• DocumentCode
    3081239
  • Title

    An Acquiring Method of Macro-Actions in Reinforcement Learning

  • Author

    Yoshikawa, Takeshi ; Kurihara, Masahito

  • Author_Institution
    Grad. Sch. of Inf. Sci. & Technol., Hokkaido Univ., Sapporo
  • Volume
    6
  • fYear
    2006
  • fDate
    8-11 Oct. 2006
  • Firstpage
    4813
  • Lastpage
    4817
  • Abstract
    Reinforcement learning is a framing of enabling agents to learn from interaction with environments. It has focused generally on Markov decision process (MDP) domains, but a domain may be non-Markovian in the real world. In this paper, we introduce a new description of macro-actions with tree structure in reinforcement learning. The macro-action is an action control structure which provides an agent with control which applies a collection of related microscopic actions as a single action unit. And we propose a simple method for dynamically acquiring macro-actions from the experiences of agents during reinforcement learning process.
  • Keywords
    Markov processes; decision theory; decision trees; learning (artificial intelligence); multi-agent systems; Markov decision process; macro-action method; microscopic action; reinforcement learning; tree structure; Control systems; Cybernetics; Information science; Microscopy; Multiagent systems; Tree data structures; Unsupervised learning;
  • fLanguage
    English
  • Publisher
    ieee
  • Conference_Titel
    Systems, Man and Cybernetics, 2006. SMC '06. IEEE International Conference on
  • Conference_Location
    Taipei
  • Print_ISBN
    1-4244-0099-6
  • Electronic_ISBN
    1-4244-0100-3
  • Type

    conf

  • DOI
    10.1109/ICSMC.2006.385067
  • Filename
    4274676