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Sparse Temporal Difference Learning using LASSO

Manuel Loth
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Philippe Preux

Abstract

We consider the problem of on-line value function estimation in reinforcement learning. We concentrate on the function approximator to use. To try to break the curse of dimensionality, we focus on non parametric function approximators. We propose to fit the use of kernels into the temporal difference algorithms by using regression via the LASSO. We introduce the equi-gradient descent algorithm (EGD) which is a direct adaptation of the one recently introduced in the LARS algorithm family for solving the LASSO. We advocate our choice of the EGD as a judicious algorithm for these tasks. We present the EGD algorithm in details as well as some experimental results. We insist on the qualities of the EGD for reinforcement learning.
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inria-00117075 , version 1 (30-11-2006)

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Manuel Loth, Manuel Davy, Philippe Preux. Sparse Temporal Difference Learning using LASSO. IEEE International Symposium on Approximate Dynamic Programming and Reinforcement Learning, Apr 2007, Hawaï, USA, United States. ⟨inria-00117075⟩
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