Modeling Affect-based Intrinsic Rewards for Exploration and Learning
Dean Zadok Daniel McDuff Ashish Kapoor Dean Zadok Daniel McDuff Ashish Kapoor
Positive affect has been linked to increased interest, curiosity and satisfaction in human learning. In reinforcement learning, extrinsic rewards are often sparse and difficult to define, intrinsically motivated learning can help address these challenges. We argue that positive affect is an important intrinsic reward that effectively helps drive exploration that is useful in gathering experiences....