Online learning and exploiting relational models in reinforcement learning

  • Authors:
  • Tom Croonenborghs;Jan Ramon;Hendrik Blockeel;Maurice Bruynooghe

  • Affiliations:
  • K.U. Leuven, Dept. of Computer Science, Leuven;K.U. Leuven, Dept. of Computer Science, Leuven;K.U. Leuven, Dept. of Computer Science, Leuven;K.U. Leuven, Dept. of Computer Science, Leuven

  • Venue:
  • IJCAI'07 Proceedings of the 20th international joint conference on Artifical intelligence
  • Year:
  • 2007

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Abstract

In recent years, there has been a growing interest in using rich representations such as relational languages for reinforcement learning. However, while expressive languages have many advantages in terms of generalization and reasoning, extending existing approaches to such a relational setting is a non-trivial problem. In this paper, we present a first step towards the online learning and exploitation of relational models. We propose a representation for the transition and reward function that can be learned online and present a method that exploits thesemodels by augmenting Relational Reinforcement Learning algorithms with planning techniques. The benefits and robustness of our approach are evaluated experimentally.