A Phenomenologically Justifiable Simulation of Mental Modeling

Autor: Mark Wernsdorfer
Rok vydání: 2018
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Zdroj: Artificial General Intelligence ISBN: 9783319976754
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DOI: 10.1007/978-3-319-97676-1_26
Popis: Real-world agents need to learn how to react to their environment. To achieve this, it is crucial that they have a model of this environment that is adapted during interaction and although important aspects may be hidden. This paper presents a new type of model for partially observable environments that enables an agent to represent hidden states but can still be generated and queried in realtime. Agents can use such a model to predict the outcomes of their actions and to infer action policies. These policies turn out to be better than the optimal policy in a partially observable Markov decision process as it can be inferred, for example, by Q- or Sarsa-learning. The structure and generation of these models are motivated both by phenomenological considerations from semiotics and the philosophy of mind. The performance of these models is compared to a baseline of Markov models for prediction and interaction in partially observable environments.
Databáze: OpenAIRE