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JAIR
2000
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13 years 8 months ago
An Application of Reinforcement Learning to Dialogue Strategy Selection in a Spoken Dialogue System for Email
This paper describes a novel method by which a spoken dialogue system can learn to choose an optimal dialogue strategy from its experience interacting with human users. The method...
Marilyn A. Walker
GECCO
2011
Springer
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13 years 13 days ago
Evolution of reward functions for reinforcement learning
The reward functions that drive reinforcement learning systems are generally derived directly from the descriptions of the problems that the systems are being used to solve. In so...
Scott Niekum, Lee Spector, Andrew G. Barto
FLAIRS
2006
13 years 10 months ago
Using Active Relocation to Aid Reinforcement Learning
We propose a new framework for aiding a reinforcement learner by allowing it to relocate, or move, to a state it selects so as to decrease the number of steps it needs to take in ...
Lilyana Mihalkova, Raymond J. Mooney
ECML
2005
Springer
14 years 2 months ago
Using Advice to Transfer Knowledge Acquired in One Reinforcement Learning Task to Another
We present a method for transferring knowledge learned in one task to a related task. Our problem solvers employ reinforcement learning to acquire a model for one task. We then tra...
Lisa Torrey, Trevor Walker, Jude W. Shavlik, Richa...
IJRR
2008
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13 years 9 months ago
Automated Design of Adaptive Controllers for Modular Robots using Reinforcement Learning
Designing distributed controllers for self-reconfiguring modular robots has been consistently challenging. We have developed a reinforcement learning approach which can be used bo...
Paulina Varshavskaya, Leslie Pack Kaelbling, Danie...