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Reinforcement Learning:
An Introduction
Second edition, in progress
Richard S. Sutton and Andrew G. Barto
c⃝ 2014, 2015
A Bradford Book
The MIT Press
Cambridge, Massachusetts
London, England
ii
In memory of A. Harry Klopf
Contents
Preface . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
viii
Series Forward
. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
xii
Summary of Notation . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
xiii
1
The Reinforcement Learning Problem
1
1.1
Reinforcement Learning
. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
2
1.2
Examples
. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
5
1.3
Elements of Reinforcement Learning
. . . . . . . . . . . . . .
7
1.4
Limitations and Scope
. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
9
1.5
An Extended Example: Tic-Tac-Toe
. . . . . . . . . . . . . .
10
1.6
Summary
. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
15
1.7
History of Reinforcement Learning
. . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
16
1.8
Bibliographical Remarks . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
25
I
Tabular Solution Methods
27
2
Multi-arm Bandits
31
2.1
An n-Armed Bandit Problem
. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
32
2.2
Action-Value Methods
. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
33
2.3
Incremental Implementation . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
36
2.4
Tracking a Nonstationary Problem
. . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
38
2.5
Optimistic Initial Values . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
39
2.6
Upper-Confidence-Bound Action Selection . . . . . . . . . . .
41
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CONTENTS
2.7
Gradient Bandits . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
42
2.8
Associative Search (Contextual Bandits) . . . . . . . . . . . .
46
2.9
Summary
. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
47
3
Finite Markov Decision Processes
53
3.1
The Agent–Environment Interface . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
53
3.2
Goals and Rewards . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
57
3.3
Returns
. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
59
3.4
Unified Notation for Episodic and Continuing Tasks . . . . . .
61
*∗*3.5
The Markov Property . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
62
3.6
Markov Decision Processes . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
67
3.7
Value Functions . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
70
3.8
Optimal Value Functions . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
75
3.9
Optimality and Approximation
. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
79
3.10 Summary
. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
80
4
Dynamic Programming
89
4.1
Policy Evaluation . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
90
4.2
Policy Improvement . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
94
4.3
Policy Iteration . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
96
4.4
Value Iteration
. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
98
4.5
Asynchronous Dynamic Programming . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
101
4.6
Generalized Policy Iteration . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
104
4.7
Efficiency of Dynamic Programming . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
106
4.8
Summary
. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
107
5
Monte Carlo Methods
113
5.1
Monte Carlo Prediction . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
114
5.2
Monte Carlo Estimation of Action Values . . . . . . . . . . . .
119
5.3
Monte Carlo Control . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
120
5.4
Monte Carlo Control without Exploring Starts . . . . . . . . .
124
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5.5
Off-policy Prediction via Importance Sampling . . . . . . . . .
127
5.6
Incremental Implementation . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
133
5.7
Off-Policy Monte Carlo Control . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
135
*∗*5.8
Importance Sampling on Truncated Returns . . . . . . . . . .
136
5.9
Summary
. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
138
6
Temporal-Difference Learning
143
6.1
TD Prediction . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
143
6.2
Advantages of TD Prediction Methods . . . . . . . . . . . . .
148
6.3
Optimality of TD(0)
. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
151
6.4
Sarsa: On-Policy TD Control
. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
154
6.5
Q-Learning: Off-Policy TD Control . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
157
6.6
Games, Afterstates, and Other Special Cases . . . . . . . . . .
160
6.7
Summary
. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
161
7
Eligibility Traces
167
7.1
n-Step TD Prediction . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
168
7.2
The Forward View of TD(λ) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
172
7.3
The Backward View of TD(λ) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
177
7.4
Equivalences of Forward and Backward Views . . . . . . . . .
181
7.5
Sarsa(λ) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
183
7.6
Watkins’s Q(λ) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
186
7.7
Off-policy Eligibility Traces using Importance Sampling . . . .
