We consider the task of reinforcement learning in an environment in which rare significant events occur independently of the actions selected by the controlling agent. If these ev...
— The aquisition and improvement of motor skills and control policies for robotics from trial and error is of essential importance if robots should ever leave precisely pre-struc...
We empirically evaluate the performance of various reinforcement learning methods in applications to sequential targeted marketing. In particular, we propose and evaluate a progre...
Naoki Abe, Edwin P. D. Pednault, Haixun Wang, Bian...
We explore dynamic shaping to integrate our prior beliefs of the final policy into a conventional reinforcement learning system. Shaping provides a positive or negative artificial...
This paper presents a direct reinforcement learning algorithm, called Finite-Element Reinforcement Learning, in the continuous case, i.e. continuous state-space and time. The eval...