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ArticleFrontiers in neurorobotics2023

Map-based experience replay: a memory-efficient solution to catastrophic forgetting in reinforcement learning.

Muhammad Burhan Hafez, Tilman Immisch, Tom Weber, Stefan Wermter

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Article in Frontiers in neurorobotics, 2023. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 1 paper.

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Muhammad Burhan Hafez *Knowledge Technology Research Group, Department of Informatics, University of Hamburg, Hamburg, Germany.
Tilman Immisch *Knowledge Technology Research Group, Department of Informatics, University of Hamburg, Hamburg, Germany.
Tom WeberKnowledge Technology Research Group, Department of Informatics, University of Hamburg, Hamburg, Germany.
Stefan WermterKnowledge Technology Research Group, Department of Informatics, University of Hamburg, Hamburg, Germany.

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Abstract

Deep reinforcement learning (RL) agents often suffer from catastrophic forgetting, forgetting previously found solutions in parts of the input space when training new data. Replay memories are a common solution to the problem by decorrelating and shuffling old and new training samples. They naively store state transitions as they arrive, without regard for redundancy. We introduce a novel cognitive-inspired replay memory approach based on the Grow-When-Required (GWR) self-organizing network, which resembles a map-based mental model of the world. Our approach organizes stored transitions into a concise environment-model-like network of state nodes and transition edges, merging similar samples to reduce the memory size and increase pair-wise distance among samples, which increases the relevancy of each sample. Overall, our study shows that map-based experience replay allows for significant memory reduction with only small decreases in performance.

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catastrophic forgettingcognitive roboticscontinual learningexperience replaygrowing self-organizing mapsreinforcement learning

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PMID37440981
PMCPMC10333526

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