{"product_id":"9783642139314","title":"Studies in Computational Intelligence","description":"\u003ch1\u003eStudies in Computational Intelligence\u003c\/h1\u003e \u003ch2\u003eWhiteson, Shimon\u003c\/h2\u003e \u003cp\u003eThis book presents new algorithms for reinforcement learning, a form of machine learning in which an autonomous agent seeks a control policy for a sequential decision task.  Since current methods typically rely on manually designed solution representations, agents that automatically adapt their own representations have the potential to dramatically improve performance. This book introduces two novel approaches for automatically discovering high-performing representations.  \n\nThe first approach synthesizes temporal difference methods, the traditional approach to reinforcement learning, with evolutionary methods, which can learn representations for a broad class of\noptimization problems. This synthesis is accomplished by customizing evolutionary\nmethods to the on-line nature of reinforcement learning and using them to evolve representations for value function approximators.\n\nThe second approach automatically learns representations based on piecewise-constant approximations of value functions.  It begins with coarse representations and gradually refines them during learning, analyzing the current policy and value function to deduce the best refinements.  \n\nThis book also introduces a novel method for devising input representations.  This method addresses the feature selection problem by extending an algorithm that evolves the topology and weights of neural networks such that it evolves their inputs too.\n\nIn addition to introducing these new methods, this book presents extensive empirical results in multiple domains demonstrating that these techniques can substantially improve performance over methods\nwith manual representations.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003ch3\u003eDetails\u003c\/h3\u003e \u003cp\u003ePublished by: Springer\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003ePublication Date: 2010-10-05\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eFormat: Hardcover\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eISBN-13: 9783642139314\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eDOI: 10.1007\/978-3-642-13932-1\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eDimensions: 235cm x155cm\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003ePages: 116\u003c\/p\u003e ","brand":"Springer Berlin Heidelberg","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":45378560753804,"sku":"9783642139314","price":98.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0710\/9545\/1788\/files\/9783642139314.jpg?v=1775006358","url":"https:\/\/lateknightbooks.com\/products\/9783642139314","provider":"Late Knight Books and Services, LLC","version":"1.0","type":"link"}