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NIPS
1998
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Scheduling Straight-Line Code Using Reinforcement Learning and Rollouts
The execution order of a block of computer instructions can make a difference in its running time by a factor of two or more. In order to achieve the best possible speed, compiler...
Amy McGovern, J. Eliot B. Moss
NIPS
1998
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Gradient Descent for General Reinforcement Learning
A simple learning rule is derived, the VAPS algorithm, which can be instantiated to generate a wide range of new reinforcementlearning algorithms. These algorithms solve a number ...
Leemon C. Baird III, Andrew W. Moore
FLAIRS
1998
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Learning to Race: Experiments with a Simulated Race Car
Our focus is on designing adaptable agents for highly dynamic environments. Wehave implementeda reinforcement learning architecture as the reactive componentof a twolayer control ...
Larry D. Pyeatt, Adele E. Howe
FLAIRS
1998
13 years 5 months ago
Optimizing Production Manufacturing Using Reinforcement Learning
Manyindustrial processes involve makingparts with an assemblyof machines, where each machinecarries out an operation on a part, and the finished product requires a wholeseries of ...
Sridhar Mahadevan, Georgios Theocharous
NIPS
2003
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Gaussian Processes in Reinforcement Learning
We exploit some useful properties of Gaussian process (GP) regression models for reinforcement learning in continuous state spaces and discrete time. We demonstrate how the GP mod...
Carl Edward Rasmussen, Malte Kuss
IJCAI
2003
13 years 5 months ago
Multiple-Goal Reinforcement Learning with Modular Sarsa(0)
We present a new algorithm, GM-Sarsa(0), for finding approximate solutions to multiple-goal reinforcement learning problems that are modeled as composite Markov decision processe...
Nathan Sprague, Dana H. Ballard
ICMLA
2003
13 years 5 months ago
Reinforcement Learning Task Clustering
This work represents the first step towards a task library system in the reinforcement learning domain. Task libraries could be useful in speeding up the learning of new tasks th...
James L. Carroll, Todd S. Peterson, Kevin D. Seppi
ICMLA
2003
13 years 5 months ago
A Distributed Reinforcement Learning Approach to Pattern Inference in Go
— This paper shows that the distributed representation found in Learning Vector Quantization (LVQ) enables reinforcement learning methods to cope with a large decision search spa...
Myriam Abramson, Harry Wechsler
NCI
2004
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Hierarchical reinforcement learning with subpolicies specializing for learned subgoals
This paper describes a method for hierarchical reinforcement learning in which high-level policies automatically discover subgoals, and low-level policies learn to specialize for ...
Bram Bakker, Jürgen Schmidhuber
ESANN
2003
13 years 6 months ago
Improving iterative repair strategies for scheduling with the SVM
The resource constraint project scheduling problem (RCPSP) is an NP-hard benchmark problem in scheduling which takes into account the limitation of resources’ availabilities in ...
Kai Gersmann, Barbara Hammer