Title
Model, Data and Reward Repair: Trusted Machine Learning for Markov Decision Processes
Abstract
When machine learning (ML) models are used in safety-critical or mission-critical applications (e.g., self driving cars, cyber security, surgical robotics), it is important to ensure that they provide some high-level guarantees (e.g., safety, liveness). We introduce a paradigm called Trusted Machine Learning (TML) for making ML models more trustworthy. We use Markov Decision Processes (MDPs) as the underlying dynamical model and outline three TML approaches: (1) Model Repair, wherein we modify the learned model directly; (2) Data Repair, wherein we modify the data so that re-learning from the modified data results in a trusted model; and (3) Reward Repair, wherein we modify the reward function of the MDP to satisfy the specified logical constraint. We show how these repairs can be done efficiently for probabilistic models (e.g., MDP) when the desired properties are expressed in some appropriate fragment of logic such as temporal logic (for example PCTL, i.e., Probabilistic Computation Tree Logic), first order logic or propositional logic. We illustrate our approaches on case studies from multiple domains, e.g., car controller for obstacle avoidance, and a query routing controller in a wireless sensor network.
Year
DOI
Venue
2018
10.1109/DSN-W.2018.00064
2018 48th Annual IEEE/IFIP International Conference on Dependable Systems and Networks Workshops (DSN-W)
Keywords
Field
DocType
trusted machine learning,model repair,data repair,reward repair
Data modeling,Computer science,Probabilistic CTL,Markov decision process,Propositional calculus,First-order logic,Artificial intelligence,Probabilistic logic,Temporal logic,Machine learning,Liveness
Conference
ISSN
ISBN
Citations 
2325-6648
978-1-5386-6708-8
1
PageRank 
References 
Authors
0.37
10
5
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Shalini Ghosh112110.61
Susmit Jha246033.61
Ashish Tiwari31630106.62
Patrick Lincoln42535241.90
Xiaojin Zhu53586222.74