Department of Computer Science and Engineering

Guest Speaker

Button Autonomous Development of Skill Hierarchies

Ozgur Simsek
Department of Computer Science
University of Massachusetts, Amherst

Mar 27 2008 3:30PM
480 Dreese Labs
All interested parties are invited to attend.
Refreshments will be served prior to the talk.

Abstract:
The broad problem I will address in this talk is design of autonomous agents that are able to efficiently learn how to achieve desired behaviors in large, complex environments. I will focus on one essential design component: the ability to form high-level actions, or skills, from available primitives. I will characterize a useful class of skills in terms of general properties of an agent's interaction with its environment---in contrast to specific properties of a particular environment. I will also describe methods artificial agents can use to identify and acquire such skills autonomously.

Host: Deliang Wang

* Ozgur Simsek is a CSE faculty candidate

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