TY - GEN
T1 - Reducing trials by thinning-out in skill discovery
AU - Kobayashi, Hayato
AU - Hatano, Kohei
AU - Ishino, Akira
AU - Shinohara, Ayumi
PY - 2007
Y1 - 2007
N2 - In this paper, we propose a new concept, thinning-out, for reducing the number of trials in skill discovery. Thinning-out means to skip over such trials that are unlikely to improve discovering results, in the same way as "pruning" in a search tree. We show that our thinning-out technique significantly reduces the number of trials. In addition, we apply thinning-out to the discovery of good physical motions by legged robots in a simulation environment. By using thinning-out, our virtual robots can discover sophisticated motions that is much different from the initial motion in a reasonable amount of trials.
AB - In this paper, we propose a new concept, thinning-out, for reducing the number of trials in skill discovery. Thinning-out means to skip over such trials that are unlikely to improve discovering results, in the same way as "pruning" in a search tree. We show that our thinning-out technique significantly reduces the number of trials. In addition, we apply thinning-out to the discovery of good physical motions by legged robots in a simulation environment. By using thinning-out, our virtual robots can discover sophisticated motions that is much different from the initial motion in a reasonable amount of trials.
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U2 - 10.1007/978-3-540-75488-6_13
DO - 10.1007/978-3-540-75488-6_13
M3 - Conference contribution
AN - SCOPUS:38149073337
SN - 9783540754879
T3 - Lecture Notes in Computer Science (including subseries Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence and Lecture Notes in Bioinformatics)
SP - 127
EP - 138
BT - Discovery Science - 10th International Conference, DS 2007, Proceedings
PB - Springer Verlag
T2 - 10th International Conference on Discovery Science, DS 2007
Y2 - 1 October 2007 through 4 October 2007
ER -