Learning Symbolic Models of Stochastic Domains

Pasula, H. M., Zettlemoyer, L. S., Kaelbling, L. P.

Journal of Artificial Intelligence Research 

In this article, we work towards the goal of developing agents that can learn to act in complex worlds. We develop a probabilistic, relational planning rule representation that compactly models noisy, nondeterministic action effects, and show how such rules can be effectively learned. Through experiments in simple planning domains and a 3D simulated blocks world with realistic physics, we demonstrate that this learning algorithm allows agents to effectively model world dynamics.