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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
AIA
2007
13 years 6 months ago
Optimizing number of hidden neurons in neural networks
In this paper, a novel and effective criterion based on the estimation of the signal-to-noise-ratio figure (SNRF) is proposed to optimize the number of hidden neurons in neural ne...
Yue Liu, Janusz A. Starzyk, Zhen Zhu
ATAL
2008
Springer
13 years 6 months ago
Adaptive Kanerva-based function approximation for multi-agent systems
In this paper, we show how adaptive prototype optimization can be used to improve the performance of function approximation based on Kanerva Coding when solving largescale instanc...
Cheng Wu, Waleed Meleis
GECCO
2006
Springer
177views Optimization» more  GECCO 2006»
13 years 8 months ago
Hyper-ellipsoidal conditions in XCS: rotation, linear approximation, and solution structure
The learning classifier system XCS is an iterative rulelearning system that evolves rule structures based on gradient-based prediction and rule quality estimates. Besides classifi...
Martin V. Butz, Pier Luca Lanzi, Stewart W. Wilson
AUSAI
2005
Springer
13 years 10 months ago
Global Versus Local Constructive Function Approximation for On-Line Reinforcement Learning
: In order to scale to problems with large or continuous state-spaces, reinforcement learning algorithms need to be combined with function approximation techniques. The majority of...
Peter Vamplew, Robert Ollington
SAC
2006
ACM
13 years 10 months ago
Building the functional performance model of a processor
In this paper, we present an efficient procedure for building a piecewise linear function approximation of the speed function of a processor with hierarchical memory structure. Th...
Alexey L. Lastovetsky, Ravi Reddy, Robert Higgins
GECCO
2007
Springer
139views Optimization» more  GECCO 2007»
13 years 10 months ago
The role of speciation in spatial coevolutionary function approximation
The role of space is more and more accepted as a way to dramatically improve the success of coevolutionary function approximation. The process behind this success however is not y...
Folkert de Boer, Paulien Hogeweg
ATAL
2007
Springer
13 years 10 months ago
Model-based function approximation in reinforcement learning
Reinforcement learning promises a generic method for adapting agents to arbitrary tasks in arbitrary stochastic environments, but applying it to new real-world problems remains di...
Nicholas K. Jong, Peter Stone
PKDD
2009
Springer
144views Data Mining» more  PKDD 2009»
13 years 11 months ago
Compositional Models for Reinforcement Learning
Abstract. Innovations such as optimistic exploration, function approximation, and hierarchical decomposition have helped scale reinforcement learning to more complex environments, ...
Nicholas K. Jong, Peter Stone
GECCO
2009
Springer
13 years 11 months ago
On the scalability of XCS(F)
Many successful applications have proven the potential of Learning Classifier Systems and the XCS classifier system in particular in datamining, reinforcement learning, and func...
Patrick O. Stalph, Martin V. Butz, David E. Goldbe...