At the core of reinforcement learning is the concept that the optimal behavior or action is reinforced by a positive reward. Similar to toddlers learning how to walk who adjust actions based on the ...

From autonomous cars to video games, reinforcement learning (machine learning through interaction with environments) can have ...

This paper is about how robots (in particular, household robots like mobile manipulators) can autonomously acquire skills via ...

Progress in self-­driving cars and other forms of automation will slow dramatically unless machines can hone skills through experience. Inside a simple computer simulation, a group of self-driving ...

An intensive programme on reinforcement learning, brought together 60 international participants including students, ...

In the 1980s, Andrew Barto and Rich Sutton were considered eccentric devotees to an elegant but ultimately doomed idea—having machines learn, as humans and animals do, from experience. Decades on, ...