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2008
Springer

Autonomous transfer for reinforcement learning

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Autonomous transfer for reinforcement learning
Recent work in transfer learning has succeeded in making reinforcement learning algorithms more efficient by incorporating knowledge from previous tasks. However, such methods typically must be provided either a full model of the tasks or an explicit relation mapping one task into the other. An autonomous agent may not have access to such high-level information, but would be able to analyze its experience to find similarities between tasks. In this paper we introduce Modeling Approximate State Transitions by Exploiting Regression (MASTER), a method for automatically learning a mapping from one task to another through an agent's experience. We empirically demonstrate that such learned relationships can significantly improve the speed of a reinforcement learning algorithm in a series of Mountain Car tasks. Additionally, we demonstrate that our method may also assist with the difficult problem of task selection for transfer. Keywords Transfer Learning, Reinforcement Learning
Matthew E. Taylor, Gregory Kuhlmann, Peter Stone
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Type Conference
Year 2008
Where ATAL
Authors Matthew E. Taylor, Gregory Kuhlmann, Peter Stone
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