188
7.8
Implementation Issues
. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
189
*∗*7.9
Variable λ . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
190
7.10 Conclusions . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
190
8
Planning and Learning with Tabular Methods
195
8.1
Models and Planning . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
195
8.2
Integrating Planning, Acting, and Learning . . . . . . . . . . .
198
8.3
When the Model Is Wrong . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
203
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CONTENTS
8.4
Prioritized Sweeping
. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
206
8.5
Full vs. Sample Backups . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
210
8.6
Trajectory Sampling
. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
213
8.7
Heuristic Search . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
217
8.8
Monte Carlo Tree Search . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
220
8.9
Summary
. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
220
II
Approximate Solution Methods
223
9
On-policy Approximation of Action Values
225
9.1
Value Prediction with Function Approximation
. . . . . . . .
226
9.2
Gradient-Descent Methods . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
229
9.3
Linear Methods . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
232
9.4
Control with Function Approximation . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
241
9.5
Should We Bootstrap? . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
247
9.6
Summary
. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
249
10 Off-policy Approximation of Action Values
255
11 Policy Approximation
257
11.1 Actor–Critic Methods . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
257
11.2 Eligibility Traces for Actor–Critic Methods . . . . . . . . . . .
259
11.3 R-Learning and the Average-Reward Setting . . . . . . . . . .
260
III
Frontiers
265
12 Psychology
269
13 Neuroscience
271
14 Applications and Case Studies
273
14.1 TD-Gammon
. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
273
CONTENTS
vii
14.2 Samuel’s Checkers Player . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
279
14.3 The Acrobot . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
282
14.4 Elevator Dispatching . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
286
14.5 Dynamic Channel Allocation . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
291
14.6 Job-Shop Scheduling . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
295
15 Prospects
303
15.1 The Unified View . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
303
15.2 State Estimation
. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
306
15.3 Temporal Abstraction
. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
306
15.4 Predictive Representations . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
306
15.5 Other Frontier Dimensions . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
306
References
311
Index
338
viii
PREFACE
Preface
We first came to focus on what is now known as reinforcement learning in late
1979. We were both at the University of Massachusetts, working on one of
the earliest projects to revive the idea that networks of neuronlike adaptive
elements might prove to be a promising approach to artificial adaptive intel-
ligence. The project explored the “heterostatic theory of adaptive systems”
developed by A. Harry Klopf. Harry’s work was a rich source of ideas, and
we were permitted to explore them critically and compare them with the long
history of prior work in adaptive systems. Our task became one of teasing
the ideas apart and understanding their relationships and relative importance.
This continues today, but in 1979 we came to realize that perhaps the simplest
of the ideas, which had long been taken for granted, had received surprisingly
little attention from a computational perspective. This was simply the idea of
a learning system that wants something, that adapts its behavior in order to
maximize a special signal from its environment. This was the idea of a “he-
donistic” learning system, or, as we would say now, the idea of reinforcement
learning.
Like others, we had a sense that reinforcement learning had been thor-
oughly explored in the early days of cybernetics and artificial intelligence. On
closer inspection, though, we found that it had been explored only slightly.
While reinforcement learning had clearly motivated some of the earliest com-
putational studies of learning, most of these researchers had gone on to other
things, such as pattern classification, supervised learning, and adaptive con-
trol, or they had abandoned the study of learning altogether. As a result, the
special issues involved in learning how to get something from the environment
received relatively little attention. In retrospect, focusing on this idea was
the critical step that set this branch of research in motion. Little progress
could be made in the computational study of reinforcement learning until it
was recognized that such a fundamental idea had not yet been thoroughly
explored.
The field has come a long way since then, evolving and maturing in sev-
eral directions. Reinforcement learning has gradually become one of the most
active research areas in machine learning, artificial intelligence, and neural net-
work research. The field has developed strong mathematical foundations and
impressive applications. The computational study of reinforcement learning is
now a large field, with hundreds of active researchers around the world in di-
verse disciplines such as psychology, control theory, artificial intelligence, and
neuroscience. Particularly important have been the contributions establishing
and developing the relationships to the theory of optimal control and dynamic
programming.
