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Reinforcement learning constructs knowledge containing state-to-action decision rules from agent’s experiences. Most of reinforcement learning methods are action-value estimation methods which estimate the true values of state-action pairs and derive the optimal policy from the value estimates. However, these methods have a serious drawback that they stray when the values for the “opposite” actions, such as moving left and moving right, are equal. This paper describes the basic mechanism of on-line profit-sharing (OnPS) which is an action-preference learning method. The main contribution of this paper is to show the equivalence of off-line and on-line in profit sharing. We also show a typical benchmark example for comparison between OnPS and Q-learning.
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Matsui, T., Inuzuka, N., Seki, H. (2003). On-line Profit Sharing Works Efficiently. In: Palade, V., Howlett, R.J., Jain, L. (eds) Knowledge-Based Intelligent Information and Engineering Systems. KES 2003. Lecture Notes in Computer Science(), vol 2773. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-540-45224-9_45
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