Specifying Reward Functions for RL Without Environment Sampling

תקציר מקורי באנגליתarXiv:2609.15544v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Enabling human stakeholders to specify reward functions that lead to their desired outcomes is a key challenge in deploying reinforcement learning agents. Preference-based methods such as online RLHF can reduce the burden of manual reward design, but they require repeatedly training policies, sampling trajectories from the real world, and eliciting feedback, making them impractical in settings where environment interaction is computationally expensive or unsafe. We introduce Experience-Free Autonomous Reward Specification (EARS), a method for learning reward functions from preferences without environment interaction. Our approach uses a structured LLM-mediated process to construct a small set of expressive reward features from a task descript