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Core Pattern

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MVP Investment

$9K - $12K
6-10 weeks
Engineering
$8,000
Cloud Hosting
$240
SaaS Stack
$300
Domain & Legal
$100

6mo ROI

2-4x

3yr ROI

10-20x

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Finn van der Knaap

University of Edinburgh

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Kejiang Qian

University of Edinburgh

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Zheng Xu

Meta Superintelligence Labs

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Fengxiang He

University of Edinburgh

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Founder's Pitch

"PRISM leverages reflectional symmetry to enhance multi-objective reinforcement learning efficiency for high-dimensional decision-making tasks."

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Why It Matters

This research provides a method for better integrating multiple objectives in reinforcement learning by introducing a symmetry-based approach. It allows significant improvements in situations where objectives vary in temporal frequency, addressing inefficiencies that can arise in heterogeneous environments.

Product Angle

To productize PRISM, develop a plug-and-play middleware for robotics and autonomous systems that optimizes multi-objective tasks in real-time by leveraging symmetry in reward processing.

Disruption

PRISM could replace current mono-objective-focused RL frameworks in high-dimensional and multi-objective environments, offering more balanced and efficient solutions by leveraging inherent structural symmetries.

Product Opportunity

The robotics and autonomous systems market is rapidly expanding, projected to reach over $74 billion by the mid-2020s. Stakeholders including automotive manufacturers and robotic software companies could pay for optimization and efficiency tools to improve multi-objective decision-making capabilities.

Use Case Idea

PRISM could be used to enhance self-driving car algorithms by balancing competing objectives like safety, efficiency, and comfort, optimizing policies based on temporally discrepant data inputs.

Science

The PRISM algorithm introduces a method to handle heterogeneous reward structures by leveraging a reflectional symmetry approach. It integrates ReSymNet, a network using residual blocks, to align reward frequencies, and SymReg, a regularizer enforcing reflectional symmetry, thus optimizing multi-objective tasks while ensuring better sample efficiency and generalization.

Method & Eval

PRISM was tested on MuJoCo benchmarks using Concave-Augmented Pareto Q-learning as a backbone. It showed over 100% improvement in hypervolume gains over baselines and up to 32% over full dense rewards oracle while achieving better Pareto coverage.

Caveats

Potential limitations include its reliance on symmetry which may not exist in all problem spaces, thus possibly limiting generalization. Moreover, its effectiveness can still depend considerably on specific environmental constraints and characteristics.

Author Intelligence

Finn van der Knaap

University of Edinburgh

Kejiang Qian

University of Edinburgh

Zheng Xu

Meta Superintelligence Labs

Fengxiang He

University of Edinburgh
F.He@ed.ac.uk

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