Learning Acceleration Method for Reinforcement Learning Agents by Knowledge Selection Based on the State Value and the Number of State Observation

ABSTRACT Transfer learning is the one of methods to improve the efficiency of training for reinforcement learning (RL) agents. That is the method of transferring knowledge which is acquired in the past tasks or given by experts to similar tasks. However, if the RL agents don't retain knowledge that is effective for improving learning speed or quality, there is a problem in that it causes negative transfer, which reduces learning efficiency. This study proposes a method for deleting knowledge which are less than the number of state observations through trial and error by RL agents. Our proposed method was applied to path planning for a two‐wheeled mobile robot to verify its effectiveness, and it was confirmed that the proposed method reduced the amount of knowledge by 98% and the learning time by 32%.