The overall problem of learning from interaction to achieve
PREFACE
ix
goals is still far from being solved, but our understanding of it has improved
significantly. We can now place component ideas, such as temporal-difference
learning, dynamic programming, and function approximation, within a coher-
ent perspective with respect to the overall problem.
Our goal in writing this book was to provide a clear and simple account of
the key ideas and algorithms of reinforcement learning. We wanted our treat-
ment to be accessible to readers in all of the related disciplines, but we could
not cover all of these perspectives in detail. For the most part, our treatment
takes the point of view of artificial intelligence and engineering. In this second
edition, we plan to have one chapter summarizing the connections to psychol-
ogy and neuroscience, which are many and rapidly developing. Coverage of
connections to other fields we leave to others or to another time. We also
chose not to produce a rigorous formal treatment of reinforcement learning.
We did not reach for the highest possible level of mathematical abstraction
and did not rely on a theorem–proof format. We tried to choose a level of
mathematical detail that points the mathematically inclined in the right di-
rections without distracting from the simplicity and potential generality of the
underlying ideas.
The book consists of three parts. Part I is introductory and problem ori-
ented. We focus on the simplest aspects of reinforcement learning and on its
main distinguishing features. One full chapter is devoted to introducing the
reinforcement learning problem whose solution we explore in the rest of the
book. Part II presents tabular versions (assuming a small finite state space)
of all the basic solution methods based on estimating action values. We intro-
duce dynamic programming, Monte Carlo methods, and temporal-difference
learning. There is a chapter on eligibility traces which unifies the latter two
methods, and a chapter that unifies planning methods (such as dynamic pro-
gramming and state-space search) and learning methods (such as Monte Carlo
and temporal-difference learning). Part III is concerned with extending the
tabular methods to include various forms of approximation including function
approximation, policy-gradient methods, and methods designed for solving
off-policy learning problems. Part IV surveys some of the frontiers of rein-
forcement learning in biology and applications.
This book was designed to be used as a text in a one- or two-semester
course, perhaps supplemented by readings from the literature or by a more
mathematical text such as Bertsekas and Tsitsiklis (1996) or Szepesvari (2010).
This book can also be used as part of a broader course on machine learning,
artificial intelligence, or neural networks. In this case, it may be desirable to
cover only a subset of the material. We recommend covering Chapter 1 for a
brief overview, Chapter 2 through Section 2.2, Chapter 3 except Sections 3.4,
3.5 and 3.9, and then selecting sections from the remaining chapters according
x
PREFACE
to time and interests. The five chapters of Part II build on each other and are
best covered in sequence; of these, Chapter 6 is the most important for the
subject and for the rest of the book. A course focusing on machine learning
or neural networks should cover Chapter 9, and a course focusing on artificial
intelligence or planning should cover Chapter 8. Throughout the book, sections
that are more difficult and not essential to the rest of the book are marked
with a ∗. These can be omitted on first reading without creating problems
later on. Some exercises are marked with a ∗ to indicate that they are more
advanced and not essential to understanding the basic material of the chapter.
The book is largely self-contained.
The only mathematical background
assumed is familiarity with elementary concepts of probability, such as expec-
tations of random variables. Chapter 9 is substantially easier to digest if the
reader has some knowledge of artificial neural networks or some other kind of
supervised learning method, but it can be read without prior background. We
strongly recommend working the exercises provided throughout the book. So-
lution manuals are available to instructors. This and other related and timely
material is available via the Internet.
At the end of most chapters is a section entitled “Bibliographical and His-
torical Remarks,” wherein we credit the sources of the ideas presented in that
chapter, provide pointers to further reading and ongoing research, and describe
relevant historical background. Despite our attempts to make these sections
authoritative and complete, we have undoubtedly left out some important
prior work. For that we apologize, and welcome corrections and extensions for
incorporation into a subsequent edition.
