Summary of Unraveling the Complexity Of Memory in Rl Agents: An Approach For Classification and Evaluation, by Egor Cherepanov et al.
Unraveling the Complexity of Memory in RL Agents: an Approach for Classification and Evaluation
by Egor Cherepanov, Nikita Kachaev, Artem Zholus, Alexey K. Kovalev, Aleksandr I. Panov
First submitted to arxiv on: 9 Dec 2024
Categories
- Main: Machine Learning (cs.LG)
- Secondary: Artificial Intelligence (cs.AI)
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| High | Paper authors | High Difficulty Summary Read the original abstract here |
| Medium | GrooveSquid.com (original content) | Medium Difficulty Summary The paper explores the concept of memory in Reinforcement Learning (RL) agents, providing a unified framework for understanding and evaluating their memory capabilities. It defines various types of agent memory, including long-term and short-term, declarative and procedural, inspired by cognitive science. The authors propose a standardized methodology for evaluating an agent’s memory, which is essential for comparing the performance of different memory-enhanced RL agents. Empirical experiments demonstrate the importance of adhering to this methodology. |
| Low | GrooveSquid.com (original content) | Low Difficulty Summary This research paper is about how artificial intelligence (AI) learns from its experiences and remembers important information. The authors want to make sure that we can compare AI agents that have different types of memories in a fair way. They define what long-term memory, short-term memory, declarative memory, and procedural memory mean in the context of AI learning. They also propose a method for testing how well an AI agent remembers things and apply it to several AI agents. |
Keywords
» Artificial intelligence » Reinforcement learning
