2019
A Unified Bellman Optimality Principle Combining Reward Maximization and Empowerment
NeurIPS 2019poster
Empowerment is an information-theoretic method that can be used to intrinsically motivate learning agents. It attempts to maximize an agent's control over the environment by encouraging visiting states with a large number of reachable next states. Empowered learning has been shown to lead to complex…