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Exploiting Symmetry in Dynamics for Model-Based Reinforcement Learning with Asymmetric Rewards

27 Mar 2024arXiv:2403.19024archive 2025-07-28

Yasin Sonmez, Neelay Junnarkar, Murat Arcak

Recent work in reinforcement learning has leveraged symmetries in the model to improve sample efficiency in training a policy. A commonly used simplifying assumption is that the dynamics and reward both exhibit the same symmetry; however, in many real-world environments, the dynamical model exhibits symmetry independent of the reward model. In this paper, we assume only the dynamics exhibit symmetry, extending the scope of problems in reinforcement learning and learning in control theory to which symmetry techniques can be applied. We use Cartan's moving frame method to introduce a technique for learning dynamics that, by construction, exhibit specified symmetries. Numerical experiments demonstrate that the proposed method learns a more accurate dynamical model

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