The logic of adaptive behavior : knowledge representation and algorithms for adaptive sequential decision making under uncertainty in first-order and relational domains / Martijn van Otterlo.
Includes bibliographical references (pages 443-476) and index.
Contents
Title page; Preface; Contents; CHAPTER 1. Introduction; 1.1. Science and Engineering of Adaptive Behavior; 1.2. You Can Only Learn What You Can Represent; 1.3. About the Contents and Structure of this Book; PART I. Learning Sequential Decision Making under Uncertainty; CHAPTER 2. Markov Decision Processes: Concepts and Algorithms; CHAPTER 3. Generalization and Abstraction in Markov Decision Processes; PART II. Sequential Decisions in the First-Order Setting; CHAPTER 4. Reasoning, Learning and Acting in Worlds with Objects; CHAPTER 5. Model-Free Algorithms for Relational MDPs.
Summary
Markov decision processes have become the de facto standard in modeling and solving sequential decision making problems under uncertainty. This book studies lifting Markov decision processes, reinforcement learning and dynamic programming to the first-order (or, relational) setting.
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