Safe Q-Learning on Complete History Spaces

  • Authors:
  • Stephan Timmer;Martin Riedmiller

  • Affiliations:
  • Neuroinformatics Group, University of Osnabrueck, Germany;Neuroinformatics Group, University of Osnabrueck, Germany

  • Venue:
  • ECML '07 Proceedings of the 18th European conference on Machine Learning
  • Year:
  • 2007

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Abstract

In this article, we present an idea for solving deterministic partially observable markov decision processes (POMDPs) based on a history space containing sequences of past observations and actions. A novel and sound technique for learning a Q-function on history spaces is developed and discussed. We analyze certain conditions under which a history based approach is able to learn policies comparable to the optimal solution on belief states. The algorithm presented is model-free and can be combined with any method learning history spaces. We also present a procedure able to learn history spaces especially suited for our Q-learning algorithm.