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Plasticity as the Mirror of Empowerment
David Abel, Michael Bowling, André Barreto +13
Agents are minimally entities that are influenced by their past observations and act to influence future observations. This latter capacity is captured by empowerment, which has se…
Agency Is Frame-Dependent
David Abel, André Barreto, Michael Bowling +13
Agency is a system's capacity to steer outcomes toward a goal, and is a central topic of study across biology, philosophy, cognitive science, and artificial intelligence. Determini…
Behavior Priors for Efficient Reinforcement Learning
Dhruva Tirumala, Alexandre Galashov, Hyeonwoo Noh +8
As we deploy reinforcement learning agents to solve increasingly challenging problems, methods that allow us to inject prior knowledge about the structure of the world and effectiv…
Temporal Difference Uncertainties as a Signal for Exploration
Sebastian Flennerhag, Jane X. Wang, Pablo Sprechmann +7
An effective approach to exploration in reinforcement learning is to rely on an agent's uncertainty over the optimal policy, which can yield near-optimal exploration strategies in…
Learning model-based planning from scratch
Razvan Pascanu, Yujia Li, Oriol Vinyals +7
Conventional wisdom holds that model-based planning is a powerful approach to sequential decision-making. It is often very challenging in practice, however, because while a model c…