Continual State Representation Learning for Reinforcement Learning using Generative Replay
Caselles-Dupré, H., Garcia Ortiz, M. 
ORCID: 0000-0003-4729-7457 & Filliat, D. (2018).
Continual State Representation Learning for Reinforcement Learning using Generative Replay.
Paper presented at the Workshop on Continual Learning, NeurIPS 2018- 32nd Conference on Neural Information Processing Systems, 07 December 2018, Montreal, Canada.
Abstract
We consider the problem of building a state representation model in a continual fashion. As the environment changes, the aim is to efficiently compress the sensory state's information without losing past knowledge. The learned features are then fed to a Reinforcement Learning algorithm to learn a policy. We propose to use Variational Auto-Encoders for state representation, and Generative Replay, i.e. the use of generated samples, to maintain past knowledge. We also provide a general and statistically sound method for automatic environment change detection. Our method provides efficient state representation as well as forward transfer, and avoids catastrophic forgetting. The resulting model is capable of incrementally learning information without using past data and with a bounded system size.
| Publication Type: | Conference or Workshop Item (Paper) |
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| Additional Information: | Accepted contribution to the Workshop on Continual Learning, NeurIPS 2018 (Neural Information Processing Systems) |
| Subjects: | Q Science > QA Mathematics > QA75 Electronic computers. Computer science |
| Departments: | School of Science & Technology > Computer Science |
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