In some sense we have been working toward this book for thirty years, and
we have lots of people to thank. First, we thank those who have personally
helped us develop the overall view presented in this book: Harry Klopf, for
helping us recognize that reinforcement learning needed to be revived; Chris
Watkins, Dimitri Bertsekas, John Tsitsiklis, and Paul Werbos, for helping us
see the value of the relationships to dynamic programming; John Moore and
Jim Kehoe, for insights and inspirations from animal learning theory; Oliver
Selfridge, for emphasizing the breadth and importance of adaptation; and,
more generally, our colleagues and students who have contributed in countless
ways: Ron Williams, Charles Anderson, Satinder Singh, Sridhar Mahadevan,
Steve Bradtke, Bob Crites, Peter Dayan, and Leemon Baird. Our view of re-
inforcement learning has been significantly enriched by discussions with Paul
Cohen, Paul Utgoff, Martha Steenstrup, Gerry Tesauro, Mike Jordan, Leslie
Kaelbling, Andrew Moore, Chris Atkeson, Tom Mitchell, Nils Nilsson, Stuart
Russell, Tom Dietterich, Tom Dean, and Bob Narendra. We thank Michael
Littman, Gerry Tesauro, Bob Crites, Satinder Singh, and Wei Zhang for pro-
viding specifics of Sections 4.7, 15.1, 15.4, 15.5, and 15.6 respectively. We
PREFACE
xi
thank the the Air Force Office of Scientific Research, the National Science
Foundation, and GTE Laboratories for their long and farsighted support.
We also wish to thank the many people who have read drafts of this book
and provided valuable comments, including Tom Kalt, John Tsitsiklis, Pawel
Cichosz, Olle G¨allmo, Chuck Anderson, Stuart Russell, Ben Van Roy, Paul
Steenstrup, Paul Cohen, Sridhar Mahadevan, Jette Randlov, Brian Sheppard,
Thomas O’Connell, Richard Coggins, Cristina Versino, John H. Hiett, An-
dreas Badelt, Jay Ponte, Joe Beck, Justus Piater, Martha Steenstrup, Satin-
der Singh, Tommi Jaakkola, Dimitri Bertsekas, Torbj¨orn Ekman, Christina
Bj¨orkman, Jakob Carlstr¨om, and Olle Palmgren.
Finally, we thank Gwyn
Mitchell for helping in many ways, and Harry Stanton and Bob Prior for be-
ing our champions at MIT Press.
xii
Series Forward
SUMMARY OF NOTATION
xiii
Summary of Notation
Capital letters are used for random variables and major algorithm variables.
Lower case letters are used for the values of random variables and for scalar
functions. Quantities that are required to be real-valued vectors are written
in bold and in lower case (even if random variables).
s
state
a
action
S
set of all nonterminal states
S+
set of all states, including the terminal state
A(s)
set of actions possible in state s
R
set of possible rewards
t
discrete time step
T
final time step of an episode
St
state at t
At
action at t
Rt
reward at t, dependent, like St, on *At−*1 and *St−*1
Gt
return (cumulative discounted reward) following t
G(n)
t
n-step return (Section 7.1)
G**λ
t
λ-return (Section 7.2)
π
policy, decision-making rule
π(s)
action taken in state s under deterministic policy π
π(a|s)
probability of taking action a in state s under stochastic policy π
p(s*′**, r|s, a*) probability of transitioning to state s*′*, with reward r, from s, a
vπ(s)
value of state s under policy π (expected return)
v∗(s)
value of state s under the optimal policy
qπ(s, a)
value of taking action a in state s under policy π
q∗(s, a)
value of taking action a in state s under the optimal policy
Vt(s)
estimate (a random variable) of vπ(s) or v∗(s)
Qt(s, a)
estimate (a random variable) of qπ(s, a) or q∗(s, a)
ˆv(s,w)
approximate value of state s given a vector of weights w
ˆq(s, a,w)
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Adaptive Computation and Machine Learning
Francis Bach
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Reinforcement Learning:
An Introduction
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Richard S. Sutton and Andrew G. Barto
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Description: Second edition. | Cambridge, MA : The MIT Press, [2018] | Series: Adaptive
computation and machine learning series | Includes bibliographical references and index.
