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Mazda Ahmadi, Matthew E. Taylor, and Peter
Stone. IFSA: Incremental Feature-Set Augmentation for Reinforcement Learning Tasks. In Proceedings of the the
Sixth International Joint Conference on Autonomous Agents and Multiagent Systems (AAMAS), pp. 1120–1127, May 2007.
22% acceptance rate, Finalist for Best Student Paper
Best
Student Paper Nomination at AAMAS-2007.
Reinforcement learning is a popular and successful framework for many agent-related problems because only limited environmental feedback is necessary for learning. While many algorithms exist to learn effective policies in such problems, learning is often used to solve real world problems, which typically have large state spaces, and therefore suffer from the ``curse of dimensionality.'' One effective method for speeding-up reinforcement learning algorithms is to leverage expert knowledge. In this paper, we propose a method for dynamically augmenting the agent's feature set in order to speed up value-function-based reinforcement learning. The domain expert divides the feature set into a series of subsets such that a novel problem concept can be learned from each successive subset. Domain knowledge is also used to order the feature subsets in order of their importance for learning. Our algorithm uses the ordered feature subsets to learn tasks significantly faster than if the entire feature set is used from the start. Incremental Feature-Set Augmentation (IFSA) is fully implemented and tested in three different domains: Gridworld, Blackjack and RoboCup Soccer Keepaway. All experiments show that IFSA can significantly speed up learning and motivates the applicability of this novel RL method.
@InProceedings{AAMAS07-ahmadi, author="Mazda Ahmadi and Matthew E.\ Taylor and Peter Stone", title="{IFSA}: Incremental Feature-Set Augmentation for Reinforcement Learning Tasks", booktitle="Proceedings of the the Sixth International Joint Conference on Autonomous Agents and Multiagent Systems ({AAMAS})", pages="1120--1127", month="May",year="2007", abstract={ Reinforcement learning is a popular and successful framework for many agent-related problems because only limited environmental feedback is necessary for learning. While many algorithms exist to learn effective policies in such problems, learning is often used to solve real world problems, which typically have large state spaces, and therefore suffer from the ``curse of dimensionality.'' One effective method for speeding-up reinforcement learning algorithms is to leverage expert knowledge. In this paper, we propose a method for dynamically augmenting the agent's feature set in order to speed up value-function-based reinforcement learning. The domain expert divides the feature set into a series of subsets such that a novel problem concept can be learned from each successive subset. Domain knowledge is also used to order the feature subsets in order of their importance for learning. Our algorithm uses the ordered feature subsets to learn tasks significantly faster than if the entire feature set is used from the start. Incremental Feature-Set Augmentation (IFSA) is fully implemented and tested in three different domains: Gridworld, Blackjack and RoboCup Soccer Keepaway. All experiments show that IFSA can significantly speed up learning and motivates the applicability of this novel RL method.}, note = {22% acceptance rate, {\textbf{Finalist for Best Student Paper}}}, wwwnote={<span align="left" style="color: red; font-weight: bold">Best Student Paper Nomination</span> at <a href="http://www.aamas2007.nl/">AAMAS-2007</a>.}, }
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