Barto, Sutton and Anderson: neuronlike adaptive elements for learning control

What changed

Combined associative search and adaptive critic elements to learn cart-pole control without equations.

Scientific scope

The record is the exact three-author 1983 IEEE paper and its reported cart-pole system. It does not claim universal control performance, absorb all actor-critic or temporal-difference methods, or establish modern deep reinforcement learning.

Evidence

The linked sources identify this contribution and its scope. WRS has not independently reconstructed the scientific claims. The record is the exact three-author 1983 IEEE paper and its reported cart-pole system. It does not claim universal control performance, absorb all actor-critic or temporal-difference methods, or establish modern deep reinforcement learning.

Contributors

• Andrew G. Barto · SCIENCE: Named source author of the scoped work; individual effort shares are not measured.
• Richard S. Sutton · SCIENCE: Named source author of the scoped work; individual effort shares are not measured.
• Charles W. Anderson · SCIENCE: Named source author of the scoped work; individual effort shares are not measured.

• IEEE page for neuronlike adaptive-elements paper
• Andrew Barto author bibliography

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