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Leveraging Human Guidance for Deep Reinforcement Learning Tasks (arxiv.org)
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In plain words: Instead of copying a person's step-by-step moves, this survey reviews five other ways people can guide a learning agent that may take less effort. It compares what each approach assumes and how it works, then points to open questions.

Abstract

Reinforcement learning agents can learn to solve sequential decision tasks by interacting with the environment. Human knowledge of how to solve these tasks can be incorporated using imitation learning, where the agent learns to imitate human demonstrated decisions. However, human guidance is not limited to the demonstrations. Other types of guidance could be more suitable for certain tasks and require less human effort. This survey provides a high-level overview of five recent learning frameworks that primarily rely on human guidance other than conventional, step-by-step action demonstrations. We review the motivation, assumption, and implementation of each framework. We then discuss possible future research directions.

Ruohan Zhang, Faraz Torabi, Lin Guan, Dana H. Ballard, Peter Stone
arXiv:1909.09906 · cs.AI, cs.LG · submitted Sep 21, 2019
abstract · pdf · html · Proceedings of the 28th International Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence (IJCAI 2019)

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