Beyond Surprise: Improving Exploration Through Surprise Novelty

We present a new computing model for intrinsic rewards in reinforcement learning that addresses the limitations of existing surprise-driven explorations. The reward is the novelty of the surprise rather than the surprise norm. We estimate the surprise novelty as retrieval errors of a memory network wherein the memory stores and reconstructs surprises. Our surprise memory (SM) augments the capability of surprise-based intrinsic motivators, maintaining the agent's interest in exciting exploration while reducing unwanted attraction to unpredictable or noisy observations. Our …

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