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Kunstmatige Intelligentie / RuG

KI2 - 11

Reinforcement Learning

Johan Everts

What is Learning ?

Learning takes place as a result of interaction between an agent and the world, the idea behind learning is that

Percepts received by an agent should be used not only for acting, but also for improving the agent’s ability to behave optimally in the future to achieve its goal.

Learning Types

Supervised learning: Situation in which sample (input, output)

pairs of the function to be learned can be perceived or are given

Reinforcement learning: Where the agent acts on its environment, it

receives some evaluation of its action (reinforcement), but is not told of which action is the correct one to achieve its goal

Unsupervised Learning:No information at all about given output

Reinforcement Learning

Task Learn how to behave successfully to achieve a

goal while interacting with an external environmentLearn through experience

Examples Game playing: The agent knows it has won or

lost, but it doesn’t know the appropriate action in each state

Control: a traffic system can measure the delay of cars, but not know how to decrease it.

Elements of RL

Transition model, how action influence states Reward R, imediate value of state-action transition Policy , maps states to actions

Agent

Environment

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Policy

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Elements of RL

r(state, action)immediate reward values

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Elements of RL

Value function: maps states to state values

Discount factor [0, 1) (here 0.9)

V*(state) valuesr(state, action)immediate reward values

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RL task (restated)

Execute actions in environment,

observe results.

Learn action policy : state action

that maximizes expected discounted

reward

E [r(t) + r(t + 1) + 2r(t + 2) + …]

from any starting state in S

Reinforcement Learning

Target function is : state action

RL differs from other function approximation tasks Partially observable states Exploration vs. Exploitation Delayed reward -> temporal credit

assignment

Reinforcement Learning

Target function is : state action

However… We have no training examples of form

<state, action>

Training examples are of form

<<state, action>, reward>

Utility-based agents

Try to learn V * (abbreviated V*) perform lookahead search to choose best action

from any state s

Works well if agent knows

: state action state

r : state action R

When agent doesn’t know and r, cannot choose

actions this way

a s,δ*Va s,rmaxargsπ*a

Q-learning

Q-learning

Define new function very similar to V*

If agent learns Q, it can choose optimal

action even without knowing or R

Using Learned Q

a s,δ*γVa s,ra s,Q

a s,Q maxargsπ*a

Learning the Q-value

Note: Q and V* closely related

Allows us to write Q recursively as

a' s,Q maxargs*Va'

a' ,tsQmax γta ,tsr

ta ,tsδγVta ,tsr ta ,tsQ

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Learning the Q-value

FOR each <s, a> DO

Initialize table entry:

Observe current state s

WHILE (true) DO

Select action a and execute it

Receive immediate reward r

Observe new state s’

Update table entry for as follows

Move: record transition from s to s’

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a' ,s'Q max γa s,r a s,Q a'

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Q(state, action) valuesV*(state) values

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Q-learning

Q-learning, learns the expected utility of taking a particular action a in a particular state s (Q-value of the pair (s,a))

Q-learning

Demonstration

http://iridia.ulb.ac.be/~fvandenb/qlearning/qlearning.html

eps: probability to use a random action instead of the optimal policy

gam: discount factor, closer to 1 more weight is given to future reinforcements.

alpha: learning rate

Q-learning estimates one time step difference

Why not for n steps?

a ,tsQ max γ tr ta ,tsQ a

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Temporal Difference Learning:

TD() formula

Intuitive idea: use constant 0 1 to combine estimates from various lookahead distances (note normalization factor (1- ))

ta ,tsQλta ,tsλQta ,tsQ λ ta ,tsQ λ 32211

Temporal Difference Learning:

Genetic algorithms

Imagine the individuals as agent functions

Fitness function as performance measure or reward function

No attempt made to learn the relationship between the rewards and actions taken by an agent

Simply searches directly in the individual space to find one that maximizes the fitness functions

Genetic algorithms

Represent an individual as a binary string Selection works like this: if individual X scores

twice as high as Y on the fitness function, then X is twice as likely to be selected for reproduction than Y.

Reproduction is accomplished by cross-over and mutation

Cart – Pole balancing

Demonstration

http://www.bovine.net/~jlawson/hmc/pole/sane.html

Summary

RL addresses the problem of learning control strategies for autonomous agents

In Q-learning an evaluation function over states and actions is learned

TD-algorithms learn by iteratively reducing the differences between the estimates produced by the agent at different times

In the genetic approach, the relation between rewards and actions is not learned. You simply search the fitness function space.