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Adaptive Coding of Actions and Observations

2012

Conference Paper

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The application of expected utility theory to construct adaptive agents is both computationally intractable and statistically questionable. To overcome these difficulties, agents need the ability to delay the choice of the optimal policy to a later stage when they have learned more about the environment. How should agents do this optimally? An information-theoretic answer to this question is given by the Bayesian control rule—the solution to the adaptive coding problem when there are not only observations but also actions. This paper reviews the central ideas behind the Bayesian control rule.

Author(s): Ortega, PA and Braun, DA
Pages: 1-4
Year: 2012
Month: December

Department(s): Empirical Inference
Bibtex Type: Conference Paper (conference)

Event Name: NIPS 2012 Workshop on Information in Perception and Action
Event Place: Lake Tahoe, NV, USA

URL: http://www.kyb.tuebingen.mpg.defileadmin/user_upload/files/publications/2012/NIPS-Workshop-2012-Ortega.pdf

BibTex

@conference{OrtegaB2012,
  title = {Adaptive Coding of Actions and Observations},
  author = {Ortega, PA and Braun, DA},
  pages = {1-4},
  month = dec,
  year = {2012},
  doi = {},
  url = {http://www.kyb.tuebingen.mpg.defileadmin/user_upload/files/publications/2012/NIPS-Workshop-2012-Ortega.pdf},
  month_numeric = {12}
}