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Transfer Learning for Policy Search Methods

Matthew E. Taylor, Shimon Whiteson, and Peter Stone. Transfer Learning for Policy Search Methods. In ICML workshop on Structural Knowledge Transfer for Machine Learning, June 2006.
ICML-2006 workshop on Structural Knowledge Transfer for Machine Learning.
Superseded by the conference paper Transfer via Inter-Task Mappings in Policy Search Reinforcement Learning.

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Abstract

An ambitious goal of transfer learning is to learn a task faster after training on a different, but related, task. In this paper we extend a previously successful temporal difference approach to transfer in reinforcement learning tasks to work with policy search. In particular, we show how to construct a mapping to translate a population of policies trained via genetic algorithms (GAs) from a source task to a target task. Empirical results in robot soccer Keepaway, a standard RL benchmark domain, demonstrate that transfer via inter-task mapping can markedly reduce the time required to learn a second, more complex, task.

BibTeX Entry

@InProceedings(ICML06-taylor,
  author="Matthew E.\ Taylor and Shimon Whiteson and Peter Stone",
  title="Transfer Learning for Policy Search Methods",
  Booktitle="{ICML} workshop on Structural Knowledge Transfer for Machine Learning",
  month="June",
  year="2006",
  abstract={An ambitious goal of transfer learning is to learn a task
    faster after training on a different, but related, task.  In this
    paper we extend a previously successful temporal difference
    approach to transfer in reinforcement learning tasks to work with
    policy search.  In particular, we show how to construct a mapping
    to translate a population of policies trained via genetic
    algorithms (GAs) from a source task to a target task.  Empirical
    results in robot soccer Keepaway, a standard RL benchmark domain,
    demonstrate that transfer via inter-task mapping can markedly
    reduce the time required to learn a second, more complex, task.},
  wwwnote={<a
  href="http://www.cs.utexas.edu/~banerjee/icmlws06/">ICML-2006 workshop on Structural Knowledge Transfer for Machine Learning</a>.<br> Superseded by the conference paper <a href="http://cs.lafayette.edu/~taylorm/Publications/b2hd-AAMAS07-taylor.html">Transfer via Inter-Task Mappings in Policy Search Reinforcement Learning</a>.},
)

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