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most citedAdapting Behaviour via Intrinsic Reward: A Survey and Empirical Study

9 citations · 11 across the 7 of their papers we have counts for

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8 papers

cs.AI2025

Towards a Formal Theory of the Need for Competence via Computational Intrinsic Motivation

Erik M. Lintunen, Nadia M. Ady, Sebastian Deterding +1

Computational modelling offers a powerful tool for formalising psychological theories, making them more transparent, testable, and applicable in digital contexts. Yet, the question…

cs.AI2024

Diversity Progress for Goal Selection in Discriminability-Motivated RL

Erik M. Lintunen, Nadia M. Ady, Christian Guckelsberger

Non-uniform goal selection has the potential to improve the reinforcement learning (RL) of skills over uniform-random selection. In this paper, we introduce a method for learning a…

cs.AI2024★ 1 cited

Creativity and Markov Decision Processes

Joonas Lahikainen, Nadia M. Ady, Christian Guckelsberger

Creativity is already regularly attributed to AI systems outside specialised computational creativity (CC) communities. However, the evaluation of creativity in AI at large typical…

cs.AI2023★ 1 cited

Interdisciplinary Methods in Computational Creativity: How Human Variables Shape Human-Inspired AI Research

Nadia M. Ady, Faun Rice

The word creativity originally described a concept from human psychology, but in the realm of computational creativity (CC), it has become much more. The question of what creativit…

cs.AI2022

Five Properties of Specific Curiosity You Didn't Know Curious Machines Should Have

Nadia M. Ady, Roshan Shariff, Johannes Günther +1

Curiosity for machine agents has been a focus of lively research activity. The study of human and animal curiosity, particularly specific curiosity, has unearthed several propertie…

cs.LG2022

Prototyping three key properties of specific curiosity in computational reinforcement learning

Nadia M. Ady, Roshan Shariff, Johannes Günther +1

Curiosity for machine agents has been a focus of intense research. The study of human and animal curiosity, particularly specific curiosity, has unearthed several properties that w…

cs.LG2019

Examining the Use of Temporal-Difference Incremental Delta-Bar-Delta for Real-World Predictive Knowledge Architectures

Johannes Günther, Nadia M. Ady, Alex Kearney +2

Predictions and predictive knowledge have seen recent success in improving not only robot control but also other applications ranging from industrial process control to rehabilitat…

cs.LG2019★ 9 cited

Adapting Behaviour via Intrinsic Reward: A Survey and Empirical Study

Cam Linke, Nadia M. Ady, Martha White +2

Learning about many things can provide numerous benefits to a reinforcement learning system. For example, learning many auxiliary value functions, in addition to optimizing the env…