Tree exploration for bayesian RL exploration
Paper in proceeding, 2008

Research in reinforcement learning has produced algorithms for optimal decision making under uncertainty that fall within two main types. The first employs a Bayesian framework, where optimality improves with increased computational time. This is because the resulting planning task takes the form of a dynamic programming problem on a belief tree with an infinite number of states. The second type employs relatively simple algorithmwhich are shown to suffer small regret within a distribution-free framework. This paper presents a lower bound and a high probability upper bound on the optimal value function for the nodes in the Bayesian belief tree, which are analogous to similar bounds in POMDPs. The bounds are then used to create more efficient strategies for exploring the tree. The resulting algorithms are compared with the distribution-free algorithm UCB1, as well as a simpler baseline algorithm on multiarmed bandit problems. © 2008 IEEE.

Author

Christos Dimitrakakis

Chalmers, Computer Science and Engineering (Chalmers), Computing Science (Chalmers)

2008 International Conference on Computational Intelligence for Modelling Control and Automation, CIMCA 2008

1029-1034

Subject Categories

Computer and Information Science

DOI

10.1109/CIMCA.2008.32

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10/8/2017