The Optimal Reward Baseline for Gradient-Based Reinforcement Learning

no code implementations • 10 Jan 2013 • Lex Weaver, Nigel Tao

There exist a number of reinforcement learning algorithms which learnby climbing the gradient of expected reward.

reinforcement-learning Reinforcement Learning (RL)

KnightCap: A chess program that learns by combining TD(lambda) with game-tree search

no code implementations • 10 Jan 1999 • Jonathan Baxter, Andrew Tridgell, Lex Weaver

In this paper we present TDLeaf(lambda), a variation on the TD(lambda) algorithm that enables it to be used in conjunction with game-tree search.