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Bayesian Multi-Task Reinforcement Learning

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Bayesian Multi-Task Reinforcement Learning
We consider the problem of multi-task reinforcement learning where the learner is provided with a set of tasks, for which only a small number of samples can be generated for any given policy. As the number of samples may not be enough to learn an accurate evaluation of the policy, it would be necessary to identify classes of tasks with similar structure and to learn them jointly. We consider the case where the tasks share structure in their value functions, and model this by assuming that the value functions are all sampled from a common prior. We adopt the Gaussian process temporal-difference value function model and use a hierarchical Bayesian approach to model the distribution over the value functions. We study two cases, where all the value functions belong to the same class and where they belong to an undefined number of classes. For each case, we present a hierarchical Bayesian model, and derive inference algorithms for (i) joint learning of the value functions, and (ii) efficie...
Alessandro Lazaric, Mohammad Ghavamzadeh
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Type Conference
Year 2010
Where ICML
Authors Alessandro Lazaric, Mohammad Ghavamzadeh
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