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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
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
IJCAI
2001
13 years 6 months ago
Exploiting Multiple Secondary Reinforcers in Policy Gradient Reinforcement Learning
Most formulations of Reinforcement Learning depend on a single reinforcement reward value to guide the search for the optimal policy solution. If observation of this reward is rar...
Gregory Z. Grudic, Lyle H. Ungar
ICML
1995
IEEE
14 years 5 months ago
Residual Algorithms: Reinforcement Learning with Function Approximation
A number of reinforcement learning algorithms have been developed that are guaranteed to converge to the optimal solution when used with lookup tables. It is shown, however, that ...
Leemon C. Baird III
ICML
2000
IEEE
14 years 5 months ago
Reinforcement Learning in POMDP's via Direct Gradient Ascent
This paper discusses theoretical and experimental aspects of gradient-based approaches to the direct optimization of policy performance in controlled ??? ?s. We introduce ??? ?, a...
Jonathan Baxter, Peter L. Bartlett