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    Area of Science:

    • Artificial Intelligence
    • Machine Learning
    • Causal Inference

    Background:

    • Reinforcement learning (RL) faces challenges with data inefficiency and model-shift.
    • Transfer learning in RL can lead to interpretability issues and negative transfer without explainable models.

    Purpose of the Study:

    • To introduce Relation Transfer, an explainable and transferable learning method.
    • To address limitations of current transfer learning approaches in RL.
    • To enable principled zero-shot transfer across related domains.

    Main Methods:

    • Leveraging causal discovery methods to identify causal graphs from source domain data.
    • Inferring target models using prior causal knowledge.
    • Utilizing offline RL training on the target model to improve policy training.

    Main Results:

    • Demonstrated efficacy in both continuous and discrete cases.
    • Successfully applied to classical control problems and a real-world simulation.
    • Showcased robustness of the proposed framework.

    Conclusions:

    • Relation Transfer provides an explainable framework for RL.
    • The method effectively addresses data inefficiency and model-shift.
    • Enables zero-shot transfer by identifying what to transfer.