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COLT
2000
Springer
13 years 9 months ago
Estimation and Approximation Bounds for Gradient-Based Reinforcement Learning
We model reinforcement learning as the problem of learning to control a Partially Observable Markov Decision Process (  ¢¡¤£¦¥§  ), and focus on gradient ascent approache...
Peter L. Bartlett, Jonathan Baxter
GECCO
2004
Springer
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13 years 10 months ago
Gradient-Based Learning Updates Improve XCS Performance in Multistep Problems
This paper introduces a gradient-based reward prediction update mechanism to the XCS classifier system as applied in neuralnetwork type learning and function approximation mechani...
Martin V. Butz, David E. Goldberg, Pier Luca Lanzi
UAI
2001
13 years 6 months ago
The Optimal Reward Baseline for Gradient-Based Reinforcement Learning
There exist a number of reinforcement learning algorithms which learn by climbing the gradient of expected reward. Their long-run convergence has been proved, even in partially ob...
Lex Weaver, Nigel Tao
NIPS
2001
13 years 6 months ago
Variance Reduction Techniques for Gradient Estimates in Reinforcement Learning
Policy gradient methods for reinforcement learning avoid some of the undesirable properties of the value function approaches, such as policy degradation (Baxter and Bartlett, 2001...
Evan Greensmith, Peter L. Bartlett, Jonathan Baxte...
NIPS
2001
13 years 6 months ago
Rates of Convergence of Performance Gradient Estimates Using Function Approximation and Bias in Reinforcement Learning
We address two open theoretical questions in Policy Gradient Reinforcement Learning. The first concerns the efficacy of using function approximation to represent the state action ...
Gregory Z. Grudic, Lyle H. Ungar