Summary of What Is the Relation Between Slow Feature Analysis and the Successor Representation?, by Eddie Seabrook and Laurenz Wiskott
What is the relation between Slow Feature Analysis and the Successor Representation?
by Eddie Seabrook, Laurenz Wiskott
First submitted to arxiv on: 25 Sep 2024
Categories
- Main: Machine Learning (cs.LG)
- Secondary: None
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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 connection between two unsupervised machine learning methods: Slow Feature Analysis (SFA) and Successor Representation (SR). Both techniques stem from different areas of machine learning but share common properties. The study analyzes SFA and SR in a Markov Decision Process (MDP) setting, demonstrating formal equivalences and showing that the representations obtained are place-like. This research highlights the potential applications of combining these methods to solve complex problems. |
| Low | GrooveSquid.com (original content) | Low Difficulty Summary Slow Feature Analysis and Successor Representation are two machine learning techniques used for extracting information from data without labels. Researchers found that both methods share similarities in their math and what they’re good at detecting. They looked at how SFA and SR work together in a special kind of problem called Markov Decision Process. They showed that the results from these methods are similar, which is important because it can help us solve harder problems. |
Keywords
» Artificial intelligence » Machine learning » Unsupervised
