This week's #PaperILike is "Plan-based Reward Shaping for Reinforcement Learning" (Grzes & Kudenko, 2008).

This week's #PaperILike is "Plan-based Reward Shaping for Reinforcement Learning" (Grzes & Kudenko, 2008). A nice combo of planning and RL that takes seriously the policy invariance ideas from Ng, Harada, & Russell (1999) [another paper I
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