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During sleep and wakeful rest, the hippocampus replays sequences of place cells that have been activated during prior experiences. These replays have been interpreted as a memory consolidation process, but recent results suggest a possible interpretation in terms of reinforcement learning. The Dyna reinforcement learning algorithms use off-line replays to improve learning. Under limited replay budget, prioritized sweeping, which requires a model of the transitions to the predecessors, can be used to improve performance. We investigate if such algorithms can explain the experimentally observed replays. We propose a neural network version of prioritized sweeping Q-learning, for which we developed a growing multiple expert algorithm, able to cope with multiple predecessors. The resulting architecture is able to improve the learning of simulated agents confronted to a navigation task. We predict that, in animals, learning the transition and reward models should occur during rest periods, and that the corresponding replays should be shuffled.
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The authors thank O. Sigaud for fruitful discussions, and F. Cinotti for proofreading. This work has received funding from the European Union’s Horizon 2020 research and innovation programme under grant agreement No 640891 (DREAM Project). This work was performed within the Labex SMART (ANR-11-LABX-65) supported by French state funds managed by the ANR within the Investissements d’Avenir programme under reference ANR-11-IDEX-0004-02.
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Aubin, L., Khamassi, M., Girard, B. (2018). Prioritized Sweeping Neural DynaQ with Multiple Predecessors, and Hippocampal Replays. In: Vouloutsi , V., et al. Biomimetic and Biohybrid Systems. Living Machines 2018. Lecture Notes in Computer Science(), vol 10928. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-95972-6_4
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