Skill Discovery in Continuous Reinforcement Learning Domains using Skill Chaining
Part of: Advances in Neural Information Processing Systems 22 (NIPS 2009)
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Abstract
We introduce skill chaining, a skill discovery method for reinforcement learning agents in continuous domains, that builds chains of skills leading to an end-of-task reward. We demonstrate experimentally that it creates skills that result in performance benefits in a challenging continuous domain.