Visual Analysis of Action Policy Behavior: A Case Study in Grid-World Driving

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Abstract

Learned action policies are gaining ever more traction in AI. One natural idea to support human understanding is visualization of policy behavior, enabling users (domain experts) to visually inspect and scrutinize what has been learned. Here we contribute a case study, in an abstract grid-world driving domain that extends the Racetrack planning benchmark with traffic and with policies that generalize across maps. Our visualization takes as input a set of policy traces, and provides a compact overview of critical situations – crashes or almost-crashes – at map positions, as well as means to explore individual policy traces in depth. Our user study shows that users with access to our visualization obtain a better understanding of critical situations.

Details

Original languageEnglish
Title of host publicationJoint Proceedings of the xAI 2025 Late-breaking Work, Demos and Doctoral Consortium (LB/D/DC@xAI 2025)
PublisherCEUR-WS.org
Pages145-152
Number of pages8
Publication statusPublished - 27 Aug 2025
Peer-reviewedYes

Publication series

SeriesCEUR Workshop Proceedings
VolumeVol-4017
ISSN1613-0073

External IDs

ORCID /0000-0001-8793-9915/work/191040063
Scopus 105015615269

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Keywords

  • Action Policy, Grid-World Driving, ProcGrid Traffic Gym, Visual Analysis, Visualization