here we show how to leverage this methodology during the RL process, using action-policy testing to find bugs and injecting those as alternate start states for the training runs. Running experiments across six 2D games, we find that our testing-guided training often achieves similar expected reward while reducing the number of bugs.
Language: English
Open Access status: diamond
OpenAlex ID: W4412508564
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