{"about":{"site":"https://codewithpapers.app","non_affiliation":"Code with Papers and Syntology are not affiliated with, endorsed by, or sponsored by Papers with Code, Meta, or the pwc-archive mirror.","licence":"CC BY-SA 4.0","licence_url":"https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/legalcode","attribution":"https://codewithpapers.app/attribution","modified":"archive material modified by Syntology; see the attribution page"},"url":"/paper/when-waiting-is-not-an-option-learning","title":"When Waiting is not an Option : Learning Options with a Deliberation Cost","arxiv_id":"1709.04571","date":"2017-09-14","proceeding":null,"authors":["Jean Harb","Pierre-Luc Bacon","Martin Klissarov","Doina Precup"],"abstract":"Recent work has shown that temporally extended actions (options) can be\nlearned fully end-to-end as opposed to being specified in advance. While the\nproblem of \"how\" to learn options is increasingly well understood, the question\nof \"what\" good options should be has remained elusive. We formulate our answer\nto what \"good\" options should be in the bounded rationality framework (Simon,\n1957) through the notion of deliberation cost. We then derive practical\ngradient-based learning algorithms to implement this objective. Our results in\nthe Arcade Learning Environment (ALE) show increased performance and\ninterpretability.","url_abs":"http://arxiv.org/abs/1709.04571v1","url_pdf":"http://arxiv.org/pdf/1709.04571v1.pdf","source":{"archive":"pwc-archive (Hugging Face), CC BY-SA 4.0","snapshot":"2025-07-28","licence_url":"https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/legalcode","row_kind":"abstracts"},"code_links":[{"paper_slug":"when-waiting-is-not-an-option-learning","repo_url":"https://github.com/jeanharb/a2oc_delib","is_official":1,"mentioned_in_paper":1,"mentioned_in_github":1,"framework":"none","reach":{"status":"unanswered"}}],"tasks":[{"task_slug":"atari-games","task_name":"Atari Games"}],"methods":[],"datasets_introduced":[],"methods_introduced":[],"results":[],"syntology":{"atlas_url":"https://app.syntology.ai/?focus=1709.04571","mcp":null,"developers":"https://syntology.ai/developers"},"arxiv_metadata":null,"syntology_extracted_results":null}