Reinforcement-Based Learning for Process Classification Task

In this work, we present a reinforcement-based learning algorithm that includes the automatic classification of both sensors and actions. The classification process is prior to any application of reinforcement learning. If categories are not at the adequate abstraction level, the problem could be not learnable. The classification process is usually done by the programmer and is not considered as part of the learning process. However, in complex tasks, environments, or agents, this manual process could become extremely difficult. To solve this inconvenience, we propose to include the classification into the learning process. We apply an algorithm to automatically learn to achieve a task through reinforcement learning that works without needing a previous classification process. The system is called Fish or Ship (FOS) assigned the task of inducing classification rules for classification task described in terms of 6 attributes. The task is to categorize an object that has one or more of the following features: Sail, Solid, Big, Swim, Eye, Fins into one of the following: fish, or ship. First results of the application of this algorithm are shown Reinforcement learning techniques were used to implement classification task with interesting properties such as provides guidance to the system and shortening the number of cycles required to learn.