Bootstrapping Intrinsically Motivated Learning with Human Demonstration
Sao Mai Nguyen, Adrien Baranès, Pierre‐Yves Oudeyer · 2012
Abstract—This paper studies the coupling of internally guided learning and social interaction, and more specifically the improvement owing to demonstrations of the learning by intrinsic motivation. We present Socially Guided Intrinsic Motivation by Demonstration (SGIM-D), an algorithm for learning in continuous, unbounded and non-preset environments. After introducing social learning and intrinsic motivation, we describe the design of our algorithm, before showing through a fishing experiment that SGIM-D efficiently combines the advantages of social learning and intrinsic motivation to gain a wide repertoire while being specialised in specific subspaces. I. APPROACHES FOR ADAPTIVE PERSONAL ROBOTS The promise of personal robots operating in human environments to interact with people on a daily basis points out the importance of adaptivity of the machine to its environment and