Abstract

In continual learning, an agent is exposed to a changing environment, requiring it to adapt during execution time. While traditional reinforcement learning (RL) methods have shown impressive results in various domains, there has been less progress in addressing the challenge of continual learning. Current RL approaches do not allow the agent to adapt during execution but only during a dedicated training phase. Here we study the problem of continual learning in a 2D bipedal walker domain, in which the legs of the walker grow over its lifetime, requiring the agent to adapt. The introduced approach combines neuroevolution, to determine the starting weights of a deep neural network, and a version of deep reinforcement learning that is continually running during execution time. The proof-of-concept results show that the combined approach gives a better generalisation performance when compared to evolution or reinforcement learning alone. The hybridization of reinforcement learning and evolution opens up exciting new research directions for continually learning agents that can benefit from suitable priors determined by an evolutionary process.

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