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Finding Options that Minimize Planning Time
Yuu Jinnai · David Abel · David Hershkowitz · Michael L. Littman · George Konidaris

Thu Jun 13 06:30 PM -- 09:00 PM (PDT) @ Pacific Ballroom #40
We formalize the problem of selecting the optimal set of options for planning as that of computing the smallest set of options so that planning converges in less than a given maximum of value-iteration passes. We first show that the problem is $\NP$-hard, even if the task is constrained to be deterministic---the first such complexity result for option discovery. We then present the first polynomial-time boundedly suboptimal approximation algorithm for this setting, and empirically evaluate it against both the optimal options and a representative collection of heuristic approaches in simple grid-based domains.

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Yuu Jinnai (Brown University)
David Abel (Brown University)
David Hershkowitz (Carnegie Mellon University)
Michael L. Littman (Brown University)
George Konidaris (Brown)

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