A distributional analysis of sampling-based reinforcement learning algorithms

P Amortila, D Precup, P Panangaden… - International …, 2020 - proceedings.mlr.press
… We present a distributional approach to theoretical analyses of reinforcement learning
algorithms for constant step-sizes. We demonstrate its effectiveness by presenting simple and …

Reinforcement learning: A survey

LP Kaelbling, ML Littman, AW Moore - Journal of artificial intelligence …, 1996 - jair.org
… This paper surveys the field of reinforcement learning from a … learning. Both the historical
basis of the field and a broad selection of current work are summarized. Reinforcement learning

An empirical comparison of two common multiobjective reinforcement learning algorithms

R Issabekov, P Vamplew - AI 2012: Advances in Artificial Intelligence: 25th …, 2012 - Springer
… RL-Glue lays a solid foundation for empirical analysis in reinforcement learning. RL-Glue is
very good and very useful software but is restricted to single objective reinforcement learning

The difficulty of passive learning in deep reinforcement learning

G Ostrovski, PS Castro… - Advances in Neural …, 2021 - proceedings.neurips.cc
… paradigm which facilitates our empirical analysis of the difficulties in offline reinforcement
detailed empirical analysis of the failure modes of passive (ie non-interactive, offline) learning, …

Informing sequential clinical decision-making through reinforcement learning: an empirical study

SM Shortreed, E Laber, DJ Lizotte, TS Stroup… - Machine learning, 2011 - Springer
… the role that reinforcement learning can play in the optimization of treatment policies for
chronic illnesses. Before applying any off-the-shelf reinforcement learning methods in this setting…

Critical factors in the empirical performance of temporal difference and evolutionary methods for reinforcement learning

S Whiteson, ME Taylor, P Stone - Autonomous Agents and Multi-Agent …, 2010 - Springer
… We begin our empirical analysis by comparing Sarsa and NEAT in the benchmark
versions of both the mountain car and keepaway tasks. The differences observed in these …

How many random seeds? statistical power analysis in deep reinforcement learning experiments

C Colas, O Sigaud, PY Oudeyer - arXiv preprint arXiv:1806.08295, 2018 - arxiv.org
… Reproducibility of benchmarked deep reinforcement learning tasks for continuous control.
In: Proceedings of the ICML 2017 workshop on Reproducibility in Machine Learning (RML). …

[PDF][PDF] Draft: Empirical Design in Reinforcement Learning

A Patterson, S Neumann, M White… - Journal of Artificial …, 2020 - sites.ualberta.ca
… We begin by describing a simple observational study of a single reinforcement learning
agent. Only once we have mastered the art of observing our agents can we then begin to design …

An empirical study of representation learning for reinforcement learning in healthcare

TW Killian, H Zhang, J Subramanian, M Fatemi… - arXiv preprint arXiv …, 2020 - arxiv.org
… As we do not have the ability to generate more data through an exploration of novel treatment
strategies, we develop a policy using offline, batch reinforcement learning. In this setting, it …

Reinforcement learning models and their neural correlates: An activation likelihood estimation meta-analysis

HW Chase, P Kumar, SB Eickhoff… - Cognitive, affective, & …, 2015 - Springer
Reinforcement learning describes motivated behavior in terms of two … -analysis of functional
magnetic resonance imaging studies that had employed algorithmic reinforcement learning