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Planning to Be Surprised: Optimal Bayesian Exploration in Dynamic Environments

Artificial Intelligence 2011-03-30 v1 Machine Learning

Abstract

To maximize its success, an AGI typically needs to explore its initially unknown world. Is there an optimal way of doing so? Here we derive an affirmative answer for a broad class of environments.

Cite

@article{arxiv.1103.5708,
  title  = {Planning to Be Surprised: Optimal Bayesian Exploration in Dynamic Environments},
  author = {Yi Sun and Faustino Gomez and Juergen Schmidhuber},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1103.5708},
  year   = {2011}
}
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