Using spatial hints to improve policy reuse in a reinforcement learning agent
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Abstract
We study the problem of knowledge reuse by a reinforcement learning agent. We are interested in how an agent can exploit policies that were learned in the past to learn a new task more efficiently in the present. Our approach is to elicit spatial hints from an expert suggesting the world states in which each existing policy should be more relevant to the new task. By using these hints with domain exploration, the agent is able to detect those portions of existing policies that are beneficial to the new task, therefore learning a new policy more efficiently. We call our approach Spatial Hints Policy Reuse (SHPR). Experiments demonstrate the effectiveness and robustness of our method. Our results encourage further study investigating how much more efficacy can be gained from the elicitation of very simple advice from humans.
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Teacher imitationNot calibrated prevalence, not ground truth. Human validation pending. Learned from the 10,348 direct Codex labels and 10,348 direct Gemma labels. Candidate is the union of thresholded teacher heads; consensus is their intersection. These outputs are machine_predicted_unvalidated and are not human labels or direct frontier model labels.
Codex and Gemma teacher scores by category
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| Insufficient payload (model declined to judge) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
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The two teacher heads of the student model, read on this work. A score orders the frame for review; it never asserts a category, and the validation status ships verbatim with every row.
Baseline scores from an immature model (maturity gate not passed, 7 training rounds). Scores rank; they never assert a category.
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