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Invited Talk: Doina Precup on Building Knowledge for AI Agents with Reinforcement Learning
Doina Precup

Mon Jul 13 11:00 AM -- 11:30 AM (PDT) @
in Women in Machine Learning Un-Workshop »
Event URL: https://slideslive.com/38930860/invited-talk-building-knowledge-for-ai-agents-with-reinforcement-learning »

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Abstract: Reinforcement learning allows autonomous agents to learn how to act in a stochastic, unknown environment, with which they can interact. Deep reinforcement learning, in particular, has achieved great success in well-defined application domains, such as Go or chess, in which an agent has to learn how to act and there is a clear success criterion. In this talk, I will focus on the potential role of reinforcement learning as a tool for building knowledge representations in AI agents whose goal is to perform continual learning. I will examine a key concept in reinforcement learning, the value function, and discuss its generalization to support various forms of predictive knowledge. I will also discuss the role of temporally extended actions, and their associated predictive models, in learning procedural knowledge. Finally, I will discuss the challenge of how to evaluate reinforcement learning agents whose goal is not just to control their environment, but also to build knowledge about their world.

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Doina Precup (McGill University / DeepMind)

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