Modern reinforcement learning concerns both trial-and-error learning without a model of the environment, and deliberative planning with a model. By "a model" here we mean a model of the dynamics of the environment. In the simplest case, this means just an estimate of the state-transition probabilities and expected immediate rewards of the environment. In general it means any predictions about the environment's future behavior conditional on the agent's behavior.

Ideally, the ideas of reinforcement learning could constitute part of a computational theory of what the brain is doing and why. A number of links have been drawn between reinforcement learning and neuroscience, beginning with early models of classical conditioning based on temporal-difference learning (see Barto and Sutton, 1982; Sutton and Barto, 1981, 1990; Moore et al., 1986), and continuing through work on foraging and prediction learning (see Montague et al.

Formally, RL is unrelated to behaviorism, or at least to the aspects of behaviorism that are widely viewed as undesireable. Behaviorism has been disparaged for focusing exclusively on behavior, refusing to consider what was going on inside the head of the subject. RL of course is all about the algorithms and processes going on inside the agent. For example, we often consider the construction of internal models of the environment within the agent, which is far outside the scope of behaviorism.

To a first approximation, Reinforcement Learning and Neuro-Dynamic Programming are synonomous. The name "reinforcement learning" came from psychology (although psychologists rarely use exactly this term) and dates back to the eary days of cybernetics. For example, Marvin Minsky used this term in his 1954 thesis, and Barto and Sutton revived it in the early 1980's.

Broadly speaking, RL works as a pretty good model of instrumental learning, though a detailed argument for this has never been publically made (the closest to this is probably Barto, Sutton and Watkins, 1990). On the other hand, the links between classical (or Pavlovian) conditioning and temporal-difference (TD) learning (one of the central elements of RL) are close and widely acknowledged (see Sutton and Barto, 1990).

Most work with genetic algorithms simulates evolution, not learning during an individual's life, and because of this is very different from work in RL. That having been said, there are two provisos. First, there is a large body of work on classifier systems that uses or is closely related to genetic algorithms. This work is concerned with learning during a single agent's lifetime (using GAs to organize the components of the agent's mind) and is in fact RL research.

Using function approximation, RL can apply to much larger state spaces than classical sequential optimization techniques such as dynamic programming. In addition, using simulations (sampling), RL can apply to systems that are too large or complicated to explicitly enumerate the next-state transition probabilities.

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There is plenty of blame here to go around. Minsky, Bellman, Howard, Andreae, Werbos, Barto, Sutton, Watkins... All played important or early roles. See the history from the Sutton and Barto text.

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