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    • Artificial Intelligence
    • Machine Learning
    • Robotics

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    • Reinforcement learning (RL) policies, especially in visual settings, are often black boxes, hindering interpretability and efficient deployment.
    • Existing symbolic RL (SRL) frameworks struggle with feature learning and scalability in high-dimensional visual scenes with complex object interactions.

    Purpose of the Study:

    • To develop a novel symbolic learning approach for discovering discrete symbolic policies.
    • To address the limitations of current SRL methods in visual RL, focusing on interpretability, efficiency, and scalability.

    Main Methods:

    • Proposes Differentiable Symbolic Expression Search (DiffSES), a method using partially differentiable optimization to discover symbolic policies.
    • Utilizes object-level abstractions instead of raw pixels to combine symbolic reasoning with neural network-based feature learning.

    Main Results:

    • DiffSES generates symbolic policies that are simpler and more scalable than state-of-the-art SRL methods.
    • The approach requires less symbolic prior knowledge while maintaining competitive performance.

    Conclusions:

    • DiffSES offers a promising direction for learning efficient and interpretable policies in visual RL.
    • The method effectively balances the strengths of symbolic methods and deep learning for complex visual tasks.