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JACIII Vol.15 No.7 pp. 814-821
doi: 10.20965/jaciii.2011.p0814
(2011)

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Merging with Extraction Method for Transfer Learning in Actor-Critic

Toshiaki Takano*, Haruhiko Takase*, Hiroharu Kawanaka*,
and Shinji Tsuruoka**

*Graduate School of Engineering, Mie University, 1577 Kurima-Machiya, Tsu, Mie 514-8507, Japan

**Graduate School of Regional Innovation Studies, Mie University, 1577 Kurima-Machiya, Tsu, Mie 514-8507, Japan

Received:
March 3, 2011
Accepted:
May 9, 2011
Published:
September 20, 2011
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Keywords:
transfer learning, reinforcement learning, actor-critic
Abstract
This paper aims to accelerate learning process of actor-critic method, which is one of the major reinforcement learning algorithms, by a transfer learning. Transfer learning accelerates learning processes for the target task by reusing knowledge of source policies for each source task. In general, it consists of a selection phase and a training phase. Agents select source policies that are similar to the target one without trial and error, and train the target task by referring selected policies. In this paper, we discuss the training phase, and the rest of the training algorithm is based on our previous method. We proposed the effective transfer method that consists of the extractionmethod and the mergingmethod. Agents extract action preferences that are related to reliable states, and state values that lead to preferred states. Extracted parameters are merged into the current parameters by taking weighted average. We apply the proposed algorithm to simple maze tasks, and show the effectiveness of the proposed method: reduce 16% episodes and 55% failures without transfer.
Cite this article as:
T. Takano, H. Takase, H. Kawanaka, and S. Tsuruoka, “Merging with Extraction Method for Transfer Learning in Actor-Critic,” J. Adv. Comput. Intell. Intell. Inform., Vol.15 No.7, pp. 814-821, 2011.
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