[PDF][PDF] Macro-actions in reinforcement learning: An empirical analysis

A McGovern, RS Sutton - Computer Science Department …, 1998 - scholarworks.umass.edu
… have proposed reinforcement learning methods that obtain advantages in learning by using
temporally extended actions, or macro-actions, but none has carefully analyzed what these …

Empirical analysis of automated stock trading using deep reinforcement learning

M Kong, J So - Applied Sciences, 2023 - mdpi.com
empirically analyzed the performance of automated stock trading based on deep reinforcement
learning … We conducted empirical analysis in three ways to determine whether it is …

A theoretical and empirical analysis of expected sarsa

H Van Seijen, H Van Hasselt… - … and reinforcement …, 2009 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
analysis of Expected Sarsa, a variation on Sarsa, the classic onpolicy temporal-difference
method for model-free reinforcement learning. Expected Sarsa exploits knowledge about …

[PDF][PDF] An empirical analysis of value function-based and policy search reinforcement learning

S Kalyanakrishnan, P Stone - … of The 8th International Conference on …, 2009 - ifaamas.org
reinforcement learning tasks. While both classes of methods benefit from independent theoretical
analyses, … We conduct an empirical study to examine the strengths and weaknesses of …

An empirical investigation of the challenges of real-world reinforcement learning

G Dulac-Arnold, N Levine, DJ Mankowitz, J Li… - arXiv preprint arXiv …, 2020 - arxiv.org
… , and we believe that by identifying, replicating and solving these challenges, reinforcement
learning can be more readily used to solve many of these important real-world problems. …

Average reward reinforcement learning: Foundations, algorithms, and empirical results

S Mahadevan - Machine learning, 1996 - Springer
learning. This paper undertakes a detailed examination of average reward reinforcement
learning… , adaptive control, learning automata, and reinforcement learning. A general optimality …

Empirical priors for reinforcement learning models

SJ Gershman - Journal of Mathematical Psychology, 2016 - Elsevier
… Computational models of reinforcement learning have played an important role in understanding
learning and decision making behavior, as well as the neural mechanisms underlying …

Exploration in model-based reinforcement learning by empirically estimating learning progress

M Lopes, T Lang, M Toussaint… - Advances in neural …, 2012 - proceedings.neurips.cc
… motivation [10, 13, 12] and has shown empirical success in developmental robotics [1]. An …
on empirical measures of learning progress to drive exploration in reinforcement learning [17, …

Theoretical and empirical analysis of reward shaping in reinforcement learning

M Grzes, D Kudenko - … Conference on Machine Learning and …, 2009 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Reinforcement learning suffers scalability problems due to the state space explosion and …
domain knowledge into reinforcement learning. Theoretical and empirical analysis of this …

A reinforcement learning algorithm based on policy iteration for average reward: Empirical results with yield management and convergence analysis

A Gosavi - Machine Learning, 2004 - Springer
… We present a Reinforcement Learning (RL) algorithm based on policy iteration for solving
average … We also present a convergence analysis of the algorithm via an ordinary differential …