BRL: A Toolkit for Learning How an Agent Performs Belief Revision

Aaron Hunter, Konstantin Boyarinov

2022

Abstract

Belief revision occurs when an agent receives new information that may conflict with their current beliefs. This process can be modelled by a formal belief revision operator. However, in a practical scenario, simply defining abstract revision operators is not sufficient. A truly intelligent agent must be able to observe how others have revised their beliefs in the past, and use this information to predict how they will revise their beliefs in the future. In other words, an agent must be able to learn the mental model that is used by other agents. This process involves combining two traditionally distinct areas of Artificial Intelligence to produce a general reasoning system. In this paper, we discuss challenges faced in using various learning approaches to learn belief revision operators. We then present the BRL toolkit: software can learn the revision operator an agent is using based on past revisions. This is a tool that bridges formal reasoning and machine learning to address a common problem in practical reasoning. Accuracy and efficiency of the approach are discussed.

Paper Citation

in Harvard Style

Hunter A. and Boyarinov K. (2022). BRL: A Toolkit for Learning How an Agent Performs Belief Revision. In Proceedings of the 14th International Conference on Agents and Artificial Intelligence - Volume 3: ICAART, ISBN 978-989-758-547-0, pages 753-756. DOI: 10.5220/0010899100003116

in Bibtex Style

@conference{icaart22,
author={Aaron Hunter and Konstantin Boyarinov},
title={BRL: A Toolkit for Learning How an Agent Performs Belief Revision},
booktitle={Proceedings of the 14th International Conference on Agents and Artificial Intelligence - Volume 3: ICAART,},
year={2022},
pages={753-756},
publisher={SciTePress},
organization={INSTICC},
doi={10.5220/0010899100003116},
isbn={978-989-758-547-0},
}

in EndNote Style

TY - CONF

JO - Proceedings of the 14th International Conference on Agents and Artificial Intelligence - Volume 3: ICAART,
TI - BRL: A Toolkit for Learning How an Agent Performs Belief Revision
SN - 978-989-758-547-0
AU - Hunter A.
AU - Boyarinov K.
PY - 2022
SP - 753
EP - 756
DO - 10.5220/0010899100003116