Identifiers: LCCN 2018023826 | ISBN 9780262039246 (hardcover : alk. paper)
Subjects: LCSH: Reinforcement learning
Classification: LCC Q325.6 .R45 2018 | DDC 006.3/1--dc23 LC record available
at https://lccn.loc.gov/2018023826
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In memory of A. Harry Klopf
Contents
Preface to the Second Edition
xiii
Preface to the First Edition
xvii
Summary of Notation
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1
Introduction
1
1.1
Reinforcement Learning . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
1
1.2
Examples . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
4
1.3
Elements of Reinforcement Learning . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
6
1.4
Limitations and Scope . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
7
1.5
An Extended Example: Tic-Tac-Toe . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
8
1.6
Summary
. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
13
1.7
Early History of Reinforcement Learning . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
13
I
Tabular Solution Methods
23
2
Multi-armed Bandits
25
2.1
A k-armed Bandit Problem . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
25
2.2
Action-value Methods
. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
27
2.3
The 10-armed Testbed . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
28
2.4
Incremental Implementation . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
30
2.5
Tracking a Nonstationary Problem . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
32
2.6
Optimistic Initial Values . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
34
2.7
Upper-Confidence-Bound Action Selection . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
35
2.8
Gradient Bandit Algorithms . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
37
2.9
Associative Search (Contextual Bandits) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
41
2.10 Summary
. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
42
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Finite Markov Decision Processes
47
3.1
The Agent–Environment Interface
. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
47
3.2
Goals and Rewards . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
53
3.3
Returns and Episodes
. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
54
3.4
Unified Notation for Episodic and Continuing Tasks
. . . . . . . . . . . .
57
3.5
Policies and Value Functions
. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
58
3.6
Optimal Policies and Optimal Value Functions
. . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
62
3.7
Optimality and Approximation . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
67
3.8
Summary
. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
68
4
Dynamic Programming
73
4.1
Policy Evaluation (Prediction)
. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
74
4.2
Policy Improvement
. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
76
4.3
Policy Iteration . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
80
4.4
Value Iteration . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
82
4.5
Asynchronous Dynamic Programming
. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
85
4.6
Generalized Policy Iteration . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
86
4.7
E�ciency of Dynamic Programming . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
87
4.8
Summary
. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
88
5
Monte Carlo Methods
91
5.1
Monte Carlo Prediction
. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
92
5.2
Monte Carlo Estimation of Action Values
. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
96
5.3
Monte Carlo Control . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
97
5.4
Monte Carlo Control without Exploring Starts
. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 100
5.5
O↵-policy Prediction via Importance Sampling
. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 103
5.6
Incremental Implementation . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 109
5.7
O↵-policy Monte Carlo Control . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 110
5.8
*Discounting-aware Importance Sampling . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 112
5.9
*Per-decision Importance Sampling . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 114
5.10 Summary
. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 115
6
Temporal-Di↵erence Learning
119
6.1
TD Prediction
. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 119
6.2
Advantages of TD Prediction Methods . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 124
6.3
Optimality of TD(0) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 126
6.4
Sarsa: On-policy TD Control . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 129
6.5
Q-learning: O↵-policy TD Control . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 131
6.6
Expected Sarsa . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 133
6.7
Maximization Bias and Double Learning . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 134
6.8
Games, Afterstates, and Other Special Cases
. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 136
6.9
Summary
. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 138
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n-step Bootstrapping
141
7.1
n-step TD Prediction
. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 142
7.2
n-step Sarsa . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 145
7.3
n-step O↵-policy Learning . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 148
7.4
*Per-decision Methods with Control Variates
. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 150
7.5
O↵-policy Learning Without Importance Sampling:
The n-step Tree Backup Algorithm . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 152
7.6
*A Unifying Algorithm: n-step Q(�) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 154
7.7
Summary
. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 157
8
Planning and Learning with Tabular Methods
159
8.1
Models and Planning . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 159
