Reinforcement Learning

Author:   Richard S. Sutton
Publisher:   Springer-Verlag New York Inc.
Edition:   Softcover reprint of the original 1st ed. 1992
Volume:   173
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9781461366089


Pages:   172
Publication Date:   08 October 2012
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Reinforcement Learning


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Reinforcement learning is the learning of a mapping from situations to actions so as to maximize a scalar reward or reinforcement signal. The learner is not told which action to take, as in most forms of machine learning, but instead must discover which actions yield the highest reward by trying them. In the most interesting and challenging cases, actions may affect not only the immediate reward, but also the next situation, and through that all subsequent rewards. These two characteristics -- trial-and-error search and delayed reward -- are the most important distinguishing features of reinforcement learning. Reinforcement learning is both a new and a very old topic in AI. The term appears to have been coined by Minsk (1961), and independently in control theory by Walz and Fu (1965). The earliest machine learning research now viewed as directly relevant was Samuel's (1959) checker player, which used temporal-difference learning to manage delayed reward much as it is used today. Of course learning and reinforcement have been studied in psychology for almost a century, and that work has had a very strong impact on the AI/engineering work. One could in fact consider all of reinforcement learning to be simply the reverse engineering of certain psychological learning processes (e.g. operant conditioning and secondary reinforcement). Reinforcement Learning is an edited volume of original research, comprising seven invited contributions by leading researchers.

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Author:   Richard S. Sutton
Publisher:   Springer-Verlag New York Inc.
Imprint:   Springer-Verlag New York Inc.
Edition:   Softcover reprint of the original 1st ed. 1992
Volume:   173
Dimensions:   Width: 15.50cm , Height: 1.00cm , Length: 23.50cm
Weight:   0.284kg
ISBN:  

9781461366089


ISBN 10:   1461366089
Pages:   172
Publication Date:   08 October 2012
Audience:   Professional and scholarly ,  Professional & Vocational
Format:   Paperback
Publisher's Status:   Active
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Table of Contents

Reinforcement Learning.- A Special Issue of Machine Learning on Reinforcement Learning.- Introduction: The Challenge of Reinforcement Learning.- Simple Statistical Gradient-Following Algorithms for Connectionist Reinforcement Learning.- Practical Issues in Temporal Difference Learning.- Technical Note: Q-Learning.- Self-Improving Reactive Agents Based on Reinforcement Learning, Planning and Teaching.- Transfer of Learning by Composing Solutions of Elemental Sequential Tasks.- The Convergence of TD(?) for General ?.- A Reinforcement Connectionist Approach to Robot Path Finding in Non-Maze Like Environments.

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