[PDF][PDF] Representation Transfer for Reinforcement Learning.

ME Taylor, P Stone - … to Representation Change during Learning and …, 2007 - cdn.aaai.org
AAAI Fall Symposium: Computational Approaches to Representation Change …, 2007cdn.aaai.org
Transfer learning problems are typically framed as leveraging knowledge learned on a
source task to improve learning on a related, but different, target task. Current transfer
learning methods are able to successfully transfer knowledge from a source reinforcement
learning task into a target task, reducing learning time. However, the complimentary task of
transferring knowledge between agents with different internal representations has not been
well explored. The goal in both types of transfer problems is the same: reduce the time …
Abstract
Transfer learning problems are typically framed as leveraging knowledge learned on a source task to improve learning on a related, but different, target task. Current transfer learning methods are able to successfully transfer knowledge from a source reinforcement learning task into a target task, reducing learning time. However, the complimentary task of transferring knowledge between agents with different internal representations has not been well explored. The goal in both types of transfer problems is the same: reduce the time needed to learn the target with transfer, relative to learning the target without transfer. This work defines representation transfer, contrasts it with task transfer, and introduces two novel algorithms. Additionally, we show representation transfer algorithms can also be successfully used for task transfer, providing an empirical connection between the two problems. These algorithms are fully implemented in a complex multiagent domain and experiments demonstrate that transferring the learned knowledge between different representations is both possible and beneficial.
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