US Patent Issued to INTERNATIONAL BUSINESS MACHINES on Feb. 17 for "Reinforcement learning exploration by exploiting past experiences for critical events" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,555,023, issued on Feb. 17, was assigned to INTERNATIONAL BUSINESS MACHINES Corp. (Armonk, N.Y.).

"Reinforcement learning exploration by exploiting past experiences for critical events" was invented by Asim Munawar (Ichikawa, Japan), Giovanni De Magistris (Kawasaki, Japan) and Ryuki Tachibana (Yokohama, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A computer-implemented method is provided for reinforcement learning performed by a processor. The method includes obtaining, from an environment, a given experience that includes an action, a state and a reward. The method further includes storing the given experience in an experience buffer responsiv...