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Abstracting Probabilistic Actions

Peter Haddawy, AnHai Doan
UAI 1994 pp. 270-277
doi:10.1016/B978-1-55860-332-5.50039-0 /uai/1994/haddawy1994uai-abstracting/

Abstract

This paper discusses the problem of abstracting conditional probabilistic actions. We identify two distinct types of abstraction: intra-action abstraction and inter-action abstraction. We define what it means for the abstraction of an action to be correct and then derive two methods of intra-action abstraction and two methods of inter-action abstraction which are correct according to this criterion. We illustrate the developed techniques by applying them to actions described with the temporal action representation used in the DRIPS decision-theoretic planner and we describe how the planner uses abstraction to reduce the complexity of planning.

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Haddawy and Doan. "Abstracting Probabilistic Actions." Conference on Uncertainty in Artificial Intelligence, 1994. doi:10.1016/B978-1-55860-332-5.50039-0

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[Haddawy and Doan. "Abstracting Probabilistic Actions." Conference on Uncertainty in Artificial Intelligence, 1994.](https://mlanthology.org/uai/1994/haddawy1994uai-abstracting/) doi:10.1016/B978-1-55860-332-5.50039-0

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@inproceedings{haddawy1994uai-abstracting,
  title     = {{Abstracting Probabilistic Actions}},
  author    = {Haddawy, Peter and Doan, AnHai},
  booktitle = {Conference on Uncertainty in Artificial Intelligence},
  year      = {1994},
  pages     = {270-277},
  doi       = {10.1016/B978-1-55860-332-5.50039-0},
  url       = {https://mlanthology.org/uai/1994/haddawy1994uai-abstracting/}
}