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AGENTS
2001
Springer
13 years 9 months ago
Using background knowledge to speed reinforcement learning in physical agents
This paper describes Icarus, an agent architecture that embeds a hierarchical reinforcement learning algorithm within a language for specifying agent behavior. An Icarus program e...
Daniel G. Shapiro, Pat Langley, Ross D. Shachter
AAAI
2008
13 years 6 months ago
Potential-based Shaping in Model-based Reinforcement Learning
Potential-based shaping was designed as a way of introducing background knowledge into model-free reinforcement-learning algorithms. By identifying states that are likely to have ...
John Asmuth, Michael L. Littman, Robert Zinkov
IDEAL
2007
Springer
13 years 10 months ago
Skill Combination for Reinforcement Learning
Recently researchers have introduced methods to develop reusable knowledge in reinforcement learning (RL). In this paper, we define simple principles to combine skills in reinforce...
Zhihui Luo, David A. Bell, Barry McCollum
ATAL
2007
Springer
13 years 10 months ago
IFSA: incremental feature-set augmentation for reinforcement learning tasks
Reinforcement learning is a popular and successful framework for many agent-related problems because only limited environmental feedback is necessary for learning. While many algo...
Mazda Ahmadi, Matthew E. Taylor, Peter Stone
ATAL
2010
Springer
13 years 4 months ago
PAC-MDP learning with knowledge-based admissible models
PAC-MDP algorithms approach the exploration-exploitation problem of reinforcement learning agents in an effective way which guarantees that with high probability, the algorithm pe...
Marek Grzes, Daniel Kudenko