A Comparative Analysis of Reinforcement Learning Methods

This paper analyzes the suitability of reinforcement learning (RL) for both programming and adapting situated agents. We discuss two RL algorithms: Q-learning and the Bucket Brigade. We introduce a special case of the Bucket Brigade, and analyze and compare its performance to Q in a number of...

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Main Author: Mataric, Maja
Language:en_US
Published: 2004
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Online Access:http://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/5978