Interpretable Apprenticship Learning with Temporal Logic Specifications

Recent work has addressed using formulas in linear temporal logic (LTL) as specifications for agents planning in Markov Decision Processes (MDPs). We consider the inverse problem: inferring an LTL specification from demonstrated behavior trajectories in MDPs. We formulate this as a multiobjective optimization problem, and describe state-based (“what actually happened”) and action-based (“what the agent expected to happen”) objective functions based on a notion of “violation cost”. We demonstrate the efficacy of the approach by employing genetic programming to solve this problem in two simple domains.