I start this month reading the articles in Relational Reinforcement Learning. It began as a curiosity due to a response in the Reinforcement Learning mailing list. The authors point a speech by Rich Sutton and Leslie Pack Kaelbling at the IJCAI 1997 conference in Japan, in which they recommended the combination of Induction Logic Programming (aka Relational Learning) and Reinforcement Learning. The authors of the paper demonstrate this concept by using the blocks world domain to illustrate the combination of both fields. Perhaps, this is exactly what I needed since I have done much reading, studying, and video lectures with logic programming, ILP, and reinforcement learning. Of course, this paper spawn much researching according to CiteSeerX and Google Scholarly.
I found the web site to the 2004 Workshop in Relational Reinforcement Learning and downloaded the proceedings.
I shall continue this path of research interest.
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Excellent idea ..
If I may, I would recommend Martijn van Otterlo’s book “Logical Approaches to
Sequential Decision Making under Uncertainty” to you for a recent (and very extensive) overview of the work on RRL. If you ask him nicely, he might even send you a copy of his PhD (on which the book is based), if he has any left that is.
Thank you for your lead. During my search Martijn van Otterlo did come a few times.