burlap.behavior.policy

Class BoltzmannQPolicy

java.lang.Object

burlap.behavior.policy.BoltzmannQPolicy

All Implemented Interfaces:

EnumerablePolicy, Policy, SolverDerivedPolicy

public class BoltzmannQPolicy
extends java.lang.Object
implements SolverDerivedPolicy, EnumerablePolicy

This class implements a Boltzmann policy where the the Q-values represent the components of the Boltzmann distribution. This policy requires a QComputable valueFunction to be passed to it.

Author:

James MacGlashan

Field Summary

Fields

Modifier and Type	Field and Description
protected QProvider	qplanner

Constructor Summary

Constructors

Constructor and Description
BoltzmannQPolicy(double temperature) Initializes with a temperature value.
BoltzmannQPolicy(QProvider planner, double temperature) Initializes with a temperature value and the QComputable valueFunction to use.

Method Summary

Modifier and Type	Method and Description
Action	action(State s) This method will return an action sampled by the policy for the given state.
double	actionProb(State s, Action a) Returns the probability/probability density that the given action will be taken in the given state.
boolean	definedFor(State s) Specifies whether this policy is defined for the input state.
java.util.List<ActionProb>	policyDistribution(State s) This method will return action probability distribution defined by the policy.
void	setSolver(MDPSolverInterface solver) Sets the valueFunction whose results affect this policy.

Methods inherited from class java.lang.Object

clone, equals, finalize, getClass, hashCode, notify, notifyAll, toString, wait, wait, wait

Field Detail

qplanner

protected QProvider qplanner

Constructor Detail

BoltzmannQPolicy

public BoltzmannQPolicy(double temperature)

Initializes with a temperature value. The temperature value controls how greedy the Boltzmann distribution is. The temperature should be positive with values near zero causing the distribution to be more greedy. A high temperature causes the distribution to be more uniform.

Parameters:

temperature - the positive temperature value to use

BoltzmannQPolicy

public BoltzmannQPolicy(QProvider planner,
                        double temperature)

Initializes with a temperature value and the QComputable valueFunction to use. The temperature value controls how greedy the Boltzmann distribution is. The temperature should be positive with values near zero causing the distribution to be more greedy. A high temperature causes the distribution to be more uniform.

Parameters:

planner - the q-computable valueFunction to use.

temperature - the positive temperature value to use

Method Detail

action

public Action action(State s)

Description copied from interface: Policy

This method will return an action sampled by the policy for the given state. If the defined policy is stochastic, then multiple calls to this method for the same state may return different actions. The sampling should be with respect to defined action distribution that is returned by getActionDistributionForState

Specified by:

action in interface Policy

Parameters:

s - the state for which an action should be returned

Returns:

a sample action from the action distribution; null if the policy is undefined for s

actionProb

public double actionProb(State s,
                         Action a)

Description copied from interface: Policy

Returns the probability/probability density that the given action will be taken in the given state.

Specified by:

actionProb in interface Policy

Parameters:

s - the state of interest

a - the action that may be taken in the state

Returns:

the probability/probability density

policyDistribution

public java.util.List<ActionProb> policyDistribution(State s)

Description copied from interface: EnumerablePolicy

This method will return action probability distribution defined by the policy. The action distribution is represented by a list of ActionProb objects, each which specifies a grounded action and a probability of that grounded action being taken. The returned list does not have to include actions with probability 0.

Specified by:

policyDistribution in interface EnumerablePolicy

Parameters:

s - the state for which an action distribution should be returned

Returns:

a list of possible actions taken by the policy and their probability.

setSolver

public void setSolver(MDPSolverInterface solver)

Description copied from interface: SolverDerivedPolicy

Sets the valueFunction whose results affect this policy.

Specified by:

setSolver in interface SolverDerivedPolicy

Parameters:

solver - the solver from which this policy is derived

definedFor

public boolean definedFor(State s)

Description copied from interface: Policy

Specifies whether this policy is defined for the input state.

Specified by:

definedFor in interface Policy

Parameters:

s - the input state to test for whether this policy is defined

Returns:

true if this policy is defined for State s, false otherwise.