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General policy mapping: online continual reinforcement learning inspired on the insect brain
Angel Yanguas-Gil · Sandeep Madireddy

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We have developed a model for online continual reinforcement learning (RL) inspired on the insect brain. Our model leverages the offline training of a feature extraction and a common general policy layer to enable the convergence of RL algorithms in online settings. Sharing a common policy layer across tasks leads to positive backward transfer, where the agent continuously improved in older tasks sharing the same underlying general policy. Biologically inspired restrictions to the agent's network are key for the convergence of RL algorithms. This provides a pathway towards efficient online RL in resource-constrained scenarios.

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Angel Yanguas-Gil (Argonne National Laboratory)
Sandeep Madireddy (Argonne National Laboratory)

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