Selecting concise sets of samples for a reinforcement learning agent

Selecting concise sets of samples for a reinforcement learning agent
Conference Proceedings of CIRAS 2005 (pdf - 1036 KB)

Abstract: We derive an algorithm for selecting from the set of samples gathered by a reinforcement learning agent interacting with a deterministic environment, a concise set from which the agent can extract a good policy. The reinforcement learning agent is assumed to extract policies from sets of samples by solving a sequence of standard supervised learning regression problems. To identify concise sets, we adopt a criterion based on an error function defined from the sequence of models produced by the supervised learning algorithm. We evaluate our approach on two-dimensional maze problems and show its good performances when problems are continuous.