Emergence of Prediction by Reinforcement Learning Using a Recurrent Neural Network

To develop a robot that behaves flexibly in the real world, it is essential that it learns various necessary functions autonomously without receiving significant information from a human in advance. Among such functions, this paper focuses on learning “prediction” that is attracting attention recent...

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Main Authors: Kenta Goto, Katsunari Shibata
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Wiley 2010-01-01
Series:Journal of Robotics
Online Access:http://dx.doi.org/10.1155/2010/437654
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description To develop a robot that behaves flexibly in the real world, it is essential that it learns various necessary functions autonomously without receiving significant information from a human in advance. Among such functions, this paper focuses on learning “prediction” that is attracting attention recently from the viewpoint of autonomous learning. The authors point out that it is important to acquire through learning not only the way of predicting future information, but also the purposive extraction of prediction target from sensor signals. It is suggested that through reinforcement learning using a recurrent neural network, both emerge purposively and simultaneously without testing individually whether or not each piece of information is predictable. In a task where an agent gets a reward when it catches a moving object that can possibly become invisible, it was observed that the agent learned to detect the necessary factors of the object velocity before it disappeared, to relay the information among some hidden neurons, and finally to catch the object at an appropriate position and timing, considering the effects of bounces off a wall after the object became invisible.
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spelling doaj-art-f00e5a2a83744d538f88da8d14a69e8e2025-02-03T00:59:21ZengWileyJournal of Robotics1687-96001687-96192010-01-01201010.1155/2010/437654437654Emergence of Prediction by Reinforcement Learning Using a Recurrent Neural NetworkKenta Goto0Katsunari Shibata1Department of Electrical and Electronic Engineering, Oita University, 700 Dannoharu, Oita 870-1192, JapanDepartment of Electrical and Electronic Engineering, Oita University, 700 Dannoharu, Oita 870-1192, JapanTo develop a robot that behaves flexibly in the real world, it is essential that it learns various necessary functions autonomously without receiving significant information from a human in advance. Among such functions, this paper focuses on learning “prediction” that is attracting attention recently from the viewpoint of autonomous learning. The authors point out that it is important to acquire through learning not only the way of predicting future information, but also the purposive extraction of prediction target from sensor signals. It is suggested that through reinforcement learning using a recurrent neural network, both emerge purposively and simultaneously without testing individually whether or not each piece of information is predictable. In a task where an agent gets a reward when it catches a moving object that can possibly become invisible, it was observed that the agent learned to detect the necessary factors of the object velocity before it disappeared, to relay the information among some hidden neurons, and finally to catch the object at an appropriate position and timing, considering the effects of bounces off a wall after the object became invisible.http://dx.doi.org/10.1155/2010/437654
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