8.2
Dyna: Integrated Planning, Acting, and Learning . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 161
8.3
When the Model Is Wrong . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 166
8.4
Prioritized Sweeping . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 168
8.5
Expected vs. Sample Updates . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 172
8.6
Trajectory Sampling . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 174
8.7
Real-time Dynamic Programming . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 177
8.8
Planning at Decision Time . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 180
8.9
Heuristic Search
. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 181
8.10 Rollout Algorithms . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 183
8.11 Monte Carlo Tree Search . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 185
8.12 Summary of the Chapter . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 188
8.13 Summary of Part I: Dimensions . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 189
II
Approximate Solution Methods
195
9
On-policy Prediction with Approximation
197
9.1
Value-function Approximation . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 198
9.2
The Prediction Objective (VE) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 199
9.3
Stochastic-gradient and Semi-gradient Methods . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 200
9.4
Linear Methods . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 204
9.5
Feature Construction for Linear Methods
. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 210
9.5.1
Polynomials . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 210
9.5.2
Fourier Basis . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 211
9.5.3
Coarse Coding
. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 215
9.5.4
Tile Coding . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 217
9.5.5
Radial Basis Functions . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 221
9.6
Selecting Step-Size Parameters Manually . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 222
9.7
Nonlinear Function Approximation: Artificial Neural Networks . . . . . . 223
9.8
Least-Squares TD
. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 228
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Memory-based Function Approximation . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 230
9.10 Kernel-based Function Approximation . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 232
9.11 Looking Deeper at On-policy Learning: Interest and Emphasis
. . . . . . 234
9.12 Summary
. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 236
10 On-policy Control with Approximation
243
10.1 Episodic Semi-gradient Control . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 243
10.2 Semi-gradient n-step Sarsa
. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 247
10.3 Average Reward: A New Problem Setting for Continuing Tasks . . . . . . 249
10.4 Deprecating the Discounted Setting . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 253
10.5 Di↵erential Semi-gradient n-step Sarsa . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 255
10.6 Summary
. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 256
11 *O↵-policy Methods with Approximation
257
11.1 Semi-gradient Methods . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 258
11.2 Examples of O↵-policy Divergence
. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 260
11.3 The Deadly Triad . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 264
11.4 Linear Value-function Geometry
. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 266
11.5 Gradient Descent in the Bellman Error . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 269
11.6 The Bellman Error is Not Learnable . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 274
11.7 Gradient-TD Methods . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 278
11.8 Emphatic-TD Methods . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 281
11.9 Reducing Variance . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 283
11.10 Summary . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 284
12 Eligibility Traces
287
12.1 The �-return
. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 288
12.2 TD(�) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 292
12.3 n-step Truncated �-return Methods
. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 295
12.4 Redoing Updates: Online �-return Algorithm . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 297
12.5 True Online TD(�) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 299
12.6 *Dutch Traces in Monte Carlo Learning . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 301
12.7 Sarsa(�) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 303
12.8 Variable � and � . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 307
12.9 *O↵-policy Traces with Control Variates . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 309
12.10 Watkins’s Q(�) to Tree-Backup(�) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 312
12.11 Stable O↵-policy Methods with Traces
. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 314
12.12 Implementation Issues . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 316
12.13 Conclusions . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 317
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13 Policy Gradient Methods
321
13.1 Policy Approximation and its Advantages . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 322
13.2 The Policy Gradient Theorem . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 324
13.3 REINFORCE: Monte Carlo Policy Gradient . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 326
13.4 REINFORCE with Baseline . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 329
13.5 Actor–Critic Methods
. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 331
13.6 Policy Gradient for Continuing Problems
. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 333
13.7 Policy Parameterization for Continuous Actions . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 335
