Biography

Nicolás Navarro-Guerrero is an Assistant Professor at the Department of Engineering and the School of Culture and Society at Aarhus University (Denmark). He is co-founder and coordinator of the multidisciplinary AU Social Robotics Lab at Aarhus University. His main research interests are in the areas of cognitive robotics, neurorobotics, embodied and developmental cognition, human-robot interaction and bio-inspired perception systems. For more information visit his personal webpage: https://nicolas-navarro-guerrero.github.io/

 Abstract

Towards Temporal Difference Learning with Multidimensional Value Representations

Temporal-difference learning is widely adopted and has been successfully applied to a number of problems as well as used to model animal learning. However, they are mainly based on neural pathways involved in reward-seeking behaviour since little is known about punishment-driven learning and less still about the combined effects of both types of reinforcement on learning. In this talk, I will discuss the implications for machine learning and robotics of this incomplete model of reward-based learning and possible strategies to deal with it.