Saurabh Daptardar

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1ranked-venue papers
0as first author
0since 2021 · last 2020
—ORCID · none

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Artificial intelligence and machine learning · 1

Expertise — from the expertise taxonomy: the topics of the expert's papers under the CCF categories. A weight counts papers with recency: 1 for a paper about the topic, 0.3 when the topic is its context, halved every five years.

Artificial intelligence
1 paper
Reinforcement learning · 67% Planning, search and constraint satisfaction · 33%
Interdisciplinary, comprehensive, and emerging computing
1 paper
Bioinformatics and computational biology · 50% Computational social science and digital humanities · 50%

Topics — the 5 heaviest of 5, each with the papers that count most for it

TopicWeightPapersLastEvidence papers
Machine learning › Reinforcement learning › imitation learning
inverse reinforcement learning
0.412020
Inverse Rational Control with Partially Observable Continuous Nonlinear Dynamics · NeurIPS 2020
Knowledge, reasoning and agents › Planning, search and constraint satisfaction › planning under uncertainty
partially observable markov decision process
0.412020
Inverse Rational Control with Partially Observable Continuous Nonlinear Dynamics · NeurIPS 2020
Machine learning › Reinforcement learning
partially observable reinforcement learning
0.412020
Inverse Rational Control with Partially Observable Continuous Nonlinear Dynamics · NeurIPS 2020
Computational social science and digital humanities
behavioral modeling
0.112020
Inverse Rational Control with Partially Observable Continuous Nonlinear Dynamics · NeurIPS 2020
Bioinformatics and computational biology
computational neuroscience
0.112020
Inverse Rational Control with Partially Observable Continuous Nonlinear Dynamics · NeurIPS 2020

Methods — techniques the papers use, named apart from their topics

gradient ascent · 0.9deep reinforcement learning · 0.9bayesian inference · 0.9
YearPublicationVenuePosition
2020 Inverse Rational Control with Partially Observable Continuous Nonlinear Dynamics
abstract
A fundamental question in neuroscience is how the brain creates an internal model of the world to guide actions using sequences of ambiguous sensory information. This is naturally formulated as a reinforcement learning problem under partial observations, where an agent must estimate relevant latent variables in the world from its evidence, anticipate possible future states, and choose actions that optimize total expected reward. This problem can be solved by control theory, which allows us to find the optimal actions for a given system dynamics and objective function. However, animals often appear to behave suboptimally. Why? We hypothesize that animals have their own flawed internal model of the world, and choose actions with the highest expected subjective reward according to that flawed model. We describe this behavior as {\it rational} but not optimal. The problem of Inverse Rational Control (IRC) aims to identify which internal model would best explain an agent's actions. Our contribution here generalizes past work on Inverse Rational Control which solved this problem for discrete control in partially observable Markov decision processes. Here we accommodate continuous nonlinear dynamics and continuous actions, and impute sensory observations corrupted by unknown noise that is private to the animal. We first build an optimal Bayesian agent that learns an optimal policy generalized over the entire model space of dynamics and subjective rewards using deep reinforcement learning. Crucially, this allows us to compute a likelihood over models for experimentally observable action trajectories acquired from a suboptimal agent. We then find the model parameters that maximize the likelihood using gradient ascent. Our method successfully recovers the true model of rational agents. This approach provides a foundation for interpreting the behavioral and neural dynamics of animal brains during complex tasks.
Minhae Kwon, Saurabh Daptardar, Paul Schrater, Xaq Pitkow
NeurIPS2