From probabilistic bisimulation to representation learning via metrics
Strachey Lecture: From probabilistic bisimulation to representation learning via metrics - Professor Prakash Panangaden Bisimulation is a fundamental equivalence relation in process theory invented by Robin Milner and with an elegant fixed-point definition due to David Park. In this talk I will review the concept of bisimulation and then discuss its probabilistic analogue. This was extended to systems with continuous state spaces. Despite its origin in theoretical work, it has proved to be useful in fields like machine learning, especially reinforcement learning. Surprisingly, it turned out…
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