13.8 Summary
. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 337
III
Looking Deeper
339
14 Psychology
341
14.1 Prediction and Control . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 342
14.2 Classical Conditioning . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 343
14.2.1 Blocking and Higher-order Conditioning . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 345
14.2.2 The Rescorla–Wagner Model
. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 346
14.2.3 The TD Model . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 349
14.2.4 TD Model Simulations . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 350
14.3 Instrumental Conditioning . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 357
14.4 Delayed Reinforcement . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 361
14.5 Cognitive Maps . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 363
14.6 Habitual and Goal-directed Behavior . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 364
14.7 Summary
. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 368
15 Neuroscience
377
15.1 Neuroscience Basics
. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 378
15.2 Reward Signals, Reinforcement Signals, Values, and Prediction Errors
. . 380
15.3 The Reward Prediction Error Hypothesis
. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 381
15.4 Dopamine . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 383
15.5 Experimental Support for the Reward Prediction Error Hypothesis . . . . 387
15.6 TD Error/Dopamine Correspondence . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 390
15.7 Neural Actor–Critic
. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 395
15.8 Actor and Critic Learning Rules
. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 398
15.9 Hedonistic Neurons . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 402
15.10 Collective Reinforcement Learning . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 404
15.11 Model-based Methods in the Brain . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 407
15.12 Addiction . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 409
15.13 Summary . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 410
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16 Applications and Case Studies
421
16.1 TD-Gammon . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 421
16.2 Samuel’s Checkers Player
. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 426
16.3 Watson’s Daily-Double Wagering . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 429
16.4 Optimizing Memory Control . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 432
16.5 Human-level Video Game Play
. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 436
16.6 Mastering the Game of Go . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 441
16.6.1 AlphaGo
. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 444
16.6.2 AlphaGo Zero . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 447
16.7 Personalized Web Services . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 450
16.8 Thermal Soaring . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 453
17 Frontiers
459
17.1 General Value Functions and Auxiliary Tasks . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 459
17.2 Temporal Abstraction via Options
. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 461
17.3 Observations and State
. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 464
17.4 Designing Reward Signals . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 469
17.5 Remaining Issues . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 472
17.6 The Future of Artificial Intelligence . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 475
References
481
Index
519
Preface to the Second Edition
The twenty years since the publication of the first edition of this book have seen tremendous
progress in artificial intelligence, propelled in large part by advances in machine learning,
including advances in reinforcement learning. Although the impressive computational
power that became available is responsible for some of these advances, new developments
in theory and algorithms have been driving forces as well. In the face of this progress, a
second edition of our 1998 book was long overdue, and we finally began the project in
2012. Our goal for the second edition was the same as our goal for the first: to provide a
clear and simple account of the key ideas and algorithms of reinforcement learning that
is accessible to readers in all the related disciplines. The edition remains an introduction,
and we retain a focus on core, online learning algorithms. This edition includes some new
topics that rose to importance over the intervening years, and we expanded coverage of
topics that we now understand better. But we made no attempt to provide comprehensive
coverage of the field, which has exploded in many di↵erent directions. We apologize for
having to leave out all but a handful of these contributions.
As in the first edition, we chose not to produce a rigorous formal treatment of
reinforcement learning, or to formulate it in the most general terms. However, our deeper
understanding of some topics since the first edition required a bit more mathematics
to explain; we have set o↵ the more mathematical parts in shaded boxes that the non-
mathematically-inclined may choose to skip. We also use a slightly di↵erent notation
than was used in the first edition. In teaching, we have found that the new notation
helps to address some common points of confusion. It emphasizes the di↵erence between
random variables, denoted with capital letters, and their instantiations, denoted in lower
case. For example, the state, action, and reward at time step t are denoted St, At,
and Rt, while their possible values might be denoted s, a, and r. Along with this, it is
natural to use lower case for value functions (e.g., v⇡) and restrict capitals to their tabular
estimates (e.g., Qt(s, a)). Approximate value functions are deterministic functions of
random parameters and are thus also in lower case (e.g., ˆv(s,wt) ⇡ v⇡(s)). Vector ...
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已核查内容2:Sutton & Barto(2018)提出了导致强化学习不稳定的“deadly triad”(致命三元组)概念。
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已核查内容2:Sutton & Barto(2018)提出了导致强化学习不稳定的"deadly triad"(致命三元组)概念。
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待核查内容1:一篇综述写道:"Sutton & Barto(2018)指出深度强化学习在 Atari 游戏中不如表格型 Q-learning 稳定",此句是否为原意?
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Sutton Barto 2018 book chapter 11.3 The Deadly Triad exact quote已核查结论清单
已核查内容1:Sutton & Barto(2018)的身份信息
已核查内容2:Sutton & Barto(2018)提出了导致强化学习不稳定的“deadly triad”(致命三元组)概念。
待补充核查清单
待核查内容1:一篇综述写道:“Sutton & Barto(2018)指出深度强化学习在 Atari 游戏中不如表格型 Q-learning 稳定”,此句是否为原意?
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经核查,综述中"Sutton & Barto(2018)指出深度强化学习在 Atari 游戏中不如表格型 Q-learning 稳定"的说法存在明显误读。Sutton & Barto确实在其著作中讨论了强化学习中的"deadly triad"(致命三元组)概念,指出函数逼近(包括深度神经网络)、自举和离策略学习的结合可能导致不稳定。然而,他们并未直接将深度强化学习与表格型Q-learning在Atari游戏环境中进行稳定性比较。这种特定场景下的直接比较在原著中并不存在。
建议用户在引用Sutton & Barto(2018)关于强化学习稳定性的观点时,应准确表述为他们提出的理论框架(deadly triad),而非将其误读为特定算法在特定应用场景下的直接比较结论。
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"Sutton & Barto(2018)指出深度强化学习在 Atari 游戏中不如表格型 Q-learning 稳定" | 不可靠 经过多方查证,Sutton & Barto(2018)在其著作《Reinforcement Learning: An Introduction》第二版中确实提出了"deadly triad"(致命三元组)概念,指出函数逼近(包括深度神经网络使用的方法)、自举和离策略学习这三个要素结合时可能导致学习过程不稳定。然而,他们并未在Atari游戏这一特定场景下直接比较深度强化学习与表格型Q-learning的稳定性。 事实上,表格型Q-learning由于不使用函数逼近,天然规避了"deadly triad"中的一个关键要素,理论上确实更稳定。但Sutton & Barto并未在其著作中明确将这一理论框架应用于Atari游戏场景,也未直接做出"深度强化学习在Atari游戏中不如表格型Q-learning稳定"的结论。 综述作者可能将Sutton & Barto提出的普遍性理论原则过度引申为特定场景下的具体比较结论,这是对原著内容的误读。 | 1. "We know from reinforcement learning theory that temporal difference learning can fail in certain cases. @SuttonBarto:2018 identify a deadly triad of function approximation, bootstrapping, and off-policy learning. When these three properties are combined, learning can diverge with the value estimates becoming unbounded." https://arxiv.org/pdf/1812.02648 (2018-12-06) 2. "The deadly triad (see, e.g., Chapter 11.3 of \citet{sutton2018reinforcement}) refers to the instability of a value-based reinforcement learning (RL, \citet{sutton2018reinforcement}) algorithm when it employs off-policy learning, function approximation, and bootstrapping simultaneously." https://arxiv.org/pdf/2101.0882 (2021-01-18) 3. "Function approximation of Q-values, bootstrapping, and off-policy learning have been identified as the deadly triad (Sutton & Barto, 2018; van Hasselt et al., 2018) of properties that, when combined, can negatively affect learning or even cause divergence." http://arxiv.org/pdf/2007.06700 (2020-07-14) |